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Social media addiction trial: a Los Angeles jury finds Meta and YouTube were negligent and failed to warn users about the dangers of using their platforms — A jury in Los Angeles determined on Wednesday that Meta and Google were negligent and failed to warn users of the dangers associated …
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| New York Times: |
The jury in LA's social media trial finds Meta and YouTube harmed a young user via addictive design features and orders them to pay her $3M; Meta will pay 70% — A jury found the companies negligent in their app designs, harming a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress.
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LinkedIn: Jonathan Haidt, Tony Eastin, Yael Eisenstat, and Arturo Béjar
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| Wall Street Journal: |
President Trump names Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Jensen Huang, and others to the Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, co-chaired by David Sacks — Group to advise the president on how to regulate artificial intelligence, among other issues — WASHINGTON—President Trump plans …
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK government pressure — Move follows pressure from government on smartphone makers to do more to protect children online
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| Google Research: |
Google Research details TurboQuant, a quantization algorithm to enable massive compression of LLMs and vector search engines without sacrificing accuracy — Amir Zandieh, Research Scientist, and Vahab Mirrokni, VP and Google Fellow, Google Research — We introduce a set …
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| Jyoti Mann / The Information: |
Meta confirms plans to lay off staff; sources say the cuts impact a few hundred people; a source says across Reality Labs, social media, recruiting, and sales — Meta Platforms will lay off a few hundred people across the company on Wednesday, according to two people familiar with the matter …
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| Ann E. Marimow / New York Times: |
SCOTUS rules unanimously that Cox could not be held liable for the piracy of thousands of songs online, after music labels sued the internet provider in 2018 — Leading music labels sued Cox Communications for failing to terminate accounts of subscribers flagged for distributing copyrighted music.
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| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez plan to introduce legislation to pause new data center construction until AI safeguards are in place — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday will announce legislation to pause …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: China bars Manus co-founders Xiao Hong and Ji Yichao from leaving the country as it reviews whether Meta's $2B acquisition of Manus violates FDI rules — Deal scrutiny deepens over official fears of strategic tech flowing overseas — China has restricted two co-founders of Manus …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Lyria 3 Pro music generation model, with better creative control and allowing users to create three-minute tracks, up from Lyria 3's 30 seconds — Google announced on Wednesday that it's releasing Lyria 3 Pro, a music generation model, a month after Lyria 3's release.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: some Sora team employees were surprised by OpenAI's move to end Sora support, just a day after OpenAI posted a blog post about Sora safety standards — On Monday evening, Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) and OpenAI teams were working together on a project linked to Sora, OpenAI's AI video tool.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Legal AI company Harvey raised $200M led by GIC and Sequoia at an $11B valuation, up from $8B in December 2025, and reports 100K+ users at 1,300+ organizations — With OpenAI and Anthropic soaring to a combined valuation of more than $1 trillion, some in the artificial intelligence industry fear …
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| Alex Heath / Sources: |
Memo: Sam Altman says OpenAI's next model finished pretraining, and moves Safety to Research and Security to Scaling; Fidji Simo becomes CEO of “AGI Deployment” — It's about GPUs. Also: CPUs are back, Meta's big stock awards, a CEO actually not blaming AI for layoffs, and more.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Elon Musk says X will “pause” new creator monetization rules that would base payouts on engagement from a user's local audience, after criticism from creators — Social media platform X swiftly backtracked on its announcement regarding new rules for creator monetization …
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| Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: |
AI note taking startup Granola raised $125M led by Index Ventures at a $1.5B valuation, and plans Claude integrations and agentic AI features in the next year — Granola Inc., a startup whose artificial intelligence software has been gaining traction as a notetaking tool among Silicon Valley workers …
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| The Information: |
Source: as part of its Google deal, Apple has full access to the Gemini model in its own data centers and can use distillation to produce smaller models — Before we get to today's column, we wanted to flag OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's major reorg, the company's new “Spud” model and its decision … | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Meta offers top executives stock options for the first time since its 2012 IPO to retain talent, if it hits stock-price milestones over the coming years — Meta Platforms Inc. is offering top executives stock options for the first time since its 2012 IPO — an effort to retain …
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| Axios: |
Memo: Mark Zuckerberg debuts Meta Small Business, a company-wide priority to support entrepreneurship and drive AI use, led by Dina Powell McCormick and others — - Zuckerberg asks product managers, designers, engineers and other employees to reach out if they want to work on the new effort.
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| The Information: |
Sources: cloud provider Vultr is seeking to raise $1B+ to expand its AI computing capacity, after raising $333M at a $3.5B valuation in 2024 — Vultr, one of the oldest independent cloud providers, is seeking to raise at least $1 billion in new capital so it can compete with a growing list …
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| Tracy Qu / Wall Street Journal: |
Temu owner PDD reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to ~$18B and net profit down 11% YoY to ~$3.56B, below ~$4B est., as it seeks to retain merchants on its platform — The comphad cautioned that its performance could fluctuate as it rolled out support to keep merchants from defecting to other platforms
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| Rachel Yeo / Bloomberg: |
Chinese AI company Kuaishou reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to ~$5.7B, meeting est., adjusted net income up 16% YoY, and Kling AI revenue up 13% YoY to ~$49M — Kuaishou Technology said the rapid scaling up of its generative artificial intelligence tools drove revenue growth.| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Notch, which is developing an OS designed for high-compliance sectors, raised a $30M Series A led by Headline, after pivoting from being a specialty insurer — Notch Ltd., a startup offering an artificial intelligence operating system for regulated industries, today announced … | Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Charlotte-based Lucid Bots, which manufactures autonomous drones for cleaning windows, raised a $20M Series B co-led by Cubit and Idea Fund — Andrew Ashur, the founder and CEO of window cleaning robot startup Lucid Bots, likes to joke that his company is the antithesis of the robotics industry right now.| Neal Stephenson / Graphomane: |
Neal Stephenson says he no longer believes head-mounted displays are the future, citing public discomfort with the devices and a general distrust of the users — Reflections on the latest and greatest Death of the Metaverse — It feels incumbent upon me to write something about last week's big news …
| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Epic Microsystems, which designs power delivery architecture for better thermal and efficiency management of AI data centers, raised a $21M Series A — Epic Microsystems, a semiconductor developer for AI data centers, has raised a $21 million Series A led by Seligman Ventures … | Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Q&A with Arm CEO Rene Haas on changing Arm's culture, working with Arm owner SoftBank, developing Arm's AGI CPU data center chip fabricated by TSMC, and more — Arm just confirmed the rumors: It's producing its own chip for the first time. CEO Rene Haas explains why this won't alienate … | Financial Times: |
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| Maria Curi / Axios: |
At a hearing, a US federal judge says the Pentagon's three actions toward Anthropic are “troubling” and that they look “like an attempt to cripple Anthropic” — A federal judge on Tuesday called the Pentagon's treatment of Anthropic “troubling” as the AI company urged …
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Forums: r/Anthropic and r/politics
| Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
Glimpse, which uses AI agents to let 200+ brands automate financial deduction processes, raised a $35M Series A led by a16z, bringing its total raised to $52M — Dispute-tracking fintech Glimpse announced Wednesday that it raised a $35 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from 8VC and Y Combinator.Sponsor Posts
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