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Musk v. Altman: when asked whether xAI has ever distilled tech from OpenAI, Elon Musk says the claim is "partly" true (New York Times)

Musk v. Altman: when asked whether xAI has ever di...

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The US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously endorses a bipartisan child safety bill requiring AI companies like OpenAI and Meta to implement age verification (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)

The US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously endo...

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Cybersecurity analysis: GPT-5.5 reaches a similar level of performance as Mythos Preview and is the second model to solve a multi-step cyberattack simulation (AI Security Institute)

Cybersecurity analysis: GPT-5.5 reaches a similar ...

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Serverless inference platform Featherless.ai raised a $20M Series A co-led by AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures; the startup supports over 30,000 open models (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)

Serverless inference platform Featherless.ai raise...

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X says it has begun a "phased rollout" of its rebuilt ad platform, which it says will have more modern "retrieval and ranking systems" powered by AI (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

X says it has begun a "phased rollout" of its rebu...

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Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings agrees to acquire Ohio gas plant operator Long Ridge Energy & Power for $1.5B including debt, to power its AI data center expansion (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)

Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings agrees to acquire Ohio...

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Meta introduces Meta Ads AI connectors in open beta, letting advertisers use their preferred third-party AI tools to create, manage, and analyze campaigns (Krystal Scanlon/Digiday)

Meta introduces Meta Ads AI connectors in open bet...

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JuliaHub, which aims to use agentic coding tools to design complex products such as cars and airplanes, raised a $65M Series B led by Dorilton Capital (Ina Fried/Axios)

JuliaHub, which aims to use agentic coding tools t...

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Cloudflare says AI agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, start paid subscriptions, register domains, and deploy apps on behalf of users (Cloudflare)

Cloudflare says AI agents can now create Cloudflar...

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Sources: the NSA has been testing Anthropic's Mythos model to find vulnerabilities in Microsoft products and widely used software from other companies (Jake Bleiberg/Bloomberg)

Sources: the NSA has been testing Anthropic's Myth...

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Humanoid robotics startup 1X opens a new 58,000-square-foot factory in Hayward, California, where it aims to build 100,000 robots by the end of 2027 (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

Humanoid robotics startup 1X opens a new 58,000-sq...

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Sources: US officials are preparing a wide-ranging AI policy memo that outlines rules for national security agencies' AI use, including avoiding single vendors (Bloomberg)

Sources: US officials are preparing a wide-ranging...

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Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron earnings show increased DRAM prices, not shipments, indicating a focus on revenue over helping clients get the products they need (Tim Culpan/Culpium)

Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron earnings show increa...

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Spotify rolls out a Verified by Spotify badge to identify human artists; criteria include artist presence on and off platform and consistent listener activity (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Spotify rolls out a Verified by Spotify badge to i...

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Netflix starts rolling out its new Clips vertical video feed as a separate tab in the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, India, and four other countries (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Netflix starts rolling out its new Clips vertical ...

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Sources: the EU is drafting a revised Chips Act II, set for late May, that would grant it power to invest directly in large, cross-border manufacturing projects (Bloomberg)

Sources: the EU is drafting a revised Chips Act II...

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Casa, which uses lidar scanners and AI to catalog homes and manage proactive maintenance alongside human workers, raised $27M, including a $20M Series A (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)

Casa, which uses lidar scanners and AI to catalog ...

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Sources: London-based DAZN agrees to acquire ViewLift, which builds tech for streaming services for 15 professional US sports teams and others, for ~$100M (Isabella Simonetti/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: London-based DAZN agrees to acquire ViewL...

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