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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 (Ella Creamer/The Guardian)

Granta says it will stop publishing short story co...

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Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft and chairman of gaming hardware company Guillemot Corporation, died at 69 after a plane crash in France (Angela Cullen/Bloomberg)

Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft and chairm...

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An interview with Smartbird CEO Nadia Carlsten about the shoe company Allbirds becoming an AI infrastructure company, plans to deploy compute clusters, and more (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)

An interview with Smartbird CEO Nadia Carlsten abo...

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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/Time)

A look at Russia's push to develop homegrown AI ta...

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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 (Mishal Husain/Bloomberg)

Q&A with Signal's Meredith Whittaker on why online...

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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 (Financial Times)

Sources: the UK government is expected to consult ...

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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 (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: PC makers, including HP, are in talks wit...

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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 (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

Paris-based Kyber, which develops a low-latency re...

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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 (Financial Times)

Sources: Bain Capital stands to make $15B+ in prof...

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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 (Tyler Cowen/Conversations with Tyler)

An interview with Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki on his ...

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Nothing won't launch a new phone this year in its budget-focused CMF Phone series due to RAM prices (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Nothing won't launch a new phone this year in its ...

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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 (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)

DOJ says two brothers pleaded guilty to robbing a ...

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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 (Reuters)

Sources: Abu Dhabi's MGX is exploring buying Singa...

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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 (Erin Woo/The Information)

Docs: OpenAI burned through $3.7B in Q1, on revenu...

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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 (Bloomberg)

The departure of John Jumper, a key member of Goog...

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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 (Reuters)

South Korean media: Hyundai plans to buy SoftBank'...

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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 (Maria Curi/Axios)

Trump says he saw Anthropic last week as a nationa...

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Oura Ring 5 review: impressive thinness, live activity tracking, and conversational AI, but not very durable, LEDs are distracting, and the app is confusing (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

Oura Ring 5 review: impressive thinness, live acti...

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