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New York Times:
X capitulates in Brazil and could return next week, as the company's lawyers say it took down some accounts, paid fines, and named a new formal representative  —  In an abrupt reversal, the social network's lawyers said it was complying with court orders that it had previously defied.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Qualcomm made a takeover approach to Intel in recent days, but a deal is far from certain; Intel's market cap is ~$93B and Qualcomm's is ~$188B  —  A deal for Intel would be massive and come at a time when the chip maker is sputtering.
Kali Hays / Fortune:
Sources: many OpenAI staff were taken aback by a proposed ChatGPT logo with a simple, large black “O”, which struck some as ominous and lacking in creativity  —  A black ring can represent many things - simplicity, a new phase, a void.  Whatever its meaning …
Taryn Luna / Los Angeles Times:
California Gov. Newsom signs Senate Bill 976 to protect minors, banning “addictive feeds”, barring social media notifications from 12am to 6am, and more  —  California took a major step in its fight to protect children from the ills of social media with Gov. Gavin Newsom's signature …
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Docs: in Perplexity's new ad model, brands will be able to bid for a “sponsored” question, which features an AI-generated answer approved by the advertiser  —  AI search start-up develops ‘sponsored’ question system in effort to gain share of $300bn digital ads industry
Joanna Chiu / Rest of World:
A look at GFWeb, which tracks millions of domains to uncover the Great Firewall's domain blocklists; GFWeb data reveals China blocked ChatGPT on March 2, 2023  —  Rest of World received exclusive access to a platform that tracks patterns and timing of Chinese online censorship.

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New York Times:
Memos: Will Lewis steps down as WaPo publisher and CEO; former Tumblr CEO Jeff D'Onofrio, who joined WaPo in June 2025 as CFO, is now acting publisher and CEO

Reuters:
A Hong Kong court sentences the 78-year-old Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison over national security charges, ending a five-year legal saga

Miranda Green / Columbia Journalism Review:
A Tow Center probe found that GOP-aligned Metric Media filed 9K+ FOIA requests across the US in the past year, often about culture-war issues like banned books

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Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
The judge overseeing the Google ad trial calls Google's testimony that it faces “fierce competition” from the likes of Microsoft and Meta “highly questionable”
FinTech Global:
Akur8, which uses AI to automate the generation of insurance pricing models, raised a $120M Series C led by One Peak, bringing its total raised to $180M
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Filing: the US SEC says it intends to seek sanctions against Elon Musk for failing to appear for scheduled testimony for a probe into his $44B Twitter takeover
Timothy B Lee / Understanding AI:
OpenAI's o1 models are dramatically better at reasoning than previous LLMs, but they struggle with spatial reasoning and are far from human-level intelligence
Bloomberg:
Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania and sell all the output to Microsoft for data centers
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