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Bloomberg:
The White House unveils the AI Action Plan, seeking to assert US dominance over China, including proposals to ease permitting for AI infrastructure projects  —  The Trump administration called for boosting artificial intelligence development in the US by loosening regulations and expanding energy supply …
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
President Trump's AI Action Plan, which has 90+ policy recommendations, explicitly seeks to roll back Biden-era measures on AI bias and cybersecurity threats  —  The Trump administration's new AI policy blueprint calls for limited regulation and lots of leeway for Big Tech to grow even bigger.
Muvija M / Reuters:
The UK CMA proposes giving Apple and Google “strategic market status” in mobile platforms after an investigation and finds “opportunities for more innovation”  —  Britain's competition regulator said it plans to designate Apple (AAPL.O) and Google (GOOGL.O) …
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:
Apple launches AppleCare One, an insurance plan covering up to three devices for $20 per month, including battery replacements, accidental damage, and more  —  Apple Inc. is launching a new product-insurance plan that bundles coverage for as many as three devices, part of a broader effort to drum up subscription revenue.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
YouTube gives Shorts creators access to new generative AI features powered by Veo 2, including an image-to-video tool and new effects  —  YouTube announced on Wednesday that it's giving Shorts creators access to new generative AI features, including an image-to-video AI tool and new AI effects.
Clare Duffy / CNN:
In an interview at the Federal Reserve, Sam Altman warns of an impending “fraud crisis” because of how AI could enable bad actors to impersonate other people  —  New York CNN —  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world may be on the precipice of a “fraud crisis” …
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
A hacker claims to have compromised Amazon's Q coding assistant for VS Code via a GitHub pull request; Amazon says “no customer resources were impacted”  —  A hacker compromised a version of Amazon's popular AI coding assistant ‘Q’, added commands that told the software to wipe users' computers …
Ari Natter / Bloomberg:
Source: the US National Nuclear Security Administration was among those breached by a hack of SharePoint; no sensitive information is known to be compromised
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft says it “has observed two named Chinese nation-state actors, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon exploiting” the SharePoint zero-day vulnerabilities
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Uber plans to launch a pilot ride type to match female riders and drivers in LA, San Francisco, and Detroit over the next few weeks, called “Women Drivers”  —  Uber Technologies Inc. is piloting a new ride type in the US that will match female riders and drivers …
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Ukraine arrests the suspected administrator of Russian-speaking hacking forum XSS.is at the Paris public prosecutor's request, with help from France and Europol  —  The suspected administrator of the Russian-speaking hacking forum XSS.is was arrested by the Ukrainian authorities yesterday …
Zach Vallese / CNBC:
Meta introduces new safety features for teens, including enhanced DM protections, and removed 600K+ Instagram and Facebook accounts linked to predatory behavior  —  Meta on Wednesday introduced new safety features for teen users, including enhanced direct messaging protections to prevent “exploitative content.”
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
PayPal unveils PayPal World, a platform set to launch in fall 2025 to simplify cross-border payments via Venmo, India's UPI, Tencent's Tenpay, and Mercado Pago  —  PayPal announced Wednesday it has partnered with global wallet companies to create a platform called PayPal World that is designed to make cross-border commerce easier.
Anthropic:
Anthropic and other researchers detail “subliminal learning”, where LLMs learn traits from model-generated data that is semantically unrelated to those traits  —  We study subliminal learning, a surprising phenomenon where language models learn traits from model-generated data that is semantically unrelated to those traits.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Proton launches Lumo, an AI chatbot to summarize documents, generate code, and more and says it will protect users' information via “zero-access” encryption  —  Proton says it protects Lumo's chats with ‘zero-access’ encryption while storing them on users' devices.
Chris Welch / Bloomberg:
Sonos names interim CEO Tom Conrad as CEO, effective immediately, as it works to restore confidence after its app disaster; Conrad took the job in January 2025  —  Sonos Inc. named interim leader Tom Conrad as its next chief executive officer, expressing confidence in the turnaround effort he's pursuing at the embattled audio brand.
Qwen:
Alibaba debuts the Qwen3-Coder model for agentic coding, including a 480B-parameter MoE variant, and open sources Qwen Code, a CLI tool adapted from Gemini CLI
Google DeepMind:
Google DeepMind unveils Aeneas, an AI model for contextualizing ancient Latin inscriptions, to help historians interpret and restore fragmentary texts  —  Introducing the first model for contextualizing ancient inscriptions, designed to help historians better interpret, attribute and restore fragmentary texts.

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CBS News:
A US federal judge allows the Pentagon to fire three Stars and Stripes journalists, ruling the government likely did not violate their First Amendment rights

Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
SCOTUS rules via an emergency order that political parties are entitled to the same low-cost TV ad rates as candidates, giving an advantage to Republicans

New York Times:
Sources: the Pentagon has subjected roughly 50 military officers and civilian employees on the Joint Staff to polygraph tests over leaks to journalists

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Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
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Mistral AI:
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Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac:
Apple's new iOS 26 beta 4 adds more “liquid” back to Liquid Glass design, after dialing it back in beta 3 following social media criticism
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
The UK plans to ban public sector and key infrastructure organizations from paying ransoms to ransomware gangs and require others to notify the UK if they pay
Pew Research Center:
A survey of 900 US Google users: of ~69K searches, 18% gave AI Overviews; of those, users clicked a link 8% of the time, compared to 15% with no AI summary
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