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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 …
Milana Vinn / Reuters:
Sources: Stripe and PE firm Advent International have jointly offered $60.50/share to acquire PayPal, a 28% premium to Tuesday's close, valuing it at $53B+  —  Payments company Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal Holdings Inc (PYPL.O) …
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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.
Wall Street Journal:
Meta is sued by 26 current and former employees, who allege its use of AI in May layoffs unfairly targeted workers with disabilities or on protected leave  —  Lawsuit alleges social-media company relied on AI that disproportionately targeted workers with disabilities or who were on medical or parental leave
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.
Financial Times:
Sources: Oracle leads the race to sell “air-gapped” cloud services to Japan that the US says are key to secure intelligence sharing between Tokyo and its allies  —  Larry Ellison's group proposes ‘air-gapped’ network as US pressures Tokyo to tighten security of sensitive data
Bloomberg:
As China's rules for humanlike AI interaction take effect, many users are bemoaning the loss of the virtual companions they had created on Chinese AI platforms  —  For days, 19-year old student Yan Yongqi has been consumed by grief over the imminent loss of her virtual boyfriend of more than a year.
Wall Street Journal:
The UAE gained broader US AI chip access after aiding the US in the Iran war, letting G42 buy freely for at least nine months; G42 plans to become a US company  —  Gulf state's main AI firm can freely buy the chips and has a plan to become a U.S. company  —  The United Arab Emirates …
More: Axios
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 …
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Sources: OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is leaving the company to launch an AI drug discovery startup, and is in talks to raise $200M at a $2B valuation  —  Miles Wang, an OpenAI researcher whose work includes using AI to accelerate scientific and biological discovery, is leaving the ChatGPT maker …
More: Telecompaper
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 …
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 …
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 …

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Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
Letter: Tennessee Deputy Governor Stuart McWhorter urged David Ellison to move Paramount's corporate headquarters from California to Tennessee

Reuters:
Sources: Lionsgate has attracted takeover interest from France's Bolloré Group, owner of Canal+, and Banijay, which just completed an $8B merger with All3Media

The Athletic:
German soccer league Bundesliga is moving its US TV rights from ESPN to Versant's USA Network and Fandango in a deal, sources say, worth $100M over five seasons

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Financial Times:
Sources and telecom data: a coordinated campaign of SS7 pings was used to track the locations of US personnel during the US-led strikes on Iran in late February
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
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