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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Meta's AG settlement gives it a moat to write child safety rules for other social media platforms, with little evidence its new safety features will help kids — By now you've almost certainly heard the news that Meta has settled with 52 state and local Attorneys General who had sued …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
YouTube and TikTok are yet to publicly acknowledge Meta's proposed changes under its AG settlement; some US lawmakers signal an appetite for industry-wide rules — Meta, the social media giant, agreed to change the way children interact with its apps. That could be trouble if its competitors don't abide by the same rules.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Meta is seeking to position itself as the industry leader in child safety through its settlement with AGs, while still refusing to admit any wrongdoing — Will significant changes to Facebook and Instagram be enough to beat back a global wave of bans? — For just under a year from 2022 to 2023 …
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| The Information: |
Source: Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9B; the AI repository has had several potential suitors among its investors, including Salesforce — Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face, a company known for its GitHub-like repository of open-source AI models, for $12.9 billion …
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| METR: |
METR and Redwood detail how ~1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated cheating on an unsanctioned board, sending 70K+ messages and files, and ~700 attacked Hugging Face — Redaction summary statement: Except where explicitly noted in this post, OpenAI redacted no additional information that was important to our conclusions.
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI publishes a technical report on the Hugging Face incident, detailing the agents' activity, safeguard failures, and measures to prevent recurrence — Read the technical report Read METR report(opens in a new window)Watch Black Hat talk(opens in a new window) — Loading...
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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
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| Nvidia Newsroom: |
Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 106% YoY to $96.22B, above $92.17B est., Data Center revenue up 117% to $89B, above $85.08B est., and net income up 126% to $59.7B — - Revenue of $96.2 billion, up 106% from a year ago — Data Center revenue of $89.0 billion, up 117% from a year ago
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| Deborah Mary Sophia / Reuters: |
| Thom Waite / Dazed: |
Rockstar executives discuss GTA VI, including interactive systems that let in-game player habits like diet alter characters' appearance and in-game social media — The pressure on Grand Theft Auto VI to deliver the holy grail of gaming is enormous - we talk to Rockstar's epic team of creative talents to uncover its secrets
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Australian Federal Police arrest two Western Australia men, aged 21 and 23, believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group — Authorities in Australia have arrested two men believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group blamed …
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| Politico: |
Sources: the Trump administration is weighing sweeping new tariffs on chips and other products like laptops and consoles, despite warnings from tech companies — The Trump administration is weighing a new round of sweeping tariffs on semiconductors, eight people familiar with discussions told POLITICO …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google announces new performance thresholds for Android apps, including memory-use limits, citing “significant hardware supply constraints” due to the AI boom — Google is making changes to its requirements for Android apps as developers face industry-wide memory chip shortages driven by the AI data center boom.
More: Android Developers Blog
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Cybersecurity stocks surge, with Okta up 20%+ and CrowdStrike up 15%+, after earnings showed that AI adoption is driving attacks and spending on security tools — - CrowdStrike and Okta popped after beating Wall Street's expectations and lifting guidance due to AI adoptions
More: Barron's Online, Forbes, Seeking Alpha, Morningstar, Constellation Research, and SecurityWeek
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
| Bloomberg: |
Hugging Face unveils Microduck, a $400, 1.7lb, 10-inch-tall bipedal robot developed in part by Pollen Robotics and manufactured by Shenzhen-based Seeed Studio — Artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face Inc. unveiled a singing $400 bipedal robot that can be taught tricks … | Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: |
Anthropic gives Claude Cowork its own built-in browser on the desktop app separate from users' day-to-day browser, rolling out to paying subscribers — Anthropic is giving Claude its own browser. — As the company announced on Wednesday, Claude on the desktop (Mac, Windows, and Linux) …
More: Claude, MacStories, The Decoder, and Digital Trends
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| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Gambit Security: Russian-speaking ransomware gang Aur0ra used SpaceX's Cursor AI coding assistant to breach at least seven companies between April 8 and May 21 — Russian-speaking hackers used SpaceX's (SPCX.O) AI coding assistant, Cursor, to help break in to a Belgian chemical company …
More: Capital Brief, Digit, and Joe.My.God.
| New York Times: |
Sources: Meta internally projected that it could spend as much as $10B annually on Anthropic's AI models, even as Zuckerberg publicly criticized Anthropic — The social networking giant projected it could spend $10 billion annually on Anthropic's tools, illustrating the friend-foe relationships underlying the A.I. race.| Wall Street Journal: |
Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Barret Zoph is returning to Google as VP of research, after leaving OpenAI in June and Thinking Machines Lab in January — After a short stint at OpenAI, Zoph will become a vice president of research at Google, which has recently lost a string of high-profile researchers
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Salesforce and Anthropic unveil Claudeforce, which brings Salesforce data and workflows into Claude, starting with a plugin featuring 37 prebuilt sales skills — Salesforce and Anthropic announced Tuesday a sweeping expansion of their partnership, called Claudeforce, that pushes …
More: TechRadar, Salesforce, Quartz, Barchart.com, Salesforce Ben, CNBC, diginomica, and Barron's Online
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Plaud unveils Plaud One, a $250 pair of 4G, eSIM-enabled AI earbuds with coverage in 80+ countries and $200 in AI feature credits; Plaud is making 2,000 units — Plaud Inc., a startup that makes note-taking devices, announced a pair of wireless, 4G-connected earbuds that lets users record conversations …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Nevada-based identity verification and fraud prevention startup Socure raised $156M at a $5.2B valuation and acquires Austin-based agentic AI startup Fravity — Identity verification and fraud prevention company Socure announced Thursday that it raised $156 million in a strategic growth investment valuing it at $5.2 billion.
More: Reuters, FinSMEs, Axios, PYMNTS, SiliconANGLE, and RuntimeWire
| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
A federal judge, in his US Court of Appeals ruling, urged SCOTUS to reconsider the issue of CSAM and revisit legal precedents that predated advances in AI — In his ruling, which applies to only certain images, a federal judge asked the Supreme Court to revisit legal precedents that predated advances in AI.| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable: |
Google starts rolling out the google.com/goto URL as a passthrough URL to help prevent scraping of its search results by third-party tools and AI companies — This seems like a way for Google to help prevent scraping of its search results by third-party tools and AI companies … | Brian Steinberg / Variety: |
X launches NFL Gametime, an integrated NFL feed and hub featuring live data, scores, statistics, creator content, and more through to the 2027 Super Bowl — X will really mark the spot for NFL content. — The social-media outlet is launching “NFL Gametime,” a new project that offers … | Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
AI assistant Instinct is raising a $250M Series B co-led by Index and Benchmark at a $2.5B valuation, taking its total funding to $350M since its 2025 founding — Buzzy startup Instinct, which is fundraising at a $2.5 billion valuation, promises to handle emails and more, but some early users raise privacy concerns
More: The Information and Tech Funding News
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| Sarah Klearman / Wall Street Journal: |
SEC filing: OpenAI invests ~$400M in its second startup fund, after it raised $175M for its first fund in 2021 from outside investors, including Microsoft — The ChatGPT maker is dedicating $400 million to investing in early-stage AI companies — OpenAI is launching a second startup fund … Sponsor Posts
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