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On the stand, Elon Musk can't escape his own tweets: Elon Musk took the stand for the second day for his attempt to legally dismantle OpenAI. Read More

Elon Musk testifies that xAI trained Grok on OpenAI models: "Distillation" is a hot topic as frontier labs try to prevent smaller competitors from copying their models. Read More

OpenAI ends Microsoft legal peril over its $50B Amazon deal: OpenAI has won major concessions from its largest shareholder, Microsoft, that will allow it to sell products on AWS, while Microsoft gets more cash in a revenue-share agreement. Read More

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Uber wants to turn its millions of drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies

Uber wants to turn its millions of drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies: Praveen Neppalli Naga, Uber's chief technology officer, revealed the plan in an interview at TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, describing it as a natural extension of a nascent program the company announced in late January called AV Labs. Read More

Y Combinator alum Skio sells for $105M cash, only raised $8M, founder says: Subscription billing fintech Skio sold to its competitor Recharge in what was a healthy exit, according to its founder and former CEO. Read More

Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions: Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said. Read More

After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber, too: OpenAI will begin rolling out its cybersecurity testing tool, GPT-5.5 Cyber only "to critical cyber defenders" at first. Read More

Hackers are actively exploiting a bug in cPanel, used by millions of websites: Web hosts are scrambling to fix the bug under active attack by hackers. One company said hackers have been abusing the bug for months. Read More

 

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Sources: Anthropic potential $900B+ valuation round could happen within 2 weeks

Sources: Anthropic potential $900B+ valuation round could happen within 2 weeks: Anthropic is asking investors to submit allocations for the AI company’s latest fundraise within the next 48 hours, according to sources familiar with the matter. Read More

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