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In today's Techpresso:
🤖 Nvidia's Huang vows to prevent AI slowdown
🕵️ OpenAI contractors read real ChatGPT conversations
🍎 Filing reveals Musk dropped Apple antitrust suit
📷 OpenAI buys AI camera startup ahead of mystery gadget launch
🦾 New Agility robot works safely near people
🥽 Valve unveils Steam Frame VR headset
Plus: 🎁 11 other news you might like, 🧰 6 tools, and 📚 5 papers.
Nvidia's Huang vows to prevent AI slowdown
Source: TechCrunch
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he won't let AI development slow down, agreeing with President Trump during a surprise phone call at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday.
- The exchange responded to Anthropic's Dario Amodei, who urged slowing the pace of AI progress; Trump called that idea a "hoax" and suggested China and political rivals were behind the push.
- Trump and allies claim opposition to data centers is a foreign psyop, but Gallup found seven in 10 Americans oppose nearby data centers, with over half worried about environmental effects.
OpenAI contractors read real ChatGPT conversations
Source: The Next Web
- OpenAI is paying hundreds of contractors, under the internal codename Project Lily, to read real ChatGPT conversations and rate the chatbot's answers, as reported by 404 Media, without clearly telling users that people would see their chats.
- Reviewers don't see usernames but can view a memories summary showing what someone used the chatbot for and roughly where they live, while OpenAI's Privacy Filter model, which strips personal details first, admits it sometimes misses identifiers.
- The setting that feeds conversations to the model is on by default for free, Plus and Pro accounts, and off for Enterprise, Business and Edu, though turning it off only covers new chats rather than older ones.
Filing reveals Musk dropped Apple antitrust suit
Source: Ars Technica
- Elon Musk has dropped his antitrust lawsuit against Apple, confirming in a court filing on Monday that he resolved all claims tied to the company's decision to build ChatGPT into iPhone features.
- The filing gives no reason for the voluntary dismissal or any settlement terms, but Musk agreed never to bring the claims against Apple again while pointedly keeping the same claims alive against OpenAI.
- Musk had sued in 2025, arguing the non-exclusive deal created a "monopoly" on Apple users' AI prompts, and he separately claimed Apple blocked his chatbot Grok from reaching number one in the App Store.
OpenAI buys AI camera startup ahead of mystery gadget launch
Source: The Independent
- OpenAI has bought Glass Imaging, a California startup that makes AI camera software for smartphones, in a deal worth more than $300 million, with reports linking the technology to OpenAI's still-secret hardware gadget.
- Glass Imaging, started by former Apple staffers Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop, says its Neural Image Signal Processing software can lift camera performance up to 10 times by cutting image noise and blur and sharpening zoom quality.
- The purchase feeds speculation about OpenAI's device built with iPhone designer Jony Ive, which Sam Altman said would rest in a pocket or on a desk, stay aware of a user's surroundings, and add $1 trillion in value.
New Agility robot works safely near people
Source: The Decoder
- Agility Robotics has revealed Digit 5, a humanoid robot for warehouses and factories that works next to people without safety fences, spotting them with AI and sensors so it can stop or step aside.
- Digit 5 lifts up to 22.7 kg, about 40 percent more than Digit 4, charges in 9 minutes for 90 minutes of runtime, and uses swappable grippers to move bins or load machines during work.
- Agility is the first partner for Nvidia's Halos robot safety platform, and after Digit 4 logged over 65,000 hours at customers like GXO and Amazon, Digit 5 deliveries start in early 2027.
Valve unveils Steam Frame VR headset
Source: GeekWire
- Valve has released the Steam Frame, a standalone wireless VR headset with two hand controllers that runs SteamOS, marking the company's return to virtual reality since the room-based Index launched in 2019.
- The Frame uses a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip, 16GB of RAM, and two 2160 x 2160 screens, with over 100 games hand-tested for compatibility and Half-Life: Alyx bundled in for free.
- Prices start at $1,059 for 256GB and reach $1,299 for 1TB, and Valve is selling the first batch through a lottery with signups open until Thursday morning to deter scalpers.
Other news you might like
- Oracle told staff on Monday that Monday was their last working day The Next Web
- Palantir, Nvidia curb AI model use over data fears, The Information reports Reuters
- Anthropic has built a Claude tool for financial advisers The Next Web
- China tightens travel rules over tech security Reuters
- Salesforce debuts Koa, a specialized model built to reason about CRM data SiliconANGLE
- Google opens Claude access to engineers across the company Dataconomy
- In select countries, iCloud+ now includes Apple TV and Apple Arcade at no extra charge 9to5Mac
- Gates Foundation warns AI could widen inequality as foundation pledges $1B to expand access The Economic Times
- Not everyone is convinced that Big AI's proposed development slowdown is really about safety The Decoder
- Ex-Google safety engineer warns humanity is running out of time to stop AI apocalypse The Independent
- MediaTek launches new mobile chip using TSMC's most advanced technology Reuters
Trending tools
DemoTV: browse and try independent products through demos, where founders recruit testers and gather feedback, with rankings decided by audience votes rather than paid placement demotv.lol
SHIUI: a flat ink UI kit inspired by Hinomaru Japanese posters, using paper, sumi, and vermilion tones with borders instead of shadows. shi-ui.vercel.app
Visiby: tracks how often your brand appears in AI search tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity, benchmarks competitors, and surfaces ways to boost your visibility. visiby.net
Resurf: a fully local context library for Mac, iPhone, and iPad that stores notes, links, and files, handing context to AI via MCP or CLI. resurf.so
ScreenCursor: a browser-based screen recorder that auto-generates zoom effects from your clicks and keystrokes, processing everything locally so nothing gets uploaded. screencursor.com
Kirokune: keep incident notes, recordings, and photos in an iPhone timeline with no account needed, plus a free log template and optional PDF export. kirokune.com
Trending papers & reports
AI trading agents get a new test that judges whether their decisions are sound and repeatable rather than just their returns, revealing that the smartest-scoring agent isn't the top earner and agents often ignore their own analysis. arXiv
Cardiac diagnosis assistant reads and chats about heart scans and ECGs together, hitting 87-91% accuracy on ECGs and nearly tripling top models like GPT-5 on multimodal cases, easing overloaded specialist interpretation. arXiv
Mecha-nudging shows that online sellers are already quietly rewriting listings to steer AI shopping agents, with Etsy pages gaining measurable machine-readable signals after ChatGPT's launch while staying unchanged for human buyers. arXiv
Valley3 is an e-commerce assistant that understands text, images, video, and audio together in multiple languages, letting online sellers analyze product content and shopper videos with adjustable levels of reasoning depth. arXiv
AI investment-research assistants can play distinct personas like value investors or macro strategists that each analyze a company independently, then surface their disagreements for a human portfolio manager to judge, producing transparent, reusable investment memos. arXiv
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