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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.

More: Meta Newsroom, The Verge, Engadget, CNN, BBC, Proactive, Yahoo Finance, UPI, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, CBS News, and CNBC. X: @metanewsroom

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

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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X: @caro_milanesi, @leakerapple, @vadimyuryev, @mgsiegler, and @rjeytech

Forums: r/apple, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums

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 …

More: Apple, Thurrott, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Standard, The Mac Observer, The Verge, iThinkDifferent, iClarified, Cult of Mac, and AppleInsider

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.

More: SAG-AFTRA, Polygon, TechRaptor, Eurogamer.net, PocketGamer.biz, PC Gamer, Variety, Engadget, NBC News, and Deadline. Bluesky: @sagaftra.org

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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 …

More: Benzinga, South China Morning Post, CNBC, Cryptopolitan, and Blockchain.News. Forums: r/China

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.

More: Gemini, Blockworks, Gemini, crypto.news, BeInCrypto, and CoinDesk

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.

More: Futurism and implicator.ai. Bluesky: @prietschka

Bloomberg:

Sources: Meta has poached Jack Rae, a principal researcher at Google DeepMind, for its “superintelligence” team, and an ML lead from AI voice startup Sesame AI

More: TechCrunch, Hindustan Times, Tech in Asia, AIwire, Insider Monkey, PYMNTS.com, and TechSpot

X: @raddiaccount, @tsgiles, @shiringhaffary, and @dylan522p. LinkedIn: Saanya Ojha

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

More: TollBit. Bluesky: @jacklynch000

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Justine Calma / The Verge:

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.

More: New York Times, VentureBeat, and The Keyword

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.

More: Lighthouse Reports and Lighthouse Reports

Bluesky: @wavesblog, @niallfirth, @jtemple, and @eileenguo. Forums: r/Amsterdam

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.

More: 9to5Google, TalkAndroid.com, AzerNews, MakeUseOf, Ubergizmo, Chrome Unboxed, Droid Life, CyberInsider, Android Police, TechSpot, and The Keyword

Forums: r/Android and Ars OpenForum

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.

More: TechCrunch, TechRadar, and Futurism

Bluesky: @bartona104 and @jasonkoebler. Mastodon: @andybaio@xoxo.zone

Forums: r/technology and Slashdot

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 “F1 the 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

More: The Sun, Benzinga, Latest from Short list, The Mac Observer, iClarified, MacRumors, On my Om, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and MacDailyNews

X: @impatrickt, @variety, @vincenzolandino, @simsgazette, @om, @om, @maxwinebach, @parkerortolani, and @dylanbyers

Forums: r/MediaMergers, r/boxoffice, r/apple, r/tvPlus, and MacRumors Forums

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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 …

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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.

More: Taylor Wessing, BusinessCloud, and UKTN

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Jordan Novet / CNBC:

Databricks says it expects to generate $3.7B in annualized revenue by July, up 50% YoY; in Q1, it had nearly 50 of its 15,000+ customers spending $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%.

More: Investor's Business Daily, Databricks, Tech in Asia, and Bloomberg

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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 …

More: Proactive, SiliconANGLE, Verdict, Tech.eu, WinBuzzer, InsideHPC, The Quantum Insider, EU-Startups, and HPCwire

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

More: The Information, Rolling Stone, Bitcoin Insider, Coinmonks, Coinpedia Fintech News, and Tech in Asia. Bluesky: @tonytassell

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.

More: FinSMEs and Lightspeed Venture Partners

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.

More: SiliconANGLE

Pedro Nakamura / Rest of World:

How an AI assistant developed by Brazilian nonprofit NoHarm is helping pharmacists in remote Amazon clinics process prescriptions more quickly and catch errors — At overburdened clinics, pharmacists use AI to catch dangerous errors. It's frontier tech meets frontier medicine — with global implications.

Bluesky: @restofworld.org

Ricardo Brito / Reuters:

Brazil's Supreme Court rules that social media companies are accountable for some types of user 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 …

More: Bloomberg, Associated Press, and Tech in Asia. Forums: Hacker News

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 …

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 …

More: Gizmodo, Ars Technica, PCMag, Fortune, Tom's Guide, Thurrott, The Streamable, TechSpot, Tech in Asia, MakeUseOf, iPhone in Canada, Engadget, Digital Trends, BGR, TVLine, TVNewsCheck, Cord Cutters News, The A.V. Club, and Deadline

Threads: @trevorcroker. X: @markstenberg3, @markstenberg3, and @tvgrimreaper. LinkedIn: Mark Stenberg

Forums: r/roFrugal, r/cordcutters, r/BuyCanadian, r/AmazonPrimeVideo, r/technology, r/movies, and r/television

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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:

Amazon's Ad Video Generator, a free tool for creating GenAI ads to depict items as they would be used in the real world, is now available for sellers in the US

More: The Ankler, Amazon Ads, Social Media Today, Android Police, MobileSyrup, ZDNET, and Semafor

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