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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Google says it is behind the viral “nano-banana” image model and launches it as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image with finer edit controls in the Gemini app, API, and more — Google is upgrading its Gemini chatbot with a new AI image model that gives users finer control over editing photos …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
The US taking a 10% equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea and a dangerous turn in US industrial policy, but also the least bad option to make Foundry viable — The U.S. taking an equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea; it also happens to be the least bad idea to make Intel Foundry viable.| Chris Eudaily / CNBC: |
Filing: Intel warns the US taking a 10% stake could cause “adverse reactions”, like in international sales, which made up 76% of revenue in its past fiscal year — Intel on Monday warned of “adverse reactions” from investors, employees and others to the Trump administration taking …
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Stanford researchers: over the past three years, employment has dropped 13% for entry-level workers just starting out in fields that are the most exposed to AI — Artificial intelligence is making it harder for entry-level workers in the US to find jobs in fields like software development …
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| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
Trump Media and Crypto.com sign a deal to integrate Crypto.com's wallet and adopt the CRO token for Truth Social's rewards; Trump Media will buy $105M in CRO — Trump Media and Technology Group (DJT) said it agreed to form a joint venture with Crypto.com that will invest in the exchange's CRO token …
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| Bloomberg: |
AT&T agrees to buy spectrum licenses from EchoStar for ~$23B in cash, adding ~50MHz of spectrum, expected to close by mid-2026, pending regulatory approval — EchoStar Corp. has agreed to sell spectrum licenses to AT&T Inc. for about $23 billion in a deal that will help the company stay …
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| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
Court filing: Tesla rejected a $60M settlement offer in a lawsuit over a fatal 2019 crash of a Model S with Autopilot, before a jury awarded a $243M verdict — Billionaire Elon Musk's electric vehicle company Tesla (TSLA.O) rejected a $60 million settlement proposal in a lawsuit …
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Sources: Apple executives have discussed acquiring Mistral AI and Perplexity, with Eddy Cue as the most vocal champion within the company for such AI deals — This summer, investment bankers came knocking on Apple's door with a pitch: Was the iPhone maker interested in doing a major acquisition … | Bloomberg: |
Sources and docs: Microsoft worked with the FBI to track anti-Israel protests, flagged internal emails with words like “Gaza”, deleted posts, and fired staff — Twenty activists urging company to sever ties with Israeli military were arrested last week.
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| Miranda Devine / New York Post: |
Melania Trump says she hopes to become the “First Lady of Technology” as she leads the Presidential AI Challenge to inspire children and teachers to embrace AI — In an exclusive statement to the New York Post, first lady Melania Trump has revealed her next official project …
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| Humeyra Pamuk / Reuters: |
Sources: the Trump administration is considering imposing sanctions on EU or member state officials that implement the DSA, after US tech company complaints — President Donald Trump's administration is considering imposing sanctions on European Union or member state officials responsible …
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Bluesky: @jameskanter, @noupside, @johnnyryan, @noahbarkin, @anca-b, @davidheniguk, @noaasm, and @jorgeliboreiro. Mastodon: @[email protected]. Truth Social: @realDonaldTrump …
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| Financial Times: |
Japanese media groups Nikkei and Asahi Shimbun jointly sue Perplexity in Tokyo, alleging the AI startup “copied and stored” their articles without permission — The publishers say the company illegally ‘copied and stored article content’ — Two of Japan's largest media groups …
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| Nicholas Nehamas / New York Times: |
SSA's chief data officer files a whistleblower complaint that DOGE uploaded a database with every Social Security number ever issued to an insecure cloud server — DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/politics, and r/news
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Spotify launches a DM feature that lets users share audio and send text chats, available to mobile users aged 16 years and older in “select markets” this week — Both Free and Premium accounts can share audio content and send messages to each other.
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