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A closer look at the upcoming Siri AI-powered home hub, a key pillar of Apple's strategy for the home; sources: Apple started cutting Fitness+ staff — Also: What happened with the iPhone Duo Pencil and layoffs at Fitness+. — Apple's new “intelligent personal hub” strategy is about much more than the iPhone.
More: Gizmodo, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada, Digital Trends, iThinkDifferent, Forbes, and Apple Must
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| María Paula Mijares Torres / Bloomberg: |
Trump says he will appoint an AI czar and form an “AI Force”, in a Truth Social post that rejects AI safety concerns as a “hoax” — President Donald Trump said he would name an artificial intelligence czar as he continued to push tech companies to race ahead with development despite growing fears safety.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan dismissed concerns after fraudsters tried to launder $10M+ from stolen cards to clean accounts via its wagers in February — CEO Shayne Coplan brushed off concerns about scheme involving stolen debit cards; now the prediction market is bolstering executive ranks as it eyes IPO
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| Josipa Majic Predin / Forbes: |
Vercel, Cloudflare, and others quickly add Jev, as it makes AI tool selection much faster and cheaper; TypeSafe: Jev matches GPT-5.6 and Sonnet 5 workflow evals — Most of what an AI agent asks a frontier model to do is not writing. It is choosing. Which tool to call next, whether to retry, whether a command is safe to run.
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| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
Meta challenges Ofcom's OSA categorization of WhatsApp and Instagram imposing additional regulations; Roblox and Quora are also challenging their categorization — US tech giant's latest action against regulator Ofcom could slow down implementation of the far-reaching law| New York Times: |
Experts say AI kill-switch legislation is far harder to implement than lawmakers assume, warning a rogue AI could actively try to dismantle the mechanism itself — A bipartisan group in Congress and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California have floated ideas for building a mechanism that would instantly power down an A.I. system.
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| Owen Walker / Financial Times:NEW |
AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are putting pressure on office rents in Singapore as they embark on expansion in response to government overtures — Anthropic and OpenAI taking more space in city's already squeezed prime property market — AI heavyweights including Anthropic … | Owen Tucker-Smith / Wall Street Journal: |
Indeed: data center roles in the US offer a ~42% pay premium for hourly maintenance and installation workers compared with similar jobs at other businesses — Powering the nation's massive AI build-out requires lots of walking, checking for burning smells and monitoring for bird damage
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| Reuters: |
Chinese DRAM chipmaker CXMT says its new fifth-gen technology platform enters mass production and unveils two 24Gb LPDDR5X phone memory products built on it — Chinese DRAM chipmaker CXMT (688825.SS) said on Sunday its fifth-generation technology platform had entered mass production …
More: South China Morning Post and Finimize
| John Thornhill / Financial Times: |
An interview with Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton on the Raspberry Pi Foundation, his skepticism of AI evangelists, AI driving edge compute device demand, and more — The British tech leader on coding as the modern form of literacy, his scepticism of AI evangelists — and why ‘the p(doom) is probably Russia’
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| Ken Bensinger / New York Times: |
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law that will penalize influencers who do not properly disclose paid political content, with fines of up to $5K per post — Under a new law, creators could face fines of $5,000 per post if they don't disclose that they were paid to make political content.
More: TechCrunch, The Guardian, and Governor of California
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| Katie McQue / NPR: |
US policy analysts, lawmakers, and others say several state-level AI chatbot safety bills included language that could provide loopholes for tech companies — Cynthia Montoya's daughter, Juliana, was 13 when she began talking to AI chatbots. It was 2023, and the technology was only beginning to enter widespread use.| New York Times: |
Former DraftKings employees detail how it uses ML to target likely losers with promotions, while efforts to flag problem gamblers were shelved or squashed — About a year into his job as a data analyst at DraftKings, Jayden Butts received a new assignment.
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| Ann Cao / South China Morning Post: |
Alibaba's Damo Academy open sources RADAR, a medical vision-language model it says can read CT scans and identify ~150 abdominal conditions, including cancers — Tested on nearly 40,000 real-world exams, the model outperformed most radiologists, according to a new study published in Science
More: Alibaba DAMO Academy on GitHub, RuntimeWire, and Tech Times
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