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| Politico: |
The White House releases an AI policy framework, explicitly calling on Congress to preempt state AI laws, create age-gating requirements for AI models, and more — The framework explicitly calls on Congress to preempt any state laws that regulate the way models are developed or that penalize companies …
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LinkedIn: Michael Kennedy, Jordan Crenshaw, Dan Wolf, Michael Kratsios, Brandon Butler, Gabby Miller, Lee Tiedrich, and Avani D.. Bluesky: @gtjr. Mastodon: @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
| Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
Sources: Amazon's ZeroOne unit is developing “Transformer”, a phone that syncs with Alexa; it would be Amazon's second smartphone, after the Fire Phone in 2014 — In 2014, Amazon (AMZN.O) introduced its first smartphone, hoping to take on Apple and Samsung.
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X: @charlesarthur, @chadwahl, @fjeronimo, @jukan05, @paytondev, and @jbulltard1
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
US prosecutors charge three people affiliated with Super Micro, including co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw, with smuggling Nvidia AI chips to China; SMCI drops 30%+ — The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York has charged associates of an unidentified U.S. server maker …
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| Ed Bott / ZDNET: |
Microsoft acknowledges complaints about Windows 11, promising a reduction of “unnecessary” Copilot integrations, more control over updates, and more — ZDNET's key takeaways — Microsoft finally acknowledged complaints about Windows 11. — The company is promising sweeping changes to a slew of features.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google is running a “small” experiment replacing news headlines in search results with AI-generated ones, after adding the feature in Google Discover in January — We're seeing Verge headlines rewritten by Google AI. … Since roughly the turn of the millennium, Google Search has been the bedrock of the web.
More: Digital Trends, GovTech, The A.V. Club, and Search Engine Land
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
WordPress.com says it will now allow AI agents to draft, edit, and publish content on customers' websites, as well as manage comments, update metadata, and more — Web hosting platform WordPress.com is embracing AI agents, a decision that could change the look and feel of the web.
More: The Next Web and WordPress.com News
Bluesky: @jtlg and @caseynewton
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| Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: |
Anthropic launches Claude Code channels, which let users interact with a Claude Code session through Telegram and Discord — Anthropic released Claude Code Channels, a research-preview feature that lets developers send messages to a running Claude Code session from Telegram and Discord.
More: Claude, VentureBeat, XDA Developers, GitHub, MacStories, and India Today
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| @kimi_moonshot: |
Moonshot says Kimi K2.5 provides “the foundation” for Cursor's Composer 2 model and that Cursor accesses Kimi K2.5 via Fireworks AI — Congrats to the @cursor_ai team on the launch of Composer 2! We are proud to see Kimi-k2.5 provide the foundation. Seeing our model integrated effectively through Cursor's continued pretraining & high-compute RL training is the open model ecosystem we love to support.
| Arthur Mensch / Financial Times: |
Mistral's CEO proposes a revenue-based levy for AI model providers in the EU, to be invested “in new content creation and supporting Europe's cultural sectors” — A revenue-based charge would protect the livelihoods of copyright holders and bring legal certainty
| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
OpenAI plans “an autonomous AI research intern” by September and says its “North Star” is to build a fully automated multi-agent research system by 2028 — EXECUTIVE SUMMARY — OpenAI is refocusing its research efforts and throwing its resources into a new grand challenge.| DeepDelver: |
A new anonymous Substack alleges AI compliance startup Delve “faked” compliance for startups by generating pre-populated audit reports and fabricating evidence — How Delve managed to falsely convince hundreds of customers they were compliant and then lied about it when exposed and called out
More: Delve. X: @eringriffith, @tekbog, @kobyjconrad, @ohryansbelt, @jessicatshen, @mil0theminer, @tenobrus, @ivanburazin, @bryanonel86, @decadimitry, @anammostarac, @attributeshift, @mil0theminer, @brettfromdj, @bengold, @vasuman, @mil0theminer, @quinnypig, @barrald, @bfaviero, @denehyxxl, @johnloeber, @awwstn, @tenobrus, @anothercohen, @tekbog, @stkenned, @peer_rich, @0xluffy, @ahmetb, @jadecole2112, @zetalyrae, @vcbrags, @isareksopuro, @jackbr513, @busdownbonnor, @feifanz, @scottastevenson, @kscottz, @megannyvold, @pk_iv, @jessfraz, @javipark_, @boringbiz_, @shobhitic, @bonegpt, @zackkorman, and @heretorule77
LinkedIn: Jan Langrehr and Mike Kim
Bluesky: @regimecpa, @alisonbuki, and @moll.dev
Forums: Hacker News and r/soc2
| Bill Ready / Time: |
Pinterest CEO Bill Ready calls on governments to ban social media for users under 16, says social platforms gave “insufficient forethought” about consequences — When Pinterest removed social features for teens and made every account under 16 private—meaning no discoverability …
More: TechCrunch, Engadget, Reuters, and The Independent
LinkedIn: Ryan Fujiu, Cailin Crockett, Allison McConeghy, and Bill Ready
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A US DOJ operation disrupted four botnets that infected 3M+ devices and includes the Aisuru and Kimwolf botnets used in a 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack in November 2025 — The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets had used clever techniques to worm into home networks, infecting …
More: US Department of Justice, Krebs on Security, The Register, LinkedIn, PCMag, InfoRiskToday.com, Help Net Security, Security Affairs, HotHardware, CyberScoop, CyberInsider, The Record, Solomon on Cybersecurity, TechRadar, and Android Headlines
X: @zephyr_z9, @zephyr_z9, and @mattjay
LinkedIn: Kenneth A. DeChellis, David Bradbury, Brian Krebs, and Jérôme Meyer
| Anniek Bao / CNBC: |
Jensen Huang proposes a compensation model where engineers receive an AI token budget on top of their base salary, to deploy agents as productivity multipliers — The perks of working in Silicon Valley have long included high salaries. Now, some engineers may be offered a new incentive: artificial intelligence tokens.
More: PYMNTS.com, Business Insider, and Digit
X: @aravsrinivas, @gergelyorosz, @gergelyorosz, @edandersen, @levie, @rahll, @dharmeshba, @neogoose_btw, @gergelyorosz, @kylegawley, and @tftc21. Bluesky: @lorak
Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
| Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt: |
Microsoft releases MAI-Image-2, ranked third on Arena AI's text-to-image leaderboard behind only models from Google and OpenAI, available in the MAI Playground — Microsoft has been quietly building its own image generator. Announced Thursday by the company's AI Superintelligence team …
More: Microsoft AI, Digit, PCWorld, iPhone in Canada, WinBuzzer, The Rundown AI, Windows Central, The Deep View, The Next Web, The Decoder, Thurrott, and Neowin
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Xiaomi unveils its MiMo-V2 AI models, including the 1T-parameter MiMo-V2-Pro, codenamed Hunter Alpha, which Xiaomi says benchmarks close to GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.6 — Led by Fuli Luo, a veteran of the disruptive DeepSeek R1 project, the release represents what Luo characterizes as a “quiet ambush” on the global frontier.
More: Xiaomi MiMo, Explore and Love, Xiaomi MiMo, Explore and Love, and Xiaomi MiMo, Explore and Love
X: @_luofuli, @artificialanlys, @xiaomimimo, @xiaomimimo, @yishan, @kilocode, @youjiacheng, @jenzhuscott, @opencode, @teortaxestex, @artificialanlys, @artificialanlys, @genai_is_real, @thdxr, @openrouter, @wesroth, @elaina43114880, @ruima, @xiaomimimo, @_albertgu, @cline, and @lentils80
Forums: r/SillyTavernAI, r/technology, and r/LocalLLaMA
| Bloomberg: |
Memo: ByteDance agrees to sell gaming unit Moonton to Savvy Games, owned by Saudi Arabia's PIF, sources say for $6B; ByteDance bought Moonton for ~$4B in 2021 — Savvy Games Group has agreed to buy the Moonton studio from ByteDance Ltd. as the Saudi Arabian firm builds up its mobile gaming assets.| Reuters: |
Sources: contract electronics manufacturer Zetwerk plans to file for an IPO in India, aiming to raise ~$550M at a ~$4B valuation; it was valued at $3.1B in 2024 — India's Zetwerk is preparing to confidentially file draft papers for an initial public offering within the next one to two weeks …
More: Inc42
| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
A judge issues an order requiring Kalshi to temporarily halt sports and election contracts in Nevada, the first US state to force Kalshi to cease operations — A judge ordered Kalshi to immediately halt sports and election contracts in the state, intensifying a growing regulatory battle over prediction markets.
More: TechCrunch, Decrypt, Gizmodo, CoinDesk, The Block, Bloomberg Law, Front Office Sports, Reuters, Bitcoin News, and Las Vegas Review-Journal
Bluesky: @moreperfectunion and @joshsternberg.com
Forums: r/BetterOffline, r/Fauxmoi, r/Nevada, and r/politics
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