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Makena Kelly / Ars Technica:
Palantir Slack logs and staff interviews reveal internal debates over the company's ICE and DOD contracts during Trump's second term, its manifesto, and more  —  It took just a few months of President Donald Trump's second term for Palantir employees to question their company's commitments to civil liberties.
Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai:
OpenAI publishes a five-principle framework for AGI development, pledging to resist concentrating AI power and to collaborate with companies and governments  —  OpenAI published a five-principle framework on Sunday for the development of artificial general intelligence.
Joseph Howlett / Scientific American:
An amateur solved a 60-year-old Erdős problem using a single GPT-5.4 Pro prompt; Terence Tao says it's a “nice achievement” with unclear long-term significance  —  A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of.  Experts believe it may have further uses
Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
An interview with Bill Nguyen, a tech entrepreneur who is completely outsourcing parts of his life to an AI assistant in his bid to create a virtual body double  —  On a recent morning at his Atlanta office, Bill Nguyen tore open a large package and lifted out a high-end desktop computer.
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Lucinda Shen / Axios:
Sources: Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup Genki Robotics, co-founded by Andy Rubin, raised a Series A at a ~$1B valuation; it raised a ~$50M seed in 2025  —  Genki Robotics, a humanoid robotics company co-founded by Android creator Andy Rubin, is valued at about $1 billion following its recent Series A, Axios Pro has learned.
Meir Orbach / CTech:
Cyera agrees to acquire Ryft, an Israeli startup building automated data access and governance tools for enterprise AI deployment, sources say for $100M-$130M  —  Ryft, founded in 2024, raised $8 million before the deal and has built tools for automated data access and governance in AI environments.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Citizen Lab details two spying campaigns that abuse weaknesses in the SS7 and Diameter protocols across 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G networks to track people's locations  —  Security researchers have uncovered two separate spying campaigns that are abusing well-known weaknesses in the global telecoms infrastructure to track people's locations.
Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg:
A look at Strider, an intelligence firm that claims to use agentic AI and public records to let the US Air Force, NATO, and others identify foreign state actors  —  Trump's economic crackdown on China's US interests is creating opportunities for a Utah-based intelligence firm

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Janko Roettgers / The Verge:
Apple TV relies on a few tentpole titles to draw audiences, like HBO did in the past, while Netflix uses its catalog size and algorithms to keep viewers engaged

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CBS News names prominent British Sky News broadcaster Trevor Phillips as a senior global correspondent; Bari Weiss says he sees “beyond groupthink”

Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at the first “case” brought before Objection, which aims to use AI to evaluate news stories, and a Q&A with Objection's founder; the site is now dark

More News

Heather Knight / New York Times:
Inside Andon Market, billed as the first retail boutique run by an AI agent; the Andon Labs experiment uses a Claude Sonnet 4.6-based agent to run the boutique
Stephen Totilo / Game File:
An interview with Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and EVP Matt Booty on the “Return of Xbox” memo, making Xbox Series X and S the “first-class experience again”, and more
Wall Street Journal:
Trump hosted a gala luncheon for leading $TRUMP holders, where he spoke about his pro-crypto policies, but didn't mention the memecoin's declining value

Earlier Picks

Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
An overview of Elon Musk's $134B lawsuit against Sam Altman, scheduled to begin on Monday, accusing Altman of reneging on a vow to keep OpenAI nonprofit
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Report: Samsung co-CEO TM Roh told company leaders that the mobile division MX could report its first ever annual loss this year, amid RAM and storage shortages
Anthropic:
Anthropic details Project Deal, a marketplace experiment where Claude models bought, sold, and negotiated personal belongings on behalf of Anthropic employees
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