South Korean AI chip makers Rebellions and Sapeon agree to merge; Rebellions has raised $225M+ and Sapeon’s shareholders include SK Telecom and SK Hynix (Joyce Lee/Reuters)

Joyce Lee / Reuters:
South Korean AI chip makers Rebellions and Sapeon agree to merge; Rebellions has raised $225M+ and Sapeon’s shareholders include SK Telecom and SK Hynix  —  South Korean artificial-intelligence chip makers Rebellions Inc and Sapeon Korea Inc have signed a definitive merger agreement, the privately held companies said on Sunday.

Dating apps are struggling as users seek organic ways to meet; Match Group reported a decline in the total number of paying users for seven straight quarters (Edward Helmore/The Guardian)

Edward Helmore / The Guardian:
Dating apps are struggling as users seek organic ways to meet; Match Group reported a decline in the total number of paying users for seven straight quarters  —  Online dating industry in crisis as shares fall and nearly half of all users report negative experiences on the apps

An interview with Palantir CEO Alex Karp on co-founding the company, autonomous weapons systems, AI, supporting Kamala Harris, Silicon Valley critics, and more (Maureen Dowd/New York Times)

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
An interview with Palantir CEO Alex Karp on co-founding the company, autonomous weapons systems, AI, supporting Kamala Harris, Silicon Valley critics, and more  —  · 41:48 min Learn more  —  Alex Karp never learned to drive.  —  “I was too poor,” he said.  “And then I was too rich.”

Runway debuts Gen-3 Alpha Turbo, a faster and cheaper model than Gen-3 Alpha, capable of generating 5- or 10-second-long video clips, available for all plans (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Runway debuts Gen-3 Alpha Turbo, a faster and cheaper model than Gen-3 Alpha, capable of generating 5- or 10-second-long video clips, available for all plans  —  After showing it off in preview late last month, Runway has officially released Gen-3 Alpha Turbo, the latest version …

Nancy Pelosi issues a statement in opposition to California’s AI safety bill, saying it’s “well-intentioned but ill-informed” and “more harmful than helpful” (Representative Nancy Pelosi)

Representative Nancy Pelosi:
Nancy Pelosi issues a statement in opposition to California’s AI safety bill, saying it’s “well-intentioned but ill-informed” and “more harmful than helpful”  —  San Francisco – Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi issued this statement in opposition to California Senate Bill 1047:

A profile of Anthony Tan, the solo developer of Way to the Woods, a game that received Epic Games funding and remains unreleased nine years after its conception (Jackson Ryan/New York Times)

Jackson Ryan / New York Times:
A profile of Anthony Tan, the solo developer of Way to the Woods, a game that received Epic Games funding and remains unreleased nine years after its conception  —  Anthony Tan was 16 when his idea for a video game about a deer caught the industry’s eye.  Nine years later, he’s still working on it.

Ericsson to sell its network portability and data exchange services unit Iconectiv to Koch Equity Development for $1B; the deal is expected to close in H1 2025 (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg)

Lynn Doan / Bloomberg:
Ericsson to sell its network portability and data exchange services unit Iconectiv to Koch Equity Development for $1B; the deal is expected to close in H1 2025  —  – Ericsson has been working to cut costs amid challenging market  — Koch Industries has long been a huge investor in tech firms

A YouTuber files a proposed class action against Nvidia, accusing it of scraping his content without consent to train AI models, weeks after also suing OpenAI (Justin Bachman/Legal Dive)

Justin Bachman / Legal Dive:
A YouTuber files a proposed class action against Nvidia, accusing it of scraping his content without consent to train AI models, weeks after also suing OpenAI  —  A video creator alleges that the companies scraped his videos, and millions of others, without permission to help train their generative AI learning models.