Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
The EU unveils new proposals under the DMA aimed at opening up Android to rivals' AI services; Google says the measures are “unwarranted intervention”  —  Google was targeted by European Union watchdogs who unveiled a slate of proposals aimed at prising open its Android ecosystem to rivals' AI services.

Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:
More than 600 Google employees, including many from DeepMind, sign a letter to Sundar Pichai demanding he bar the DOD from using Google's AI for classified work  —  “We want to see AI benefit humanity; not to see it being used in inhumane or extremely harmful ways,” Google employees wrote.  —  Summary

The upcoming Samsung Galaxy Glasses look nearly identical to Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses in leaked images from Android Headlines. The glasses, which could be announced at Google I/O next month, are code-named "Jinju" and will reportedly cost between $379 and $499, on par with the display-free Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2. They'll reportedly include a Qualcomm […]

OpenAI and Microsoft's partnership-turned-situationship just got even less committed. And a clause about artificial general intelligence, which has for years dictated the future of their deal, has officially been dropped. On Monday morning, Microsoft announced a handful of big changes to its long-standing OpenAI deal. Microsoft will remain OpenAI's "primary cloud partner, and OpenAI products will ship first […]

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Kashable, which lets companies offer “socially responsible” credit and financial wellness programs for employees as a voluntary benefit, raised a $60M Series C  —  Kashable, a fintech that provides access to “socially responsible” credit and financial wellness programs for employees …