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Eric Geller / Cybersecurity Dive:
President Trump signs an EO scrapping or revising several Biden- and Obama-era cybersecurity programs, including for AI security and post-quantum cryptography  —  The White House accused the Biden administration of trying to “sneak problematic and distracting issues into cybersecurity policy.”
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
AI research nonprofit EleutherAI releases the Common Pile v0.1, an 8TB dataset of licensed and open-domain text for AI models that it says is one of the largest  —  EleutherAI, an AI research organization, has released what it claims is one of the largest collections of licensed and open-domain text for training AI models.
Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Sources: before installing Starlink at the White House in February, DOGE ignored security concerns that the service bypasses traditional WH security controls  —  Starlink satellite connections in the White House bypass controls meant to stop leaks and hacking.
Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Panos Panay, head of devices and services at Amazon, who has scaled back new releases to focus on perfecting products like Alexa+ before rollout  —  Panos Panay needs the more advanced Alexa+ assistant to be a hit.  For 10 years, the product has struggled to evolve.
Financial Times:
Microsoft plans to add a “safety” category to its AI leaderboard on Azure Foundry, with a safety metric based on its ToxiGen and CAIS's WMD Proxy benchmarks  —  Tech group's corporate clients use its ‘leaderboard’ to assess rival offerings by likes of OpenAI and Elon Musk's xAI
Rest of World:
New apps are helping immigrants navigate Trump's deportation crackdown, including by alerting users to locations of ICE raids and informing them of their rights  —  With tightening immigration policies and rising fears of deportation, new apps provide migrants with resources to stay prepared and connected.

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From Mediagazer

Wall Street Journal:
President Trump was evacuated from the White House Correspondents' Dinner after loud sounds were heard in the hotel; a shooting suspect has been apprehended

Aidan McLaughlin / Vanity Fair:
A look at Tony Dokoupil's tenure, with tumbling ratings and his kid-glove questioning of the powerful, as he became the face of the Weiss revolution at CBS News

Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Sources: AG Todd Blanche, WHCA President Weijia Jiang, CBS News President Tom Cibrowski, and Bari Weiss attended Paramount's dinner at the US Institute of Peace

More News

Bloomberg:
An Indian government official says Starlink has secured a license from the telecom ministry to launch services in the country and now must apply for spectrum

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Jason Shubnell / The Block:
Eric Trump says the TRUMP memecoin team and Magic Eden have canceled the $TRUMP Wallet; Trump's World Liberty Financial reportedly sent them a cease-and-desist
Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg:
Milan Kovac, Tesla's head of engineering for Optimus, is leaving; source: Ashok Elluswamy, who leads Autopilot teams, will take over the humanoid robot program
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google rolls out “scheduled actions” in the Gemini app, allowing AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers to ask the AI assistant to perform tasks at specific times
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