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Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg:
The European Commission issues preliminary DSA findings against Meta, saying Instagram and Facebook fail to prevent under-13 users from accessing the services  —  The European Union's executive arm accused Meta Platforms Inc. of failing to keep young children off its services, ramping up a probe that could result in hefty fines.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans a new Siri camera mode in iOS 27 by moving Visual Intelligence, currently tied to the Camera Control button, into the camera app  —  Apple Inc. is planning to embed artificial intelligence more deeply into the iPhone's camera app, adding a new Siri mode alongside …
Axios:
Sources: the White House is developing guidance for government agencies to get around Anthropic's supply chain risk designation and onboard models like Mythos  —  - One source described the White House efforts as a way to “save face and bring em back in.”  — Earlier this month …
Chris Welch / Bloomberg:
Motorola unveils its 2026 foldables lineup, including its first book-style model, which costs $1,900; prices for clamshell models have gone up by up to $200  —  The company's clamshell phones have gone up by as much as $200, while its first book-style foldable barely undercuts Samsung at $1,900.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
YouTube rolls out Full Multiview Customization to YouTube TV, letting users pin up to four live streams in a window, after debuting a limited version in 2023  —  Custom multiview is finally here. Custom multiview is finally here. … YouTube CEO Neal Mohan announced Tuesday that YouTube TV is getting “fully customizable” multiview.
Will Knight / Wired:
OpenAI's instructions in Codex CLI contain a line, repeated several times, that forbids the tool from randomly mentioning goblins, gremlins, and other creatures  —  “Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely …
Macy Meyer / CNET:
Google celebrates 20 years of Translate with a new AI pronunciation practice tool for Android users in the US and India; Translate gets 1B+ queries per month  —  Google's new AI-powered language tool can give you real-time feedback by analyzing speech and correcting your pronunciation.
Bloomberg:
Sources: China suspends issuing Level 4 autonomous vehicle licenses, after 100+ of Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxis stalled and disrupted traffic in Wuhan in March  —  China has suspended issuing new licenses for autonomous vehicles, according to people familiar with the matter …
Clare Duffy / CNN:
Seven families of victims in the Tumbler Ridge shooting in Canada sue OpenAI, accusing it of failing to warn authorities about the suspect's ChatGPT activity  —  Seven families of victims in a February school shooting sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on Wednesday, alleging the company …
Alex Heath / Sources:
An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on why AWS will be “a better partner to OpenAI” than Microsoft, high chip demand, Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, and more  —  AWS CEO Matt Garman on why Amazon will “be a better partner” than Microsoft.  Also: His reaction to bubble fears …
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:
Pursuit, which uses AI to scan public data to help companies find and win government contracts, raised a $22M seed led by OpenGov co-founder Mike Rosengarten  —  Mike Vichich grew up in Michigan.  His family, he recalls, dedicated their lives to public service.
Bloomberg:
Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk testifies he is suing OpenAI because “it is not okay to steal a charity” and its pivot sets a concerning precedent for philanthropy  —  Elon Musk testified Tuesday he's suing OpenAI and two of its co-founders — Sam Altman and Greg Brockman …
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Uber partners with Expedia to launch a hotel booking integration in its app in the US, and plans to add Expedia's Vrbo brand later in 2026  —  Uber Technologies Inc. is adding hotel bookings in its flagship app, marking the ride-hail company's biggest push yet into the travel market as it seeks to create an everything platform.
The Information:
SpaceX draft IPO filing: from 2023 to 2025, Starlink's individual subscribers rose from 2.3M to 8.9M, revenue grew from $3.9B to $11.4B, and ARPU fell 18%  —  SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service quadrupled its individual subscribers between 2023 and 2025—but the average revenue …
Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
A US judge rejects Sam Bankman-Fried's new trial request based on what SBF called new evidence; SBF asked to withdraw his request, which the judge also rejected  —  A federal judge rejected FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried's do-it-yourself motion for a new trial based on what the former crypto king claimed was new evidence.

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From Mediagazer

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Five more states join the lawsuit filed last month by eight states seeking to block Nexstar's Tegna acquisition, which Nexstar said the DOJ and FCC approved

Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
A group of TV consumers sue in federal court in California to block Paramount's acquisition of WBD on antitrust grounds; Paramount says the suit lacks merit

Reporters Without Borders:
RSF Press Freedom Index hits a 25-year low: over 50% of the world's countries fall into the “difficult” or “very serious” categories; Norway holds the top spot

More News

Dawn Lim / Bloomberg:
Brookfield-backed Compass drops plans to develop 800+ acres in Virginia's 2,100-acre Digital Gateway data center corridor, sources say due to local opposition

Earlier Picks

Seema Mody / CNBC:
Pentagon Chief Digital and AI Officer Cameron Stanley confirms the DoD is expanding its use of Gemini, as “overreliance on one vendor is never a good thing”
Aditya Soni / Reuters:
Microsoft is rolling out Copilot 365 to ~743K of Accenture's employees, in the biggest enterprise deal for Copilot, after an August 2023 pilot for a few hundred
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
Parallel Web Systems, founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and that offers web search tools for AI agents, raised a $100M Series B at a $2B valuation
Mitchell Hashimoto:
HashiCorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says his terminal application Ghostty will leave GitHub, citing GitHub's frequent outages; Hashimoto is GitHub user 1299
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
US startup Poolside debuts its first open-weight model, Laguna XS.2, a 33B-A3B-parameter MoE model, and Laguna M.1, a proprietary 225B-A23B-parameter MoE model
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE:
Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal model with a 30B-A3B hybrid MoE architecture; the Nemotron 3 family saw 50M+ downloads in the past year
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