| Sources: PE firm Silver Lake intends to merge French software companies Cegid and Silae in a €10B+ deal, allowing them to combine data and integrate software (Financial Times) |
 Financial Times:
Sources: PE firm Silver Lake intends to merge French software companies Cegid and Silae in a €10B+ deal, allowing them to combine data and integrate software — Plan comes as buyout groups grapple with impact of AI on software companies bought at high valuations
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| Lyft begins to offer Waymo rides in Nashville at no additional cost, the second city where it is offering robotaxi trips, as it plays catch up with Uber (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg) |
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Lyft begins to offer Waymo rides in Nashville at no additional cost, the second city where it is offering robotaxi trips, as it plays catch up with Uber — Lyft Inc. is starting to offer Waymo robotaxi rides in Nashville, marking the second US city where it's providing driverless trips …
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| Suno rolls out v6, a new line of AI models trained in partnership with WMG and BMG, and says it will pay labels and publishers royalties when models are used (Bloomberg) |
Bloomberg:
Suno rolls out v6, a new line of AI models trained in partnership with WMG and BMG, and says it will pay labels and publishers royalties when models are used — - New model was trained on music from Warner Music Group — Users won't be able to reference specific artists in prompts
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| Malone Lam, a 22-year-old Singaporean national, pleads guilty to leading an international social engineering scheme to steal and launder $245M in cryptocurrency (Sarah Wynn/The Block) |
Sarah Wynn / The Block:
Malone Lam, a 22-year-old Singaporean national, pleads guilty to leading an international social engineering scheme to steal and launder $245M in cryptocurrency — - Prosecutors say Malone Lam, who went by aliases “Anne Hathaway,” “$$$” and “King Greavy,” led the operation.
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| Google plans to invest €13B+ in Finland over two years, its biggest investment in Europe to date, to build three new data centers and expand an existing one (Bloomberg) |
Bloomberg:
Google plans to invest €13B+ in Finland over two years, its biggest investment in Europe to date, to build three new data centers and expand an existing one — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is spending €13 billion ($15.1 billion) on artificial intelligence infrastructure in Finland …
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| Sources: Anthropic declined to submit Mythos 5.1 to the UK AISI for pre-release testing, prompting UK fears that US AI labs are aligning with US protectionism (Financial Times) |
Financial Times:
Sources: Anthropic declined to submit Mythos 5.1 to the UK AISI for pre-release testing, prompting UK fears that US AI labs are aligning with US protectionism — Decision to exclude Aisi has prompted fears inside British government of protectionist shift among tech groups.
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| Sources: China Securities Regulatory Commission is informally tightening IPO approvals for humanoid startups after a volatile debut by industry leader Unitree (The Information) |
The Information:
Sources: China Securities Regulatory Commission is informally tightening IPO approvals for humanoid startups after a volatile debut by industry leader Unitree — Chinese regulators are tightening the approval for humanoid startups seeking to go public after a volatile debut …
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| Sources: Apple's first foldable will be called iPhone Duo, with prices starting at $2,000 for 256GB of storage and sales starting as early as October (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) |
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple's first foldable will be called iPhone Duo, with prices starting at $2,000 for 256GB of storage and sales starting as early as October — Apple Inc. is set to debut a roughly $2,000 foldable iPhone Duo on Wednesday as part of a wide-ranging product event, which kicks off at 10 a.m. local time from Cupertino, California.
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| Anthropic's Alignment Science lead says there is a ">10%" chance AI could kill all humans within the next decade and worries about recursive self-improvement (Evan Hubinger/@evanhub) |
Evan Hubinger / @evanhub:
Anthropic's Alignment Science lead says there is a “>10%” chance AI could kill all humans within the next decade and worries about recursive self-improvement — Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.
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| Over 10 US states have rolled back tech giants' tax breaks, which top $1B/year in some states, as many others propose similar bills amid a data center backlash (Wall Street Journal) |
Wall Street Journal:
Over 10 US states have rolled back tech giants' tax breaks, which top $1B/year in some states, as many others propose similar bills amid a data center backlash — Amazon, Meta and Google risk losing decadeslong exemptions due to a backlash against their facilities
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