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New York Times: A profile of Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch, who says, as an atheist, he is uncomfortable with Silicon Valley’s “AGI rhetoric” and “religious” fascination with AI  —  Mistral, a French start-up considered a promising challenger to OpenAI… Read More »A profile of Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch, who says, as an atheist, he is uncomfortable with Silicon Valley’s “AGI rhetoric” and “religious” fascination with AI (New York Times)

Reuters: Sources: Sam Altman and other OpenAI executives pitched ChatGPT Enterprise to hundreds of Fortune 500 companies this month, including some Microsoft customers  —  OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman has hosted hundreds of Fortune 500 company executives in San Francisco,… Read More »Sources: Sam Altman and other OpenAI executives pitched ChatGPT Enterprise to hundreds of Fortune 500 companies this month, including some Microsoft customers (Reuters)

Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal: How “made for advertising” sites, which are criticized for their UX and dubious results for advertisers, get ~15% of automated ad spend or $10B/year, per ANA  —  Industry leaders want brands to shun ‘MFA’… Read More »How “made for advertising” sites, which are criticized for their UX and dubious results for advertisers, get ~15% of automated ad spend or $10B/year, per ANA (Megan Graham/Wall Street Journal)

Reuters: A UK judge throws out Apple’s motion to dismiss a $979M lawsuit representing more than 1,500 developers alleging that App Store’s 30% commission is unfair  —  Apple (AAPL.O) on Friday lost a bid to throw out a mass lawsuit… Read More »A UK judge throws out Apple’s motion to dismiss a $979M lawsuit representing more than 1,500 developers alleging that App Store’s 30% commission is unfair (Reuters)

Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal: Sources: China asked its largest telecom carriers, including China Mobile, to phase out foreign chips from their equipment by 2027, in a blow to Intel and AMD  —  Beijing’s move is the latest installment… Read More »Sources: China asked its largest telecom carriers, including China Mobile, to phase out foreign chips from their equipment by 2027, in a blow to Intel and AMD (Liza Lin/Wall Street Journal)

Brian Hiatt / Rolling Stone: A look at Udio, which was founded by four former DeepMind employees in December 2023 and launched a product on April 11 that generates songs from text prompts  —  Weeks after AI-music generator Suno went… Read More »A look at Udio, which was founded by four former DeepMind employees in December 2023 and launched a product on April 11 that generates songs from text prompts (Brian Hiatt/Rolling Stone)

Reuters: Uber and Lyft delay their plans to leave Minneapolis until July 1, after city officials voted on April 10 to delay the start of driver pay raise to July 1  —  Ride-hailing companies Lyft (LYFT.O) and Uber (UBER.N) will… Read More »Uber and Lyft delay their plans to leave Minneapolis until July 1, after city officials voted on April 10 to delay the start of driver pay raise to July 1 (Reuters)

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Researchers say they haven’t found “strikingly novel compounds” after analyzing a subset of the 2.2M new crystals DeepMind claimed its AI tool GNoMe discovered  —  “In the DeepMind paper there are many examples of predicted… Read More »Researchers say they haven’t found “strikingly novel compounds” after analyzing a subset of the 2.2M new crystals DeepMind claimed its AI tool GNoMe discovered (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

Kenrick Cai / Forbes: Anrok, which provides sales tax management tools to software companies, raised a $30M Series B led by Khosla Ventures at a $250M valuation  —  Khosla Ventures led the $30 million Series B, which comes as a… Read More »Anrok, which provides sales tax management tools to software companies, raised a $30M Series B led by Khosla Ventures at a $250M valuation (Kenrick Cai/Forbes)

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: OpenTable plans to display members’ first names and profile photos on all reviews, including past reviews, starting May 22 in a bid to provide more transparency  —  Restaurant reservation platform OpenTable says that all reviews on… Read More »OpenTable plans to display members’ first names and profile photos on all reviews, including past reviews, starting May 22 in a bid to provide more transparency (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)