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Sarah Kessler / New York Times:
A surge in AI-generated résumés is overwhelming employers, who are turning to AI screening and video interviewing tools to assess responses and rank candidates  —  Candidates are frustrated.  Employers are overwhelmed.  The problem?  An untenable pile of applications …
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Andy Konwinski, a co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity AI, launches the nonprofit Laude Institute, self-funded with $100M for grants to AI projects and labs  —  Databricks Inc. co-founder and Apache Spark creator Andy Konwinski this week announced the creation of a new artificial intelligence …
Business Insider:
Scale AI used Google Docs to track work for customers like Google, Meta, and xAI, and left confidential AI training documents accessible to anyone with the link  —  - Scale AI routinely uses public Google Docs for work with Google, Meta, and xAI.  — BI reviewed thousands of files …
Olivia Sophie Rafferty / ai fray:
A US judge rules Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train AI was fair use, but its storage of pirated books in a central library for training LLMs was not  —  Context: Last August, book authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson filed a copyright infringement class action …
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Microsoft makes Windows 10's extended security updates free for an extra year for users who sync PC settings via a Microsoft Account and the Windows Backup app  —  Windows 10 users will have the option to continue receiving security updates for free beyond October 2025 …
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
CareerBuilder + Monster, which once dominated the online recruitment industry, files for Chapter 11 and agrees to sell its job board operations to JobGet  —  CareerBuilder + Monster, which once dominated the online recruitment industry, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday and said it plans to sell its businesses.
Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal:
OpenRouter, which directs prompts to LLMs based on factors like cost and speed, raised $40M across a seed and Series A; source: the startup is valued at ~$500M  —  The startup, now valued at about $500 million, directs artificial-intelligence prompts to various large language models based on cost, speed and other factors
Reuters:
New Zealand-based Xero, which offers accounting software for small businesses, agrees to acquire payments software company Melio in a $2.5B+ cash-and-stock deal  —  New Zealand accounting software giant Xero agreed to buy New York payments provider Melio for $2.5 billion, the companies said on Wednesday …
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Analysis: of 750 data brokers registered in at least one US state, many failed to register in other states with transparency laws, undermining consumer privacy  —  Written in collaboration with Privacy Rights Clearinghouse  —  Hundreds of data brokers have not registered with state consumer protection agencies.
RT Watson / The Block:
Chainlink and Mastercard announce a partnership to enable card users to buy crypto “directly onchain through a secure fiat-to-crypto conversion”  —  - Chainlink and Mastercard have partnered to enable card users to buy crypto “directly onchain through a secure fiat-to-crypto conversion.”
Wired:
Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old who has gone by “Big Balls” online and was one of the first technologists hired as part of DOGE, has resigned  —  The technologist Edward Coristine, a key operative in Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency who's gone by the name …
Sana Pashankar / Bloomberg:
Satellite company Maxar launches Sentry, an AI service that autonomously guides satellites to monitor cities, ports, and other sites for unusual activity  —  In the days after President Donald Trump announced the US had “completely and totally obliterated” nuclear sites in Iran …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple sparks a backlash from iPhone owners after pushing a notification from the Apple Wallet app that promoted a Fandango deal for Apple's F1 movie  —  Apple customers aren't thrilled they're getting an ad from the Apple Wallet app promoting the tech giant's Original Film, “F1 the Movie.”
Arabelle Sicardi / The Verge:
How AI is reshaping the perfume industry, as fragrance tech startup Osmo promises 48-hour sample turnarounds and incumbents like DSM-Firmenich embrace the tech  —  AI is rapidly changing how fragrance is created — and who gets credit.  Some say it's innovation.  Others call it erasure.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Chrome for Android is rolling out a feature that lets users move the address bar to the bottom of the screen, after it launched for iOS users in 2023  —  It's the correct place for the bar.  —  Google is starting to roll out a feature for Chrome on Android that lets users move the address bar to the bottom of the screen.

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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
The European Commission grants conditional approval for Paramount's WBD acquisition as long as Paramount ends its EU distribution deal with Universal Pictures

Josh Gerstein / Politico:
A US judge rules that Trump must turn over detailed financial information of 400+ companies owned by a family trust in his defamation suit against the BBC

Dan Shanoff / The Athletic:
Nielsen: the 2026 World Cup final drew 38.9M viewers on Fox and 22M+ on Telemundo; taken together, the US audience size rivaled that of NFL playoff games

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LastWeekTonight on YouTube:
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight looks at AI slop, how it corrodes the concept of objective reality, the slop economy, tech leaders' enthusiasm for gen AI, more
Pranav Dixit / Business Insider:
WhatsApp has become a kind of AI marketplace where chatbots like ChatGPT, Meta AI, and Perplexity jockey for users' attention

Earlier Picks

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Roblox says it is on track to pay out $1B to creators in 2025, as it revamps its rewards program to encourage creators to bring more players onto the platform
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
AI dictation startup Wispr Flow raised a $30M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, after its 2024 pivot away from a hardware device, taking its total funding to $56M
The Information:
Sources: in 2024, OpenAI considered document collaboration features but lacked the staff to create them, but has since built some unreleased collaboration tools
Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica:
Google releases a new Gemini Robotics On-Device model with an SDK and says the vision language action model can adapt to new tasks in 50 to 100 demonstrations
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Amazon says it plans to bring same-day or next-day delivery to “tens of millions” of people who live “in more than 4,000” smaller US towns by the end of 2026
Jez Corden / Windows Central:
Microsoft and Meta unveil the $399 Meta Quest 3S Xbox Edition, a bundle with the $299 Meta Quest 3S in a new color, available in “extremely limited” quantities
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google rolls out historical Street View imagery on Google Earth as the service turns 20, and says pro US users can access AI insights, like tree canopy coverage
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