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SoftBank in talks to invest as much as $25B in OpenAI, report says

SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $25 billion in OpenAI as part of a broader partnership that could see the Japanese conglomerate spend more than $40 billion on AI initiatives with the Microsoft-backed startup, according to the Financial Times.
The potential investment would make SoftBank OpenAI’s largest single backer, the report said, surpassing Microsoft, which first invested in the ChatGPT maker in 2019. The deal comes after both companies announced last week they would jointly invest $100 billion in Stargate, a U.S. data center project for OpenAI that could expand to $500 billion over four years.
SoftBank plans to invest $15 billion to $25 billion directly into OpenAI in addition to its $15 billion Stargate commitment, the report said. OpenAI will invest around $15 billion in Stargate, with SoftBank’s equity investment potentially covering OpenAI’s infrastructure commitment.
The talks come at a time when Chinese firm DeepSeek’s release of its R1 “reasoning” model, which was built on a relatively modest budget, rattled public markets this week.
The chip giant Nvidia lost as much as $589 billion in a day before making a slight recovery, as investors worried that big investments in expensive AI hardware might not be necessary if companies could achieve similar results with fewer resources.
OpenAI claimed earlier this week that it had found evidence that DeepSeek used OpenAI’s proprietary models to train R1 and other models through a technique called “distillation,” which allows developers to achieve similar performance with smaller models at a much lower cost. The company says this would violate its terms of service, which prohibit using outputs to develop competing models.
OpenAI’s deal with SoftBank, which Financial Times says hasn’t finalized, represents SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son’s biggest bet since injecting $16 billion into WeWork. It would also reduce OpenAI’s dependence on Microsoft for computing resources, with Microsoft recently agreeing to give up its position as OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider.
Around 20% of Stargate’s funding is expected to be equity, with the remainder financed through debt secured against assets and cash flow, the report said. OpenAI, which reached a $157 billion valuation last year, is also negotiating to become a for-profit company to facilitate additional fundraising.

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How to use Apple’s new event planning ‘Invites’ app

Apple has released a new app called Invites that is designed to make it easy to create custom invitations for events using an iPhone or on the web. Invites is Apple’s version of Partiful, a popular invitation app that was crowned Google Play’s Best App of 2024.
Invites lets you create and share invitations, RSVP to events, contribute to Shared Albums, and curate event soundtracks.
To create an invitation, you need an iCloud+ subscription, which costs 99 cents per month. However, anyone can RSVP, regardless of whether they have an Apple Account or Apple device.
In this post, we’ll walk you through the process of creating an event, adding a shared album or playlist, and sending out your invitation to guests.
How to create an event invite

You can create an event in Apple Invites using the app on your iPhone or on the web at iCloud.com. Whichever route you choose, the process is essentially the same.
If you’re on the app, you need to tap the plus sign in the upper-right corner to create an event. If you’re on the web, you need to select “New Event” in the upper-right corner.
From here, tap the “Add Background” option, then choose “Photos” to select an image from your library. Or, tap the “Camera” option to take a new photo for the background. Apple also offers a selection of backgrounds for you to choose from.
Alternatively, you can use Apple’s Image Playground to produce original images for the background. To use the Image Playground integration in Invites, you will need an iPhone that is compatible with Apple Intelligence, which means you need an iPhone 15 Pro and up.
Once you have added a background image, tap “Event Title” to enter the name of your event and then choose a font style.
Then, tap “Date and Time” to choose the day and time the event starts and ends. You can also choose to set it as an all-day event. After you set a date, the weather forecast for that date will be added to the invitation.
Next, tap “Location” to search for a location or tap a suggested location. You have the option to enter a name for a location, such as “Emily’s House.” When you set a location, Invites will automatically add Apple Maps information to the invitation.
Finally, you can enter a description for the event, using Apple Intelligence’s Writing Tools to help you write out the description, if you’d like. Again, your device will need to be compatible with Apple Intelligence in order to use the feature.
Once you have created your event, you can tap the “Preview” option to see what it looks before sending it to your guests.
How to create a Shared Album or Playlist for your event invite

While the above steps cover the basics of creating an invite for an event, Apple offers two other features that can take your invitations to the next level.
You can create a “Shared Album” where attendees can contribute photos and videos from within an invite. The idea behind the feature is to give attendees a way to save their memories and relive the event at a later time.
To do so, you need to tap the “Create Album” option. The name of the Shared Album will be the name of the event, but you can change it if you’d like.
You can also create an event soundtrack by selecting the “Add Playlist” option. Attendees can then choose to add songs to the playlist before or during the event. It’s worth noting that you need an Apple Music subscription to create a shared playlist. As with Shared Albums, your playlist will have the name of your event, but you can edit it.
How to invite guests to your event

There are two ways to invite guests to your event. You can either share the invite as a public link or send it to specific people from your contact list.
You need to select “Invite Guests” to start sending out invitations. If you select the “Messages” or “Mail” apps, you can send a public link directly through those apps. If you select “Share Link,” you can send the invite to guests through any app in your iOS share sheet. If you tap “Copy Link,” you can paste the link for your invitation anywhere.
To invite a contact, tap the “Choose a Guest” option, search for a name, or choose someone from your list of contacts, and then share the link with them.
After you have created an event and invited guests, you can share a note that everyone on the guest list can see. For instance, you can let guests know if you have changed the location for the event, or you can send them a reminder to bring umbrellas if the forecast is calling for rain.
To do so, select your event and then tap “Send a Note.” Once you have written out your note, tap the “Send Note” button.

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Trump ends legal battle over Twitter ban

President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the company formerly known as Twitter appears to be over.
Trump sued the social media platform for banning him in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, when Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. While a federal judge dismissed the suit in 2022, the then-former president’s lawyers continued to appeal.
Soon after the judge’s ruling, Elon Musk (who has become a key Trump ally) acquired Twitter (now known as X), and reinstated Trump’s account. Facebook and other platforms subsequently reinstated Trump, as well — although he still does most of his social media posting on Truth Social, which is owned by Trump Media & Technology Group.
A court filing states that all parties are asking the court to dismiss the case. The filing does not offer any details about the agreement between Trump and X, except to say that both sides will bear their own costs.
In January, Meta agreed to pay $25 million to settle a similar lawsuit over Trump’s ban from Instagram and Facebook.

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Anthropic CEO says DeepSeek was ‘the worst’ on a critical bioweapons data safety test

Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei is worried about competitor DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company that took Silicon Valley by storm with its R1 model. And his concerns could be more serious than the typical ones raised about DeepSeek sending user data back to China.
In an interview on Jordan Schneider’s ChinaTalk podcast, Amodei said DeepSeek generated rare information about bioweapons in a safety test run by Anthropic.
DeepSeek’s performance was “the worst of basically any model we’d ever tested,” Amodei claimed. “It had absolutely no blocks whatsoever against generating this information.”
Amodei stated that this was part of evaluations Anthropic routinely runs on various AI models to assess their potential national security risks. His team looks at whether models can generate bioweapons-related information that isn’t easily found on Google or in textbooks. Anthropic positions itself as the AI foundational model provider that takes safety seriously.
Amodei said he didn’t think DeepSeek’s models today are “literally dangerous” in providing rare and dangerous information but that they might be in the near future. Although he praised DeepSeek’s team as “talented engineers,” he advised the company to “take seriously these AI safety considerations.”
Amodei has also supported strong export controls on chips to China, citing concerns that they could give China’s military an edge.
Amodei didn’t clarify in the ChinaTalk interview which DeepSeek model Anthropic tested, nor did he give more technical details about these tests. Anthropic didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment from TechCrunch. Neither did DeepSeek.
DeepSeek’s rise has sparked concerns about its safety elsewhere, too. For example, Cisco security researchers said last week that DeepSeek R1 failed to block any harmful prompts in its safety tests, achieving a 100% jailbreak success rate.
Cisco didn’t mention bioweapons but said it was able to get DeepSeek to generate harmful information about cybercrime and other illegal activities. It’s worth mentioning, though, that Meta’s Llama-3.1-405B and OpenAI’s GPT-4o also had high failure rates of 96% and 86%, respectively.
It remains to be seen whether safety concerns like these will make a serious dent in DeepSeek’s rapid adoption. Companies like AWS and Microsoft have publicly touted integrating R1 into their cloud platforms — ironically enough, given that Amazon is Anthropic’s biggest investor.
On the other hand, there’s a growing list of countries, companies, and especially government organizations like the U.S. Navy and the Pentagon that have started banning DeepSeek.
Time will tell if these efforts catch on or if DeepSeek’s global rise will continue. Either way, Amodei says he does consider DeepSeek a new competitor that’s on the level of the U.S.’s top AI companies.
“The new fact here is that there’s a new competitor,” he said on ChinaTalk. “In the big companies that can train AI — Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, perhaps Meta and xAI — now DeepSeek is maybe being added to that category.”

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