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| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
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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| 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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Bluesky: @devindra and @hunterwalk.com
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils the Maia 200, its 2nd-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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LinkedIn: Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft Azure, Arun Ulag, and Jessica Hawk
| Dan Whateley / Business Insider: |
TikTok US says it's working to restore services after a power outage at a data center and that any algorithm changes users noticed were likely due to the outage — - TikTok's algorithm was disrupted on Sunday as the company dealt with a data center outage. — Users reported seeing a flurry of old videos in their feeds.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
| 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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| 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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| 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.
More: PhoneArena and 9to5Mac
X: @geoffreyfowler, @mweinbach, and @erictopol
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| Barbara Moens / Financial Times: |
The EU opens a formal DSA investigation into xAI over Grok generating sexualized images of women and children; xAI faces fines of up to 6% of global revenue — European regulators begin investigation into creation and spread of sexualised images of women and children
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| 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.| 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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| Bloomberg: |
Nvidia invests $2B more in CoreWeave to speed up an effort to add 5GW+ of AI computing capacity by 2030 and deploy Nvidia's new Vera CPUs; CRWV closes up 5.7% — Nvidia Corp., the dominant maker of artificial intelligence chips, invested an additional $2 billion in CoreWeave Inc. to help speed …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
A group of YouTubers with a combined 6.2M subscribers adds Snap to a class action lawsuit, alleging the company trained its AI systems on their video content — A group of YouTubers suing tech giants for scraping their videos without permission to train AI models has now added Snap to their list of defendants.
More: Tech in Asia
| Qwen: |
Qwen releases Qwen3-Max-Thinking, its flagship reasoning model that it says demonstrates performance comparable to models such as GPT-5.2 Thinking and Opus 4.5 — · QwenTeam丨Translations:.体中文 — Introduction# — We present Qwen3-Max-Thinking, our latest flagship reasoning model.
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| Eliyahu Kamisher / Bloomberg: |
Billionaire Tom Steyer, who is running for California governor, says he'll vote for the one-time 5% tax on billionaire wealth if it reaches the November ballot — Billionaire Tom Steyer came out in favor of a proposed tax on California's wealthiest residents, adding a prominent voice … | Murad Hemmadi / The Logic: |
YC updated its website to remove Canada from its list of approved jurisdictions for incorporation, leaving the US, Cayman Islands, and Singapore as options — Silicon Valley's most famous accelerator now requires Canadian firms to incorporate in the U.S., Cayman Islands or Singapore in order for it to invest| 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 starting in H2 2028 — US company says new wafer fabrication facility to meet growing demand — U.S. memory chipmaker Micron Technology announced on Tuesday …
More: Bloomberg, DigiTimes, Reuters, The Straits Times, and The Business Times
| Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils a second-gen AirTag with an updated speaker and the same second-gen Ultra Wideband chip as in the iPhone 17, costing $29 for one and $99 for four — Apple has announced a brand new AirTag 2 that's available to order now, here are the details on the update.
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| Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal: |
Upwind Security, which filters out false security alerts in cloud apps to let security teams address actual risks, raised a $250M Series B at a ~$1.5B valuation — The startup aims to filter out a torrent of false alarms in cloud apps and workloads, enabling security teams to address actual risks
More: Upwind Security, SiliconANGLE, NFTgators, BankInfoSecurity.com, Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel, SecurityWeek, CRN, and CTech. LinkedIn: Katie
| Eudora Wang / DealStreetAsia: |
StepFun, a Chinese AI startup that develops LLMs and has partnered with automaker Geely and smartphone brands like Oppo and Honor, raised a ~$717M Series B+ — StepFun, a Chinese AI startup specialising in the development of large language models (LLMs), has raised over 5 billion yuan …
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X: @teortaxestex and @poezhao0605
| Wall Street Journal: |
The US Army signs a $5.6B, 10-year contract with Salesforce to speed up outdated practices; as part of the deal, military recruiters will get access to Slack — Recruiters will get access to Slack as part of a contract that reflects the Pentagon's drive to adopt commercial software tools| Jesse Coburn / ProPublica: |
Sources: the US DOT plans to use Gemini to draft federal regulations, cutting the process to just 30 days; the DOT used it to draft a still-unpublished FAA rule — The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations.
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X: @aaschapiro and @matthewstoller
Bluesky: @democracyforward.org, @liberalpatriot, @libankerdc, @tyleraking.com, @waldo.net, @hoonofthe.day, @patriotprogressive, @alicemiranda, @izzos.net, @propublica.org, @jessecoburn, and @jessecoburn. Threads: @carnage4life
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