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Anissa Gardizy / The Information: How OpenAI scrambled for compute as Stargate stalled amid disagreements with SoftBank; sources: building its own data centers is not OpenAI's near-term priority -
David Streitfeld / New York Times: In recent interviews, Sam Altman said AI's adoption faces more resistance than he expected, while Jensen Huang warned the “doomer narrative” may be winning -
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Sam Altman says discussions about AI's energy usage are “unfair”, as it takes “20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time” to train a human -
Bijin Jose / The Indian Express: Sam Altman says currently “the idea of putting data centers in space is ridiculous” and that it is “not something that's going to matter at scale this decade” -
Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: Google Antigravity users say their paid Google AI accounts were banned after linking Gemini models via OpenClaw; Peter Steinberger says he may “remove support” -
Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: Samsung will add Perplexity to Galaxy AI on the upcoming S26 series; users can launch the Perplexity agent by saying “Hey Plex” or with a physical helper button -
Elliptic: How Russia-linked crypto exchanges, like Bitpapa, Exmo, and others help Russian entities move money across borders, bypassing banking oversight and sanctions -
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Tim Cook's increased mentions of Visual Intelligence hint it will be a major part of Apple's new wearables; sources: Apple considers a deep red iPhone 18 Pro -
Niamh Rowe / The Guardian: US farmers are increasingly rejecting multimillion-dollar offers from data center developers; some estimate ~40K acres are needed globally for new AI projects -
Adam Sella / New York Times: A look at CISA during Trump's second term as it navigates job cuts, continues to operate without a Senate-confirmed leader, and faces a demoralized workforce -
Aarian Marshall / Wired: Documents submitted by Waymo and Tesla to the US government reveal new info about the remote assistance programs for their robotaxis, staffed by human operators -
New York Times: A look at Japan's Team Mirai, a party founded by software engineers that won 11 of 465 parliament seats by promising self-driving buses and high-tech jobs -
Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Dell, Lenovo, and other PC makers are working with Nvidia on laptops using the Arm-based Nvidia-MediaTek system-on-a-chip, which could come in H1 2026 -
Stephen Totilo / Game File: Tencent closed its TiMi Montréal studio after nearly five years, without ever releasing a game, as Chinese giants scale back funding for Western game studios -
Wall Street Journal: A profile of Neil Shen of HSG, formerly Sequoia China, which raised $9B from US investors before US restrictions and has funded Manus and other Chinese startups