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An Interpol-led law enforcement action in 26 countries disrupted infostealer operations, leading to takedowns of 20K+ malicious IPs and domains and 32 arrests — An international law enforcement action codenamed “Operation Secure” targeted infostealer malware infrastructure … | Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Meta sues Joy Timeline, which makes nudify app CrushAI, in Hong Kong to prevent it from advertising on Meta apps; in January, 90% of its traffic came from Meta — As part of what it claims is a new crackdown, Meta is suing a nudify app and “strengthening” its enforcement.
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An interview with Craig Federighi on iPadOS 26's multitasking UI, Stage Manager's interface limitations, and why the iPad's Mac-style multitasking took so long — Federighi talks to Ars about why the iPad's Mac-style multitasking took so long. — CUPERTINO, Calif.—When Apple Senior Vice President …
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| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils updates to help parents protect kids and teens online, such as easier Child Accounts setup, stronger defaults, and granular App Store age ratings — Apple today announced a sweeping set of updates aimed at helping parents protect kids and teens online, as part of its broader push … | Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter: |
SAG-AFTRA ends the 320+ day video game performers strike after reaching a tentative new Interactive Media Agreement contract with the major video game companies — The union had taken a stand on artificial intelligence, among other concerns, as it looked to advocate for voice and performance capture workers.
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| Bloomberg: |
Arm CEO Rene Haas sides with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, saying US export controls on China threaten to slow overall tech advances and harm consumers and companies — “If you narrow access to to technology and you force other ecosystems to grow up, it's not good,” Haas said Thursday in an interview … | Martin Young / Cointelegraph: |
Gemini and Glassnode research: centralized treasuries, including governments, ETFs, and public companies, hold and control 30.9% of bitcoin's circulating supply — Centralized treasuries, including governments, ETFs and public companies, now control approximately $668 billion of Bitcoin's circulating supply.
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| The Information: |
Sources: Meta's Scale AI bet came from Mark Zuckerberg wanting new leadership for Meta's AI efforts, Meta executives' relationships with Alexandr Wang, and more — Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has tried to fix a seemingly existential problem in recent months.| Bloomberg: |
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| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, half run by national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps — As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI. — Summary4| Justine Calma / The Verge:NEW |
Google is working with the US National Hurricane Center to test an AI model that forecasts cyclones and launches Weather Lab to share its AI weather models — It's working with the US National Hurricane Center to test out its new AI-based tropical cyclone model.
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| Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: |
Android 16 review: live update notifications and Advanced Protection are neat, but features like desktop mode and Material 3 Expressive are coming later in 2025 — After months of speculation and beta testing, Google is rolling out Android 16 starting today.
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| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
A spam marketing operation exploited some domains owned by Nvidia, Stanford, NPR, and the US CDC to host AI slop articles redirecting users to an SEO spam site — Web domains owned by Nvidia, Stanford, NPR, and the U.S. government are hosting pages full of AI slop articles that redirect to a spam marketing site.| MIT Technology Review: |
How Amsterdam's experiment to create a fair welfare AI model, which considered 15 characteristics to evaluate welfare applicants for potential fraud, failed — This story is a partnership between MIT Technology Review, Lighthouse Reports, and Trouw, and was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
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| Ian Thomas / CNBC: |
Pittsburgh-based Gecko Robotics, which makes robots that inspect infrastructure, raised a $125M Series D at a $1.25B valuation, up from $633M in December 2023 — Gecko Robotics announced on Thursday that it raised $125 million in a Series D funding round, raising the AI and robotics company's valuation to $1.25 billion.| Cynthia Littleton / Variety: |
A look at Apple's vision for Apple TV+ and its film business, as Tim Cook says the company's $200M+ bet on the F1 movie is about more than selling iPhones — Apple CEO and Formula 1 superstar Lewis Hamilton join forces on ‘F1 the Movie’ to take the tech giant's film business to new heights
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| Sri Muppidi / The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI talked to Saudi Arabia's PIF, India-based Reliance, and the UAE's MGX about investing in the next installment of its $40B round led by SoftBank — OpenAI has talked to Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries and existing shareholder … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Databricks says it expects to generate $3.7B in annualized revenue by July, up 50% YoY, with nearly 50 of its 15,000+ customers spending over $10M annually — Databricks, a data analytics software vendor, said on Wednesday that it expects to generate $3.7 billion in annualized revenue by July, with year-over-year growth of 50%.
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| Zoe Kleinman / BBC: |
The UK passes the Data (Use and Access) Bill, criticized by creatives, without an amendment to force companies to declare using copyrighted material to train AI — A bill which sparked an extraordinary stand-off between some of the UK's most high-profile artists - and their backers in the House of Lords - has finally been passed.| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Spain-based Multiverse Computing, which makes tools to compress LLMs by up to 95% using “quantum-inspired” networks, raised a €189M Series B and has 100 clients — Spanish startup Multiverse Computing on Thursday said it has raised an enormous Series B round of €189 million …
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| Mark Stenberg / Adweek: |
Sources and docs: Amazon has increased Prime Video's ad load to 4-6 minutes per hour, up from 2-3.5 minutes per hour when it introduced ads in January 2024 — More ads could mean lower CPMs, but performance could slip. — When Amazon introduced ads on Prime Video in January 2024 …
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| Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg: |
Nominal, which makes industrial design software for space, energy, and defense tech, raised $75M led by Sequoia, after raising $27M in April 2024 — Nominal wants to make it easier for companies in defense, energy and manufacturing to develop new products.
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| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Landbase, whose GPT-4o-based AI tool automates outreach marketing, raised a $30M Series A co-led by Ashton Kutcher's Sound Ventures and Picus Capital — When Daniel Saks was working as a co-CEO of the previous startup he co-founded, AppDirect, billionaire Michael Dell sent him a LinkedIn message asking for a meeting.
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| Financial Times: |
Visa: stablecoin transaction volumes hit $752B in May, up from $409B in May 2024, and wallets that regularly send and receive payments hit a record 46M average — Usage of the digital assets is growing rapidly, but concerns remain about supervision and their impact on other parts of the financial system
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| Ricardo Brito / Reuters: |
Brazil's Supreme Court rules that social media companies are accountable for some types of users' content seen as illegal, a decision that could result in fines — Brazil's Supreme Court formed a majority on Wednesday to hold social media companies accountable for some types of content published … | Reuters: |
Nvidia plans to build its first industrial AI cloud platform in Germany for European manufacturers, combining AI with robotics to assist carmakers like BMW — Nvidia (NVDA.O) will build its first artificial intelligence cloud platform for industrial applications in Germany …
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