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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to open up Siri to run any AI service via App Store apps in iOS 27, dropping ChatGPT as exclusive partner in Apple Intelligence and Siri  —  Apple Inc. plans to open Siri to outside artificial intelligence assistants, a major move aimed at bolstering the iPhone as an AI platform.
Wall Street Journal:
The $6M LA social media verdict is a win for the plaintiffs bar, not kids or society; parenting helps mitigate the harms and most kids don't face severe issues  —  The verdict against Meta and YouTube is a victory for the plaintiffs bar, not for children or society.
Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
As US lawmakers struggle to pass online safety laws, LA and New Mexico juries take the lead, holding social media companies accountable for harming young users  —  A pair of verdicts held social media companies accountable for harming young users, highlighting a growing backlash as Congress struggles to pass legislation.
Wall Street Journal:
Back-to-back jury verdicts holding Meta liable could spur a flood of litigation against social media companies and threaten to undermine Section 230 protections
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Wikipedia bans using AI for writing or rewriting articles on its English-language site, citing AI-written articles' tendency to violate “core content policies”  —  Wikipedia editors can only use AI for basic copy editing or translations. … Wikipedia will no longer allow editors to write or rewrite articles using AI.
Valeria Wu / The Keyword:
Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, an audio model with improved tonal understanding and lower latency for real-time dialogue, watermarked with SynthID  —  Our latest voice model has improved precision and lower latency to make voice interactions more fluid, natural and precise.
Financial Times:
OpenAI shelves its erotic chatbot “indefinitely” as it refocuses on its core products, sources say after technical issues as well as staff and investor concerns  —  Decision follows staff and investor concerns about sexual AI content  —  OpenAI has shelved plans to release an erotic chatbot …
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
Apple expands its American Manufacturing Program, adding Bosch, Cirrus Logic, TDK, and Qnity Electronics to make components in the US for products sold globally  —  Apple announced a significant expansion of its American Manufacturing Program on Thursday, bringing four new partners — Bosch …
Wall Street Journal:
Fannie Mae will accept crypto-backed mortgages for the first time; Coinbase launches a mortgage product allowing buyers to pledge bitcoin or USDC as collateral  —  New offering from Better Home & Finance and Coinbase allows home buyers to pledge bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies when making a down payment
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix raises US prices following a January 2025 hike; standard with ads rises $1 to $8.99/month; standard with no ads and premium rise $2 to $19.99 and $26.99  —  Netflix, for the second time in a little over a year, is raising prices for its three plans in the U.S. The new pricing …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
WhatsApp rolls out features and updates: an AI tool that suggests replies based on a user's conversations, the ability to touch up photos with Meta AI, and more  —  WhatsApp is rolling out a slew of new features and updates, including one that generates AI-powered suggested replies based on your conversations.
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:
Defense tech startup Shield AI raised $2B at a $12.7B valuation, up from $5.3B after raising $240M in March 2025; half of its business is autonomous software  —  The company, which develops autonomous military technology, also plans to buy a maker of simulation software as interest in next-generation defense soars.
Eliza Gkritsi / Politico:
The European Commission opens a DSA investigation into Snap for failing to protect kids on Snapchat, including whether it does enough to assess its users' ages  —  Investigation comes amid growing scrutiny of the impact and liability of technology platforms towards kids.
Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
A US federal judge dismisses X's antitrust lawsuit that accused the World Federation of Advertisers and a group of major companies of illegally boycotting X  —  A U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed X Corp's antitrust lawsuit that accused the World Federation of Advertisers and a group …
Harry McCracken / Fast Company:
An oral history of Apple's earliest days told by people who lived it, including Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne, Mike Markkula, and Liza Loop, as Apple turns 50  —  Before there was an iPod, an iPhone, an iPad, or an Apple Watch—before there was a Macintosh or Apple II or even an Apple-1 …
Michael Kan / PCMag:
The US DOJ charges a Chinese national and two Americans for allegedly trying to smuggle nearly $62M worth of export-controlled Nvidia A100s and H100s into China  —  The US has disclosed a new Nvidia chip-smuggling case that also seems to involve San Jose-based server manufacturer Supermicro.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Mistral launches Voxtral TTS, an open-source enterprise text-to-speech model that supports nine languages, including Hindi and Arabic, based on Ministral 3B  —  French AI company Mistral released a new open source text-to-speech model on Thursday that can be used by voice AI assistants or in enterprise use cases like customer support.
Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post:
The China Computer Federation calls for a boycott of AI conference NeurIPS after organizers barred submissions from US-sanctioned companies like Huawei  —  Move to comply with US sanctions sparks backlash, with China's top computing body threatening to blacklist the AI conference
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Uber partners with China-based Pony AI and Croatia-based, Rimac-spinoff Verne to launch Europe's first commercial robotaxi service, initially debuting in Zagreb  —  The companies are already testing autonomous vehicles in Croatia, where they will launch their first commercial service.

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Sony announces Jeopardy! YouTube Edition, a spinoff hosted by Ken Jennings with three YouTube creators playing for the charity of their choice

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
PBS and ITVS launch a YouTube channel, PBS Documentaries, to distribute 100+ new videos a year, starting with a profile of Texas Congress member Barbara Jordan

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