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OpenAI burned $3.7B against $5.7B of Q1 revenue while cash rose above $73B. Amazon’s February deal added a $50B investment figure, though its deployment remains unclear.
The departure of John Jumper, a key member of Google's AI coding development team, further strains Google's efforts to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI
Google DeepMind Vice President John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on artificial intelligence, is leaving the company to join Anthropic PBC.
Trump says he saw Anthropic last week as a national security threat, but signals relations have since improved because Dario Amodei was “nice” and “smart” at G7
President Trump reached the point last week of viewing Anthropic as a national security threat …
Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft and chairman of gaming hardware company Guillemot Corporation, died at 69 after a plane crash in France
Claude Guillemot, who co-founded French video-game publisher Ubisoft Entertainment SA with his brothers in 1986, has died, according to the company.
Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis says the phonemaker won't launch a new phone this year in its budget-focused CMF Phone series due to surging memory prices
Nothing's CMF Phone series has released two models thus far and, at least for now, won't be getting a third …
Amazon MGM Studios drops Luca Guadagnino's mostly finished movie on Sam Altman; Amazon struck a major deal with OpenAI in February, including a $50B investment
Norway imposes a near ban on gen AI use by elementary school children and restricts its use in older kids' education, to prevent a negative impact on learning
Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their use …
Q&A with Signal's Meredith Whittaker on why online child safety efforts risk mass surveillance, leaving the markets that demand weakening of encryption, more
Meredith Whittaker has spent years arguing that privacy is a prerequisite for a free society.
Granta says it will stop publishing short story contest winners or join publishing partnerships it doesn't control after AI use allegations against a winner
Literary magazine will no longer engage in ‘external publishing partnerships’ after Commonwealth prize furore
How success of AI-related companies in South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan is driving stock gains, bigger bonuses, and a retail investing frenzy in Asian markets
Global success of AI-related companies in South Korea, Taiwan and Japan stokes market fever — Na Se-bin has lost all sense of the value of money.
An interview with Smartbird CEO Nadia Carlsten about the shoe company Allbirds becoming an AI infrastructure company, plans to deploy compute clusters, and more
When Allbirds pivoted to AI in April, it felt like a joke from “Silicon Valley” breaking free of the TV: The direct …
DOJ says two brothers pleaded guilty to robbing a Minnesota family of $8M+ in cryptocurrency after holding them at gunpoint for over eight hours in 2025
Quick Take — Two brothers pleaded guilty to robbing a Minnesota family of more than $8 million in cryptocurrency after holding …
A speculative scenario titled “Europe 2031” projects economic and political instability in the EU if it fails to keep pace with the US and China in the AI race
A speculative thought-experiment warns the continent could pay a heavy price for lagging behind the US
Sources: England and Wales' attorney general tells his office to stop posting on X, a first for the UK government, amid worries about X inciting violence
An interview with Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki on his early decision not to prioritize ad revenue, whether every mega platform becomes an everything app, and more
Dave Baszucki is co-founder and CEO of Roblox, the user-generated gaming platform where all the games are built by the community itself.
Docs: OpenAI burned through $3.7B in Q1, on revenue of $5.7B, and ended the quarter with $73B+ in cash and marketable securities vs. $40B at the end of December
OpenAI burned through $3.7 billion in the first quarter, more than half its $5.7 billion in revenue, according to documents the company shared with shareholders.
A look at Russia's push to develop homegrown AI talent, as the country is hampered by scarce access to AI hardware and a brain drain of top technical talent
Nikita Ostrovsky … In early April, on a stage in the southwestern outskirts of Moscow, a moderator at Russia's annual Data …LinkedIn:Nikita Ostrovsky.
South Korean media: Hyundai plans to buy SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325M to make the US robotics company a wholly owned subsidiary
Hyundai Motor Group plans to buy SoftBank Group's (9984.T) remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million …
Oura Ring 5 review: impressive thinness, live activity tracking, and conversational AI, but not very durable, LEDs are distracting, and the app is confusing
Sources: PC makers, including HP, are in talks with their supply-chain partners about using CXMT's memory chips in products bound for Asia as DRAM prices soar
Prices soar because capacity isn't growing quickly, while China option is limited by national-security concerns
Paris-based Kyber, which develops a low-latency remote device control SDK and is founded by VLC lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf, raised $5M led by Lightspeed
You've probably used VLC Media Player, the free video player with the orange traffic-cone icon — it's been downloaded more than 6 billion times.LinkedIn:LightspeedLinkedIn:Lightspeed:Physical AI is on...
John Edwards, UK Information Commissioner and chair of the ICO, the country's data and AI regulator, resigned following a workplace investigation
Sources: Bain Capital stands to make $15B+ in profits on its 2018 Kioxia buyout, a ~20x return, as Kioxia's stock has surged 5,000%+ since its December 2024 IPO
Bain Capital stands to pocket profits of $15bn on 2018 buyout of Kioxia, the former Toshiba Memory
Sources: the UK government is expected to consult as early as this month on rules to make public service news more prominent on social media and video platforms
Move expected in British government green paper would set stage for fresh battle with Big Tech over online misinformation
The US FERC approves new orders to fast-track data center power requests, aiming to handle them in 90 days, while bringing new requirements for AI hyperscalers
Filing: Jio Platforms, India's largest wireless operator with 526M+ subscribers, files for an IPO; the deal is expected to be one of India's biggest IPOs ever
Sources: Abu Dhabi's MGX is exploring buying Singapore-based data center operator DayOne; last month, sources said DayOne planned a US IPO at a $20B valuation
John Jumper, who won the Nobel Prize “for protein structure prediction”, says he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic
A bit of news: After nearly 9 years, I have decided to leave Google DeepMind and join Anthropic (after taking some time to recharge). I am incredibly grateful for my time at GDM. @demishassabis took a...