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In today's Techpresso:
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🏃 Investors flee OpenAI for rival Anthropic 🤖 Microsoft launches 3 new AI models to rival OpenAI 💥 Cloudflare launches WordPress competitor 🛰️ Amazon in talks to acquire Globalstar for $9 billion 📉 Fewer adults are posting on social media 👀 Alibaba launches 3 closed-source AI models in 3 days 🎁 + 12 other news & articles you might like 🧰 + 6 trending tools 📚 + 2 trending papers & reports
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🏃 Investors flee OpenAI for rival Anthropic
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- Investors on secondary markets are turning away from OpenAI shares and rushing to buy equity in rival Anthropic, with some large OpenAI stakes now nearly impossible to sell.
- About $600 million in OpenAI shares from institutional investors found no buyers, while secondary platforms report over $2 billion in cash ready to deploy into Anthropic.
- Investors see better risk-reward in Anthropic at its $380 billion valuation, betting it will close the gap with OpenAI's $852 billion, especially given Anthropic's stronger enterprise client growth.
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🤖 Microsoft launches 3 new AI models to rival OpenAI
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- Microsoft released three in-house AI models — MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 — covering speech-to-text, voice generation, and image creation, competing directly with OpenAI, Google, and ElevenLabs.
- Mustafa Suleyman told VentureBeat that teams of fewer than 10 engineers built the audio and image models, and MAI-Transcribe-1 runs on half the GPUs of competitors while beating Whisper on all 25 benchmarked languages.
- Suleyman confirmed Microsoft plans to build a frontier large language model and become "completely independent," following a renegotiated OpenAI contract that now lets Microsoft pursue superintelligence on its own.
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💥 Cloudflare launches WordPress competitor
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- Cloudflare has launched EmDash, an open source CMS it calls the "spiritual successor" to WordPress, designed to be more secure and built on what the company describes as an "AI native" architecture.
- EmDash runs each plugin in an isolated sandbox called Dynamic Workers, requiring plugins to declare permissions upfront, since Cloudflare says 96% of WordPress vulnerabilities come from plugins with unrestricted access.
- The new CMS is built on a scale-to-zero principle that only bills for CPU time during actual requests, and WordPress users can migrate by importing a WXR file or installing the EmDash Exporter plugin.
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🛰️ Amazon in talks to acquire Globalstar for $9 billion
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- Amazon is in talks to buy Globalstar, a satellite communications company valued at around $8.81 billion, as it tries to grow its early-stage Leo satellite internet service, the Financial Times reported.
- Apple's 20% stake in Globalstar, part of a $1.5 billion investment in 2024 to expand satellite and ground infrastructure, has complicated the deal and required separate negotiations between Amazon and Apple.
- Amazon's Leo program has about 200 satellites in orbit and plans for 7,700, but it still trails SpaceX's Starlink, which operates over 9,600 satellites and serves more than nine million users.
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📉 Fewer adults are posting on social media
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- A new Ofcom report found that fewer adults in the UK are posting, sharing, or commenting on social media, dropping from 61% in 2024 to 49% as platforms shift toward video.
- Nearly half of adults are now concerned about historic posts causing problems later in life, with worries about professional prospects and reputation driving people to stop posting permanently.
- Meanwhile, active use of AI tools like ChatGPT has jumped from 31% to 54% among UK adults, and fewer social media users believe the apps are good for their mental health.
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👀 Alibaba launches 3 closed-source AI models in 3 days
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- Alibaba released three closed-source AI models in three days this week, ending with Qwen3.6-Plus, a coding and multimodal reasoning model sold through paid APIs to enterprise customers.
- The shift follows the departure of Qwen's technical lead Lin Junyang in early March, with one contributor suggesting the exit was not voluntary, and Alibaba replacing him with a Google DeepMind veteran.
- Alibaba is targeting $100 billion in cloud revenue within five years, and Qwen3.6-Plus scores 78.8 on SWE-bench Verified, trailing only Claude Opus 4.5 among the models it compared against.
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Anthropic took down thousands of GitHub repos trying to yank its leaked source code — a move the company says was an accident
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Intel buys back 49% stake in Ireland Fab Joint Venture — takes full control over Fab 34
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Oracle’s AI pivot cuts deep, lays off 20% of its India workforce
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Google’s Quantum Crypto Paper Tells You Quite a Lot
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AI alignment researchers want to automate themselves
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Anthropic Predicts Demand for Cowork Agent to Dwarf Claude Code
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Brain implants let paralyzed man make music with his thoughts
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AI models are lying to save each other, and no one knows why
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Tesla sales grew by 6% in Q1, but company has an overproduction problem
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Apple opens prototype archive for 50th anniversary as Tim Cook sees items for the first time
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🧰 Trending tools
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Denovo: autonomous startup builder that transforms business ideas into operational companies with pitch decks, business plans, promotional videos, and full-stack applications while handling ongoing operations.
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Nitro by Rocketlane: automates professional services workflows to improve team utilization, project profitability, and delivery timelines through AI-powered resource management and project tracking.
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tama96: a programmable Tamagotchi-style virtual pet that runs on desktop or terminal, with MCP server support for AI agent interaction and care.
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Mode AI: a voice and chat assistant that integrates with Gmail, Docs, Teams, and Outlook to manage emails, summarize documents, and schedule tasks hands-free.
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Mac Pet: a menu bar pixel companion that gamifies focus with activity streak tracking and an integrated Pomodoro timer for mindful work sessions.
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NASA Artemis II Mission Timeline Tracker: a web-based tool that tracks and displays the mission timeline for NASA's Artemis II lunar mission in real-time.
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📚 Trending papers & reports
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> GenAI adoption in cybercrime remains limited, with criminals primarily using it for basic tasks like phishing emails rather than sophisticated attacks, based on analysis of underground forum discussions and dark web marketplaces.
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> Access control for AI agents introduces a framework where agents must request permission before accessing resources like files or APIs, preventing unauthorized actions in multi-agent systems without hardcoded restrictions.
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