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A jury finds that Live Nation and Ticketmaster illegally maintained monopoly power in the ticketing market, in a case brought by state AGs after the DOJ settled — The federal government struck a settlement with Live Nation in March, requiring Ticketmaster to divest up to 13 amphitheaters …
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| Bryce Elder / Financial Times: |
Shoe company Allbirds, which sold last week for $39M after its valuation fell from $4B+ in 2021, says it aims to become an AI compute provider; BIRD jumps 800%+ — Ah, zeitgeist: — Allbirds is a San Francisco maker of wool trainers that was once valued at more than $4bn.
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Sources: Apple plans to send ~200 people from its Siri team, a group internally known as a laggard, to an AI coding bootcamp — Apple is sending a portion of its Siri programmers back to coding school just two months before the company is expected to unveil a major, AI-powered revamp of the voice assistant …
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| Bloomberg: |
A TTP analysis finds dozens of nudify apps in Apple and Google app stores via search, despite company policy prohibiting them; the apps earned $122M+ in revenue — Apple Inc. and Google have continued to offer mobile apps that let users make nonconsensual sexualized images of people despite …
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| Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt: |
Anthropic rolls out identity verification that may require Claude users to provide a government-issued photo ID and live selfie to access “certain capabilities” — Anthropic quietly published identity verification requirements for Claude this week, asking certain users to hand … | Timmy Shen / The Block: |
X launches Cashtags, a feature that lets users view real-time financial data on stocks and crypto directly in their timelines, in the US and Canada — Quick Take — Nikita Bier, head of product at X, said the team has launched the “Cashtags” feature, which enables users to browse stock …
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Q&A with Jensen Huang on Nvidia's supply chain moat, competition from ASICs like Google's TPU, investing in AI labs and neoclouds, selling to China, and more — “If our next several years are a trillion dollars in scale, we have the supply chain to do it”
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| Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI updates Agents SDK with native sandboxing and an in-distribution harness for deploying and testing agents on long-horizon tasks — Agentic AI is the tech industry's newest success story, and companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are racing to give enterprises the tools they need to create these automated little helpers.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Adobe unveils Firefly AI Assistant, which can orchestrate and execute multistep tasks across Creative Cloud apps, available in public beta in the coming weeks — Last October, Adobe previewed a new assistant under the “Project Moonlight” moniker that could do tasks for you by tapping different Adobe apps … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google launches a Gemini Mac app, featuring a keyboard shortcut, screen sharing for better context, image generation with Nano Banana, and more — Gemini now has a native Mac app in the first expansion from Android and iOS. — This “native desktop experience” is launched via an Option + Space keyboard shortcut.
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| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Filings: Caterpillar acquires self-driving electric tractor startup Monarch Tractor's assets, after it raised $200M+ and struggled to pivot to software services — Monarch Tractor's assets have been acquired by construction giant Caterpillar, after struggling to pivot to a software services business …
More: Bloomberg, TheStreet, San Francisco Business Times, and Benzinga
| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
Former Mercor staffers describe “operational mishaps” at the $10B startup, including employee fraud, a security breach, and suspected North Korean infiltration — Founded in 2023 by 20-somethings, data labeling startup Mercor exploded to $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate in September.| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
Google rolls out Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, a text-to-speech model with support for over 70 languages and audio tags that give developers granular speech control — The company says it's the most natural and expressive voice output it has shipped to date. The big new feature is audio tags …
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Objection, which aims to use AI and experts to evaluate claims in news stories, debuts with funding from Peter Thiel, Balaji Srinivasan; evaluations cost $2,000 — After helping lead the lawsuit that bankrupted media firm Gawker, Aron D'Souza says he saw something broken in the American media system …
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| Fiona Kelliher / MIT Technology Review: |
How cyberscammers are bypassing major banks' KYC facial scans using stolen biometric data and virtual camera tools sold via Telegram channels — EXECUTIVE SUMMARY — From inside a money-laundering center in Cambodia, an employee opens a popular Vietnamese banking app on his phone.
Forums: r/technews
| Nikkei Asia: |
Analysis: China's chipmaking tool imports from Singapore rose 17% YoY to $5.7B in 2025, from Malaysia rose 2x+ to $3.4B; direct US imports fell 34% YoY to ~$2B — TAIPEI — China's imports of chipmaking equipment from Malaysia and Singapore rose sharply in 2025 to surpass those from the U.S. …
More: PCMag
| Oliver Whang / New York Times: |
A primer on interpretability and how AI researchers are figuring out how to open and understand the “black box” that holds the formulas within most AI models — When Deep Blue, IBM's chess-playing supercomputer, beat Garry Kasparov in 1997, computers were still just computers.
Forums: r/technology
| Iris Deng / South China Morning Post: |
Amazon launches its first smart warehouse in Shenzhen, aiming to cut local merchant storage costs by up to 45% as competition with Shein and Temu intensifies — Amazon expands China push with smart warehouse model, aiming to retain sellers amid rising competition from Temu and Shein| Max Filby / The Columbus Dispatch: |
Ohio's gambling regulator proposes to fine Kalshi $5M for unlicensed sports gambling, after a federal judge ruled that Kalshi's sports bets constitute gambling — The Ohio Casino Control Commission has fined online prediction market Kalshi millions of dollars for illegal operation in the state.
More: Business Insider, Bitcoin News, Toledo Blade, Sports Betting Dime, theohiopressnetwork.com, and Benzinga
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| Swathi Moorthy / The Economic Times: |
Sources say Ola's AI venture Krutrim's smart assistant Kruti is unavailable to users and the development of its Indian multilingual LLM, Krutrim 3, has stalled — While ‘Kruti’ was not accessible via its direct website, kruti.ai, which showed a “site not found” error, users accessing … | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
India produces over 1.5M CS graduates annually, but scale is no longer an advantage with the rise of AI coding tools; Infosys revamps hiring to focus on AI — Companies like Infosys are running their new hires through many weeks of training to bring them up to speed on new programming tools.
X: @saritharai and @business
| Jo Constantz / Bloomberg: |
Companies that hire young “AI natives” have found that AI tools can be both helpful and debilitating to workers, in some cases requiring more careful oversight — The promises and perils of the ChatGPT generation. — As soon as he got a company email address for his summer internship …
Bluesky: @drsmith
| Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: |
European VC funding in Q1 2026 rose nearly 30% YoY to $17.6B, AI claimed over 50% of all European funding for the quarter, and deal volume dropped 40% YoY — European venture funding reached $17.6 billion in Q1 2026, Crunchbase data shows. That's up nearly 30% year over year and marks the second consecutive quarter of growth.
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
WPP, Dentsu, and Publicis settle with the FTC over claims they colluded on misinformation policies that denied ad revenue to conservative publishers — WPP, Dentsu and Publicis settled claims they colluded on policies to combat misinformation, denying ad revenue to publishers on the right.| Jason Parham / Wired: |
X users complain that the latest crackdown on bots purged secret accounts they had used for years to watch and curate their favorite porn — The platform's large-scale crackdown on automated accounts is also impacting people who've spent years curating niche porn on secret X accounts.| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
NY-based Auctor, which uses AI to curate resource plans and process flows to help companies adopt new software, raised $20M in a combined seed and Series A — Auctor, a startup helping companies adopt new software, raised $20 million in a combined seed and Series A, CEO William Sun tells Axios Pro first.
More: Unite.AI, Sequoia Capital, The Next Web, and Forbes
X: @auctor_ai, @hankcouture, @julienbek, @mtthewblckburn, @auctor_ai, and @sarahyuui
| Steven Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNET: |
Cal.com, which provides scheduling software, is moving its core open-source codebase to a closed repository, citing the dangers of AI hacking its open code — ZDNET's key takeaways — Cal is reluctantly moving away from open source for security. — This move isn't about Mythos, but risks from modern AI tools.
More: The New Stack and Implicator.ai
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Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
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