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As US schools adopt AI, a look at the growing use of AI-powered monitoring tools like GoGuardian to scan students' chatbot conversations for signs of self-harm — As US educators embrace AI in the classroom, firms are selling software to flag mentions of self-harm, raising concerns over privacy and control.
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| Magdalena Petrova / CNBC: |
Investment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach $13B between 2025 and 2027, almost 2x the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, driven by AI buildout — Over 95% of international data and voice call traffic travels through nearly a million miles of underwater communication cables.
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| Mihir Sharma / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI, Alphabet, and Perplexity offering free access to their paid tiers in India suggests the country may be the biggest and safest bet for broad AI adoption — Everyone is looking for the next big AI bet. They're searching for energy-rich places that can run data centers cheaply … | Peter Landers / Wall Street Journal: |
Chinese robotaxi companies' tech and rider experience are generally similar to Waymo's, as they build businesses at home while also expanding internationally — While U.S. companies dominate their home market, other countries look to China for driverless technology
More: Jalopnik, Tech Buzz China Insider, Techreport, The Driverless Digest, and Barchart.com. Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars
| Jonathan Burgos / Forbes: |
Several of Asia's top tycoons and conglomerates are joining the data center race as tech giants plan $240B in APAC hyperscale expansion over the next five years — The buildout of AI infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific is in high gear. Masayoshi Son and Mukesh Ambani are among the region's wealthiest taking the lead.| Financial Times: |
Nasdaq had its worst 5-day run since April, falling 3% for the week as the combined market value of eight most valuable AI-related stocks fell by about $800B — Nasdaq falls 3% over the five-day period as investors worry about sky-high valuations — US companies closely tied …
More: TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Yahoo Finance, NBC News, New York Post, Dow Jones Newswires, CNN, and Benzinga
| Reuters: |
In DeepSeek's first public appearance since R1's success, a senior researcher told a state-run conference he was pessimistic about AI's impact on humanity — - DeepSeek makes first public appearance in almost a year — Company has kept low profile since global breakout in January| George Steer / Financial Times: |
A look at Dominari Holdings and Yorkville Advisors, two little-known boutique banks that have helped finance the Trump family's flurry of crypto deals this year — Dominari Holdings and Yorkville Advisors are benefiting from close connections with Eric and Donald Trump Jr| Brie Wolfson / Colossus: |
An account of working at Cursor for 60 days: a largely in-person culture, few scheduled meetings, aggressive recruiting, heavy internal product testing, more — Sixty days with the AI coding decacorn — Editor's note: This is the first installment in a series of Company Dispatches …
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| Bloomberg: |
A US judge declares a mistrial after a jury couldn't reach a verdict on two brothers charged in 2024 for allegedly stealing $25M in crypto from Ethereum traders — A jury was unable to reach a verdict in the fraud trial of two brothers, both recently graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology …
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| Sebastian Pellejero / Reuters: |
The Alpha Arena experiment gave six frontier models $10K each to trade crypto derivatives over two weeks: losses ranged from Qwen3 Max's $652 to GPT-5's $5,679 — Turn an artificial-intelligence bot into a trader and it acts all too human. Over a two-week span, six frontier models were seeded …
More: New York Post and Alpha Arena
| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Apple Music's growth may be stymied by the lack of a free tier as a funnel; Midia: on a weekly level, 43% of consumers used Spotify and 16% turned to Apple — The service's lack of a free tier might be dimming its prospects with music consumers, particularly in emerging markets — Welcome back to Soundbite.| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Tala Health, which plans to roll out AI agents to help clinicians improve patient care next year, raised a $100M seed led by Sofreh Capital — Ritankar Das, founder of Titan Holdings. — TITAN HOLDINGS — Ritankar Das wants the holding company to make its comeback.| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Rivian spins off Mind Robotics as a new stand-alone industrial AI and robotics company; Mind Robotics raised a $115M seed led by Eclipse — Rivian has created its second spinoff company this year: an industrial AI and robotics venture called Mind Robotics.
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