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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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X: @lukolejnik and @dpcireland
| 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 … | 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.| Urvi Dugar / Reuters: |
Indian conglomerate Adani Group announces plans to invest $100B to build renewable energy-powered AI-ready data centers across India by 2035 — Adani Enterprises (ADEL.NS) said on Tuesday that the group will invest $100 billion to build renewable energy-powered AI-ready data centres by 2035 …
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LinkedIn: Rishi Basu and Anthropic
| 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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| 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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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.
More: Silicon Republic, The Hans India, SiliconANGLE, The Decoder, Blockchain.News, and Neowin
| Macarena Munoz Montijano / Bloomberg: |
Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez says he asked the country's prosecutor office to investigate X, TikTok, and Meta over the alleged “creation and dissemination” of CSAM — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said he is using special public-interest powers to ask the country's prosecutor office … | 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.
More: Shelly Palmer and Cohere
| 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
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google's Android XR design docs and developer tools hint at the XR glasses' details, including mandatory physical buttons and “Glimmer” UI design language — Android XR glasses are coming in 2026. Here's what you can expect from the user interface and experience.
More: Livemint, Android Authority, SamMobile, and SammyGuru
| 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 …
More: The Tech Buzz. X: @bardofely and @susieta32510601. LinkedIn: Joel Khalili. Bluesky: @jensen.technology
| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Crypto VC firm Dragonfly closes a $650M fund, its fourth, as the crypto VCs go through a “mass extinction event”; Dragonfly backed Polymarket's Series B — When Rob Hadick signed the paperwork to join Dragonfly Capital in April 2022, he rented a house in the Hamptons.
More: The Block, Coinpedia Fintech News, and Crypto Briefing
| Olivier Acuna / CoinDesk: |
Filing: Gemini says its COO, CFO, and chief legal officer are leaving; Cameron Winklevoss will take on many of the COO's duties; GEMI falls 10%+ — What to know: … Gemini Space Station Inc. (GEMI) is parting ways with three top executives, including its chief operating officer (COO) … | Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
London-based Fyld, which makes AI tools to assist infrastructure and utility fieldwork operators, raised a $41M Series B led by Energy Impact Partners — FYLD Ltd., a London-based artificial intelligence-powered startup that assists infrastructure and utility fieldwork operators … | Assaf Gilead / Globes: |
Palo Alto Networks agrees to acquire Israeli endpoint security company Koi Security, sources say for ~$400M; Koi raised $48M across two rounds, per PitchBook — Koi has developed a software engine that uses large language models and AI agents to detect malware and vulnerabilities in applications.
More: Help Net Security, CRN, and CTech
| Sam Tobin / Reuters: |
Qualcomm says UK consumer association Which? is withdrawing its chip royalties lawsuit that sought £480M for 29M iPhone and Samsung users, after a CAT trial — Chipmaker Qualcomm (QCOM.O) said on Tuesday a London lawsuit alleging it had abused its dominant position to force Apple …
More: Brick Court Chambers, Economic news, and MacTech.com
| Rei Nakafuji / Nikkei Asia: |
Sony says it has developed tech to identify copyrighted music in AI-generated songs, aiming to help rights holders receive compensation if their music was used — Japanese company seeks to help copyright holders receive share of revenue — Sony Group operates major music labels under its umbrella.| David Keohane / Financial Times: |
UK activist investor Palliser says Toto, Japan's largest toilet maker, is an “undervalued and overlooked” AI play due to its “advanced ceramics” used in chips — Toto should make more of its sideline in the chip supply chain, Palliser urgesSponsor Posts
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