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Ireland's DPC launches a “large-scale inquiry” into X over Grok's creation and publication of “potentially harmful” sexualized images, the latest European probe — ‘Large-scale’ inquiry is latest sign of how regulators are scrutinising the group's Grok chatbot
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Sources: top VC firms in India like Khosla and Accel are set to commit investments from $300M to $500M each to India's AI ecosystem at the AI Impact Summit — Top venture capital firms in India are set to invest $300-500 million each into the country's AI ecosystem, covering infrastructure …
More: Bloomberg, Blackstone, Times of India, and Anthropic
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple debuts iOS 26.4 beta 1 for developers, adding limited support for encrypted RCS messages, enhancements to Apple Music, and a Smart List for Reminders — iOS 26.4 beta 1 is now available in beta for developers. The update includes a ton of new features and changes for iPhone users.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Valve says the Steam Deck OLED may be “intermittently” out of stock due to memory and storage shortages; it has been out of stock in the US for a few days — The PC gaming handheld has been out of stock in the US for a few days. … Valve has updated the Steam Deck OLED website … | Manus: |
Manus launches Manus Agents, allowing users to access Manus directly inside messaging apps, starting with Telegram and coming soon to other platforms — Today, we're introducing Manus Agents — a new way to access and use Manus directly inside your messaging apps. Telegram is the first supported channel.
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| Nicolas Bustamante / @nicbstme: |
How LLMs are dismantling the moats that made vertical SaaS defensible, and why the market selloff is structurally justified but temporally exaggerated — In the past few weeks, nearly $1 trillion was wiped from software and services stocks. FactSet dropped from a $20B peak to under $8B.
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| Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: |
Sources: SpaceX and xAI are competing in a $100M DoD contest to make voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarms; OpenAI is helping Applied Intuition's submission — Elon Musk's SpaceX and wholly owned subsidiary xAI are competing in a secretive new Pentagon contest to produce voice-controlled …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Cohere releases Tiny Aya, a family of 3.35B-parameter open-weight models supporting 70+ languages for offline use, trained on a single cluster of 64 H100 GPUs — Enterprise AI company Cohere launched a new family of multilingual models on the sidelines of the ongoing India AI Summit.| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The European Commission opens a full DSA investigation into Shein over sales of child-like sex dolls that “could constitute child sexual abuse material” — Shein risks hefty European Union penalties after regulators opened a full-scale probe into sales of child-like sex dolls on the Chinese e-commerce platform.| Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
Top AI researchers argue that AI is now more useful for mathematics thanks to the latest “reasoning” models, as math becomes a key way to test AI progress — OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic seek to use advanced maths to show how capable AI models really are
Bluesky: @cyrilpedia
| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
How locals in Potters Bar, a town near London, are challenging Equinix's $5B data center plans, as the UK reclassifies “green belt” land to boost construction — The residents of Potters Bar are working to protect the “green belt” of farms, forests, and meadows that surround London … | Michael O'Boyle / Bloomberg: |
Mexico-based online used car dealer Kavak raised $300M led by a16z, the first Latin American deal for a16z's Growth fund, after raising $700M in September 2021 — Mexico-based online used car dealer Kavak raised $300 million in an equity round led by Andreessen Horowitz, according to the startup's chief executive officer.| Caroline Hyde / Bloomberg: |
Josh Kushner's Thrive raised $10B, its 10th fund and the firm's largest ever; sources say Thrive distributed just 64% of all capital raised during the 2021 peak — The backer of OpenAI, Stripe, SpaceX and Skims says it's taking “ride-or-die” approach to investing.| Aaron Klotz / Tom's Hardware: |
Micron launches the first mass-produced PCIe 6.0 SSDs, with read speeds up to 28GB/s, double that of PCIe 5.0 SSDs, optimized for AI and data center deployments — Micron's new drive is so fast that it fully benefits from liquid cooling, but air cooling is still supported
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