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Richard Branson, Steve Bannon, Susan Rice, and others are among the broad coalition of leaders signing the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human AI Declaration (Jared Perlo/NBC News)

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Sources: Nvidia has reallocated manufacturing capacity at TSMC away from making H200 chips intended for Chinese market to its latest Vera Rubin products (Financial Times)

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The US Central Command says US military forces are using a range of AI tools to quickly manage enormous amounts of data for operations against Iran (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

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Sources: OpenAI hit $25B annualized revenue by February's end, up from $21.4B at 2025's end; OpenAI annualizes by multiplying the last four weeks' revenue by 12 (Sri Muppidi/The Information)

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Apple Music introduces Transparency Tags, a metadata system for music distributors and labels to disclose AI-generated creative elements like artwork or lyrics (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)

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Microsoft releases Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a 15B-parameter open-weight model it says matches larger systems while using far less compute and training data (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

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Deveillance's upcoming anti-surveillance device, Spectre I, went viral after its founder said it blocks nearby listening devices with AI, but some are skeptical (Lindsey Weedston/The Daily Dot)

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A New York bill would ban chatbots from impersonating licensed professionals like doctors and lawyers and giving "substantive response, information, or advice" (Keely Quinlan/StateScoop)

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Study: ChatGPT Health underestimated the severity of medical emergencies 51.6% of the time and overestimated the severity in nonurgent cases 64.8% of the time (Kaan Ozcan/NBC News)

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Sources: OpenAI has picked two law firms to prepare its IPO, which could come as soon as Q4, in one of its first concrete steps toward a public listing (The Information)

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Sources: Dario Amodei has been holding talks with the DOD's Emil Michael in a bid to iron out a contract governing the Pentagon's access to Anthropic's models (Financial Times)

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Sources: OpenAI is negotiating more safeguards with the DOD intended to prevent domestic mass surveillance using its AI, as it prepares to implement the deal (Financial Times)

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A Europol-coordinated law enforcement operation disrupts Tycoon2FA, a phishing-as-a-service platform linked to tens of millions of phishing messages each month (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

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Elon Musk defends his social media posts in a Twitter shareholder trial accusing him of misleading statements about the deal before acquiring Twitter in 2022 (Associated Press)

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OpenAI releases a dedicated Codex app for Windows with native sandboxing and support for PowerShell developer environments, after launching on macOS a month ago (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)

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Sources: OpenAI has held early talks with The Trade Desk to sell ads, and it has projected ads could help double consumer ChatGPT revenue this year to $17B (The Information)

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Sources: the WH's data center pledge relies on enforcement by local utilities and states through rate deals, without penalties for tech firms refusing to comply (Bloomberg)

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New Mexico child safety trial: Mark Zuckerberg downplayed Meta's own research on how the company's apps affect teens; Adam Mosseri made similar comments (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

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Pasqal, a French startup that builds quantum processors using neutral atom technology, plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $2B pre-money valuation (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)

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Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, and others sign a pledge at the White House to bear the cost of new electricity generation to power their data centers (Reuters)

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