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Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal:
Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging it accessed Reddit 100K+ times after saying it had stopped; Reddit has reached formal licensing deals with OpenAI and Google  —  The online discussion forum says Anthropic continued to access its site over 100,000 times after saying it stopped
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
OpenAI rolls out connectors for services like Dropbox and OneDrive for ChatGPT Team, Enterprise, and Edu users; MCP support is coming to Pro, Team, Enterprise  —  OpenAI's ChatGPT is adding new features for business users, including integrations with different cloud services, meeting recordings …
Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
Epic v. Apple: a US appeals court rejects Apple's request to pause key parts of a federal judge's order requiring it to open the App Store to more competition  —  Apple (AAPL.O) has failed to persuade a U.S. appeals court to pause key parts of a federal judge's order requiring the iPhone maker …
Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg:
Circle priced its upsized IPO at $31 per share, above its marketed range of $27 to $28, raising nearly $1.1B and valuing the company at approximately $6.9B  —  The firm and backers including co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Jeremy Allaire sold 34 million shares Wednesday for $31 each …
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
The IRS open sourced most of its Direct File tax software on GitHub last week, fulfilling a legal requirement under the SHARE IT Act, despite Intuit pressure  —  The IRS open sourced much of its incredibly popular Direct File software as the future of the free tax filing program is at risk …
Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer:
The US DOJ seized ~145 domains and crypto linked to BidenCash, a dark web market that made $17M+ in revenue since 2022 by selling stolen credit cards and more  —  Earlier today, law enforcement seized multiple domains of BidenCash, the infamous dark web market for stolen credit cards, personal information, and SSH access.
Financial Times:
Sources: Apple Intelligence's China rollout with Alibaba is delayed by Chinese regulators amid US trade war; the country approved 300+ domestic AI models so far  —  Partnership between US and Chinese tech groups stalled by Beijing regulator in wake of geopolitical tensions
Hayden Field / The Verge:
Google pauses the rollout of Google Photos' AI-powered Ask Photos feature due to issues with latency, quality, and UX, per a Google product manager's post on X  —  'Ask Photos isn't where it needs to be,' says a product manager for Google Photos.
Bloomberg:
Photos and partial footage of an FSD-enabled Tesla sideswiping a parked SUV and hitting a woman in November 2023 show FSD's limits; the NHTSA is investigating  —  The setting sun was blinding drivers on the Arizona interstate between Flagstaff and Phoenix in November 2023.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Meta has talked with Disney, A24, and other companies about exclusive content for a premium VR device it plans to launch next year for less than $1,000  —  Tech company has talked with Disney and A24 about exclusive content for a premium VR device  —  Meta Platforms is courting Hollywood …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Mistral releases Mistral Code, an AI coding assistant forked from open-source project Continue, in private beta on JetBrains development platforms and VS Code  —  French AI startup Mistral is releasing its own “vibe coding” client, Mistral Code, to compete with incumbents like Windsurf, Anysphere's Cursor, and GitHub Copilot.
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post:
A comparison of GPT-4o, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.0 Flash, Llama 4, and Copilot: Claude won overall, having the most consistent answers and no hallucinations  —  We challenged AI helpers to decode legal contracts, simplify medical research, speed-read a novel and make sense of Trump speeches.
Steven Levy / Wired:
Q&A with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on “a 50% chance” of AGI in the next five to 10 years, bad actors and technical risks, AI regulation, jobs, and more  —  Demis Hassabis says that systems as smart as humans are almost here, and we'll need to radically change how we think and behave.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Reddit now lets users hide posting and commenting history on their profiles via a “Content and Activity” setting, as part of a new “Curate your profile” section  —  Reddit on Tuesday announced a new feature that will offer its users more privacy when it comes to what's shared on their user profiles.
Sophia Fox-Sowell / StateScoop:
A group of 260+ US legislators from all 50 states sign a letter opposing a federal budget bill provision that bans states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years  —  More than 260 state legislators from all 50 states have signed a letter opposing a provision in the federal budget reconciliation bill …
Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal:
Filing: CrowdStrike says the DOJ and SEC have requested information about the July 2024 outage caused by an update and about its revenue recognition practices  —  The agencies in part also are seeking details about the company's revenue-recognition practices, CrowdStrike said
Sam Clark / Politico:
Microsoft says it didn't stop services to the International Criminal Court, after a May report stated it “cancelled” ICC prosecutor Karim Khan's email address  —  Chief prosecutor's email issues have spurred fears in Europe that Trump could trigger a “kill switch” through U.S. tech giants abroad.
Bloomberg:
Sources: JPMorgan aims to let clients use some crypto-linked assets as collateral for loans in the coming weeks, starting with BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust  —  The firm will start providing financing against crypto exchange-traded funds, beginning with BlackRock Inc.'s iShares Bitcoin Trust …
Matt Day / Bloomberg:
Microsoft says LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky will now manage its Office group, reporting to EVP of Experiences and Devices Rajesh Jha; he will remain LinkedIn CEO  —  Ryan Roslansky, the professional networking site's chief executive officer since 2020, will tack on responsibility for the teams behind Outlook …

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The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney says Jimmy Kimmel's show will return to ABC on Tuesday and the suspension was “to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment”

Doug Shapiro / The Mediator:
As GenAI disrupts media content creation by lowering barriers and costs, value will shift to complements such as merchandise, live events, and exclusive access

Reuters:
RSF says Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan, jailed from 2020 to 2024, has been sentenced to four more years on a charge of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”

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Ian King / Bloomberg:
GlobalFoundries plans to spend $16B to boost domestic chip production, including $13B on its New York and Vermont plants and $3B for advanced packaging research
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Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:
How Morgan Stanley is using its DevGen.AI tool, built in-house on OpenAI's AI models, to translate legacy code into English specs for developers to then rewrite
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