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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI's first device will be a moveable, screen-free smart speaker with a camera and sensors, meant to serve as a humanlike AI companion — OpenAI's much-anticipated push into consumer devices is slated to begin with a mobile, screen-free smart speaker designed to be a new type …
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Bluesky: @mgsiegler.com and @harrymccracken.com
Forums: r/wallstreetbets, r/OpenAI, r/technology, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says it is “not aware of any evidence” that Apple's lawsuit alleging trade-secret theft has merit, adding that it believes in fair competition — OpenAI said on Tuesday that it's “not aware of any evidence” that an Apple Inc. lawsuit alleging trade-secret theft has merit.
More: AppleInsider, TechCrunch, Memeburn, Unite.AI, and 9to5Mac
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Forums: r/technology and MacRumors Forums
| David Ingram / NBC News: |
OpenAI says Apple's claim that OpenAI never responded to its concerns is false; emails: an Apple lawyer mixed up two OpenAI staffers in Apple's initial outreach — A lawyer for Apple apologized for mixing up two OpenAI employees with the names Wang and Chang.
More: The Verge, InformationWeek, Cult of Mac, Axios, and Bloomberg
| Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: |
IBM reports preliminary Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to $17.2B, below $17.9B est., as CEO Arvind Krishna says customers are shifting spending to chips; IBM falls 25% — International Business Machines Corp. shares slid by the most in at least 58 years after the company reported preliminary second-quarter sales …
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Forums: r/business, r/StockMarket, r/ValueInvesting, and Slashdot
| Derek B. Johnson / CyberScoop: |
The Trump administration launches the “Gold Eagle” federal clearinghouse for sharing AI cyber threat information between the government and private sector — The White House said the clearinghouse has already started to receive intelligence on vulnerabilities and prioritize patches.| Demis Hassabis: |
Demis Hassabis proposes a US-based Standards Body for “Frontier-class” AI, modeled after FINRA; labs would share models for review up to 30 days before release — This is a pivotal moment in human history. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), a system that exhibits …
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signs a moratorium blocking new environmental permits for data centers over 50MW for up to one year, the first state to do so — But a version approved by state lawmakers could go even further. … New hyperscale data centers can't set up shop in New York …
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| Politico: |
The European Commission proposes exempting wearable tech from rules requiring removable batteries, clearing a hurdle for Meta's smart glasses, after US pressure — Commission exempts smart glasses like Meta's from batteries regulation, clearing a major hurdle to European expansion.
More: Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, European Commission, 9to5Mac, MLex, AppleInsider, and Gizmodo
| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: DeepSeek has started planning for an IPO in China and may file as soon as this year, allowing it to debut in 2027 — Chinese AI pioneer DeepSeek has begun preparations for an initial public offering and may file as soon as this year, setting the stage for what could be a landmark debut for the country's technology industry.
More: Semafor, Proactive, The Straits Times, and TechCrunch
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
PrismML launches Bonsai 27B, a model based on Qwen3.6 27B that it says runs natively on Apple devices via MLX; its CEO says Apple is evaluating the tech — Apple is in talks with a small Silicon Valley company that says it can shrink powerful artificial intelligence models enough to run directly …
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Bluesky: @jessefelder.com and @timkellogg.me
Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Anthropic announces a new Claude for Teachers initiative, as part of which it will provide K-12 teachers in the US free access to premium Claude features — Anthropic is providing free access to premium Claude AI features to K-12 teachers in the United States. The effort is part of a new Claude for Teachers initiative.
More: Anthropic, Claude, The Hill, CBS News, Benzinga, The Decoder, and Barron's Online
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| Connor Jones / The Register: |
Researcher: SpaceXAI's Grok Build CLI uploaded user repos to a Google Cloud Storage bucket; uploads have now stopped and Musk says prior uploads will be deleted — Researcher confirms the uploads have stopped, but says xAI's privacy command was not what fixed them
More: The Verge, Axios, Inc.com, Cyber Security News, Neowin, and Glitchwire
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| Muvija M / Reuters: |
The UK government proposes a default overnight social media curfew for 16- and 17-year-olds and disabling features like auto-play and infinite scroll by default — Britain will introduce a default overnight curfew on social media apps for 16- and 17-year-olds, the government said …
More: Wired, Press Association, BBC, The Guardian, Sky News, ITV News, The Independent, Financial Times, The Sun, City A.M., GOV.UK, LBC, LADbible, ISPreview UK, and Biometric Update. Forums: r/uknews
| Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic faces ridicule and criticism for an ad titled “There's hope in hard questions” that unsettled viewers with weird graveyard imagery and doomer-ist tone — Anthropic is known for its creative marketing, but the AI company may have been a little bit too creative when it conjured up its most recent advertisement.
More: YouTube and Anthropic
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| Diana Novak Jones / Reuters: |
A US judge dismisses a proposed class action accusing Apple of failing to stop the dissemination of CSAM through iCloud, saying Section 230 shields the company — A U.S. judge has dismissed a proposed class action accusing Apple (AAPL.O) of failing to stop the dissemination …
More: CNN, Bloomberg Law, MacTech.com, Courthouse News Service, 9to5Mac, and AppleInsider. Forums: r/apple
| Ivan Penn / New York Times: |
Monitoring Analytics: PJM's recent electricity auction is expected to add $6.3B to customers' bills in 13 states and DC through 2029 due to data center demands — A power auction conducted by a giant grid operator is expected to add $6.3 billion in additional charges to consumers and businesses … | Bloomberg: |
Uber is in advanced talks to acquire Delivery Hero; sources: Uber is discussing a bid of ~€40/share, which would value the German food-delivery company at €12B+ — Uber Technologies Inc. is in advanced negotiations to buy German food-delivery company Delivery Hero SE …
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| Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media: |
Adapter, which offers an infrastructure layer to help users leverage and control data for use by AI agents and apps, emerges from stealth with $17.8M in funding — Repeat founder Adam Ghetti returns with a startup backed by GV and others to provide better ‘cognition’ for your AI use … | Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Spotify launches Talk to Spotify, letting users create playlists and more via voice, rolling out in beta to Premium users age 18+ in the US, Ireland, and Sweden — The new beta feature works from the Home or Now Playing views on mobile. — Spotify already uses a lot of AI (too much some might say) …
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X: @spotify, @spotify, and @spotifynews
| Politico: |
Sources: multiple GOP governors and large utilities are expected to join Trump's pledge for data center developers to cover their energy use and infrastructure — President Donald Trump is expanding his data center pledge to include some Republican governors and several large utilities … | Bloomberg: |
A Trump administration official says a “trivial” number of Nvidia's H200 chips were shipped to China after winning a US license, without offering specifics — A small number of Nvidia Corp.'s H200 artificial intelligence chips have been shipped to customers in China after winning US approval …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google Images launches a Pinterest-like redesign with a browsable, dynamic gallery of images, and adds a way for users to create AI images in Search — Google Images, the tech giant's image search engine, is taking on Pinterest with its latest redesign that turns the site into a browsable … | Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
Sources: CoreWeave is exploring the use of financial derivatives as a potential hedge against a future drop in memory and storage chip prices — AI cloud computing company CoreWeave (CRWV.O) is exploring the use of financial derivatives as a potential hedge against a future drop in memory … | Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
TerraFirma, a construction tech company founded by two former SpaceX engineers to build remote-controlled construction equipment, raised $115M — As SpaceX's Elon Musk sells investors on a space economy with life beyond Earth, a two-year-old construction startup founded …
More: SiliconANGLE, Pulse 2.0, and RuntimeWire
X: @noah_schochet, @tbpn, @ajay_bcv, @baincapvc, @mttgrmm, @palmerluckey, @terrafirma_inc, @braveben, @josh_coyne, and @austen. Bluesky: @marypcbuk
| Washington Post: |
A look at Founders Fund-backed State Affairs, which raised $70M and uses AI trained on reporting by its 76 staffers to power a Bloomberg Terminal-like product — State Affairs combines media and technology at a time when tensions between the two industries are at a fever pitch. — Summary
More: State Affairs, Pulse 2.0, New York Post, and Washington …
X: @rabois, @scottnover, and @jeremymbarr. LinkedIn: David Adelman. Bluesky: @mollymckew. Forums: r/Journalism
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
InstaLILY, which develops AI agents to automate sales, operations, and service workflows, raised a $60M Series B led by Energize Capital — Enterprise automation startup InstaLILY Inc. said today it has closed on a hefty $60 million Series B round of funding that brings its total amount raised to date to almost $100 million.| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Overtone, a “voice- and audio-forward” dating service founded by Hinge creator Justin McLeod that uses AI to make “highly curated introductions”, raised $18M — Hinge founder Justin McLeod announced an $18 million fundraise for his new dating company, Overtone.
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