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Sources: Jensen Huang was not invited to travel with President Trump on his China trip, a potential setback to Nvidia; Huang expressed his willingness to join (Bloomberg)

Sources: Jensen Huang was not invited to travel wi...

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Sources: the Trump administration is quietly debating whether to ban Chinese "cellular modules", as the US FCC pushes measures to reduce Beijing's threats (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)

Sources: the Trump administration is quietly debat...

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Human Rights Watch: at least six EU member states, including Bulgaria and Denmark, have sold surveillance tech to 24+ countries known for violating human rights (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)

Human Rights Watch: at least six EU member states,...

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Source: Microsoft Israel's GM leaves after an internal probe into alleged unethical use of Azure by Israel's MOD; Microsoft France will manage Microsoft Israel (Assaf Gilead/Globes)

Source: Microsoft Israel's GM leaves after an inte...

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A Hollywood writer recounts working as an "AI trainer" for companies like Mercor, as AI gig work becomes the "new waiting tables" for entertainment workers (Ruth Fowler/Wired)

A Hollywood writer recounts working as an "AI trai...

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Instructure reached a deal with hackers who breached its Canvas platform to return stolen data and destroy copies, without disclosing what it gave in exchange (Qasim Nauman/New York Times)

Instructure reached a deal with hackers who breach...

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Sources: some Amazon employees are using in-house OpenClaw-like tool MeshClaw for unnecessary tasks to inflate AI token use after Amazon set weekly AI targets (Financial Times)

Sources: some Amazon employees are using in-house ...

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The US House Oversight Committee launches a probe into potential conflicts in Sam Altman's personal investments; letter: several GOP AGs call for an SEC review (Wall Street Journal)

The US House Oversight Committee launches a probe ...

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AppMagic: Grok downloads fell to ~8.3M in April, from a high of 20M+ in January; Recon Analytics says Grok paid adoption in the US remains nearly flat YoY in Q2 (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)

AppMagic: Grok downloads fell to ~8.3M in April, f...

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Source: new revenue sharing terms cap OpenAI's payments to Microsoft at $38B; they previously could have totaled $135B through 2030 if long-term goals were met (The Information)

Source: new revenue sharing terms cap OpenAI's pay...

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The US Commerce Department removed from its website details about its May 5 agreement with Google, xAI, and Microsoft to test their AI models (Courtney Rozen/Reuters)

The US Commerce Department removed from its websit...

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Q&A with Scott Wu, CEO of Cognition, which hit a $445M revenue run rate in its first 18 months, on his math competition roots, the Devin AI coding agent, more (Jeremy Stern/Colossus)

Q&A with Scott Wu, CEO of Cognition, which hit a $...

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Several npm packages for the TanStack web development tools were compromised in the Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack; Mistral packages were also affected (Socket)

Several npm packages for the TanStack web developm...

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GM plans to lay off IT workers in an effort to trim costs and bring in staff with skills in other tech areas; sources: the cuts will affect 500 to 600 employees (David Welch/Bloomberg)

GM plans to lay off IT workers in an effort to tri...

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OpenAI launches Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative integrating AI models and Codex Security to help organizations patch vulnerabilities (Alexey Shabanov/TestingCatalog AI News)

OpenAI launches Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiati...

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Thinking Machines Lab details interaction models, which can think and respond in real time, letting users and AI interact continuously for better collaboration (Thinking Machines Lab)

Thinking Machines Lab details interaction models, ...

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Source: Robinhood has filed confidentially for its second publicly traded venture fund, Robinhood Venture Fund II, focusing on early-stage startups (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

Source: Robinhood has filed confidentially for its...

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Digg relaunches as an aggregator of AI news and social media commentary, with plans to expand to other topics; its previous reboot shut down in March (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Digg relaunches as an aggregator of AI news and so...

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