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New York Times:
Sources: executives in Meta's AI division discussed “de-investing” in Llama and also discussed using models from competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic  —  Unhappy with his company's artificial intelligence efforts, Meta's C.E.O. is on a spending spree as he reconsiders his strategy …
Alex Heath / The Verge:
At an all-hands, Andrew Bosworth says Sam Altman is not happy about Meta getting OpenAI talent and is “being dishonest” about Meta offering $100M bonuses  —  A Meta exec calls Sam Altman “dishonest,” my conversation with the startup CEO who is suing OpenAI, and AI is coming for games.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
SCOTUS upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law  —  The Supreme Court has upheld a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older.
Miranda Bryant / The Guardian:
Denmark plans to clamp down on AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to give its citizens rights to their own body, facial features, and voice  —  Amendment to law will strengthen protection against digital imitations of people's identities, government says
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google launches Doppl, an experimental AI app to let users virtually try on outfits by generating videos from photos, available on iOS and Android in the US  —  Google is launching a new experimental app called Doppl that uses AI to visualize how different outfits might look on you, the company announced on Thursday.
Reuters:
Germany's DPC says DeepSeek's app illegally transfers user data to China and asks Apple and Google to block it from their app stores in the country  —  Germany has taken steps towards blocking Chinese AI startup DeepSeek from the Apple (AAPL.O) and Google (GOOGL.O) app stores due to concerns …
David Uzondu / Neowin:
Google fully releases Gemma 3n, an open weights, multimodal AI model that can run on as little as 2GB of memory; the model was previously available as a preview  —  Google has announced Gemma 3n, the next generation of its open AI models, and it is a significant step up from what we saw before.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
OpenAI hires the team behind Crossing Minds, which raised $13.5M and works with e-commerce companies to improve their personalization and recommendation systems  —  Crossing Minds, a startup that provides AI recommendation systems to e-commerce businesses, said on Thursday that its team is joining OpenAI.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Q&A with Peter Thiel on economic and technological stagnation, US growth and dynamism, supporting President Trump in 2016, the future and risks of AI, and more  —  The original tech right power player on A.I., Mars and immortality.  — 1.7k … Ross Douthat: Is Silicon Valley recklessly ambitious?
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
SCOTUS upholds a broadband subsidy program for low-income users, schools, and others, rejecting claims that its funding mechanism is unconstitutional  —  The Supreme Court rejected claims that the way the Universal Service Fund is implemented is unconstitutional.
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple overhauls EU App Store to comply with DMA: developers can push offers and alt payments, and the Core Technology Fee will be swapped for tiered commission  —  Apple has announced several major changes to its App Store guidelines in the European Union as part of its ongoing efforts to comply with the Digital Markets Act.
Sam Apple / Wired:
At a “couples retreat” for human-AI pairs, users of services like Replika and Nomi grapple with the virtual reality and emotional limits of their partners  —  I found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb.  We barely survived.
Ian Allison / CoinDesk:
Kraken launches Krak, a payments app that lets users send funds P2P across 110 countries using 300+ assets, including crypto, stablecoins, and fiat currencies  —  The Krak app allows users to instantly transact across borders for almost no cost, while earning competitive rewards on their account balances.
Callan Quinn / Decrypt:
Kraken secures a MiCA license from the Central Bank of Ireland to offer crypto services across the EU, following Coinbase's approval in Luxembourg last week

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Will Sommer / @willsommer:
The Blaze retracts its article accusing a former Capitol Police officer of being the January 6 pipe bomber after the FBI arrested a different person

Tyler Falk / Current:
CPB announces $4.4M in grants to support rural radio and TV news services in Wisconsin, Ohio, Arkansas, Kansas, West Virginia, Tennessee, Michigan, and Iowa

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Yahoo launches Game Breakdowns in beta, offering AI-generated game summaries, stats, and play recaps, all updated live, to Yahoo Fantasy Plus subscribers

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M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
A look at The Browser Company's AI-first browser Dia, which merges AI models and hides that complexity for end users, pointing to the future of web browsing
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Swift, a coding language developed by Apple, is working to add Android support; Android apps are generally coded in Kotlin
The Information:
Sources: Instagram and TikTok are working on versions of their apps customized to run on TV screens, following YouTube's success in attracting a TV audience
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Sources: Uber is in talks with Travis Kalanick to help fund his acquisition of Pony.ai's US arm; Pony.ai has permits to operate robo taxis in the US and China
Bloomberg:
Sources: Senate Parliamentarian raised concerns that the tax bill's ban on states from enforcing AI regulations may violate Senate rules, advising a rewrite
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
YouTube launches an AI Overviews-like carousel for searches related to shopping, places, and things to do in a specific place, for Premium users in the US
Bloomberg:
Marc Benioff says “AI is doing 30% to 50% of the work at Salesforce”, like software engineering and customer service, and its AI product has hit ~93% accuracy
Megan Morrone / Axios:
Anthropic releases preliminary results showing users who discuss emotional issues with Claude tend to grow more positive as conversations progress
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