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| Michael Goodier / The Guardian: |
A survey of UK academic integrity violations finds nearly 7,000 proven AI cheating cases in 2023-24, or 5.1 per 1,000 students, up from 1.6 per 1,000 in 2022-23 — Guardian investigation finds almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating - and experts says these are tip of the iceberg| Anthropic: |
Anthropic details how it built its multi-agent Claude Research system, claiming significant improvements in internal evaluations over single-agent systems — Our Research feature uses multiple Claude agents to explore complex topics more effectively. We share the engineering challenges …
More: Simon Willison's Weblog, Constellation Research, and implicator.ai
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
TikTok rolls out new AI ad features, including the ability for marketers to use text or images to create AI-generated video, as part of its Symphony ad suite — TikTok is rolling out a set of new artificial intelligence-powered advertising features, including the ability for marketers …
More: The Hans India, The Verge, TikTok For Business, Adweek, and TikTok
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's upgrades to CarPlay, iPadOS, and visionOS, why they were the underappreciated highlights of WWDC, and thoughts on the Liquid Glass redesign — Apple's unveiling of iOS 26 and the Liquid Glass interface was the most discussed part of its developers conference …
More: TechRadar, iJustine on YouTube, Benzinga, Tailosive Tech on YouTube, Digital Trends, Brandon Butch on YouTube, Tech Times, zollotech on YouTube, The Mac Observer, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iClarified, MobileSyrup, AppleInsider, PhoneArena, and Blockchain.News
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In March, New York added a checkbox to its WARN system for companies to show if “technological innovation or automation”, like AI, was a reason for mass layoffs — Form fitting — New York state has quietly become the first in the nation to ask companies to disclose … | Financial Times: |
BT Group CEO Allison Kirkby says AI could deepen job cuts at the telco, whose plan to cut over 40,000 jobs by 2030 “did not reflect the full potential of AI” — Allison Kirkby said advances in artificial intelligence could deepen significant job cuts under way at BT …
More: Reuters, The Times, Cautious Optimism, Business Insider, The Guardian, Cryptopolitan, and Bloomberg
| Timothy B. Lee / Understanding AI: |
Researchers find Llama 3.1 recalls large parts of popular copyrighted books, possibly weakening AI industry claims that such memorization is fringe behavior — New research could have big implications for copyright lawsuits against generative AI. — In recent years, numerous plaintiffs … | Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: |
Berlin-based Knowunity, an AI-powered learning platform with 20M+ users in 15 countries, raised a €27M Series B led by XAnge, bringing its total funding to €45M — Knowunity is a global AI learning companion that combines personalised AI and student-created content to make studying easier, more engaging, and effective.| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
New York state passes a bill mandating safety and transparency requirements for frontier AI models; the bill now awaits Governor Kathy Hochul's signature — New York state lawmakers passed a bill on Thursday that aims to prevent frontier AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic …
More: AM New York, The Economic Times, Coinmonks, Cryptopolitan, StrictlyVC, NYSenate.gov, and Maginative
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Forums: r/Futurology, r/newyork, r/technology, r/law, r/politics, and r/artificial
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Aspora, which makes financial tools like remittance services for the Indian diaspora, raised a $50M Series B co-led by Sequoia and Greylock at a $500M valuation — India has been one of the top recipients of remittances in the world for more than a decade.| Martin Young / Cointelegraph: |
The US SEC rescinds 14 rules the agency proposed under the Biden Administration, including two relating to DeFi and digital asset custody — The SEC has withdrawn over a dozen rules the agency proposed under Joe Biden, including two crypto-related rules targeting DeFi and digital asset custody.
More: CryptoSlate, Coinpedia Fintech News, Inside Bitcoins, Cryptopolitan, crypto.news, and Barron's Online
X: @iampaulgrewal and @khurramdara
| Meridith McGraw / Wall Street Journal: |
America250, the nonprofit organizing the US Semiquincentennial celebration, says it received sponsorship commitments from Oracle, Amazon, Coinbase, and Palantir — Twenty two corporations and foundations are sponsoring the 250th Army Birthday Parade and Festival on the National Mall, according to the Army.| Ainslie Chandler / Bloomberg: |
Amazon plans to invest ~$13B in Australia from 2025 to 2029 to develop its data center infrastructure, as demand for cloud computing and AI grows in the country — The investment, in the Sydney and Melbourne data centers, is the biggest ever in Australia by a global technology company, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.
More: Forbes, DatacenterDynamics, Benzinga, Verdict, Blockchain.News, SmartCompany, PV Tech, About Amazon, Cyber Daily, Cryptopolitan, and Reuters. Forums: r/aws
| Milana Vinn / Reuters: |
Dealogic: tech deals accounted for $421B of the $1.67T in global deals announced in the first five months of 2025, with 75% of tech M&A involving AI software — Weighed down by tariffs and geopolitical uncertainty, dealmaking has slowed to a crawl across most industries except one: the unglamorous world of data infrastructure.
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