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Dominic Chopping / Wall Street Journal:
The UK government underwrites a £1.5B loan to Jaguar Land Rover as the carmaker reels from a cyberattack that has crippled its production for around a month  —  The loan is to support the company's cash reserves and help it pay suppliers  —  The U.K. government has stepped …
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
DeepMind says video models like Veo 3 could become general purpose foundation models for vision, like LLMs for text, using zero-shot “chain-of-frames” reasoning  —  LLMs took the ability to predict the next token and turned it into general purpose foundation models for all manner …
More: Google DeepMind.  LinkedIn: Saurin Patel and Topi Manu.  Bluesky: @simonwillison.net
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/singularity
Bloomberg:
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the US aims to get “maybe 50% market share” of chip and wafer production to offset Beijing's threats to invade Taiwan  —  Washington is demanding Taiwan move investment and chip production to the US so half of American demand is manufactured locally …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple's internal chatbot deserves a public release; sources say Apple nears production of M5 MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, and two monitors for Q4 2025 or Q1 2026  —  Apple should release its internal ChatGPT-like app publicly to give its revamped AI system more credibility.
Jason Nelson / Decrypt:
Caltech says it built the world's largest neutral-atom quantum computer, with 6,100 qubits, 13 second coherence, 10x longer than previously, and 99.98% accuracy  —  Caltech physicists have created the largest neutral-atom quantum computer to date, trapping 6,100 cesium atoms as qubits in a single array.
Yuan Gao / Bloomberg:
Sources: Huawei aims to produce ~600K of its marquee 910C Ascend chips in 2026, roughly double 2025's level, and raise its Ascend lineup output to 1.6M dies  —  Huawei Technologies Co. is preparing to sharply ramp up production of its most advanced artificial intelligence chips over the next year …
More: Guru3D
Financial Times:
Google DeepMind, Meta, Nvidia, and others are racing to release world models, aiming to navigate the physical world by learning from videos and robotic data  —  Google DeepMind, Meta and Nvidia are developing systems that aim to better understand the physical world
Yuan Gao / Bloomberg:
Singapore-based Neptune Robotics, which makes robots to clean the underside of giant ships, raised $52M and aims to use AI to help clean ~150 ships per month  —  Neptune Robotics, which makes robots that clean the underside of giant ships, raised $52 million to accelerate its artificial intelligence-fueled global expansion.
Devi Shastri / Associated Press:
Several US states have passed bills to ban or restrict AI mental health treatment, as experts say state laws lag behind the fast-moving AI therapy landscape  —  In the absence of stronger federal regulation, some states have begun regulating apps that offer AI “therapy” …
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
London-based Paid, which helps AI agent providers monetize and track costs, raised a $21.6M seed led by Lightspeed, a source says at a $100M+ valuation  —  Manny Medina, previously best-known as the founder of sales automation startup Outreach ($4.4 billion valuation), has wowed investors with his young startup, Paid.

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New York Times:
Memos: Will Lewis has stepped down as WaPo publisher and CEO; former Tumblr CEO Jeff D'Onofrio, who joined WaPo last June as CFO, is acting publisher and CEO

C.J. Robinson / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the FOIA system, as right-wing media networks flood it with robo-requests, the number of FOIA agents stays flat, and states opt for higher fees

Reuters:
A Hong Kong court sentences the 78-year-old Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison over national security charges, ending a five-year legal saga

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Jeff Kauflin / Forbes:
A profile of digital micro-lender Tala, which has $340M in annualized revenue but remains unprofitable 11 years in, as it plans to double its lending in 2027

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Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
A look at AI-powered “nudify” tools, which make it fast and easy to make nonconsensual, deepfake porn, and the limited legal options available to their victims
More: CNBC.  X: @jonathanvanian and @sal19
LinkedIn: Slavko Kovačević, CNBC, Michael Glenmullen, and Ari Levy.  Bluesky: @mantzarlis.com.  Forums: r/technology
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