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Microsoft is rolling out Copilot 365 to all of Accenture's roughly 743,000 employees, in the biggest enterprise deal for Copilot, following a 2023 pilot (Aditya Soni/Reuters)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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Q&A with Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman about OpenAI's new partnership with AWS, Bedrock Managed Agents, Trainium chips, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

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Sources: Google dropped out of a $100M Pentagon challenge to create tech for voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarms, following an internal ethics review (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

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Amazon and OpenAI announce an expanded deal that will make OpenAI's models available from AWS, a day after OpenAI revised its Microsoft partnership (Ina Fried/Axios)

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AWS launches Amazon Connect Decisions and Amazon Connect Talent, which are AI agentic tools aimed at logistics workers and recruiters (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

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Lovable launches its AI coding app on iOS and Android, letting users code via voice or text AI prompts, and allowing them to switch between a PC and mobile (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Musk v. Altman: the judge asks Elon Musk and Sam Altman to "control your propensity to use social media to make things worse outside this courtroom" (Madlin Mekelburg/Bloomberg)

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The FIDO Alliance launches two working groups to establish industry standards for securing AI agent transactions; Google contributes the Agent Payments Protocol (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

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Foxconn Industrial Internet, which sells AI servers, reports Q1 revenue up 57% YoY to ~$37B, below $44.5B est., and a record ~$1.5B net income, below $1.8B est. (Rachel Yeo/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Polymarket has discussed lifting the prohibition on US-based customers with the CFTC, as it seeks to bring its main exchange back to the US (Bloomberg)

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Anthropic partners with Blender, Autodesk, Adobe, Ableton, and others to launch connectors that integrate Claude directly into professional creative workflows (Anthropic)

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OpenAI describes a report that it has missed internal goals as "prime clickbait" and says its consumer and enterprise businesses are "firing on all cylinders" (Seth Fiegerman/Bloomberg)

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True Anomaly, which makes autonomous spacecraft and software for the US Space Force, raised a $650M Series D at a $2.2B valuation, bringing total funding to $1B (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

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Snap launches AI Sponsored Snaps, a conversational ad format in Snapchat's Chat tab that lets users talk to brand-specific AI agents for product recommendations (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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US prosecutors allege Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian citizen known as Bouquet, is a Scattered Spider member; he was arrested in a Helsinki airport (Jason Meisner/Chicago Tribune)

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Sources: at least two China-based funds that back leading AI companies have used parallel fund structures to fundraise from US investors in recent months (Bloomberg)

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Sources and memos: Tencent employees used Claude Code to assist them with evaluating and fine-tuning the company's new Hy3 model to improve its performance (Juro Osawa/The Information)

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GitHub addresses two recent incidents and says it aims to improve reliability amid AI growth, focusing on "availability first, then capacity, then new features" (Vlad Fedorov/The GitHub Blog)

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Chinese billionaire Chen Tianqiao says his startup MiroMind is adding strict "firewalls" between its Chinese and US businesses, as China blocked Manus' sale (Bloomberg)

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AI researchers launch talkie, a 13B vintage language model trained on historical texts and with a 1930 cutoff, to see if it can replicate scientific discoveries (talkie)

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Google launches Ask YouTube, a conversational AI search "experiment" that generates pages with videos and text summaries, for Premium users in the US aged 18+ (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Q&A with Bloomberg CTO Shawn Edwards, who says Bloomberg is overhauling the Terminal with chatbot-style interface ASKB, currently open to ~125K users in beta (Joel Khalili/Wired)

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As Russia throttles popular apps and intermittently cuts off internet access, ordinary citizens, politicians, TV stars, and others criticize the restrictions (New York Times)

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Gartner: US states issued $3.45B in privacy-related fines to companies in 2025, more than the past five years combined, in part due to stronger privacy laws (Djohnson/CyberScoop)

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Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to €4.53B, MAUs up 12% YoY to 761M, above 759M est., and forecasts Q2 operating income below est.; SPOT drops 10%+ (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

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Australia unveils a draft News Bargaining Incentive scheme that imposes a 2.25% levy on local revenues for platforms; Meta says the government is "simply wrong" (The Guardian)

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Match Group invests $100M in Seattle-based Sniffies, a web-only platform for queer men with ~3M MAUs worldwide, paving the way for a possible acquisition (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

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Q&A with Evan Spiegel on why distribution is now the most important moat in consumer tech, investing in Specs, 2026 as a "crucible" moment for Snap, and more (Lenny Rachitsky/Lenny's Newsletter)

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Many US rural communities oppose adding AI infrastructure; Pew says 67% of planned data centers are rural, while 87% of existing data centers are in urban areas (Financial Times)

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An analysis of Internet Archive data: by mid-2025, ~35% of newly published websites since ChatGPT's launch in November 2022 were AI-generated or AI-assisted (Matthew Gault/404 Media)

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Kpler, an online analytics platform tracking global maritime traffic and energy flows, says it has gained millions of new users since the war in Iran began (Alice Hancock/Financial Times)

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Source: Google signed a deal allowing the US DOD to use Google's AI for "any lawful government purpose"; Google says the agreement amends an existing contract (Erin Woo/The Information)

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