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A profile of Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini...

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Sources: Samsung is seeing a rise in advanced chip production requests from BYD, Google, AMD, and others as TSMC's capacity remains constrained by AI demand (Nikkei Asia)

Sources: Samsung is seeing a rise in advanced chip...

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India's Telegram ban until June 22 over exam paper leak concerns is a terrible look for the country, sets a precedent, and could happen again if unchallenged (Nikhil Pahwa/@nixxin)

India's Telegram ban until June 22 over exam paper...

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Sources: a new AI lab founded by Junyang Lin, former lead of Alibaba's Qwen models, has raised several hundred million dollars at a ~$2B post-money valuation (The Information)

Sources: a new AI lab founded by Junyang Lin, form...

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Dealogic: investors have poured $58B across 42 data center deals YTD; Oxford Economics says ~850 data centers worth some $7T are under construction globally (Financial Times)

Dealogic: investors have poured $58B across 42 dat...

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Sources: Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu targets a Hong Kong IPO as early as year-end at a $70B+ valuation, up from $50B in recent private secondary trades (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu targ...

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Kazakhstan signs accords with Firebird on Nvidia-related computing projects that could bring up to $10B in investment, as it seeks to build a Data Center Valley (Bloomberg)

Kazakhstan signs accords with Firebird on Nvidia-r...

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Sources: Jeff Bezos is investing in Cambridge, UK-Based CuspAI, which applies generative AI to material sciences, as part of a $400M round at a $2.6B valuation (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

Sources: Jeff Bezos is investing in Cambridge, UK-...

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WordPress survey: 60% of US consumers say "AI" in ...

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A look at Wyoming's Frontier Stable Token, which launched in January and currently has a market value of ~$1M, as other states explore "white labeling" the tech (David Voreacos/Bloomberg)

A look at Wyoming's Frontier Stable Token, which l...

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Databricks says annualized revenue rose 80%+ YoY to $6.9B, up from $5.4B in Q4; CEO Ali Ghodsi says higher AI agent usage is increasing costs, lowering margins (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Databricks says annualized revenue rose 80%+ YoY t...

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Sources: Meta decided to support KOSA after it was packaged with language preempting state AI laws and a bill requiring app stores to verify users' ages (Politico)

Sources: Meta decided to support KOSA after it was...

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Sources: Meta decided to support KOSA after it was packaged with language preempting state AI laws and a bill requiring app stores to verify users' ages (Politico)

Sources: Meta decided to support KOSA after it was...

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Kapwing: in tests, ~60% of the first 500 TikTok For You videos shown to a new account were AI slop, ~3x the slop shown to a new YouTube user via YouTube Shorts (Matt G. Southern/Search Engine Journal)

Kapwing: in tests, ~60% of the first 500 TikTok Fo...

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Sources: the US has held off adding DeepSeek, CXMT, and 100+ other flagged companies to its Entity List, last updated in October, the longest gap in 10+ years (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)

Sources: the US has held off adding DeepSeek, CXMT...

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Sources: Amazon faces a possible FTC lawsuit alleging it misled advertisers; multiple state AGs are involved and the case could seek billions in civil penalties (Bloomberg)

Sources: Amazon faces a possible FTC lawsuit alleg...

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Many US lawmakers said this week they had not been formally briefed on Trump's Fable 5 move, including Ted Cruz, whose commerce committee can shape AI policy (Politico)

Many US lawmakers said this week they had not been...

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signs a state budget with new taxes on social media giants, digital ads, and prediction and crypto markets, all likely facing lawsuits (Mitchell Armentrout/Chicago Sun Times)

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signs a state budget wit...

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