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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
GitHub announces an AI coding agent for GitHub Copilot that can fix bugs, add features, improve docs, and more, and open-sources GitHub Copilot in VS Code — The AI coding agent will start working once a developer assigns it a task. … GitHub is launching an AI coding agent that can do things …
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LinkedIn: Dan Wahlin, Paige Lord, Ashley Willis, Harald Kirschner, and John Papa
Forums: Hacker News and r/GithubCopilot
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft open-sources the Windows Subsystem for Linux, launched in 2016, and makes it available on GitHub, except for a few Windows-specific components — Microsoft has open-sourced the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), making its source code available on GitHub, except for a few components that are part of Windows.
More: Windows Blog, The Verge, The New Stack, TechCrunch, BetaNews, Liliputing, OMG! Ubuntu, Neowin, and Windows Central
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Forums: Hacker News, r/linux, r/Windows11, and r/programming
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
More: Reuters, Semafor, Microsoft on YouTube, Semafor, TechSpot, Pocket-lint, Analytics India Magazine, Windows Central, and MobileSyrup
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
More: Microsoft, MobileSyrup, SiliconANGLE, and Beebom
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia unveils Isaac GR00T N1.5, an open, customizable AI model for humanoid reasoning and skills, and GR00T-Dreams, a tool for generating synthetic motion data — Nvidia said it is racing ahead with humanoid robotics technology, providing a custom foundation model for humanoid reasoning …
More: WebProNews and Nvidia Newsroom
| Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal: |
More: Nvidia Newsroom, Engadget, NVIDIA, Semafor, The Economic Times, Techstrong.ai, NVIDIA, NVIDIA, Nikkei Asia, NVIDIA, and NVIDIA
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| Bloomberg: |
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
Trump signs the Take It Down Act, criminalizing the distribution of nonconsensual intimate content and requiring platforms to promptly remove it when notified — The bill sailed through Congress with a focus on deepfakes and other nonconsensual intimate images.
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| Washington Post: |
Investigation: New Orleans police secretly scanned city streets with 200+ facial recognition cameras for two years, seemingly defying a 2022 city ordinance — Following records requests from The Post, officials paused the first known, widespread live facial recognition program used by police in the United States.
More: Ars Technica, The Register, Engadget, Biometric Update, and Common Dreams
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| Clare Duffy / CNN: |
The US House Budget Committee advances a budget bill that would ban US states from enforcing any law regulating AI for 10 years; the bill now goes to the House — New York CNN — — More than 100 organizations are raising alarms about a provision in the House's sweeping tax …
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| Pradeep Viswanathan / Neowin: |
Microsoft announces Microsoft Discovery, an agentic platform to accelerate scientific discovery and enterprise R&D efforts — At Build 2025, Microsoft announced a new enterprise agentic platform called Microsoft Discovery that will help enterprises and research labs accelerate research and discovery.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft adds Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini to its Azure AI Foundry service; sources: Satya Nadella had been pushing for Microsoft to host Grok — Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini are both coming to Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry service. … I reported in my Notepad newsletter earlier this month that Microsoft …
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
SAG-AFTRA files an NLRB unfair labor practice charge against Epic's Llama Productions for using AI to recreate James Earl Jones' Darth Vader voice in Fortnite — The actors union said Epic-owned Llama Productions “chose to replace the work of human performers with AI technology” …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft introduces Foundry Local, a service coming to Windows AI Foundry as well as macOS, to run AI models and tools on-device, using ONXX Runtime — Microsoft wants to make it easier for developers to build AI-powered apps on Windows devices. — On Monday during its Build 2025 conference …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
| Dean Seal / Wall Street Journal: |
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals says it will acquire 23andMe's assets, including its Personal Genome Service, for $256M, set to close in Q3, in the bankruptcy auction — Regeneron Pharmaceuticals said it will acquire substantially all of 23andMe's assets — Regeneron Pharmaceuticals …
More: 23andMe, Inc., 404 Media, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., TechCrunch, Ars Technica, The Verge, Information Age, Reuters, TheStreet, Bloomberg, The Information, New York Times, Reuters, Tech in Asia, CNBC, HIT Consultant, MedCity News, Business Insider, Pharmaceutical Technology, Al Jazeera, MarketWatch, The Record, Mashable, CyberInsider, New York Post, Benzinga, KTVU-TV, Futurism, Gizmodo, ZDNET, Entrepreneur, UPI, PCMag, Financial Times, and Axios
Forums: r/genetics and Ars OpenForum
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google releases the NotebookLM app for Android and iOS, allowing users to listen to Audio Overviews offline, interact with the AI hosts, add sources, and more — As previewed earlier this month, Google today released the NotebookLM app for Android and iOS ahead of I/O 2025.
More: The Keyword, MacStories, Android Authority, Ars Technica, Laptop Mag, Android Headlines, Android Central, Neowin, Tom's Guide, TechCrunch, SammyGuru, ZDNET, How-To Geek, and iPhone in Canada
X: @buccocapital and @code
Forums: r/GooglePixel and Slashdot
| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
The UK says hackers breached its Legal Aid Agency to steal a “significant amount of personal data” from people who received legal aid across England and Wales — Hackers have stolen a “significant amount of personal data” from people who received legal aid across England and Wales, the UK's Ministry of Justice said.
More: GOV.UK, BBC, The Guardian, Infosecurity, Associated Press, and BankInfoSecurity.com
| Luisa Beltran / Fortune: |
Sources: Circle recently engaged in informal talks to sell itself to Coinbase or Ripple, seeking at least $5B, the valuation it is targeting in a potential IPO — Brian Armstrong is cofounder and CEO of Coinbase — Circle Internet Financial, the issuer of the crypto stablecoin USDC … | Bloomberg: |
Source: the US DOJ has opened a probe into a recent data breach at Coinbase; Coinbase says it's working with the DOJ and other law enforcement agencies — Investigators, including those in the department's criminal division in Washington, are digging into the circumstances surrounding the breach …
More: Reuters, PYMNTS.com, Decrypt, Cryptopolitan, Watcher Guru, NewsBTC, and CryptoSlate
| Bloomberg: |
Huawei launches its first laptops running on HarmonyOS, including the 18-inch foldable MateBook Fold, and is working to make the OS compatible with 2,000+ apps — The company's HarmonyOS is now ready to run on the MateBook Fold, its latest foldable laptop, consumer chief Richard Yu said Monday.
More: Reuters, Ubergizmo, Trusted Reviews, Liliputing, and MacRumors
| Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg: |
GENIUS Act, a stablecoin bill, advances in the US Senate after a group of Democrats dropped their opposition, marking a major win for the crypto industry — Stablecoin legislation overcame a procedural blockade in the US Senate, marking a major victory for the crypto industry after a group of Democrats dropped their opposition Monday.
More: CoinDesk, NBC News, The Hill, KDFX-TV, HuffPost, Benzinga, Cointelegraph, Talking Points Memo, Unchained, and CryptoSlate
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
The California Public Utilities Commission approves Waymo's proposal to expand its services to more parts of the Bay Area, including “nearly all of San Jose” — Alphabet's Waymo unit has received approval to expand its autonomous ride-hailing service to more parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, including San Jose.
More: TechCrunch, Blockchain.News, Silicon Valley Business …, Mercury News, and KTVU-TV
| Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo: |
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