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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple and OpenAI are preparing a major announcement of their partnership at WWDC; the new AirTag with a better chip is scheduled to arrive by mid-2025

Renee DiResta / The Guardian: How a rightwing smear campaign against NPR and its CEO Katherine Maher, who is on Signal Foundation's board, led Elon Musk to malign Signal
Wall Street Journal: Sources: US officials have told Google, Meta, and others about concerns that undersea cables could be vulnerable to tampering by China-owned repair ships

Emma Agyemang / Financial Times: Around 58 countries now offer a digital nomad visa, as governments compete with each other to attract talent; the number of US digital nomads hit 17.3M in 2023

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Max Tani / Semafor: Many outlets have increased reliance on Apple News+; The Daily Beast is set to make $3M-$4M from it in 2024, and Time says it delivers a 7-figure annual revenue

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: A look at Overland AI, Potential, and other startups developing off-road self-driving systems, including for military operations, underground mining, and more

Financial Times: Microsoft, Meta, Google and others pitch smaller language models that are cheaper to build and train, to lower costs and hardware requirements for generative AI

David Keohane / Financial Times: An interview with Kokusai Electric CEO Fumiyuki Kanai on KKR's role in the Japanese chip equipment maker's IPO, becoming an advocate for PE in Japan, and more

Bloomberg: Memo: Didi co-founder Jean Liu steps down as president and board director, positions she has held since December 2014, and will become a “permanent partner”

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Stefanno Sulaiman / Reuters: SpaceX launches Starlink in Indonesia to improve internet access in remote parts of the country, starting with three local health centers

Sam Altman / @sama: Sam Altman says he is embarrassed that there was a provision about potential equity cancellation in exit docs, and OpenAI never took back anyone's vested equity — in regards to recent stuff about how openai handles equity: we have never clawed back anyone's vested equity, nor will we do that if people do not sign a separation agreement (or don't agree to a non-disparagement agreement). vested equity is vested equity, full stop. there was

Greg Brockman / @gdb: Sam Altman and Greg Brockman respond to Jan Leike, say they've raised awareness of the risks and opportunities of AGI, will keep doing safety research, and more — We're really grateful to Jan for everything he's done for OpenAI, and we know he'll continue to contribute to the mission from outside. In light of the questions his departure has raised, we wanted to explain a bit about how we think about our overall strategy. First, we have