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Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
The UK Online Safety Act's approach to keeping children safe online has become a rallying point for the right in the UK and the US over alleged censorship  —  Farage accuses government of being ‘so below the belt’ as right wing doubles down on censorship claims  —  The UK's Online Safety Act has been greatly anticipated.
Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
How the AI data center building boom could cause a financial crisis akin to 2008, including the rising use of short-term debt financing via private credit funds  —  This time let's think about a financial crisis before it happens.  —  The U.S. economic data for the last few months is looking decidedly meh.
Paul Kedrosky:
As a percentage of US GDP, AI datacenter capex has passed peak telecom spending during the dot-com bubble and is likely ~20% of the peak spending on railroads
Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge:
Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 review: a unique $3,300 laptop with a rollable 120Hz OLED display that can grow from 14" to 16.7", but it is heavy and expensive  —  Part of me still can't believe it, but Lenovo did the thing: it took a bonkers concept for a laptop with a rollable screen and built …
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Lu Wang / Bloomberg:
A study finds that AI trading bots can collude and fix prices in simulated markets without explicit instruction, posing challenges to regulators  —  It's a regulator's nightmare: Hedge funds unleash AI bots on stock and bond exchanges — but they don't just compete, they collude.
Natallie Rocha / New York Times:
How 20-something CEOs like Cognition AI's Scott Wu, Cursor's Michael Truell, Cluely's Roy Lee, and Scale AI's Alexandr Wang are swarming San Francisco's AI boom  —  Some dropped out of M.I.T., Georgetown and Stanford.  Others decided not to go to college.  They all say they could not afford …
Sheera Frenkel / New York Times:
Google, OpenAI, Meta, and VCs are increasingly embracing the US military industrial complex, a major Silicon Valley cultural shift supported by President Trump  —  In a major shift, Google, OpenAI, Meta and venture capitalists — many of whom had once forsworn involvement in war — have embraced the military industrial complex.
Monique Mulima / Bloomberg:
Bullish, a digital asset exchange and CoinDesk owner, plans to sell 20.3M shares at $28 to $31 in a US IPO, raising up to $629.3M at an up to $4.2B valuation  —  Bullish, a digital-asset exchange operator and owner of media outlet CoinDesk, is looking to raise as much as $629.3 million in its US initial public offering.
More: Reuters
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
A profile of Figma CEO Dylan Field, a former Thiel fellow whose Figma stake is worth ~$6.6B after the company ended its NYSE debut week with a $71B+ market cap  —  Mark Zuckerberg may be the most famous college-dropout-turned-tech- billionaire.  Dylan Field is the latest …
George Osborne / Financial Times:
Former UK Chancellor and Coinbase Advisory Council member George Osborne says the UK missed the first crypto wave and risks missing the stablecoin-driven second  —  If we were the world's only financial centre we could take our time to evaluate stablecoins — but we are not

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Seb Joseph / Digiday:
A look at Baller League, a six-a-side indoor soccer league of creator-managed teams streaming free on YouTube and Twitch and averaging 4M+ views on match day

Rebecca Davis O'Brien / New York Times:
Sources: the US EEOC is poised to sue the NYT over a white male employee's allegation that he was denied a sought-after promotion because of his race and gender

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Clément Delangue / VentureBeat:
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple formed an Answers, Knowledge, and Information team for creating ChatGPT-like search experiences; an iPhone 17 Pro may have been seen in the wild
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