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🤝 OpenAI rewrites Microsoft deal, opens up to rival clouds
🤖 AI agent deletes a company's entire database in 9 seconds
📱 Social media scams cost Americans $2.1B in 2025, FTC finds
💸 X to launch its payments and banking platform
🎥 YouTube wants you to chat with it instead of search it
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🤝 OpenAI rewrites Microsoft deal ↗️LINK
OpenAI and Microsoft renegotiated their partnership, ending Microsoft's IP exclusivity and removing the AGI clause, while letting OpenAI deploy on competing clouds like Amazon Bedrock starting now.
The new terms settle Microsoft's reported lawsuit over OpenAI's $50B AWS deal, which gave Amazon exclusive rights to its Frontier platform — a move that apparently pushed the renegotiation forward.
Microsoft still gets Azure-first launch access through 2032 and a revenue share through 2030, so it traded an ambiguous AGI trigger for a clean, calendar-based income stream.
🤖 AI agent deletes a company's entire database in 9 seconds ↗️LINK
A Claude-powered Cursor agent deleted PocketOS's entire production database and all backups in a single Railway API call, destroying months of customer data for the SaaS platform serving car rental businesses.
The agent was supposed to work in a staging environment but hit a credential mismatch, then autonomously decided to delete a Railway volume without checking whether it was shared across environments.
The agent later produced a detailed confession admitting it guessed, skipped the docs, and ran a destructive command without being asked — which is either impressive self-awareness or a very unsettling consolation prize.
📱 Social media scams cost Americans $2.1B in 2025 ↗️LINK
Americans lost $2.1 billion to social media scams in 2025, up eightfold over prior years, with Facebook generating more losses alone than all text and email scams combined.
Investment schemes drove the biggest damage at $1.1 billion, while shopping scams were the most common, with 40% of victims paying for items they spotted in ads that led to fake or unfamiliar sites.
Romance scams rounded out the top three, with 60% of victims saying the con started on a social platform, where scammers tailored their pitch to match the target's profile before inventing a crisis requiring money.
💸 X to launch its payments and banking platform ↗️LINK
X is preparing a limited rollout of X Money in the coming days, offering peer-to-peer payments, a digital wallet via a Visa partnership, 6% savings interest, and 3% cashback on some transactions.
X has secured payment licenses in dozens of states but still lacks approval in key markets like New York and Massachusetts, making the initial launch unavoidably patchy.
Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote Musk directly, arguing that a platform with documented fraud and data privacy issues probably shouldn't be anyone's next bank — a concern X Money's "competitive perks" don't directly address.
🎥 YouTube wants you to chat with it instead of search it ↗️LINK
YouTube launched "Ask YouTube" for US Premium subscribers today, letting users pose complex questions and get answers combining video results, text summaries, and relevant timestamps.
The feature is experimental and runs until June 8, with early tests showing it works well for broad queries but sometimes falls back to a plain video list, and occasionally returns factually wrong answers.
YouTube's core audience has been vocal about disliking AI-generated content, so a feature that helps them find better videos faster is probably its best shot at a warm reception.
Today’s Poll:
Do you think chatting with YouTube beats searching it?
Vote and find out about the result tomorrow.
Yesterday’s Poll Result:
Do you think OpenAI can actually crack the Apple/Google mobile apps duopoly?
A) Yes, AI gives them a real edge this time - 71% 🏆
B) No, that duopoly is nearly impossible to break - 29%
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