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Steven Zeitchik / The Hollywood Reporter:
Bleecker Street says TikTok suspended the Musk documentary account for “political policy” violations and called the suspension “permanent”; Bleecker's appealing  —  Move comes just as Alex Gibney doc film expands to nearly 500 screens.  Distributor Bleecker Street says it is appealing.
Google:
Google says “magic state cultivation” works in practice on its Willow quantum processor, calling it a breakthrough that reduces errors by about 40x  —  We've shown that magic state cultivation works on Google Quantum AI hardware.  —  Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI Quantum Software Engineer, Google Quantum AI
Chase DiBenedetto / Mashable:
MapQuest adds a Surveillance Layer to its mobile app showing license plate readers and cameras from 10+ companies including Flock, using OpenStreetMap data  —  MapQuest will not go gentle into that good night.  —  The navigation software — which debuted in 1996 and was later eclipsed …
Bloomberg:
Zelenskyy says Starshield restrictions remain and are affecting only Ukraine, leading him to believe they are a “planned operation” rather than technical issues  —  Restrictions on Ukraine's military use of SpaceX's Starlink system appear to be deliberate and not the result …
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash-1017, an update it says offers “stronger benchmark performance, faster task completion, and shorter outputs” than its predecessor  —  DeepSeek released an update of its AI model this weekend that it says is faster and leaner, ramping …
Jean Eaglesham / Wall Street Journal:
As AI giants rack up potential legal liabilities of tens of billions amid safety incidents, insurers worry claims may outpace limits on existing coverage  —  The artificial-intelligence industry's phenomenal rate of growth means claims have the potential to outpace the limits on existing coverage
Walter Schulze / Startup Fortune:
Anomaly Innovations, behind coding agent OpenCode, says a breach hit ~1.4% of OpenCode Console users and their API keys, in a “large scale distillation attack”  —  A large-scale distillation attack against the company behind the open-source coding agent OpenCode exposed stored OpenAI …
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge:
Meta removes ToS language that suggested it could scrape websites “associated with” business accounts, saying it applied only to “ads and business products”  —  Language that experts say allowed the scraping of news sites to train its AI has been removed from Meta's terms.
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times:
A profile of Alexandr Wang, who sources say is “an operator”, had “all” of Zuckerberg's support during Meta's AI revamp, and is being touted as his successor  —  The 29-year-old in charge of the company's Superintelligence Labs is being touted as a potential successor to Mark Zuckerberg

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Skydance reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to $7B, net income of $73M, and adjusted EBITDA of $1B, excluding WBD, in its first earnings since closing the WBD deal

Borys Kit / The Hollywood Reporter:
James Gunn and Peter Safran step down as co-heads of DC Studios; Skydance appoints ex-Marvel exec Jeremy Latcham as president and chief creative officer of DC

Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Federal prosecutors told a judge that they are considering treating NYT as a conspirator in a criminal case accusing James Comey of leaking sensitive info

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