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OpenAI just made ChatGPT Plus free for millions of college students - and it's a brilliant competitive move against Anthropic
The Brewing Transatlantic Tech War
Google Deepmind says AGI might outthink humans by 2030, and it's planning for the risks
Relentless hackers abandon Windows to target your Apple ID
Intel, TSMC Tentatively Agree to Form Chipmaking Joint Venture
Let’s dive in
By Michael Nuñez via VentureBeat
OpenAI is offering ChatGPT Plus—including GPT-4o, Deep Research, voice, and image tools—for free to all college students in the U.S. and Canada through May, intensifying its rivalry with Anthropic in the education market.
The move comes just one day after Anthropic launched Claude for Education, a Socratic-style AI assistant, and highlights diverging visions: OpenAI focuses on productivity and access, while Anthropic emphasizes critical thinking and skill-building.
With education seen as a strategic gateway to long-term AI adoption, tech giants like Google and Microsoft are also investing heavily, aiming to shape how the next generation learns, works, and adopts AI in the workplace.
𝕏: chatgpt plus is free for college students in the US and canada through may!- Sam Altman (@sama)
The Brewing Transatlantic Tech War
By Henry Farrell via Foreign Affairs Magazine
U.S. tech firms risk losing access to Europe as they align more closely with Trump's administration, which shows growing hostility toward the EU, triggering European fears of tech dependence as a national security vulnerability.
The transatlantic tech relationship is fraying, with European regulators, courts, and activists increasingly prepared to sever data flows and build independent platforms, especially as U.S. companies defy European privacy norms and Trump dismantles oversight mechanisms.
The dream of a global open Internet is unraveling, as Europe accelerates efforts to build its own cloud and tech infrastructure, while Big Tech's embrace of Trump—once seen as strategic—may backfire, leaving them shut out from both China and Europe.
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Google Deepmind says AGI might outthink humans by 2030, and it's planning for the risks
By Matthias Bastian via THE DECODER
Google Deepmind anticipates that AGI could exceed human cognition by 2030, and has released a detailed strategy for technical safety, highlighting risks like deceptive alignment, goal misalignment, and deliberate misuse.
The paper outlines multi-layered defenses including a cybersecurity framework, interpretability tools like MONA, and methods like AI debate to promote transparency, while distinguishing its safety approach from OpenAI and Anthropic.
On scaling limits, Deepmind sees no hard stops: despite bottlenecks in power, hardware, data, and latency, it argues that infrastructure and economic incentives make ultra-large AI systems technically and economically feasible within the decade.
𝕏: You certainly don't have to believe that super-intelligent AI are possible, by the way, because nobody knows the future, but I find it interesting how little people seem to be even considering it as a possibility when the AI developers seem to be convinced it is. - Ethan Mollick (@emollick)
Relentless hackers abandon Windows to target your Apple ID
By Kurt Knutsson via Fox News
Hackers are shifting from Windows to Apple, launching a sophisticated phishing campaign targeting Apple ID users with fake security alerts tailored to macOS and Safari, while still leveraging Microsoft’s Windows[.]net domain to evade detection.
The attacks exploit typosquatting and malicious redirects, tricking users into inputting credentials on deceptive Apple-style warning pages—even bypassing enterprise-grade security like Secure Web Gateways.
Experts urge Apple users to adopt stronger defenses, including antivirus software, 2FA, biometric authentication, and recovery keys, as Apple’s current security posture is falling behind evolving threats.
Intel, TSMC Tentatively Agree to Form Chipmaking Joint Venture
By Qianer Liu via The Information
Intel and TSMC have recently held discussions about forming a joint venture focused on chip manufacturing.
The tentative agreement would deepen collaboration between two of the industry’s most powerful players amid intensifying global competition.
If finalized, the deal could significantly reshape dynamics in the semiconductor supply chain, especially in the context of U.S.-Asia tech tensions.
𝕏: The market rumors about TSMC assisting Intel in some form seem likely to persist. TSMC's edge in advanced node (production yields) stems from a complex interplay of factors—employee management, organizational culture, equipment and material procurement, patent and technology roadmap planning… - 郭明錤 (Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo)
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