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OpenAI's CSO Jason Kwon messaged staff that the company "strongly" told the US government that building AI "requires the best talent from around the world" (The Information)

OpenAI's CSO Jason Kwon messaged staff that the co...

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The US government awards $500M under the CHIPS Act to SandboxAQ to use AI to develop new chemicals and materials for domestic semiconductor manufacturing (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

The US government awards $500M under the CHIPS Act...

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Uber plans to expands its premium robotaxi service from SF to Houston by mid-2027, in partnership with EV maker Lucid and autonomous vehicle startup Nuro (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

Uber plans to expands its premium robotaxi service...

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Nauk Nauk, which runs an AI video app that turns photos of toys into short animated videos, raised $20M and is coming out of beta; it claims to have 1M+ users (Ina Fried/Axios)

Nauk Nauk, which runs an AI video app that turns p...

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Sources: Trump officials discussed ways to structure government equity stakes in AI companies, with Commerce Secretary Lutnick favoring a sovereign wealth fund (Eleanor Mueller/Semafor)

Sources: Trump officials discussed ways to structu...

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Sources describe Huawei's efforts to rebuild its chip business seven years after the US cut Huawei off from advanced chips, as it bets on logic-stacking tech (Financial Times)

Sources describe Huawei's efforts to rebuild its c...

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World models startup Odyssey raised $310M from Amazon and others at a $1.45B valuation and will use AWS as its preferred cloud partner, deploying Trainium chips (Financial Times)

World models startup Odyssey raised $310M from Ama...

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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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