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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A closer look at the upcoming Siri AI-powered home hub, a key pillar of Apple's strategy for the home; sources: Apple started cutting Fitness+ staff — Also: What happened with the iPhone Duo Pencil and layoffs at Fitness+. — Apple's new “intelligent personal hub” strategy is about much more than the iPhone.
More: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, iThinkDifferent, Apple Must, and Forbes
| María Paula Mijares Torres / Bloomberg: |
Trump says he will appoint an AI czar and form an “AI Force”, in a Truth Social post that rejects AI safety concerns as a “hoax” — President Donald Trump said he would name an artificial intelligence czar as he continued to push tech companies to race ahead with development despite growing fears safety.
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X: @realdonaldtrump, @andrewcurran_, @elonmusk, @thezvi, @beffjezos, @beffjezos, @goldman, @gavinnewsom, @davidsacks, @luke_metro, @thestalwart, @garymarcus, @lsanger, @daniellefong, @atrupar, @darrigomelanie, @basedmikelee, @daniellefong, @jeffbercovici, and @daniellefong. Truth Social: @realDonaldTrump …. Forums: r/accelerate
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan dismissed concerns after fraudsters tried to launder $10M+ from stolen cards to clean accounts via its wagers in February — CEO Shayne Coplan brushed off concerns about scheme involving stolen debit cards; now the prediction market is bolstering executive ranks as it eyes IPO| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
Meta challenges Ofcom's OSA categorization of WhatsApp and Instagram imposing additional regulations; Roblox and Quora are also challenging their categorization — US tech giant's latest action against regulator Ofcom could slow down implementation of the far-reaching law
More: The Guardian
| New York Times: |
Experts say AI kill-switch legislation is far harder to implement than lawmakers assume, warning a rogue AI could actively try to dismantle the mechanism itself — A bipartisan group in Congress and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California have floated ideas for building a mechanism that would instantly power down an A.I. system.
More: CNBC, CBS News, Jacobin, The Indian Express, Gizmodo, Seeking Alpha, New York Post, and Mashable
| Reuters: |
Chinese DRAM chipmaker CXMT says its new fifth-gen technology platform enters mass production and unveils two 24Gb LPDDR5X phone memory products built on it — Chinese DRAM chipmaker CXMT (688825.SS) said on Sunday its fifth-generation technology platform had entered mass production … | Josipa Majic Predin / Forbes: |
Vercel, Cloudflare, and others quickly add Jev, as it makes AI tool selection much faster and cheaper; TypeSafe: Jev matches GPT-5.6 and Sonnet 5 workflow evals — Most of what an AI agent asks a frontier model to do is not writing. It is choosing. Which tool to call next, whether to retry, whether a command is safe to run.
More: TechCrunch, Vercel, Langfuse, MarkTechPost, The Stack, RuntimeWire, and Arize AI
| John Thornhill / Financial Times: |
An interview with Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton on the Raspberry Pi Foundation, his skepticism of AI evangelists, AI driving edge compute device demand, and more — The British tech leader on coding as the modern form of literacy, his scepticism of AI evangelists — and why ‘the p(doom) is probably Russia’
X: @robcrilly
| New York Times: |
Former DraftKings employees detail how it uses ML to target likely losers with promotions, while efforts to flag problem gamblers were shelved or squashed — About a year into his job as a data analyst at DraftKings, Jayden Butts received a new assignment.
More: Tech Times, The Daily Caller, and Lawyers, Guns & Money
X: @quinnypig. Bluesky: @harrymccracken.com. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Forums: r/ArtificialInteligence, r/billsimmons, r/DanLeBatardShow, r/skeptic, r/technology, and r/nytimes
| Katie McQue / NPR: |
US policy analysts, lawmakers, and others say several state-level AI chatbot safety bills included language that could provide loopholes for tech companies — Cynthia Montoya's daughter, Juliana, was 13 when she began talking to AI chatbots. It was 2023, and the technology was only beginning to enter widespread use.| Ann Cao / South China Morning Post: |
Alibaba's Damo Academy open sources RADAR, a medical vision-language model it says can read CT scans and identify ~150 abdominal conditions, including cancers — Tested on nearly 40,000 real-world exams, the model outperformed most radiologists, according to a new study published in Science
More: Alibaba DAMO Academy on GitHub, RuntimeWire, and Tech Times
Mastodon: @rogerc2738@social.vivaldi.net. Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/aiwars, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/singularity
| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
Google says it didn't consider Gemini's hacks worthy of disclosure because Gemini acted “appropriately” and stopped after determining it hacked real companies — Google says that breaking containment and targeting real companies doesn't constitute ‘misalignment.’
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X: @erinkwoo, @benfritz, @ratorthodox, @gerritd, @krishnanrohit, @krishnanrohit, @jessenowlin, @mgsiegler, @dylan522p, @andrewcurran_, @eliebakouch, @ratorthodox, and @andrewcurran_
Bluesky: @maxnichols, @dlknowles, @malwarejake, @wajali, @rani, and @ppopiel. Mastodon: @tymwol@hachyderm.io
| Ken Bensinger / New York Times: |
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law that will penalize influencers who do not properly disclose paid political content, with fines of up to $5K per post — Under a new law, creators could face fines of $5,000 per post if they don't disclose that they were paid to make political content.
More: The Guardian
| Sarah Neville / Financial Times: |
Clinicians raise concerns over medical AI adoption beyond diagnostics and imaging, citing limited clinical and performance data on its broader effectiveness — The technology's advances have not yet translated into big improvements in real-life care. Kayla Secrest was a newly fledged doctor beginning … Sponsor Posts
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