Sources: FTC is discussing a consent decree on the Omnicom-Interpublic merger, prohibiting the combined company from boycotting platforms over political content (New York Times)
New York Times: Sources: FTC is discussing a consent decree on the Omnicom-Interpublic merger, prohibiting the combined company from boycotting platforms over political content —
OpenAI says it hit $10B in annual recurring revenue; for all of last year, OpenAI was around $5.5B in ARR (CNBC)
CNBC: OpenAI says it hit $10B in annual recurring revenue; for all of last year, OpenAI was around $5.5B in ARR — OpenAI has hit
Tech industry fears Musk-Trump rift fallout as some downplay its permanence, and sources say, try to stop Musk from appearing on an emergency All-In episode (Financial Times)
Financial Times: Tech industry fears Musk-Trump rift fallout as some downplay its permanence, and sources say, try to stop Musk from appearing on an emergency
TikTok expands Manage Topics, a feature that lets users customize how often specific topics appear in the For You feed, and adds AI-powered keyword filtering (Emma Roth/The Verge)
Emma Roth / The Verge: TikTok expands Manage Topics, a feature that lets users customize how often specific topics appear in the For You feed,
Art house streaming service and distributor Mubi raised $100M led by Sequoia at a $1B valuation; Mubi has about 20M registered users worldwide (Christopher Grimes/Financial Times)
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Anthropic appoints Netflix co-founder and Chairman Reed Hastings to its board of directors, as the company balances growth with its stated focus on safety (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Anthropic appoints Netflix co-founder and Chairman Reed Hastings to its board of directors, as the company balances growth with its stated
London-based Converge, which uses sensors and AI to optimize the use of concrete in construction projects, raised a $22M Series A led by Dutch bank ABN Amro (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios)
Katie Fehrenbacher / Axios: London-based Converge, which uses sensors and AI to optimize the use of concrete in construction projects, raised a $22M Series A
Anthropic says Rakuten deployed Opus 4 to code autonomously for seven hours on a complicated open-source project, paving the way for more proficient AI agents (Rhiannon Williams/MIT Technology Review)
Rhiannon Williams / MIT Technology Review: Anthropic says Rakuten deployed Opus 4 to code autonomously for seven hours on a complicated open-source project, paving the
For its Copilot Studio agents, Microsoft announces a "computer use" feature available in its Frontier program for select US users, WhatsApp integration, more (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: For its Copilot Studio agents, Microsoft announces a “computer use” feature available in its Frontier program for select US users, WhatsApp
xAI publishes system prompts for Grok on GitHub, including telling Grok to be "extremely skeptical" and not to "blindly defer to mainstream authority or media" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
Emma Roth / The Verge: xAI publishes system prompts for Grok on GitHub, including telling Grok to be “extremely skeptical” and not to “blindly defer
