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| Bloomberg: |
A US jury finds Elon Musk intentionally misled Twitter shareholders by disparaging the company in 2022 to buy it for a lower price than his original $44B bid — Elon Musk defrauded Twitter Inc. investors when he disparaged the company in 2022 in an effort to buy the social media platform …
More: New York Times, Associated Press, The Independent, CNBC, Courthouse News Service, and Le Monde
| Politico: |
The White House releases an AI policy framework, explicitly calling on Congress to preempt state AI laws, create age-gating requirements for AI models, and more — The framework explicitly calls on Congress to preempt any state laws that regulate the way models are developed or that penalize companies …
More: The White House, CIO.com, Reuters, The Hill, TechCrunch, Engadget, Associated Press, Gizmodo, ZDNET, Decrypt, UPI, Fox News, Axios, Cointelegraph, New York Times, NBC News, Don't Worry About the Vase, Bloomberg Law, Washington Post, FedScoop, The Information, CNN, Techstrong.ai, and Taxpayers Protection Alliance
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LinkedIn: Trenton Thornock, Michael Kennedy, Jordan Crenshaw, Dan Wolf, Michael Kratsios, Brandon Butler, Gabby Miller, Lee Tiedrich, and Avani D.. Bluesky: @gtjr. Mastodon: @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
| Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
Sources: Amazon's ZeroOne unit is developing “Transformer”, a phone that syncs with Alexa; it would be Amazon's second smartphone, after the Fire Phone in 2014 — In 2014, Amazon (AMZN.O) introduced its first smartphone, hoping to take on Apple and Samsung.
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Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Ed Bott / ZDNET: |
Microsoft acknowledges complaints about Windows 11, promising a reduction of “unnecessary” Copilot integrations, more control over updates, and more — ZDNET's key takeaways — Microsoft finally acknowledged complaints about Windows 11. — The company is promising sweeping changes to a slew of features.
More: Windows Blog, The Verge, PCMag, Ars Technica, How-To Geek, Engadget, The Verge, XDA Developers, Thurrott, VideoCardz.com, The Verge, PCWorld, PCWorld, The Verge, Pureinfotech, Digital Trends, Neowin, Windows Latest, and MakeUseOf
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google is running a “small” experiment replacing news headlines in search results with AI-generated ones, after adding the feature in Google Discover in January — We're seeing Verge headlines rewritten by Google AI. … Since roughly the turn of the millennium, Google Search has been the bedrock of the web.
More: Digital Trends, Simon Owens's Media Newsletter, GovTech, The A.V. Club, and Search Engine Land
Bluesky: @miasato, @seanokane, @reckless, @seanhollister, @justinhendrix, @seamoosi, @bobbyallyn, @quinnypig.com, and @juxtacognition
Mastodon: @grigs@front-end.social, @munin@infosec.exchange, @mhoye@cosocial.ca, and @stefan@stefanbohacek.online. Forums: r/technology
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
US prosecutors charge three people affiliated with Super Micro, including co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw, with smuggling Nvidia AI chips to China; SMCI drops 30%+ — The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York has charged associates of an unidentified U.S. server maker …
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LinkedIn: Jon Stevens and Matthew Kimball
Bluesky: @edzitron.com and @jordannovet.cnbc.com
Forums: r/StockMarket, r/technology, r/news, r/Taiwanese, r/espionage, r/hardware, r/AMD_Stock, and r/SMCIDiscussion
| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
OpenAI plans “an autonomous AI research intern” by September and says its “North Star” is to build a fully automated multi-agent research system by 2028 — EXECUTIVE SUMMARY — OpenAI is refocusing its research efforts and throwing its resources into a new grand challenge.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
WordPress.com says it will now allow AI agents to draft, edit, and publish content on customers' websites, as well as manage comments, update metadata, and more — Web hosting platform WordPress.com is embracing AI agents, a decision that could change the look and feel of the web.
More: The Next Web, WordPress.com News, and Cyber Security News
Bluesky: @jtlg and @caseynewton
Mastodon: @lauren@mastodon … and @js@podcastindex.social
| Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: |
Anthropic launches Claude Code channels, which let users interact with a Claude Code session through Telegram and Discord — Anthropic released Claude Code Channels, a research-preview feature that lets developers send messages to a running Claude Code session from Telegram and Discord.
More: Claude, VentureBeat, XDA Developers, GitHub, MacStories, and India Today
X: @trq212, @cryptopunk7213, @clairevo, @alexfinn, @petergyang, @trq212, @lennysan, @zeneca, @cgtwts, @emollick, and @seconds_0. LinkedIn: Mike Potter
| Bill Ready / Time: |
Pinterest CEO Bill Ready calls on governments to ban social media for users under 16, says social platforms gave “insufficient forethought” about consequences — When Pinterest removed social features for teens and made every account under 16 private—meaning no discoverability …
More: TechCrunch, Engadget, Mashable, Reuters, and The Independent
LinkedIn: Ryan Fujiu, Cailin Crockett, Allison McConeghy, and Bill Ready
| @kimi_moonshot: |
Moonshot says Kimi K2.5 provides “the foundation” for Cursor's Composer 2 model and that Cursor accesses Kimi K2.5 via Fireworks AI — Congrats to the @cursor_ai team on the launch of Composer 2! We are proud to see Kimi-k2.5 provide the foundation. Seeing our model integrated effectively through Cursor's continued pretraining & high-compute RL training is the open model ecosystem we love to support.
| Arthur Mensch / Financial Times: |
Mistral's CEO proposes a revenue-based levy for AI model providers in the EU, to be invested “in new content creation and supporting Europe's cultural sectors” — A revenue-based charge would protect the livelihoods of copyright holders and bring legal certainty
| DeepDelver: |
A new anonymous Substack alleges AI compliance startup Delve “faked” compliance for startups by generating pre-populated audit reports and fabricating evidence — How Delve managed to falsely convince hundreds of customers they were compliant and then lied about it when exposed and called out
More: Delve. X: @eringriffith, @bryanonel86, @tekbog, @kobyjconrad, @ohryansbelt, @jessicatshen, @mil0theminer, @tenobrus, @ivanburazin, @bryanonel86, @decadimitry, @anammostarac, @attributeshift, @mil0theminer, @brettfromdj, @bengold, @vasuman, @mil0theminer, @quinnypig, @barrald, @bfaviero, @denehyxxl, @johnloeber, @awwstn, @tenobrus, @anothercohen, @tekbog, @stkenned, @peer_rich, @0xluffy, @ahmetb, @jadecole2112, @zetalyrae, @vcbrags, @isareksopuro, @jackbr513, @busdownbonnor, @feifanz, @scottastevenson, @kscottz, @megannyvold, @pk_iv, @jessfraz, @javipark_, @boringbiz_, @shobhitic, @bonegpt, @zackkorman, and @heretorule77
LinkedIn: Jan Langrehr and Mike Kim
Bluesky: @regimecpa, @alisonbuki, and @moll.dev
Forums: Hacker News and r/soc2
| Anniek Bao / CNBC: |
Jensen Huang proposes a compensation model where engineers receive an AI token budget on top of their base salary, to deploy agents as productivity multipliers — The perks of working in Silicon Valley have long included high salaries. Now, some engineers may be offered a new incentive: artificial intelligence tokens.
More: Business Insider, PYMNTS.com, and Digit
X: @aravsrinivas, @gergelyorosz, @gergelyorosz, @edandersen, @levie, @rahll, @dharmeshba, @neogoose_btw, @gergelyorosz, @kylegawley, and @tftc21. Bluesky: @lorak
Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A US DOJ operation disrupted four botnets that infected 3M+ devices and includes the Aisuru and Kimwolf botnets used in a 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack in November 2025 — The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets had used clever techniques to worm into home networks, infecting …
More: US Department of Justice, The Register, Krebs on Security, LinkedIn, Help Net Security, Security Affairs, PCMag, InfoRiskToday.com, CyberScoop, HotHardware, CyberInsider, The Record, Solomon on Cybersecurity, TechRadar, Android Headlines, and Metacurity
X: @zephyr_z9, @zephyr_z9, and @mattjay
LinkedIn: Kenneth A. DeChellis, David Bradbury, Brian Krebs, and Jérôme Meyer
| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
A judge issues an order requiring Kalshi to temporarily halt sports and election contracts in Nevada, the first US state to force Kalshi to cease operations — A judge ordered Kalshi to immediately halt sports and election contracts in the state, intensifying a growing regulatory battle over prediction markets.
More: TechCrunch, Decrypt, Gizmodo, CoinDesk, The Block, Front Office Sports, Bloomberg Law, Reuters, Bitcoin News, and Las Vegas Review-Journal
Bluesky: @moreperfectunion and @joshsternberg.com
Forums: r/BetterOffline, r/Fauxmoi, r/Nevada, and r/politics
| Reuters: |
Sources: contract electronics manufacturer Zetwerk plans to file for an IPO in India, aiming to raise ~$550M at a ~$4B valuation; it was valued at $3.1B in 2024 — India's Zetwerk is preparing to confidentially file draft papers for an initial public offering within the next one to two weeks …
More: Inc42
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Xiaomi unveils its MiMo-V2 AI models, including the 1T-parameter MiMo-V2-Pro, codenamed Hunter Alpha, which Xiaomi says benchmarks close to GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.6 — Led by Fuli Luo, a veteran of the disruptive DeepSeek R1 project, the release represents what Luo characterizes as a “quiet ambush” on the global frontier.
More: Xiaomi MiMo, Explore and Love, Xiaomi MiMo, Explore and Love, and Xiaomi MiMo, Explore and Love
X: @_luofuli, @artificialanlys, @xiaomimimo, @xiaomimimo, @yishan, @kilocode, @youjiacheng, @jenzhuscott, @opencode, @teortaxestex, @artificialanlys, @artificialanlys, @genai_is_real, @thdxr, @openrouter, @wesroth, @elaina43114880, @ruima, @xiaomimimo, @_albertgu, @cline, and @lentils80
Forums: r/SillyTavernAI, r/technology, and r/LocalLLaMA
| Bloomberg: |
Memo: ByteDance agrees to sell gaming unit Moonton to Savvy Games, owned by Saudi Arabia's PIF, sources say for $6B; ByteDance bought Moonton for ~$4B in 2021 — Savvy Games Group has agreed to buy the Moonton studio from ByteDance Ltd. as the Saudi Arabian firm builds up its mobile gaming assets.Sponsor Posts
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