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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube is rolling out age estimation tech in the US to identify teen users and serve more age-appropriate content, regardless of the birthday given at signup  —  YouTube on Tuesday announced it's beginning to roll out age-estimation technology in the U.S. to identify teen users in order to provide a more age-appropriate experience.
Renju Jose / Reuters:
Australia says it will include YouTube in its ban on social media for children under 16 years of age, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the platform
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple responds to the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit from March 2024, saying it sets “a dangerous precedent” and “threatens the very principles that set iPhone apart”  —  The US Department of Justice formally sued Apple in March 2024, accusing the company of having a “smartphone monopoly.”
Kylie Robison / Wired:
Source: Meta approached over a dozen people at Thinking Machines Lab and one offer was for $1B+ over a multiyear span; not a single person has left for Meta
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple loses its fourth AI researcher in a month to Meta's superintelligence team; the AFM team is in flux and Apple marginally increased AFM staff pay
Taylor Lorenz / User Mag:
Substack apologizes after sending a push alert encouraging some users to subscribe to NatSocToday, a Nazi newsletter advocating for a “White homeland”  —  The alert contained a swastika and prompted users to subscribe to newsletter featuring opinions and news important to the “white nationalist community.”
Reece Rogers / Wired:
OpenAI debuts a ChatGPT study mode, designed to guide students through learning material at their level, available to logged-in Free, Plus, Pro, and Team users  —  OpenAI's new study mode for ChatGPT throws questions back at students, but the learning feature doesn't address generative AI's underlying disruption of education.
Bloomberg:
Palo Alto Networks has agreed to buy CyberArk Software in a cash-and-stock deal valuing the Israeli cybersecurity company at about $25B  —  Palo Alto Networks Inc. agreed to buy CyberArk Software Ltd. in a cash-and-stock deal valuing the Israeli cybersecurity company at about $25 billion.
Alice Hancock / Financial Times:
Google says it will sign the EU's AI Code of Practice, in a boost to EU's efforts to regulate AI in the face of opposition from Meta and pressure from the US  —  Move set to boost efforts to regulate artificial intelligence in face of opposition from Meta and pressure from US
Ernesto Londoño / New York Times:
Gov. Tim Walz activates the Minnesota National Guard to help St. Paul address a cyberattack detected Friday that led the city to shut down many of its systems  —  Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota activated the National Guard to help the city of St. Paul address a cyberattack that was detected last Friday.
Elvira Pollina / Reuters:
Italy opens a probe into Meta, says it may have violated EU competition rules by integrating its Meta AI assistant into WhatsApp without user consent  —  Italy's antitrust authority said on Wednesday it had launched an investigation into Meta Platforms (META.O) over allegations the company abused …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
YouTube will now allow videos with strong profanity in the first seven seconds to be fully monetized, reversing previous restrictions that limited ad revenue  —  Videos that use the F-word in the first seven seconds are now eligible for full ad revenue.
André Beganski / Decrypt:
The US SEC approves in-kind creations and redemptions for crypto ETFs, allowing institutional investors to exchange ETF shares for the underlying BTC or ETH  —  The SEC has approved in-kind redemptions for crypto ETFs, enabling a feature sought by Bitcoin and Ethereum fund issuers.
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google rolls out new AI Mode features: Search Live with video input, Canvas for planning, image and PDF uploading, and AI Mode in Google Lens in desktop Chrome  —  After adding Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google is updating AI Mode with four big features across Search Live (video with Google Lens access), Canvas, and more.
Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Amazon is paying $20M to $25M a year to use NYT's editorial content in a multi-year deal for its AI platforms, which is ~1% of NYT's total 2024 revenue  —  The multiyear deal lets Amazon use content from the Times's news and cooking sections and the Athletic
Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the US Commerce Department is discussing charging patent holders 1%-5% of their patent value, a radical move likely to spark pushback from businesses  —  Commerce Department officials discuss new fee based on patent value, which could fuel backlash from businesses
Bloomberg:
A look at Russia's coordinated crackdown on foreign tech services and shift to state-backed alternatives, as it names VK's Max its national messaging app  —  A coordinated effort is underway to crack down on foreign tech services and build up domestic options controlled by the government.
Bloomberg:
A profile of Luke Farritor, a 23-year-old Thiel Fellow who gained recognition for using AI to help decipher the Herculaneum papyri and later joined DOGE  —  Luke Farritor could have been an artist, or a builder, or someone dedicated to seeing a great historical mystery through.
Financial Times:
Sources: Anthropic is nearing a deal to raise $5B in a funding round led by Iconiq at a $170B valuation, after being valued at $61.5B in a $3.5B round in March  —  Deal would almost triple valuation of OpenAI's rival to $170bn  —  Iconiq Capital is set to lead a $5bn funding round …
Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:
An interview with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and how his father's passing from an illness, four years before a breakthrough made it 95% curable, shaped his path
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
Ramp raised a $500M Series E-2 led by Iconiq Growth at a $22.5B valuation, says it has 40,000+ businesses as clients, with $700M in annualized revenue in March  —  Startup raises $500 million to further develop AI-based agents, CEO says  —  Ramp, a startup that uses artificial intelligence …
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Stephen Council / SFGATE:
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