2 OpenAI has proposed giving the Trump administration a 5% stake
Talks over a public ownership deal come amid rising political pressure.(FT $)
+ OpenAI also proposed other US AI giants providing a 5% stake. (CNBC)
+ That could include Anthropic, Google, and Meta. (Bloomberg $)
+ President Trump says he wants the public to have a stake in AI. (BBC)
3 Singapore has seized a $42 million mansion tied to Nvidia chip smuggling
It was seized as part of an investigation into alleged illegal trading. (BBC)
+ Days earlier, Supermicro’s Taiwan offices were raided in the probe. (FT $)
4 Anthropic’s Fable 5 is back online
But queries posing security risks may be routed to less powerful models. (Axios)
+ Anthropic restored access yesterday after the US lifted an export ban. (BBC)
+ But the battle over how to tame AI has just begun. (WSJ $)
+ Anthropic has launched a new AI science product. (MIT Technology Review)
5 Meta is building its own cloud infrastructure business
It’s exploring two ways of monetizing AI compute and models. (Bloomberg $)
+ One is selling access to models hosted on Meta’s infrastructure. (CNBC)
+ The other is selling “raw” computing power. (TechCrunch)
6 PlayStation will stop releasing games on discs in 2028
Future PS5 games will be digital-only releases. (Verge)
+ The news comes days after reports that GTA VI will have no disc. (BBC)
+ It’s put a nail in physical media’s coffin. (Wired $)
7 A low-cost Chinese AI model is catching up with US giants on their home turf
Western customers are drawn to GLM-5.2’s cheap but powerful model. (Reuters $)
+ Chinese open-source models are spreading fast. (MIT Technology Review)
8 Google has lost its fight against a record €4.1 billion EU antitrust fine
It was charged in 2018 for using Android to block rivals. (CNBC)
9 The UN has launched an “AI for Good” commission
Salesforce CEO Benioff and Rwandan President Kagame will co-chair it. (Axios)
10 People prefer AI impersonators over politicians
The study’s findings raise alarm bells around potential public deception. (404 Media)
