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Khosla Ventures' Vinod Khosla and Ethan Choi disavow Keith Rabois' comments on an ICE shooting; Rabois said the man killed by agents was committing a “felony” — To understand the stance of an unwavering Trump loyalist after United States Custom and Enforcement shocked the nation …
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Bluesky: @davidwelton, @daniloc.xyz, and @carnage4life
Forums: r/OpenAI, r/politics, and r/technology
| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
Tim Cook attending a private White House screening of the documentary Melania hours after US agents killed a man suggests horrible judgment, or worse, cowardice — Tim Cook is captured. There is simply no other explanation for his actions over the past year or so.
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| Bloomberg: |
Chinese startup Moonshot releases Kimi K2.5, saying the model can process text, images, and videos simultaneously and beats its open-source peers in some tests — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.-backed Moonshot AI released an upgrade of its flagship model, heating up a domestic arms race ahead …
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Forums: r/LocalLLaMA and r/LocalLLaMA
| Kimi: |
Moonshot says Kimi K2.5 builds on K2 with “pretraining over ~15T mixed visual and text tokens” and “can self-direct an agent swarm with up to 100 sub-agents” — Today, we are introducing Kimi K2.5, the most powerful open-source model to date.
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Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta says it will test new paid subscriptions that give people access to exclusive features on its apps and plans to scale Manus as part of those offerings — Meta plans to test new subscriptions that give people access to exclusive features on it apps, the company told TechCrunch on Monday.
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| Tyler Katzenberger / Politico: |
California Governor Gavin Newsom says he will launch a review into whether TikTok is violating state laws by censoring content critical of President Trump — In a separate X post Monday, the governor's press account said Newsom was launching the review after his office “received reports …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
| Wired: |
Documents: a whistleblower details the Boshang scam compound in Laos that defrauded victims of ~$2.2M over 11 weeks and utilized a system of worker debt bondage — A whistleblower trapped inside a “pig butchering” scam compound gave WIRED a vast trove of its internal materials … | Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
A test of ChatGPT Health and Claude for Healthcare with data from Apple Health finds the chatbots provided questionable and inconsistent responses — ChatGPT now says it can answer personal questions about your health using data from your fitness tracker and medical records.
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| Axios: |
In a 38-page essay, Dario Amodei warns of civilization-level damage from superintelligent AI, questioning whether humanity has the maturity to handle such power — - Massive job loss: “I ... simultaneously think that AI will disrupt 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs over 1-5 years …
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Forums: r/slatestarcodex, r/claudexplorers, and r/singularity
| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
Anthropic rolls out a new extension to MCP to let users interact with apps directly inside the Claude chatbot, with support for Asana, Figma, Slack, and others — Anthropic's one step closer to having an everything app. … Anthropic's Claude got a bit livelier today thanks …
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| Chainalysis: |
Chinese-language crypto laundering networks processed ~$16.1B in 2025, or $44M per day on average across 1,799+ wallets, representing 20% of laundering activity — TL;DR — After emerging at the start of the pandemic, Chinese-language money laundering networks (CMLNs) …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
SEC filing: Pinterest plans to lay off less than 15% of its workforce by Q3 and cut back on office space, saying it is “reallocating resources” to AI teams — Pinterest said Tuesday it plans to lay off less than 15% of its workforce and cut back on office space as the company embraces artificial intelligence.| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Uber launches Uber AV Labs, a division to collect real-world driving data via sensor-equipped vehicles to train reinforcement learning models for its partners — Uber has more than 20 autonomous vehicle partners, and they all want one thing: data. So the company says it's …
More: Fox News
| Reuters: |
Micron plans to invest $24B over the next decade to build a 700,000-square-foot memory chip facility in Singapore, with wafer output set to start in H2 2028 — US company says new wafer fabrication facility to meet growing demand — U.S. memory chipmaker Micron Technology announced …
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| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
Corning says Meta committed to paying up to $6B through 2030 for fiber-optic cable in its AI data centers, and it plans to expand its Hickory, NC, factory — As Meta tries to rapidly construct massive data centers to keep pace with the artificial intelligence craze, it's turning to a 175-year-old glass manufacturer for help.| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Google agrees to pay $68M to settle a class action lawsuit claiming that Google Assistant inappropriately recorded private conversations on users' devices — Google agreed to pay $68 million to settle a lawsuit claiming that its voice-activated assistant spied inappropriately on smartphone users, violating their privacy.
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| Financial Times: |
A profile of White House AI adviser Sriram Krishnan, who wrote an EO against “Woke” AI, aims to “fight China”, and rallies executives around Trump's policies — White House adviser Sriram Krishnan has been instrumental to the US administration's light touch on AI| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils the Maia 200, its second-generation AI accelerator built on TSMC's 3nm process, deploying today in its Azure US Central data center region — The Maia 200 chip is starting to roll out to Microsoft's data centers today. … Microsoft is announcing a successor to its first in-house AI chip today, the Maia 200.
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Bluesky: @jamesaltonsanders.com and @tomwarren.co.uk
Forums: r/microsoft and r/hardware
| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
An interview with OpenAI for Science head Kevin Weil on the team's mission, why LLMs can't come up with game-changing discoveries yet, and more — In the three years since ChatGPT's explosive debut, OpenAI's technology has upended a remarkable range of everyday activities at home, at work … Sponsor Posts
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