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The US DOJ and TikTok reach a $400M settlement to resolve allegations TikTok violated COPPA; the DOJ filed the lawsuit in 2024 — The Justice Department and TikTok, along with parent company ByteDance, have reached a $400 million settlement to resolve allegations of violating children's online privacy laws …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is cutting 200+ jobs, including ~100 positions from the Vision Pro unit and another 100 from the Siri team, as it focuses on new devices and AI — Apple Inc. is cutting jobs across teams responsible for the Siri digital assistant and the Vision Pro headset …
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Sources: Anthropic's bankers said the company could raise $100B+ in its IPO, which could value it at $2T, in recent discussions with potential investors — The offering could value the five-year-old A.I. start-up at $2 trillion, its bankers have told potential investors, which would exceed Elon Musk's SpaceX.
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| Bloomberg: |
DeepSeek unveils an experimental multimodal version of its V4 Flash model, saying it nears the performance of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on multimodal agentic tests — DeepSeek unveiled an experimental AI model that can understand visual prompts, saying the tool nears the performance of an advanced model by US rival Anthropic PBC.
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| Diana Olick / CNBC: |
CBRE: NYC becomes the top tech talent market for the first time with 394,300 jobs, beating the Bay Area's 375,730, amid SF job cuts and NYC finance sector hires — It should come as no surprise that the number of artificial intelligence-specific tech workers is growing rapidly …
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| Anzar Mehraj / Reuters: |
OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol's API and credit prices by over 20% for the next three months, to $4/1M input tokens and $20/1M output tokens — OpenAI said on Friday it is cutting the prices of its frontier GPT-5.6 Sol model for developers by more than 20% for the next three months …
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Anthropic says Mythos 5 is now in public beta in Claude Security for Enterprise users, and it is working with providers to embed Mythos 5 in defensive tools — We're sharing an update on our efforts to help more teams use frontier capabilities for cyber defense.
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic hires Amir Salek, who ran Google's TPU business until 2022, to join its compute team as part of a push to develop its own chips — Anthropic PBC has hired Amir Salek, a founder of the custom chip program at Alphabet Inc.'s Google, as the AI lab lays the groundwork for a push into making its own semiconductors.| Financial Times: |
A Dutch regulator fines Uber €825M for deactivating driver accounts through automated systems without informing them, in the second largest fine under GDPR — Regulator says ride-hailing group deactivated driver accounts through automated systems without adequately informing them
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| Chase DiFeliciantonio / Politico: |
OpenAI says California should amend SB 53 to expand safeguards, including requiring monitoring of frontier models under training, following AI agent hacks — SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI urged its home state of California on Friday to “strengthen” its landmark AI law following recent autonomous hacks …
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| Rashika Singh / Reuters: |
Nvidia makes a minority investment in Cloverleaf, which works with utilities and energy providers to secure infrastructure for data center sites — Nvidia (NVDA.O) has made a minority investment in privately held Cloverleaf Infrastructure to develop infrastructure to power AI data center projects across … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart, which has long resisted contactless Tap to Pay payments, says its stores will get the tech, which supports Apple Pay and Google Pay, by the end of 2026 — Apparently, hell has frozen over. Walmart on Friday said it will finally accept payments via both Apple Pay and Google Pay at its stores …
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| Laura Bratton / The Information: |
OpenAI's VP of sales in the Americas, Kaylin Voss, has resigned a week after Denise Dresser left, and is returning to Salesforce, where she was Slack's CRO — Kaylin Voss, OpenAI's vice president of sales in the Americas, has resigned a week after her former boss, Denise Dresser …
| Sebastian Herrera / Fortune: |
Amazon raises prices for its Echo smart speakers, Fire TV line, Kindle devices, and eero mesh networking systems to offset increases in memory and storage costs — Amazon has raised prices for several of its first-party devices, including its Echo smart speakers and Fire TV line … | Omarchy News: |
DHH launches Omacom Foundation, a non-profit supporting his Omarchy Linux distro, with $8M in funding from Michael Dell, Jack Dorsey, Patrick Collison, others — It's time to dream big. Omarchy Quattro has given people a chance to experience what the malleable computer of the future looks like, and they like it (a lot!).
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| Terry Chen / NVIDIA Technical Blog: |
Nvidia says its general-purpose coding agent system AVO scored 100% across all 25 environments in the ARC-AGI-3 public set, completing all 183 levels — The research project elevates Claude Opus 5 from a 30% model baseline to 100% as part of the complete AVO agent system, showing that system design …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
How politicians who once championed data centers, including Greg Abbott and Josh Shapiro, are now slowing their development as the issue becomes a liability — State governors, including Greg Abbott and Josh Shapiro, slowing development of the facilities as anger over AI spreads
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