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President Trump accuses Iran of using AI as a “disinformation weapon” to make fake images of wartime successes against the US, saying “AI can be very dangerous” — U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday accused Iran of using artificial intelligence as a “disinformation weapon” …
More: Forbes, NewsMax.com, BBC, and Mediaite
| New York Times: |
Study: most AI-generated videos on social media about the war in Iran push pro-Iranian views, often exaggerating its military capabilities and sophistication — A torrent of fake videos and images generated by artificial intelligence have overrun social networks during the first weeks of the war in Iran.
More: Cyabra, Digital Journal, and Cyabra
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Forums: r/ArtificialInteligence and r/Israel
| Helen Vogelsong-Donahue / Wired: |
The gaming industry is shaping up to be one of the AI boom's biggest casualties, from job losses to rising console prices due to the global RAM shortage — From the global RAM shortage driving up console prices to job loss in the industry, gaming is shaping up to be one of the AI boom's biggest casualties.| Jordyn Holman / New York Times: |
Q&A with Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana on accidents, why autonomous vehicles won't lead to job losses, plans to license Waymo tech to other companies, and more — Waymo's co-chief executive, Tekedra Mawakana, knows she needs to earn the public's trust. It won't be easy.
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| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
Recovered notes from a lobbyist's phone outline a $5M payment structure tied to Argentine President Milei and other top officials' promotion of the Libra token — Quick Take — A document recovered from a lobbyist's phone outlines a three-part, $5 million payment structure linked …
More: Blockonomi, Cointelegraph, Bitcoin News, and DL News
| Reuters: |
JD.com launches online marketplace Joybuy in the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, as it expands globally to challenge Amazon — Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com (9618.HK) on Monday launched its Joybuy online marketplace in the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands …
More: CNBC, Bloomberg, Tech in Asia, The Standard, JoyBuy, The Grocer, and The Independent
| Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: |
Micron completes the $1.8B acquisition of Powerchip's DRAM fab in Taiwan, and plans a second fab of similar scale with construction starting by the end of FY26 — U.S. memory chipmaker Micron Technology (MU.O) said on Monday it plans to build a second manufacturing facility in Taiwan …
More: DigiTimes and Micron Technology, Inc.
| Clinton Nwachukwu / Ventureburn: |
Standard Kernel, which is making AI-powered GPU optimization software, raised a $20M seed led by Jump Capital, with General Catalyst and others participating — Automating the AI Hardware Stack — Standard Kernel, a startup zeroing in on AI-driven GPU software optimisation, just pulled in $20 million in seed funding.
More: Standard Kernel Co.. X: @saayanath, @dylan522p, and @anneouyang
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Tether, flush with cash, has been investing in diverse sectors ranging from sleep tech company Eight Sleep to humanoid robotics company Neura Robotics — Beyond fintech and crypto startups, Tether has now backed a mattress-maker and a humanoid robotics specialist.| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google's and Accel's joint AI startup accelerator Atoms picked five Indian startups from 4K+ applications, saying ~70% of rejected applicants were AI “wrappers” — Many artificial intelligence startup ideas are still little more than superficial “wrappers” built on top of existing models.
More: The Economic Times
| Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: |
Scanner, which helps organizations build cloud-native security data lakes for threat hunting, detection, and response, raised a $22M Series A led by Sequoia — The company connects AI agents to security data lakes for interactive investigations, detection engineering, and autonomous response.
More: scanner.dev, Sequoia Capital, FinTech Global, and Ventureburn
| The Information: |
Sources: ByteDance suspended the global launch of Seedance 2.0 amid copyright disputes with Hollywood studios and streamers; it was launched in China last month — ByteDance has put on hold the global launch of its latest video-generation model, Seedance 2., due to a string of copyright disputes …
More: PYMNTS.com, Engadget, Reuters, TechCrunch, Tech Times, Digital Trends, PCMag, The Decoder, TechNode, Tech in Asia, Gizmodo, and MakeUseOf
| Eliza Triantafillou / OCCRP: |
Intellexa's founder says his firm sells surveillance tech exclusively to governments, reviving claims of state spying in Greece after being sentenced last month — The founder of the commercial spyware firm Intellexa, recently convicted in a landmark wiretapping trial … | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian edtech startup upGrad plans to acquire rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal; Unacademy was valued at less than $500M in 2025, down from $3.5B in 2021 — Unacademy, once a one of India's most valuable edtech startups, is set to be acquired by rival upGrad in an all-stock deal …
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