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Lyft partners with Baidu to launch autonomous vehicles in Germany and the UK in 2026, pending regulatory approval; Lyft will deploy Baidu's sixth-gen robotaxis — Lyft Inc. said it's partnering with China's Baidu Inc. to launch autonomous vehicles in Europe starting next year …
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The UK Online Safety Act's approach to keeping children safe online has become a rallying point for the right in the UK and the US over alleged censorship — Farage accuses government of being ‘so below the belt’ as right wing doubles down on censorship claims — The UK's Online Safety Act has been greatly anticipated.
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How the AI data center building boom could cause a financial crisis akin to 2008, including the rising use of short-term debt financing via private credit funds — This time let's think about a financial crisis before it happens. — The U.S. economic data for the last few months is looking decidedly meh.
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CrowdStrike says it investigated 320+ cases of North Korean operatives gaining remote IT jobs in the US, Europe, and elsewhere in its 2025 Threat Hunting Report — Threat hunters saw North Korean operatives almost daily, reflecting a 220% year-over-year increase in activity, CrowdStrike said in a new report.| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 review: a unique $3,300 laptop with a rollable 120Hz OLED display that can grow from 14" to 16.7", but it is heavy and expensive — Part of me still can't believe it, but Lenovo did the thing: it took a bonkers concept for a laptop with a rollable screen and built … | Yuan Gao / Bloomberg: |
Xiaomi releases MiDashengLM-7B, an AI voice model under an Apache 2.0 license based on its foundational voice model, deployed in cars and smart home devices — Xiaomi Corp. on Monday released an open-source voice model to complement its automotive and home appliance technologies …
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| Lu Wang / Bloomberg: |
A study finds that AI trading bots can collude and fix prices in simulated markets without explicit instruction, posing challenges to regulators — It's a regulator's nightmare: Hedge funds unleash AI bots on stock and bond exchanges — but they don't just compete, they collude.
More: Fortune, Bloomberg Law, NBER, Tom's Hardware, and The Post Millennial
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Silicon Valley has shifted from Web 2.0 to a new “hard tech”, AI-dominated era with fewer perks and a more serious mood, as startups use San Francisco as a base — In a scene in HBO's “Silicon Valley” in 2014, a character who had just sold his idea to a fictional tech company …
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| Natallie Rocha / New York Times: |
How 20-something CEOs like Cognition AI's Scott Wu, Cursor's Michael Truell, Cluely's Roy Lee, and Scale AI's Alexandr Wang are swarming San Francisco's AI boom — Some dropped out of M.I.T., Georgetown and Stanford. Others decided not to go to college. They all say they could not afford … | Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: |
Google, OpenAI, Meta, and VCs are increasingly embracing the US military industrial complex, a major Silicon Valley cultural shift supported by President Trump — In a major shift, Google, OpenAI, Meta and venture capitalists — many of whom had once forsworn involvement in war — have embraced the military industrial complex.| Monique Mulima / Bloomberg: |
Bullish, a digital asset exchange and CoinDesk owner, plans to sell 20.3M shares at $28 to $31 in a US IPO, raising up to $629.3M at an up to $4.2B valuation — Bullish, a digital-asset exchange operator and owner of media outlet CoinDesk, is looking to raise as much as $629.3 million in its US initial public offering.
More: Reuters
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
A profile of Figma CEO Dylan Field, a former Thiel fellow whose Figma stake is worth ~$6.6B after the company ended its NYSE debut week with a $71B+ market cap — Mark Zuckerberg may be the most famous college-dropout-turned-tech- billionaire. Dylan Field is the latest … | Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to memorialize the dead, as critics worry about AI's impact on how people remember one another — Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?| George Osborne / Financial Times: |
Former UK Chancellor and Coinbase Advisory Council member George Osborne says the UK missed the first crypto wave and risks missing the stablecoin-driven second — If we were the world's only financial centre we could take our time to evaluate stablecoins — but we are not
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