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| Financial Times: |
China says the US spin-off of TikTok will use ByteDance's Chinese algorithm and the US-agreed framework includes “licensing the algorithm and other IP rights” — Security hawks have raised fears recommendation code could be manipulated to push propaganda
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| Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News: |
Sources: Oracle is among a consortium of companies that would enable TikTok to continue US operations if a framework deal between the US and China is finalized — Technology company Oracle is among a consortium of firms that would enable TikTok to continue operations in the U.S … | CNBC: |
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Forums: r/worldnews and Slashdot
| Megan Morrone / Axios: |
OpenAI says it is developing a “different ChatGPT experience” for teens and plans to use age-prediction tech to bar kids under 18 from the standard version — OpenAI is developing a “different ChatGPT experience” for teens and plans to use age-prediction technology …
More: OpenAI, Washington Post, Fox Business, Implicator.ai, and Futurism
| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
A now-removed unlisted video on Meta's YouTube channel shows Meta Ray-Ban glasses with a HUD visible to the right eye, used for Meta AI and on-foot navigation — Meta's HUD glasses with sEMG wristband will in fact be Ray-Ban branded, a leaked clip which also depicts the HUD and wristband in action reveals.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft adds automatic AI model selection to Visual Studio Code; it primarily favors Claude Sonnet 4 over GPT-5 or GPT-5 mini for paid GitHub Copilot users — Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5.
More: Visual Studio Code, Thurrott, Implicator.ai, Windows Report, and WinBuzzer. Bluesky: @tomwarren.co.uk
| Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET: |
Google launches the Agent Payments Protocol, or AP2, designed to securely facilitate agent-led payments across platforms, with the support of over 60 companies — ZDNET's key takeaways — Google announces Agent Payments Protocol (AP2). — AP2 helps companies carry out agent-led payments securely.
More: TechCrunch, Finextra, and Google Cloud Blog
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI debuts GPT‑5-Codex, a version of GPT‑5 optimized for agentic coding in Codex and says it spends its “thinking” time more dynamically than previous models — OpenAI announced Monday that it's releasing a new version of GPT-5 to its AI coding agent, Codex.
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LinkedIn: Derrick Choi and Alexander Embiricos
Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, r/programare, and r/ChatGPTPro
| Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: |
Google plans to invest £5B in the UK for AI, energy, R&D, and more over the next two years, expecting to add 8,000+ jobs a year at businesses across the country — The company said the investment would add more than 8,000 jobs a year at businesses across the U.K.
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| Reuters: |
Study: Grok, ChatGPT, Meta AI, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek can be easily used to create phishing emails targeting the elderly, despite being trained to refuse — Major AI chatbots were happy to help. — Reuters and a Harvard University researcher used top chatbots to plot a simulated phishing scam …
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Bluesky: @ljndawson, @jtlg, @mrsdeborahlynn, and @bradheath. Mastodon: @AAKL@infosec.exchange. Forums: r/neoliberal
| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
Filing: the Internet Archive settles with major music publishers in their copyright infringement lawsuit over its project to preserve early music recordings — A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit where music publishers sued the Internet Archive over the Great 78 Project … | Alicia Park / Forbes: |
A look at prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket; Kalshi has ~$1B in current monthly volume and processed $6.9B in total, including $6.4B since October 2024 — Kalshi co-founders, Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara — The savviest billionaire traders are placing their bets on budding prediction marketplaces.| Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: |
Filing: cloud cybersecurity software startup Netskope raised its IPO price range to $17-$19 per share, up from $15-$17, aiming to raise $908.2M, up from $812.6M — Netskope Inc. raised the price of its initial public offering, boosting the potential deal size to $908.2 million from $812.6 million …
More: The Information and Axios
| Yasmin Khorram / Politico: |
Tech executives say the Trump administration's stake in Intel and its intervention into other private businesses have had a chilling effect on decision-making — In one case, a tech executive turned down a dinner invitation to the White House earlier this month — and sent a deputy instead.| Nicholas G. Miller / Wall Street Journal: |
HR software provider Workday agrees to acquire Sana, an AI startup specializing in workplace tools, for $1.1B; the transaction is set to close in Workday's Q4 — the Sana acquisition also will deepen Workday's educational offerings — Workday is acquiring Sana, an AI company focused on workplace tools …
More: Reuters, CIO.com, Sifted, and Menlo Ventures
| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Apple Watch Series 11 review: 5G, better battery, and intuitive Sleep Score, but the most exciting updates are coming to older watches through watchOS 26 — No one is going to wax lyrical about the Apple Watch Series 11. Not because it's a bad smartwatch — it's a great smartwatch, actually.
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| Reuters: |
Disney, Universal, and WBD sue China's MiniMax, alleging that its image- and video-generating service Hailuo AI was built from stolen intellectual property — Walt Disney (DIS.N), Comcast's (CMCSA.O) Universal and Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.O) have jointly filed a copyright lawsuit …
More: Axios, Financial Times, and Bloomberg Law
| Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
Humanoid robot startup Figure raised a $1B+ Series C led by Parkway Venture Capital at a post-money valuation of $39B, up from $2.6B in February 2024 — Figure AI Inc., a company developing humanoid robots, has received more than $1 billion in committed capital in a financing round that values …
More: Reuters and Figure AI Inc.
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
OpenAI hires former xAI CFO Mike Liberatore as business finance officer, reporting to CFO Sarah Friar, to oversee infrastructure spend; he left xAI in July — OpenAI has hired Mike Liberatore, former finance chief at Elon Musk's xAI, to be the artificial intelligence startup's business finance officer … | Meytal Vaizberg / Globes: |
Israel-based Vega, which offers an AI-based security analytics platform, raised $65M in seed and Series A led by Accel at a $400M valuation — The company has developed AI-native security analytics and investigation across any stack, without forcing costly migrations or pipeline engineering.
More: Reuters, Business Insider, and SecurityWeek
| Reuters: |
Sources: Nvidia's China-only RTX 6000D receives lukewarm demand, with some seeing it as expensive given its performance lags the RTX 5090 — - RTX6000D not cost-effective; better card can be found on grey market, sources say — Tech firms awaiting clarity on H20 orders, potential B30A chip, sources say
More: Reuters, Network World, Tom's Hardware, TipRanks Financial, Watcher Guru, TheStreet, and Benzinga
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
macOS 26 Tahoe review: Liquid Glass has small regressions in usability and accessibility, but the upgrade has enough iterative changes, like automated Shortcuts — Liquid Glass brings translucent sheen to the typical batch of iterative changes. — The last time Apple gave macOS a fresh design was in 2020's macOS 11 Big Sur.
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| Zachary McAuliffe / CNET: |
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| José Adorno / BGR: |
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Chinese hardware maker Goertek tightened its grip on Meta's AI glasses supply chain, including making “Hypernova”, through a spate of dealmaking — Goertek takes stronger grip of US tech giant's supply chain, even as Zuckerberg aligns with Trump's anti-China stance
X: @mattocko and @byron_wan
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Invisible Technologies, a Scale AI rival that helped train ChatGPT, raised $100M, sources say at a $2B+ valuation, and reports $134M in 2024 sales — Vanara, a spinoff of TPG, led the latest funding round. — Add us on Google — Artificial intelligence startup Invisible Technologies …
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