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The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Study: ChatGPT Health underestimated the severity of medical emergencies 51.6% of the time and overestimated the severity in nonurgent cases 64.8% of the time (Kaan Ozcan/NBC News)

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Sources: OpenAI has picked two law firms to prepare its IPO, which could come as soon as Q4, in one of its first concrete steps toward a public listing (The Information)

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Sources: Dario Amodei has been holding talks with the DOD's Emil Michael in a bid to iron out a contract governing the Pentagon's access to Anthropic's models (Financial Times)

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Sources: OpenAI is negotiating more safeguards with the DOD intended to prevent domestic mass surveillance using its AI, as it prepares to implement the deal (Financial Times)

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A Europol-coordinated law enforcement operation disrupts Tycoon2FA, a phishing-as-a-service platform linked to tens of millions of phishing messages each month (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

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Elon Musk defends his social media posts in a Twitter shareholder trial accusing him of misleading statements about the deal before acquiring Twitter in 2022 (Associated Press)

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OpenAI releases a dedicated Codex app for Windows with native sandboxing and support for PowerShell developer environments, after launching on macOS a month ago (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)

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Sources: OpenAI has held early talks with The Trade Desk to sell ads, and it has projected ads could help double consumer ChatGPT revenue this year to $17B (The Information)

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Sources: the WH's data center pledge relies on enforcement by local utilities and states through rate deals, without penalties for tech firms refusing to comply (Bloomberg)

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New Mexico child safety trial: Mark Zuckerberg downplayed Meta's own research on how the company's apps affect teens; Adam Mosseri made similar comments (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

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Pasqal, a French startup that builds quantum processors using neutral atom technology, plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $2B pre-money valuation (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)

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Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, and others sign a pledge at the White House to bear the cost of new electricity generation to power their data centers (Reuters)

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Leaked Friday memo: Dario Amodei called OpenAI's DOD deal "safety theater", said DOD dislikes Anthropic in part for not giving "dictator-style praise to Trump" (The Information)

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Source: a16z Crypto is targeting around $2B for its fifth fund and plans to close the raise by the end of the first half of 2026 (Fortune)

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Broadcom reports Q1 revenue up 29% YoY to $19.31B, vs. $19.18B est., AI revenue up 106% to $8.4B, and announces a $10B share buyback program (CNBC)

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Source: Embo, which is developing world models for robotics, is in talks to raise a $100M+ seed led by a16z, with Khosla, DST Global, and Striker participating (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)

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Google Pixel 10a review: long battery life and a good camera with no bump, but weak gaming performance and barely an upgrade from the Pixel 9a (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)

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Tencent-owned Finnish game company Supercell says it is cooperating with a CFIUS security probe of Tencent's data practices (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

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Jensen Huang says Nvidia's recent $30B investment in OpenAI "might be the last time" it invests in the company, because OpenAI is "going to go public" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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Authorities from 14 countries shut down LeakBase, seize its domains, and arrest multiple people allegedly tied to the cybercrime forum, which had 142K+ members (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)

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