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EU countries and lawmakers reach an impasse on a deal watering down the EU's AI Act due to some parties seeking exemptions for already regulated industries (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

EU countries and lawmakers reach an impasse on a d...

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A US judge denied Sam Bankman-Fried's request for a new trial based on what SBF called new evidence; SBF tried to withdraw his request, but the judge refused (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)

A US judge denied Sam Bankman-Fried's request for ...

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Parallel Web Systems, founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and which offers web search tools for AI agents, raised a $100M Series B at a $2B valuation (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

Parallel Web Systems, founded by former Twitter CE...

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OpenAI's Codex instruction set contains a line, repeated several times, that forbids Codex from randomly mentioning goblins, gremlins, and other creatures (Will Knight/Wired)

OpenAI's Codex instruction set contains a line, re...

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Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp, says his terminal application Ghostty will move off GitHub, citing GitHub's frequent outages (Mitchell Hashimoto)

Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp, says ...

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Sources: Goldman Sachs stopped its bankers in Hong Kong from using Anthropic's models; Anthropic says its models were never officially "supported" in Hong Kong (Financial Times)

Sources: Goldman Sachs stopped its bankers in Hong...

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OpenAI projected at the start of this year that $8/month ChatGPT Go subscriptions will grow ~36x to 112M in 2026, while $20/month Plus subs will fall 80% to ~9M (Sri Muppidi/The Information)

OpenAI projected at the start of this year that $8...

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US startup Poolside debuts its first open-weight model, Laguna XS.2, a 33B-A3B-parameter MoE model, and Laguna M.1, a proprietary 225B-A23B-parameter MoE model (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

US startup Poolside debuts its first open-weight m...

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Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal model with a 30B-A3B hybrid MoE architecture; the Nemotron 3 family saw 50M+ downloads in the past year (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)

Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open mult...

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AWS launches a desktop app for its Amazon Quick AI assistant, letting users connect their tools and local files to build custom apps, live dashboards, and more (Jigar Thakkar/About Amazon)

AWS launches a desktop app for its Amazon Quick AI...

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Musk v. Altman: Musk testifies he's suing OpenAI because "it is not okay to steal a charity" and its pivot sets a concerning precedent for philanthropic efforts (Bloomberg)

Musk v. Altman: Musk testifies he's suing OpenAI b...

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NXP reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $3.18B, vs. $3.15B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; NXPI jumps 13%+ after hours (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)

NXP reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $3.18B, vs. $...

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Sources: the US Commerce Department last week ordered multiple chip equipment companies to halt some shipments to China's second-largest chipmaker, Hua Hong (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)

Sources: the US Commerce Department last week orde...

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Robinhood reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.07B, vs. $1.14B est., and crypto revenue down 47% to $134M, vs. $147.6M est.; HOOD drops 6%+ after hours (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)

Robinhood reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.07B,...

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Seagate reports Q3 revenue up 44% YoY to $3.11B, vs. $2.96B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue and adjusted EPS above estimates; STX jumps 13%+ after hours (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)

Seagate reports Q3 revenue up 44% YoY to $3.11B, v...

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China's National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen unveils the Lingshen project, aiming for 2+ exaFLOPS performance using a domestic-made CPU-only architecture (Luke James/Tom's Hardware)

China's National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen...

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Sources: Apple plans an AI overhaul for photo editing in iOS 27, including using on-device AI models to extend, enhance, and reframe photos (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple plans an AI overhaul for photo edit...

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South Africa withdraws its first draft national AI policy after revelations that it contained fictitious sources that appeared to have been AI-generated (Nellie Peyton/Reuters)

South Africa withdraws its first draft national AI...

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