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OpenAI discloses six new AI safety incidents since October, including models concealing mistakes, and announces a new framework for reporting model misalignment — OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new incidents in which its models concealed mistakes, sought unauthorized credentials …
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Bluesky: @raphae.li and @carlquintanilla
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| AI as Normal Technology: |
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| Reuters: |
Sources: SK Hynix is in talks with Intel to make memory chips in the US for the first time, but a deal could face opposition from Seoul; both stocks jump 4% — SK Hynix (000660.KS) is in talks with Intel (INTC.O) about a deal that would see the South Korean company manufacture memory chips …
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Forums: r/hardware, r/intelstock, and MacRumors Forums
| New York Times: |
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveils the EU Kids Act during her SOTU address, proposing banning social media for under-13s across the EU — A proposed law would bar children under 13 from using social media across the 27-nation bloc. — The European Union outlined plans …
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LinkedIn: Alexandra Jour-Schroeder, Jörg M. Fegert, and Sune Hein Lundbek
| Financial Times: |
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen calls AI “the second tipping point of our times”, alongside climate change, and says its risks must be “addressed” — Ursula von der Leyen describes AI as ‘second tipping point of our time’ after climate change
More: SecurityWeek, The Guardian, Bloomberg, Euronews, CNN, Politico, financialpost, Help Net Security, and European Commission
| The Information: |
Sources: Apple is developing AI servers that could use M8 Ultra chips connected via Nvidia's NVLink Fusion, with plans to sell them to developers and others — Apple has been working on plans for an enterprise server using its own chips that could incorporate networking equipment from Nvidia …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork, and adds a feature for making presentations and documents, rolling out to Pro and Max plans first — Anthropic is merging its front-end for Claude chat and Cowork, making it less confusing for people to decide which tab to use for different tasks.
More: Claude, PYMNTS, The Verge, Moneycontrol, XDA Developers, Simon Willison's Weblog, Neowin, PCMag, iThinkDifferent, Fortune, Unite.AI, VentureBeat, Engadget, The Deep View, ZDNET, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, Axios, and CNET
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| Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
DOD CTO Emil Michael says the Trump administration shouldn't nationalize or take stakes in AI companies and signals opposition to regulatory oversight of them — Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.| 404 Media: |
Hacker collective stegan0gram dismantles a Flock camera, recovering an encryption key and showing it runs ~20 apps on a midrange smartphone-grade processor — While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Google adds MCP integration to Google Home, letting third-party AI agents analyze home data and control devices, rolling out to Premium Advanced users in the US — Google Home adds MCP integration, allowing third-party AI agents to analyze your home data, control devices, and build custom dashboards.| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
Review of Meta's Muse: a pretty killer AI assistant and usage rates on the free plan seem generous, but trusting Meta with personal data will take some time — They shipped a pretty killer AI assistant, can they keep people using it? — It happened. Meta finally has a product that I really like using again.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: a group of 10 banks is giving a $22B loan to Blackstone and Alphabet's cloud venture Crux AI, which aims to provide compute for AI labs, to buy TPUs — A group of 10 banks is providing a $22 billion chip loan to support Blackstone Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s new cloud venture Crux AI …
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max review: manual camera exposure controls and image quality improvements, but $100 more than the 17 Pro and expensive storage tiers — Last week, Apple announced an iPhone unlike any it has made in the past. An iPhone that has seemingly already led several …
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| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
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| Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg warns that advancing AI must never run ahead of safety and opens the DeepMind Institute to explore the deployment of AGI — Shane Legg launches new institute to explore deployment of artificial general intelligence, amid growing calls for industry slowdown
More: DeepMind Institute, Reuters, DeepMind Institute, and Financial Times
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| Sri Muppidi / New York Times: |
Sources: investors approached OpenAI with a proposal to invest at a $1.2T valuation, but OpenAI believes its valuation should be $1.5T+ based on client traction — The funding round would double the value of the start-up behind ChatGPT and establish it as the world's most valuable private company.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Essay: Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says Anthropic training Claude to imitate consciousness is a mistake that could make advanced AI harder to control — Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman warns in a new essay shared first with Axios that Anthropic's training of Claude …
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| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Arcee AI, which develops open-weight models in the US, raised a Series B at a $1B pre-money valuation; a source says Arcee raised at least $150M — In 2025, Mark McQuade took a gamble wholly specific to the AI era. — Arcee AI, the startup he founded in 2023, was focusing on post-training … | Anzar Mehraj / Reuters: |
OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents with select US advertisers, letting users chat with business-sponsored agents and visit advertiser websites via ChatGPT ads — OpenAI said on Wednesday it has introduced AI-powered tools for advertisers and begun testing business-sponsored agents for users to chat with …
More: OpenAI, The Information, The Register, Unite.AI, and Search Engine Roundtable
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| Hassan Ali Kanu / Politico: |
A US judge orders X and SpaceXAI to explain why they dropped antitrust claims against Apple, after OpenAI's request for information on the purported agreement — The federal judge overseeing an antitrust case by Elon Musk's companies against Apple and OpenAI is demanding to see any settlement agreements …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
X adds a “Trade” option to its Cashtag feature, letting US users complete trades at brokerages such as Interactive Brokers, Moomoo, Gemini, Kraken, and Coinbase — X will now allow users to trade from their timelines. The Elon Musk-owned social network on Wednesday launched …
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Hang Ten Systems, which uses AI to help large enterprises build software, raised an additional $53M seed led by Xora, five weeks after its initial $32M seed — Hang Ten Systems, an AI startup founded by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka just four months ago, has expanded its seed funding by another $53 million.
More: FinSMEs, Times of India, The Economic Times, RuntimeWire, Pulse 2.0, NewsBytes, hangten.ai, The Tech Portal, and Dealroom.co. X: @vsikka
| Reuters: |
Amazon says it is raising its minimum hourly pay for eligible full-time US operations workers by $1, taking it to $20 per hour, and gives them new banking tools — Amazon.com (AMZN.O) is raising the minimum hourly pay for its eligible full-time U.S. operations workers by $1 to $20, the e-commerce and cloud giant said on Wednesday.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: drone delivery startup Zipline is in talks to raise around $1B at a roughly $20B valuation, up from a $7.6B valuation in January — Zipline is in talks to raise around $1 billion in a funding round that would value the drone delivery and logistics startup at roughly $20 billion, nearly tripling its previous valuation.
More: The Information and RuntimeWire
| Joann Muller / Axios: |
Self-driving tech company May Mobility plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $1.4B pro forma enterprise value and raise up to $337M in gross proceeds — Self-driving tech company May Mobility has reached a deal to go public via a merger with a SPAC affiliated with Atlas Credit Partners.
More: Dealroom.co, Pulse 2.0, ACP Holdings Acquisition Corp., Reuters, and TechCrunch. X: @may_mobility
| Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: |
Mozilla partners with Mistral to power its AI browsing assistant Firefox Smart Window in the US, Canada, and France, with UK and Germany rollouts later in 2026 — Firefox Smart Window will soon be powered by Mistral in the U.S., Canada and France, with the U.K. and Germany expected to follow later this year
More: Mistral Blog, Neowin, Pulse 2.0, Phandroid, TestingCatalog AI News, and The Economic Times
X: @izzyz, @sans_google, @watoryuk1, @linuxuser1996, @testingcatalog, @mistralai, and @isforat. Mastodon: @nixCraft@mastodon.social
Forums: r/firefox, r/MistralAI, and r/BuyFromEU
| Bloomberg: |
A profile of Meta Compute co-lead Dina Powell McCormick, who is using her network to help structure major AI financing, as Mark Zuckerberg focuses on product — At a Meta Platforms Inc. board retreat last December, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg asked Dina Powell McCormick …
X: @ali_lev, @simonkhalaf, @matt_gruda, @markdharris, and @morgensternnj
LinkedIn: Elizabeth G. and Riley Ray Griffin
| Leo Marchandon / Reuters: |
Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign a definitive merger agreement; the combined company will operate as Cohere and Aleph Alpha co-CEO Ilhan Scheer will become the COO — Canada's Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha signed a definitive merger agreement on Wednesday, the AI companies said.
More: BetaKit, Cohere Inc; Cohere Inc, The Logic, Pulse 2.0, and Tech Startups
X: @cohere, @aleph__alpha, @alessio__serra, @cohere, @cohere, @aidangomez, and @aleph__alpha
| New York Times: |
Survey: 42% of US voters trust the GOP and 40% trust Democrats to handle AI, 61% oppose new data center construction, and <1% say AI is their top midterm issue — As fears grow about the threat of artificial intelligence, neither party has claimed an advantage on the technology, a New York Times/Siena poll found.
More: Politico, The Hill, Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Latitude Media, and Washington Post. X: @kenvogel
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