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| CNBC: |
Netflix walks away from a deal to buy WBD's studio and streaming assets after WBD deemed Paramount's $31/share bid to be superior; NFLX jumps 8%+ after hours — Netflix is walking away from a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming assets after the WBD board on Thursday deemed …
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| Anthropic: |
Dario Amodei says Anthropic cannot “in good conscience” accede to DOD's request to remove safeguards and will work to ensure a smooth transition if offboarded — I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries.
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| Axios: |
Anthropic says new DOD “contract language” made “virtually no progress” on preventing Claude's use for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Thursday said there has been “virtually no progress” on negotiations with the Pentagon.
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| Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News: |
The Pentagon says it has offered compromises to Anthropic, including putting in writing that laws already bar the military from mass surveillance of Americans — Add CBS News on Google — As the U.S. military's partnership with artificial intelligence giant Anthropic teeters on the edge of collapse … | Brendan Bordelon / Politico: |
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Block says it is laying off 4,000+ of its 10,000+ employees, saying AI tools have changed “what it means to build and run a company”; XYZ jumps 23%+ after hours — Block said Thursday it's laying off more than 4,000 employees, or about half of its head count.
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| Reuters: |
Block reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $6.25B, gross profit up 24% to $2.87B, driven by a 33% surge in Cash App, and forecasts Q1 gross profit up 22% to $2.8B — Block (XYZ.N) on Thursday said it will cut over 4,000 jobs, nearly half its workforce, as part of an overhaul …
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| Naina Raisinghani / The Keyword: |
Google rolls out Nano Banana 2, aka Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, with faster image generation, advanced world knowledge, and precision text rendering and translation — Our latest image generation model offers advanced world knowledge, production-ready specs, subject consistency and more, all at Flash speed.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Security researchers detail AirSnitch, a series of attacks that bypass Wi-Fi client isolation, enabling machine-in-the-middle attacks in modern Wi-Fi networks — That guest network you set up for your neighbors may not be as secure as you think. — It's hard to overstate the role that Wi-Fi plays in virtually every facet of life.
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| The Information: |
Source: Meta has signed a multiyear deal to rent Google's TPUs to develop new models and has also been in talks to buy TPUs for its data centers as soon as 2027 — Meta Platforms has signed a deal to rent Google's AI chips, known as tensor processing units, to develop new AI models, according to a person involved in the talks.
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| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
Letter: 100+ Google DeepMind and other AI employees urge Jeff Dean to block US military deals that use Gemini for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons — More than 100 Google A.I. employees sent a letter to Jeff Dean, a chief scientist, opposing Gemini's use for U.S. surveillance and some autonomous weapons.| John Yoon / New York Times: |
South Korea approves Google's request to export detailed geographic data overseas, reversing a longstanding policy that made Google Maps largely nonfunctional — South Korea approved Google's request to export detailed map data, reversing a longstanding restriction that made the tool largely nonfunctional.
More: Reuters, Financial Times, Engadget, The Peninsula Newspaper, UPI, The Sun Malaysia, Bloomberg, ABC News, and Tech in Asia
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
French e-commerce marketplace ManoMano notifies its customers of a data breach affecting 38M; the company said the incident involved a third party subcontractor — DIY store chain ManoMano is notifying customers of a data breach that was caused by hackers compromising a third-party service provider.
More: Security Affairs and TechRadar
| Elizabeth Howcroft / Reuters: |
Tether says it has frozen $4.2B of its crypto token over links to “illicit activity”, including $3.5B since 2023 and $61M linked to pig-butchering scams — El Salvador-based stablecoin issuer Tether said it has frozen about $4.2 billion of its crypto tokens over links to … | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Plaid allowed employees to sell some of their shares at an $8B valuation, up 31% from the $6.1B valuation in April 2025 and 40% below its $13.4B peak in 2021 — Plaid, a company that connects financial applications to users' bank accounts, enabling payments and data verification …
More: FinTech Global, PYMNTS.com, and Bloomberg
| Bloomberg: |
Equinix and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board agree to acquire atNorth Holding, a pan-Nordic data center operator, valuing atNorth at $4B including debt — Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Equinix Inc. have agreed to acquire atNorth Holding AB, a pan-Nordic data center operator owned by Partners Group Holding AG.| Tamsin McMahon / Bloomberg: |
xAI co-founder Toby Pohlen is leaving the company, the seventh of 12 xAI co-founders to depart; Elon Musk put Pohlen in charge of Macrohard earlier this month — xAI co-founder Toby Pohlen said he is leaving Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup, the latest founding executive to depart …
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| Mickey Djuric / Politico: |
OpenAI says it will overhaul safety protocols and establish direct contact with Canadian police, after not alerting authorities about the Tumbler Ridge suspect — Following meetings with the governments of Canada and British Columbia this week, OpenAI says it is committed “to help prevent tragedies like this in the future.”
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| Bloomberg: |
The Japanese government plans to invest ~$1.6B in Rapidus over the next two fiscal years to help it mass-produce 2nm logic chips and potentially challenge TSMC — Japan's Rapidus Corp. secured investment totaling ¥267.6 billion ($1.7 billion) from the government and dozens …
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| Associated Press: |
Social media addiction trial: 20-year-old plaintiff KGM testifies her social media use, which began in childhood, exacerbated depression and suicidal thoughts — A young woman who is battling against social media giants took the stand Thursday to testify about her experience using the platforms …
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| Luke Barr / ABC News: |
CISA's interim director Madhu Gottumukkala is reassigned as DHS' director of strategic implementation; executive assistant director Nick Andersen will take over — The nominee to serve as CISA director has not yet received a hearing. — The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) …
More: Nextgov/FCW and Politico
| Matteo Wong / The Atlantic: |
Q&A with Terence Tao on AI-generated Erdős solutions, “cheap wins”, hybrid human AI contributions, push-of-a-button workflows, new ways of doing math, and more — Terence Tao, the legendary mathematician, explains the promise of generative AI.
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| Business Insider: |
Sources: two members of Thinking Machines Lab's founding team, Christian Gibson and Noah Shpak, left the startup and have been working at Meta for a few weeks — - Two founding team members left Thinking Machines Lab for Meta in recent weeks. — The exits add to a wave of departures from the high-profile $12 billion AI startup.| Kritika Lamba / Reuters: |
IDC: global smartphone shipments will fall 12.9% YoY to 1.12B units in 2026, the market's largest-ever decline, as surging memory prices drive up device costs — The global smartphone market is poised to suffer its biggest decline ever in 2026, sinking to a more than decade low in shipments …
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