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A profile of David Sacks, appointed as White House AI adviser in December 2024, who has a ruthless devotion to self-interest and helped pass the GENIUS Act (www.theatlantic.com)
9 days ago AI

Corning and Nvidia partner to open three advanced manufacturing plants in North Carolina and Texas dedicated to optical tech, boosting Corning's US capacity 10x (www.cnbc.com)
9 days ago Manufacturing Nvidia Texas

Sources: in a reshuffle, LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky will lead Microsoft's new Work Experiences Group, including Teams, after 35-year veteran Rajesh Jha retired (www.theverge.com)
9 days ago Microsoft LinkedIn

OpenAI partners with Microsoft, AMD, Broadcom, Nvidia, and Intel researchers to detail the Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC) protocol to help scale compute (www.thedeepview.com)
9 days ago Microsoft Intel Nvidia AMD

White House App Is a Terrifying Security Mess (it.slashdot.org)
9 days ago

Instacart reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.02B, above $1.01B est., GTV up 13% YoY to $10.3B, and orders up 10% YoY to 91.2M, as users focus on affordability (www.wsj.com)
9 days ago

Crypto miner Hut 8 signs a lease worth $9.8B+ over 15 years to provide computing power to a “high-investment-grade company” at its Nueces County, Texas campus (www.bloomberg.com)
9 days ago Texas

Uber reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $13.2B, below $13.3B est., Gross Bookings up 25% YoY to $53.7B, trips up 20% YoY to 3.6B, and a $1B revenue UK tax law hit (www.ft.com)
9 days ago Uber Tax

Everything you need for PDFs (and then some) in one $40 desktop app (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
9 days ago

Document: SpaceX proposes a $55B investment to build a Terafab chip facility in Grimes County, Texas, with potential total capital expenditures reaching $119B (www.bloomberg.com)
9 days ago SpaceX Texas

Finnish AI lab QuTwo, led by ex-AMD Silo AI CEO Peter Sarlin, raised a €25M angel round at a €325M valuation, and secures $23M in committed partnership revenue (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago AI Finland AMD

Sources: Denver-based, Blue Owl Capital-owned Stack Infrastructure is considering selling all or some of its Asia data center operations in an up to $30B deal (www.bloomberg.com)
9 days ago Asia

Palo Alto Networks warns of firewall RCE zero-day exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
9 days ago

Sources: DeepSeek is in talks to raise funds, and the Big Fund, China's biggest state-backed chip fund, is seeking to lead the investment at a ~$45B valuation (www.ft.com)
9 days ago China

Meta plans advanced ‘agentic' AI assistant for consumers (www.ft.com)
9 days ago AI

DefiLlama: investors pulled ~$14B from the DeFi sector after North Korea-linked hackers stole $290M from Aave in April, weeks after stealing $280M from Drift (www.ft.com)
9 days ago Korea

CO2 Levels In the Atmosphere Hit 'Depressing' New Record (news.slashdot.org)
9 days ago

A medical student reverse-engineered AI tools used by medical colleges on suspicion they were filtering his applications, highlighting AI-driven hiring concerns (www.wired.com)
9 days ago AI

Study: using weaker AI models to supervise a more capable model could prevent the stronger model from deliberately underperforming on benchmarks and evaluations (x.com)
9 days ago AI

Sources: the Big Fund, China's biggest state-backed chip investment fund, is seeking to lead an investment in DeepSeek that could value the AI company at ~$45B (www.ft.com)
9 days ago China AI

The delayed IPO of Visma, an accounting software company valued at €19B, amid SaaSpocalypse fears, is a major setback for PE parent Hg, a software buyout giant (www.ft.com)
9 days ago IPO

Infineon expects data center revenue to grow from €1.5B in FY2026 to €2.5B in FY2027, as it and EU peers STMicro and NXP benefit from AI infrastructure demand (www.bloomberg.com)
9 days ago AI

Security camera companies are embracing AI to give customers detailed descriptions of surveillance footage that are often spot on but can also be wildly wrong (www.wsj.com)
9 days ago AI

Study: US schools with strict cellphone bans in class have not seen higher test scores on average so far, but students reported a greater sense of well-being (www.nytimes.com)
9 days ago

Sources: Blue Origin outlines a new employee stock plan to quell staff unrest and make its incentives more competitive with SpaceX (www.ft.com)
9 days ago SpaceX

Brockman Rebuts Musk's Take On Startup's History, Recounts Secret Work For Tesla (yro.slashdot.org)
9 days ago Startup Tesla

Germany-based eleQtron, which develops trapped-ion quantum computing processors using proprietary tech, raised a €57M Series A led by Schwarz Digits (tech.eu)
9 days ago Germany Quantum

Google has quietly shut down Project Mariner, its Chrome-browsing AI agent for completing tasks on users' behalf, after highlighting it onstage at I/O 2025 (x.com)
9 days ago Google AI Chrome Google I/O

Source: Alphabet is in talks with Blackstone, KKR, and EQT to give their portfolio companies AI model access, after OpenAI's and Anthropic's JVs with PE firms (www.theinformation.com)
9 days ago AI Alphabet

Nace.AI, which lets companies build specialized AI models tailored to their business' mission and language, raised a $21.5M seed led by Walden Catalyst (www.axios.com)
9 days ago AI

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