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Tim Cook attending a private White House screening of the documentary Melania hours after US agents killed a man suggests horrible judgment, or worse, cowardice — Tim Cook is captured. There is simply no other explanation for his actions over the past year or so.
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| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Khosla Ventures' Vinod Khosla and Ethan Choi disavow Keith Rabois' comments on an ICE shooting; Rabois said the man killed by agents was committing a “felony” — To understand the stance of an unwavering Trump loyalist after United States Custom and Enforcement shocked the nation …
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| Dan Whateley / Business Insider: |
TikTok US says it is working to restore services after a data center power outage, and that 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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| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
TikTok US says it doesn't “have rules against sharing the name Epstein in direct messages” and is “investigating why some users are experiencing issues” — Officials at TikTok say they are looking into why many users have been unable to send the word “Epstein” … | Tyler Katzenberger / Politico: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils the Maia 200, its second-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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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta says it will test new paid subscriptions that give people access to exclusive features on its apps and plans to scale Manus as part of those offerings — Meta plans to test new subscriptions that give people access to exclusive features on it apps, the company told TechCrunch on Monday.
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| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
A test of ChatGPT Health and Claude for Healthcare with data from Apple Health finds the chatbots provided questionable and inconsistent responses — ChatGPT now says it can answer personal questions about your health using data from your fitness tracker and medical records.
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| 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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| 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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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Google agrees to pay $68M to settle a class action lawsuit claiming that Google Assistant inappropriately recorded private conversations on users' devices — Google agreed to pay $68 million to settle a lawsuit claiming that its voice-activated assistant spied inappropriately on smartphone users, violating their privacy.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
A group of YouTubers with a combined 6.2M subscribers adds Snap to a class action lawsuit, alleging the company trained its AI systems on their video content — A group of YouTubers suing tech giants for scraping their videos without permission to train AI models has now added Snap to their list of defendants.
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| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
An interview with OpenAI for Science head Kevin Weil on the team's mission, why LLMs can't come up with game-changing discoveries yet, and more — In the three years since ChatGPT's explosive debut, OpenAI's technology has upended a remarkable range of everyday activities at home, at work …
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| Murad Hemmadi / The Logic: |
YC updated its website to remove Canada from its list of approved jurisdictions for incorporation, leaving the US, Cayman Islands, and Singapore as options — Silicon Valley's most famous accelerator now requires Canadian firms to incorporate in the U.S., Cayman Islands or Singapore in order for it to invest| Eliyahu Kamisher / Bloomberg: |
Billionaire Tom Steyer, who is running for California governor, says he plans to vote for the one-time 5% tax on billionaires if it reaches the November ballot — Billionaire Tom Steyer came out in favor of a proposed tax on California's wealthiest residents, adding a prominent voice … | 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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| Reuters: |
Micron plans to invest $24B over the next decade to build a 700,000-square-foot memory chip facility in Singapore, with wafer output set to start in H2 2028 — US company says new wafer fabrication facility to meet growing demand — U.S. memory chipmaker Micron Technology announced …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
The US Army signs a $5.6B, 10-year contract with Salesforce to speed up outdated practices; as part of the deal, military recruiters will get access to Slack — Recruiters will get access to Slack as part of a contract that reflects the Pentagon's drive to adopt commercial software tools| Eudora Wang / DealStreetAsia: |
StepFun, a Chinese AI startup that develops LLMs and has partnered with automaker Geely and smartphone brands like Oppo and Honor, raised a ~$717M Series B+ — StepFun, a Chinese AI startup specialising in the development of large language models (LLMs), has raised over 5 billion yuan …
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