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More than 600 Google employees, including many from DeepMind, sign a letter to Sundar Pichai demanding he bar the DOD from using Google's AI for classified work (www.washingtonpost.com)
18 days ago Google AI

California's Billionaire Tax Has the Signatures to Make the Ballot (news.slashdot.org)
18 days ago Tax California

PocketOS founder Jer Crane says a Cursor agent running Claude Opus 4.6 accidentally deleted a production database when it was working in a staging environment (x.com)
18 days ago Database

DeepSeek V4 Arrives With Near State-of-the-Art Intelligence At 1/6th the Cost (news.slashdot.org)
18 days ago Intelligence

Canva says it “moved quickly to investigate and fix” an issue with its Magic Layers feature that replaced the word “Palestine” in designs, after a viral X post (www.theverge.com)
18 days ago

Ineffable Intelligence, founded by ex-Google DeepMind Principal Scientist David Silver, raised a $1.1B seed at a $5.1B valuation to build AI “superlearners” (www.wired.com)
18 days ago Google AI Silver Intelligence

Microsoft and OpenAI remove a clause in their deal that would grant Microsoft IP rights up until OpenAI achieved “AGI”, replacing it with a fixed-term agreement (www.theinformation.com)
18 days ago Microsoft

10 Devastating Wars During the So-Called “Cold” War (listverse.com)
18 days ago

10 Massive Construction Projects That Nearly Bankrupted Nations (listverse.com)
18 days ago

10 Jokes That Accidentally Triggered Real-World Crises (listverse.com)
18 days ago

Quantum Art, a quantum computing startup focused on enhancing computational throughput using its unique “multicore” architecture, extends its Series A to $140M (siliconangle.com)
18 days ago Startup Quantum

Microsoft and OpenAI amend their deal to let OpenAI serve all its products across any cloud provider; Microsoft will no longer pay a revenue share to OpenAI (openai.com)
18 days ago Microsoft

Spotify partners with Peloton to offer Premium users access to playlists and a catalog of 1,400+ ad-free fitness classes, its first foray into fitness content (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago Spotify

Lithuania-based Vinted says it completed an ~€880M secondary share sale led by EQT, Teachers' Venture Growth, Schroders at an €8B valuation, up from €5B in 2024 (www.ft.com)
18 days ago

San Francisco public records: in 2024, Salesforce and Airbnb were among the top tech spenders in the city's 10B program, which lets them hire police officers (www.wired.com)
18 days ago Airbnb Salesforce San Francisco

America Now Has 70% More Bookstores Than in 2020, Says Bookshop.org Founder (news.slashdot.org)
18 days ago U.S.

Amazon reaches a multiyear licensing deal with Oprah Winfrey to produce twice-a-week video podcasts starting in July, repurpose The Oprah Winfrey Show, and more (www.nytimes.com)
18 days ago Amazon

Meta says it signed a deal with Overview Energy for 1GW of space solar energy; the startup seeks to collect sunlight in satellites, with a demonstration in 2028 (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago Energy Startup Solar

A look at what's next for Netflix and Comcast's Peacock after the WBD-Paramount deal; Nielsen says Netflix had six of the top 10 original streaming shows in Q1 (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago Netflix

Analysis: as of late 2025, 79 of 500 tracked software companies including HubSpot, Adobe, and Salesforce adopted usage-based AI fees, more than doubling on 2024 (www.theinformation.com)
18 days ago AI Adobe Salesforce

Sources: some UK officials fear Keir Starmer's plan for closer EU ties risks the US-UK alliance, and worry the UK may be forced to adopt the EU's AI regulation (www.ft.com)
18 days ago AI

Truecaller faces mounting pressure as growth slows in India, its largest market, while telcos, Apple, and Google roll out caller ID and spam-blocking features (techcrunch.com)
19 days ago India Google Apple

A profile of Anthony Fujiwara, who industrialized “clipping” for social media video marketing and has contributed to the rise of crypto casinos like Stake (www.forbes.com)
19 days ago

Chinese regulators block Meta's $2B acquisition of Manus, after reviewing whether the deal violated Beijing's investment rules; Manus moved to Singapore in 2025 (www.ft.com)
19 days ago China Singapore

A look at Elon Musk's efforts to launch the banking and payments service X Money, delayed by US regulatory concerns, as some industry watchers remain skeptical (www.bloomberg.com)
19 days ago Elon Musk

Analysis of 100 actively traded software company loans since January 20 finds sector-wide price pressure as investors seek defensive moats against AI disruption (www.wsj.com)
19 days ago AI

A deep dive into how ASML became a chokepoint for making cutting-edge chips by betting on EUV, close collaboration with TSMC and the US government, and more (worksinprogress.co)
19 days ago

Two Hot Climate Tech Startups Just Raised $1 Billion+ in IPOs (news.slashdot.org)
19 days ago IPO Startup Climate

How Sergey Brin's political push against a proposed wealth tax in California has helped mobilize a network of fellow tech leaders to sway state issues (www.bloomberg.com)
19 days ago Tax California

Kuo: OpenAI is working with MediaTek and Qualcomm to develop smartphone chips, with Luxshare handling the system co-design; mass production is expected in 2028 (x.com)
19 days ago

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