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| Ben Berkowitz / Axios: |
White House says the $100K H-1B fee will not apply to renewals or existing H-1B holders re-entering the US, only to future applicants in the February lottery — A new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas goes into effect Sunday, but it will not be applied to existing holders of valid visas re-entering the country …
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
VCs and founders warn that the $100K fee will make H-1B sponsorship prohibitively expensive for startups, not Big Tech, and drive talent outside the US — Longtime entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are sounding the alarm over President Trump's new H-1B fee that would impact tech companies and the workers they hire from abroad.
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| Yun Li / CNBC: |
Memos: Amazon, which has the most H-1B staff at 14K+, Google, and Microsoft tell H-1B visa holders to return to the US before September 21 and avoid travel — Major technology companies and foreign governments are rushing to respond after President Donald Trump late Friday announced plans …
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| Ben Berkowitz / Axios: |
Karoline Leavitt confirms Oracle will handle TikTok's data and security, and says the US is “100% confident” a deal is done and it “just needs to be signed” — - Congress passed a ban last year with bipartisan support, but President Trump has repeatedly ordered …
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| Kasia Klimasinska / Bloomberg: |
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says Americans would hold six of the seven board seats for TikTok US and its algorithm would be US-controlled — The US operations of TikTok will be majority-owned and controlled by Americans under a deal reached this week to spin off the platform … | Emmett Lindner / New York Times: |
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| Reuters: |
Collins Aerospace, which provides check-in and boarding systems, confirms a “cyber-related disruption” as Heathrow and other European airports report issues — - London's Heathrow, airports in Berlin, Brussels affected by disruption — RTX experiencing ‘cyber-related disruption’ in airport software
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| Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: |
Chinese robotaxi operators WeRide and Pony AI are partnering with local companies like Grab to expand into Singapore, one of the world's best-mapped cities — Chinese robotaxi operators WeRide Inc. and Pony AI Inc. are partnering with local companies to expand in Singapore …
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Google Cloud says it now works with nine of the 10 leading AI labs, including OpenAI, and with 60% of the world's generative AI startups, fueling its growth — Google Cloud announced Thursday it has added fast-rising AI coding startups Lovable and Windsurf to its roster of customers.| Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Noah Urban, who was a key member of the Scattered Spider group because of his social engineering skills and is serving a 10-year prison sentence — Noah Urban's role in the notorious Scattered Spider gang was talking people into unwittingly giving criminals access to sensitive computer systems.| Rest of World: |
Some companies are turning to fossil fuels to power their data centers as countries around the world scramble to meet rising energy demands amid the AI boom — Mexico's lagging energy grid is forcing companies, including Microsoft, to use generators. — Behind a miles-long gray wall … | New York Times: |
In a 30-minute test, Meta Ray-Ban Display was as spotty as Zuckerberg's failed demos, with the wristband occasionally failing to register finger swipes — At Meta's software developers conference in Menlo Park., Calif., this week, Mark Zuckerberg strutted onto the stage to show off a new gadget …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, a critic of Trump and David Sacks' AI agenda, arguing its hands-off approach could steer AI down a dangerous path — A battle between Anthropic's Dario Amodei and the White House pits worries about safe development against a free-market approach| Robert Booth / The Guardian: |
Meta faces a backlash after using Instagram photos of teenage schoolgirls, posted by their parents with visible faces and names, to promote Threads to a man — Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says
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| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
Huawei says DeepSeek-R1-Safe, which was trained on 1,000 of its Ascend AI chips, is “nearly 100% successful” in preventing politically sensitive topics — - Model better prevent discussion of politically sensitive topics — Model trained using 1,000 of Huawei's own Ascend AI chipsSponsor Posts
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