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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Google quietly released an Android app called Google AI Edge Gallery on GitHub, letting users run some AI models from Hugging Face locally on their phones  —  Last week, Google quietly released an app that lets users run a range of openly available AI models from the AI dev platform Hugging Face on their phones.
Nicholas Carr / New Cartographies:
AI's real threat to education isn't that it encourages students to cheat, but that it short-circuits the learning processes needed to use generative AI adeptly  —  AI's real threat to education.  —  Among the general public, generative AI's most enthusiastic early adopters have been students.
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NPR:
Internal docs show Meta plans to use AI to automate up to 90% of its privacy and integrity risk assessments, including in sensitive areas like youth risk  —  For years, when Meta launched new features for Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, teams of reviewers evaluated possible risks: Could it violate users' privacy?
Amar Diwakar / Rest of World:
Dubai is emerging as a global hub for AI talent, attracting workers with its Golden Visa program, no taxes, attractive salaries, and ease of setting up business  —  Western job seekers see lucrative offers in the booming AI hub, while others deal with rejections and lower pay.
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Microsoft and the CWA reach a tentative contract agreement for ~300 ZeniMax QA workers after two years of talks, marking Microsoft's first US union contract  —  The agreement follows almost two years of negotiations and would represent Microsoft's first US union contract.
Pew Research Center:
Share of news influencers on Bluesky has doubled after the 2024 US election to 43%, but X remains popular, with 82% of news influencers maintaining an account  —  The Pew-Knight Initiative supports new research on how Americans absorb civic information, form beliefs and identities, and engage in their communities.
Christopher Grimes / Financial Times:
Art house streaming service and distributor Mubi raised $100M led by Sequoia at a $1B valuation; Mubi has about 20M registered users worldwide  —  Capital infusion led by Silicon Valley firm comes after box office success of ‘The Substance’  —  Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.
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Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
A Replit employee details a critical security flaw in web apps created using AI-powered app builder Lovable that exposes API keys and personal info of app users  —  THE SCOOP  —  Lovable, the popular vibe coding app that describes itself as the fastest-growing company in Europe …
Reuters:
Sources: Anthropic's annualized revenue hit ~$3B at the end of May, driven by business demand, up from $2B around the end of March and ~$1B in December 2024  —  Artificial intelligence developer Anthropic is making about $3 billion in annualized revenue, according to two sources familiar with the matter …
Bloomberg:
Docs and sources: Builder.ai faked business with Bengaluru-based VerSe, which runs the Dailyhunt news app, by “round-tripping” sales worth ~$60M from 2021-2024  —  Builder.ai, the artificial intelligence startup that recently announced plans to declare bankruptcy …
Vishal Singh / Silicon Canals:
London-based Dojo, a payments tech provider to over 140K businesses, raised $190M from Vitruvian Partners in its first equity raise since launching in 2021  —  London-based Dojo, a payments technology provider, has announced an investment of $190M (nearly €168.66M) from global investment firm Vitruvian Partners.

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

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Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
Sources: Anthropic has been lobbying Congress to oppose a bill banning states from regulating AI, and pushed against the recent US AI deal with Gulf states
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