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President Trump signs the One Big Beautiful Bill, which allows immediate deduction of US software labor; foreign R&D still must be amortized over 15 years — Today, the House passed the Senate's version of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA), marking a significant overhaul to federal tax policy.
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Daniel Gross leaves Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup he co-founded with Ilya Sutskever, to join Meta's new superintelligence lab and work on AI products — Daniel Gross, the former chief executive officer and co-founder of artificial intelligence startup Safe Superintelligence Inc. …
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Doc: UK's Independent Publishers Alliance files an antitrust complaint with EU and the UK CMA against Google, alleging misuse of web content for AI Overviews — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google has been hit by an EU antitrust complaint over its AI Overviews from a group of independent publishers …
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Sources: TSMC delays the construction of its second plant in Japan, initially slated for early 2025, to invest in US expansion ahead of potential Trump tariffs — Taiwanese semiconductor maker accelerates investment in Arizona — TOKYO—Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing is delaying construction …
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Sources: Samsung is delaying the completion of its Texas fab due to a lack of customers; the plant was meant to come online in 2024, but has been pushed to 2026 — SEOUL/TAIPEI — Samsung Electronics is delaying completion of a semiconductor factory in the U.S. state of Texas …
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The European Commission says it won't pause the rollout of its AI Act, after Alphabet, Meta, Mistral, ASML, and others urged the EU to delay the rules by years — The European Union's landmark rules on artificial intelligence will be implemented according to the timeline agreed by legislators … | Brian O'Donovan / RTÉ: |
Meta says it backs proposals for an EU-wide age of digital adulthood, below which minors would need parental consent to use social media, calling it “effective” — Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has said it supports proposals for a common digital majority age across EU member states.| Murad Hemmadi / The Logic: |
Sources: Nvidia's deal to buy CentML, which offers tools to optimize the running of AI models on chips, could exceed $400M; CentML raised a $27M seed in 2023 — TORONTO — Nvidia's deal to acquire Canadian AI startup CentML could exceed US$400 million in value, The Logic has learned. — Exclusive| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Sam Altman says he believes in “techno-capitalism” and is “politically homeless” as Democrats no longer encourage a “culture of innovation and entrepreneurship” — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X Friday, saying he finds himself “politically homeless” …
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UK minister instructs the Turing AI institute, which has lately focused on responsible AI and ethics, to prioritize national security and defense instead — Science and Technology Secretary Peter Kyle has written to the UK's national institute for artificial intelligence (AI) to tell its bosses to refocus on defence and security.| Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
FOIA docs: the Trump administration claimed broad authority to nullify laws in letters to tech firms releasing them of legal liability related to the TikTok ban — In purporting to license otherwise illegal conduct by tech firms, President Trump set a precedent expanding executive power, legal experts warned.
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
As companies like SpaceX, Stripe, and OpenAI stay private longer, tokenized stocks on blockchains offer a way for the public to access lucrative private markets — Also BlackRock and privates, Vanguard and privates, the Paramount settlement and Enron 2.0. — ‘Tokenization’
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Sources: Google plans to propose a price comparison box at the top of search results in the EU, featuring ranked options from competitors, to avoid DMA fines — Under the plan, a box at the top of Google's search results will show ranked options from price-comparison companies' websites …
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