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As tech CEOs stay silent after two fatal shootings, 450+ workers at Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and others urge CEOs to cancel any ICE contracts and speak out — Some tech workers are pressuring the industry's top leaders to speak out against ICE after federal officers killed Alex Pretti …
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| Barbara Moens / Financial Times: |
The EU opens a formal DSA investigation into xAI over Grok generating sexualized images of women and children; xAI faces fines of up to 6% of global revenue — European regulators begin investigation into creation and spread of sexualised images of women and children
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| Bloomberg: |
Nvidia invests an additional $2B in CoreWeave to help speed up adding 5GW+ of AI computing capacity by 2030 and deploy Nvidia's new Vera CPU; CRWV jumps 9%+ — Nvidia Corp., the dominant maker of artificial intelligence chips, invested an additional $2 billion in CoreWeave Inc. to help speed …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils the Maia 200, its 2nd-generation AI accelerator built on TSMC's 3nm process, deploying today in its Azure US Central data center region — The Maia 200 chip is starting to roll out to Microsoft's data centers today. … Microsoft is announcing a successor to its first in-house AI chip today, the Maia 200.
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| Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils a second-gen AirTag with an updated speaker and the same second-gen Ultra Wideband chip as in the iPhone 17, costing $29 for one and $99 for four — Apple has announced a brand new AirTag 2 that's available to order now, here are the details on the update.
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| Axios: |
In a 38-page essay, Dario Amodei warns of civilization-level damage from superintelligent AI, questioning whether humanity has the maturity to handle such power — - Massive job loss: “I ... simultaneously think that AI will disrupt 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs over 1-5 years …
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| Dan Whateley / Business Insider: |
TikTok US says it is working to restore services after a power outage at a data center and any algorithm changes users noticed were likely due to the outage — - TikTok's algorithm was disrupted on Sunday as the company dealt with a data center outage. — Users reported seeing a flurry of old videos in their feeds.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
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| Jesse Coburn / ProPublica: |
Sources: the US DOT plans to use Gemini to draft federal regulations, cutting the process to just 30 days; the DOT used it to draft a still-unpublished FAA rule — The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations.
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| The Information: |
Source: OpenAI targets ~$60 per 1,000 views for ChatGPT ads, on par with live NFL broadcasts and above Meta's sub-$20 CPM, while offering little conversion data — In its initial rollout of ads, OpenAI is charging prices that rival those for coveted video programs like the NFL … | Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
Quantum computing company IonQ acquires US chipmaker SkyWater for ~$1.8B, paying $35/share, in IonQ's biggest deal yet; SkyWater will operate as a subsidiary — IonQ works with the U.S. government and has been on a deal spree — Quantum-computing company IonQ struck a deal … | Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Intel Panther Lake laptop CPU review: the 18A-based Core Ultra X9 388H outperforms Apple's M5 and AMD's top-tier Strix Halo in some tests like 4K video exports — Intel's been talking the talk for months about its new generation of laptop chips, the first made on its long-anticipated 18A process.| Qwen: |
Qwen releases Qwen3-Max-Thinking, its flagship reasoning model that it says demonstrates performance comparable to models such as GPT-5.2 Thinking and Opus 4.5 — · QwenTeam丨Translations:.体中文 — Introduction# — We present Qwen3-Max-Thinking, our latest flagship reasoning model.
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| Nat Rubio-Licht / The Deep View: |
London-based enterprise AI video startup Synthesia raised a $200M Series E led by GV at a $4B valuation, up from $2.1B after raising $180M in January 2025 — W — hile AI video generators like OpenAI's Sora, Google's Veo, and Kling are best known for creating “AI slop” … | Matt Burgess / Wired: |
How the explicit deepfake ecosystem evolved from images to high-quality video; an analysis shows 1.4M+ Telegram accounts signed up to 39 deepfake creation bots — Sexual deepfakes continue to get more sophisticated, capable, easy to access, and perilous for millions of women who are abused with the technology.| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Ricursive, founded by ex-Google researchers to automate advanced chip design, raised $335M from Sequoia, Radical, Lightspeed, and others at a $4B valuation — One new start-up is called Recursive with an “e.” Another is called Ricursive with an “i.” They are trying to do the same thing …
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| Jasmine Sun / @jasmine's substack: |
Claude Code can feel daunting, and most people's problems are not software-shaped, but it is clearly autonomous and the home-cooked app renaissance is great — are your problems software-shaped? — ∙ Paid — If you tell a friend they can now instantly create any app, they'll probably say “Cool!
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| Anupriya Datta / Euractiv: |
The EU Commission says WhatsApp's Channels fall under the DSA's Very Large Online Platform rules, joining Instagram and Facebook, requiring it to address risks — Commission designation means Meta-owned messaging giant's public channels must comply with the EU's Digital Services Act rules for very large platforms
| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
Anthropic rolls out a new extension to MCP to let users interact with apps directly inside the Claude chatbot, with support for Asana, Figma, Slack, and others — Anthropic's one step closer to having an everything app. … Anthropic's Claude got a bit livelier today thanks …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
TSMC's conservative capex approach is resulting in supply-demand imbalances and foregone revenue, and hyperscalers must build up Samsung or Intel as its rivals — You probably think, given this title, you know what this Article is about. The most advanced semiconductors are made by TSMC …
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| Tim De Chant / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia announces its Earth-2 Medium Range weather model, built on its Atlas architecture, claiming it outperforms Google DeepMind's GenCast in 70+ variables — In the run-up to the winter storm currently pummeling much of the U.S., weather forecasts for some regions were all over the map, with snowfall predictions varying wildly.
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| Josh Chin / Wall Street Journal: |
Documents: China's military is focused on harnessing AI to deploy swarms of drones, robot dogs, and other autonomous systems, learning from hawks and coyotes — Beijing's military focuses on swarming drones that can pick off prey or robots that can chase down enemiesSponsor Posts
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