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OpenAI has replaced chief revenue officer Denise Dresser after just nine months on the job, tapping Wiz president and chief operating officer Dali Rajic to take on frontier lab’s top sales job. The move comes as part of a broader shake-up in the organization in the last month, which has seen the departures of COO Brad Lightcap and the company’s No. 2 executive, CEO of AGI deployment Fidji Simo. OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman has taken a larger role in management following Simo’s departure, and announced Rajic’s arrival today in a blog post. Wiz, Rajic’s previous employer, was acquired…

Two years ago, Microsoft described AI as a “generational shift” in technology that it wanted to lead. Today, the company is merging its Copilot-branded consumer and business apps, and ditching a number of unsuccessful AI features. As initially reported by GeekWire and detailed in Microsoft’s support documentation, the tech giant will combine the functionality of its consumer-facing Copilot app and the more business-oriented Microsoft 365 Copilot app. The move is both an acknowledgement that personal and professional uses of AI often overlap, and that Microsoft’s prior strategy was too complicated to make Copilot a viable competitor to the likes of…

Nvidia announced this week that Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR were willing to commit up to $500 billion to build AI data centers. That eye-popping figure got a lot of the attention, but the bigger story is Nvidia’s effort to create a secondary market for aging GPUs. To convince those big-name financial companies, Nvidia has agreed to guarantee, with its own money, that its chips used as collateral in these deals will retain their value. Many have now commented on how unusual, smart , and dangerous this plan is. It is all of those things. The bond…

Apple is in talks to pay publishers to use their content to power the upcoming Siri AI, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. The tech giant has reached out to publishers in recent months about using their content to provide Siri with access to current news and information. Apple has proposed a variable compensation model that would pay publishers when their content is used, rather than through a fixed licensing fee. This marks a departure from the standard industry practice of guaranteed fees, which are generally tied to broad access to content, rather than a pay-as-you-go…

Flock Safety is making changes in the wake of public backlash and media reports scrutinizing how its cameras are being used to surveil American drivers.The company is tightening its privacy and accountability safeguards for law enforcement accessing its camera network.In a Thursday blog post, CEO Garrett Langley outlined “changes that came from listening,” including shortening the recommended default retention period for license plate data from 30 to 7 days, though the company said existing customers can keep their “current, democratically approved retention periods.”The company will also require law enforcement customers to use a tool designed to flag potentially improper searches…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Boston on Thursday dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit that accused Harvard University of turning a blind eye to harassment of Jewish students.The decision from U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns said President Donald Trump’s administration failed to prove an ongoing violation of federal civil rights laws. The judge said the lawsuit, filed in March, mostly focuses on incidents that took place in the 2023-24 academic year, with a few from March 2025.The cases were “too isolated and episodic” to prove a persistent civil rights violation at the Ivy League campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts,…

Anthropic’s plan to watermark Claude-generated text is prompting questions and unease among some figures in tech.The AI lab announced this week that some Claude models will embed an “imperceptible watermark” directly into their text output, which will travel with the content when it is copied and pasted and may survive some editing, helping distinguish AI-generated material from human writing.Anthropic has not yet publicly shared full technical details on exactly how the system works, which has led some techies to raise concerns about copyright, output quality, and how lightly AI-assisted work could be judged.Who can see the watermark?One concern, raised by…

NEW YORK (AP) — When Jonah Seidenberg found out about Nike Minds, a futuristic-looking sneaker that claims to improve concentration by stimulating the soles of the feet, he had to have them. On a recent Saturday, the 12-year-old from the Chicago suburb of Northbrook and his mother searched StockX, an online sneaker marketplace, and other sites looking for a discount but struck out. They eventually found the last available pair in his size on Dick’s Sporting Goods’ website, but for the full price of $145. They grabbed it anyway.“It was 10:30 at night and we finally threw in the towel,”…

Amazon’s huge e-commerce business is redesigning its cloud setup as power and data center capacity become increasingly constrained.The multiyear effort, known internally as “Region Flex,” aims to reduce the concentration of Amazon’s online retail operations in a handful of large AWS regions and run systems across more locations at a smaller scale, according to internal planning documents obtained by Business Insider.Internal plans include efforts to reduce Amazon e-commerce footprint in major AWS hubs such as Northern Virginia and Dublin, Ireland, according to the documents.The AI boom has sparked an industrywide scramble for power and computing capacity. Amazon is racing to…

There’s lore around Jeff Dean.Google’s former employee No. 30, who rose to become the company’s chief scientist, was once the subject of Chuck Norris-style jokes inside Google — think “When Chuck Norris cooks, he makes onions cry,” but for a legendary engineer.Now, Dean has offered another data point for the legend: his weekly workout routine.On Monday, Dean shared the calendar from his final day at Google’s office during the KDD Conference in Jeju, South Korea.He reposted a shot of the calendar on his X account on Tuesday. One user spotted yoga tucked into the busy day and asked about his…