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In today's Techpresso:
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🛡️ OpenAI wants to shield AI companies from lawsuits 🔧 Anthropic explores building its own AI chips 👀 Google News now prominently features Polymarket 🔒 Google rolls out Gmail end-to-end encryption on mobile 🕶️ Snap gets closer to releasing new AI glasses 💰 OpenAI launches $100 ChatGPT Pro plan 🎁 + 19 other news & articles you might like 🧰 + 5 trending tools 📚 + 4 trending papers & reports
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🛡️ OpenAI wants to shield AI companies from lawsuits
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- OpenAI is backing an Illinois bill called the Artificial Intelligence Safety Act that would protect AI developers from lawsuits over catastrophic harm, as long as they publish safety reports and didn't act recklessly.
- The bill covers "critical harms" like 100 or more deaths, $1 billion in property damage, or AI-assisted weapons development, and applies to frontier models built on over $100 million in compute.
- OpenAI, Meta, Alphabet, and Microsoft spent $50 million on federal lobbying in the first nine months of 2025, while no federal law yet addresses who is responsible if AI causes large-scale disaster.
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🔧 Anthropic explores building its own AI chips
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- Anthropic, the company behind Claude, is exploring the possibility of building its own AI chips as the industry faces a growing shortage of the sophisticated hardware needed to train and run new models.
- The exploration is still early — sources told Reuters that Anthropic has not yet set up a project team or put formal plans in place, though rivals Meta and OpenAI already have custom chip projects underway.
- Anthropic currently runs Claude on Amazon Trainium, Google TPUs, and Nvidia GPUs, and recently expanded a deal to tap 3.5GW of Google TPU capacity through Broadcom, expected online in 2027.
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👀 Google News now prominently features Polymarket
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- Google News has started displaying Polymarket betting pages alongside real news articles, often showing them as large blocks in personalized feeds, search results, and even the home page.
- Google now lets users select Polymarket as a "source" in its News search bar, a option also available for Reddit and X but not for Kalshi, Polymarket's main competitor.
- Critics say prediction markets deal in the language of journalism while peddling irresponsible falsehoods, and scandals like suspected insider trading on the Venezuela bet have drawn national attention.
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🔒 Google rolls out Gmail end-to-end encryption on mobile
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- Google has made Gmail end-to-end encryption available on Android and iOS devices, letting enterprise users compose and read encrypted emails directly in the mobile app without extra tools.
- Recipients who don't have the Gmail app can still read encrypted messages through a web browser, and senders can encrypt emails to any recipient regardless of their email service.
- The feature requires Enterprise Plus licenses with Assured Controls add-ons and uses client-side encryption, meaning encryption keys stay outside Google's servers to meet regulatory requirements like HIPAA.
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🕶️ Snap gets closer to releasing new AI glasses
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- Snap is moving closer to releasing its AR glasses, called Spectacles or Specs, after announcing a new partnership with chipmaker Qualcomm to power the wearable device later this year.
- The glasses will run on Qualcomm's Snapdragon XR platforms, which are systems-on-a-chip designed for augmented and virtual reality devices, as part of a multi-year strategic agreement.
- Snap has been developing Spectacles for over a decade, with the last consumer-facing version released in 2019, and earlier this year it spun off a separate company focused on Specs.
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💰 OpenAI launches $100 ChatGPT Pro plan
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- OpenAI has introduced a new $100 per month ChatGPT Pro plan, filling the gap between the $20 Plus tier and the $200 Pro tier that still exists but is no longer listed on its pricing page.
- The $100 Pro plan offers 5x more Codex coding capacity than Plus, and OpenAI openly says it is designed to compete with Anthropic's $100 per month Claude option on price and value.
- OpenAI is temporarily offering even higher Codex limits on the $100 plan through May 31, and none of its plans provide unlimited usage, with the $200 tier giving 20x higher limits than Plus.
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US summoned bank bosses to discuss cyber risks posed by Anthropic’s latest AI model
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Florida AG opens probe into OpenAI ahead of potential IPO
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Google and Intel deepen AI infrastructure partnership
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Scoop: OpenAI plans new product for cybersecurity use
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Your YouTube Premium subscription just got more expensive
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Alibaba Anonymously Launches HappyHorse, an AI Video Model That Beat Seedance 2.0
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Meta AI app climbs to No. 5 on the App Store after Muse Spark launch
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Meta transfers top engineers into new AI tooling team
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Amazon's satellite internet service is scheduled for mid-2026 availability
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Palantir stock sinks 8% after Michael Burry says Anthropic is 'eating' its enterprise lunch
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FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages
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John Deere will pay $99 million in right-to-repair lawsuit, but admits nothing
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Scoop: OpenAI projects $100 billion in ad revenue by 2030
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LLMs crush coding and math but choke on casual questions, and that's not a contradiction
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Nearly half of US data centers planned for 2026 canceled or delayed — and things could soon get much worse
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Dyson's Next Big Gadget Is a Handheld, Wearable Fan
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🧰 Trending tools
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Matcha: an AI-powered note-taking app that helps students and professionals organize, search, and synthesize their notes more efficiently in one place.
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MiniMax CLI: command-line interface for accessing MiniMax's multimodal AI models that handle text, audio, images, video, and music with extended context processing capabilities.
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GhostlyX: a cookie-free web analytics platform that tracks visitor behavior and performance metrics while maintaining GDPR compliance through lightweight, privacy-respecting data collection methods.
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LayerProof Chromo: automates data analysis by generating sourced charts and structured narratives from raw data, reducing hours of manual work to minutes.
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Avatar V by HeyGen: creates professional AI-generated videos from text, images, or prompts using realistic avatars that speak in 175+ languages for scalable content production.
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📚 Trending papers & reports
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> Evolving AI agents achieves 90% performance of expensive methods while using 10 times fewer evaluations by combining genetic algorithms with language model guidance to search the design space efficiently.
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> PaperOrchestra's AI system automates academic paper writing by coordinating multiple specialized agents that handle literature review, methodology, experiments, and formatting, producing complete draft manuscripts without human intervention.
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> Malicious AI agents can be injected into open source repositories, with researchers finding that 78% of tested LLM systems executed harmful code from compromised agent packages without detection.
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> Subliminal prompts in AI agents can spread between systems like a virus, with researchers demonstrating that hidden instructions embedded in one agent's output get adopted and executed by other agents in multi-agent conversations.
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