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OpenAI says an internal general-purpose reasoning model has disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a central problem in discrete geometry posed in 1946 (OpenAI)

OpenAI says an internal general-purpose reasoning ...

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Granta and the Commonwealth Foundation say they can't determine yet if AI was used to write a prize-winning short story after critics pointed to signs of AI use (The Guardian)

Granta and the Commonwealth Foundation say they ca...

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Google says it is testing new ad formats in search results and AI Mode, including Conversational Discovery ads, Highlighted Answers, and AI-powered Shopping ads (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)

Google says it is testing new ad formats in search...

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Google says it is testing new ad formats in search results and AI Mode, including Conversational Discovery ads, Highlighted Answers, and AI-powered Shopping ads (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)

Google says it is testing new ad formats in search...

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Airbnb says it is adding luggage storage, airport pickups, car rentals, grocery delivery, and thousands of boutique and independent hotels to its platform (Jacob Passy/Wall Street Journal)

Airbnb says it is adding luggage storage, airport ...

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Sources: OpenAI is preparing to file confidentially for an IPO as early as Friday (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: OpenAI is preparing to file confidentiall...

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Ubisoft reports a record operating loss of $1.40B for the year to March and says sales in 2026-27 would fall by about 8% to 9%; UBI falls 6%+ (Reuters)

Ubisoft reports a record operating loss of $1.40B ...

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Internal memo: Xbox hires game industry analyst Matthew Ball as chief strategy officer, and names Scott Van Vliet, who led Azure AI infrastructure, as Xbox CTO (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Internal memo: Xbox hires game industry analyst Ma...

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Internal memo: Mark Zuckerberg told employees that he does not expect more company-wide layoffs this year (Katie Paul/Reuters)

Internal memo: Mark Zuckerberg told employees that...

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An interview with Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff about plans for Tinder, including a redesign, AI features, live events, and group dating to win over Gen Z (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

An interview with Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff ...

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OpenAI's Chris Lehane says he is pursuing "reverse federalism", lobbying blue states to pass AI safety laws and create a de facto US standard, as DC dithers (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)

OpenAI's Chris Lehane says he is pursuing "reverse...

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Stability AI releases a new family of audio models called Stability Audio 3.0 that is trained on licensed data; the top model can generate six-minute songs (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Stability AI releases a new family of audio models...

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NanoClaw creator NanoCo raised a $12M seed led by Valley Capital and says it is booking enterprise customers; co-founders say they rejected a $20M buyout offer (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

NanoClaw creator NanoCo raised a $12M seed led by ...

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Variational, which has built a protocol for decentralized derivatives trading aimed at gathering liquidity from traditional markets, raised a $50M Series A (Jack Kubinec/Fortune)

Variational, which has built a protocol for decent...

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Samsung Electronics and its South Korean labor union reach a preliminary pay deal; the union says it has decided to suspend a general strike (Reuters)

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Mercury, which provides banking services to startups, raised a $200M Series D led by TCV at a $5.2B valuation, up from $3.5B in March 2025 (Hugh Son/CNBC)

Mercury, which provides banking services to startu...

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Socket, which helps companies safeguard open-source code against hackers, raised $60M led by Thrive Capital at a $1B valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Socket, which helps companies safeguard open-sourc...

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Apple says the App Store prevented over $2.2B in potentially fraudulent transactions in 2025, rejected over 2M problematic app submissions, and more (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)

Apple says the App Store prevented over $2.2B in p...

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