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| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Sources: senior Anthropic technical staff are in DC to meet WH officials and try to fix the Mythos 5 dispute; both sides say they are eager to resolve the issue — Senior technical Anthropic staff are in Washington to meet with White House officials to try to fix a dispute that has taken …
More: Wall Street Journal, Silicon Republic, Gizmodo, Seoul Economic Daily, SmartCompany, Reuters, Fortune, ZeroHedge News, Semafor, and The Information
Forums: r/politics, r/accelerate, r/Anthropic, r/ClaudeCode, r/singularity, and r/ClaudeAI
| Reuters: |
More: Politico, Benzinga, SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, TechCrunch, and The Information
X: @polymarket and @davidsacks
Forums: Hacker News and r/worldnews
| Reuters: |
UK PM Keir Starmer says the UK will ban social media for under-16s and restrict gaming and livestreaming platforms, aiming for regulation by the end of 2026 — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday he would ban social media sites for under-16s and impose restrictions on gaming …
More: BBC, GOV.UK, The Register, MacRumors, Engadget, Reuters, Business Today, The Economic Times, Deadline, Wired, CNBC, Video Games Chronicle, Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, HuffPost, TechRadar, NBC Bay Area, Digital Trends, The Guardian, The Sun, Metro.co.uk, The Spectator, Daily Record, Financial Times, Mirror, Telecompaper, RTÉ, GB News, NBC News, Variety, and Bloomberg
X: @keir_starmer, @s8mb, @lozzafox, @albomp, @nigel_farage, @10downingstreet, @fsuofaustralia, @carolecadwalla, @landeur, @kemibadenoch, @ednewtonrex, @narindertweets, @wesstreeting, @mcrreiners, @pippacrerar, @rupertlowe10, and @derekmross
Bluesky: @colinmurray, @laurapurkess, @neverevertory, @rachelcoldicutt, and @heatherburnstech. Forums: r/ukpolitics
| Liv McMahon / BBC: |
The UK social media ban will apply to Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X, and will require platforms to stop children from livestreaming — The UK has announced it is going to block social media for under-16s. — Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said that the ban would take effect in early 2027.
More: LADbible, New York Times, and Gamereactor UK
| Emily Shugerman / The San Francisco Standard: |
Inside the Signal group chat where Sergey Brin, Marc Andreessen, Garry Tan, and other tech elites toss out strategies to oppose a proposed California wealth tax — The billionaires of California had a problem. — It was the fall of 2025, and a proposed ballot initiative to tax 5% … | New York Times: |
A profile of UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid, the world's leading digital forensics expert for 20+ years, who says he is now struggling to identify AI fakes — The emails began to arrive on a Sunday morning, as the worst ones often did. Hany Farid opened the first message at his home …
More: The Overspill and PYMNTS
Bluesky: @frankpasquale, @mlobelart, and @brianstelter
Mastodon: @fullyabstract@fosstodon.org and @augieray@mastodon.social
Forums: r/berkeley, r/technology, and r/interesting
| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
Chinese Tesla drivers are using tiny plastic heads to fool Tesla's distracted-driving controls, which appear unable to distinguish figurines from real people — A cottage industry of celebrity figurines, blinking screens, and other DIY gadgets is helping drivers bypass Tesla's distracted-driving controls.| James Franey / New York Post: |
President Trump says he warned Emmanuel Macron to drop France's 3% digital services tax on US tech giants, or face a 100% tariff on French champagne and wine — See more of our coverage in your search results. — Add The New York Post on Google — President Trump warned that France …
More: Benzinga, The Economic Times, Bloomberg, RTÉ, The Asia Business Daily, CNBC, The Guardian, and Politico
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
The FBI dismantles Outsider Enterprise, an AI-powered Chinese phishing operation, and seizes $100K in Tether in joint effort with Google and Black Lotus Labs — In a coordinated effort, the FBI, working with Google and Black Lotus Labs, has dismantled a massive Chinese phishing … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Siri AI is good enough to ease Apple's AI crisis; sources: the ability to tap third party AI models beyond OpenAI's is already active in internal iOS 27 builds — The company prepares for the foldable iPhone and touch-screen MacBook. — Apple's new Siri AI, despite mainly delivering …
More: AppleInsider, Forbes, The Next Web, Trusted Reviews, Digital Trends, iPhone in Canada, 9to5Mac, and 9to5Mac
X: @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @neilcybart, and @mufasayc. Bluesky: @davidcrespo. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Forums: r/apple
| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Letter: US cybersecurity leaders urge the White House to lift the ban on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable 5, arguing the move hurts defenders more than attackers — Prominent cybersecurity leaders — including CISOs, security researchers and executives at Adobe, Zoom and Sophos … | Wall Street Journal: |
As “nudify” tools proliferate, unleashing a new form of bullying among kids, parents and schools are struggling to protect young victims from AI deepfakes — As ‘nudify’ tools proliferate online, parents and schools are struggling to protect young victims
Mastodon: @christianschwaegerl …
| Cathy Chan / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Alibaba is in talks to buy Chinese fresh grocery delivery platform Pupu for $1.5B, in a bid to better compete with food delivery rivals like Meituan — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is offering $1.5 billion to buy Chinese grocery delivery firm Pupu, initiating a bidding war as part … | David Wainer / Wall Street Journal: |
Health wearables are booming, with both Oura and Whoop eyeing IPOs, but investors remain cautious after Fitbit's struggles and low consumer hardware margins — Oura and Whoop are eyeing IPOs at heady valuations — From sleep scores to heart rate, our biology now arrives packaged as a dashboard.
LinkedIn: David Wainer
| Satya Nadella / @satyanadella: |
Satya Nadella says companies must own their AI “learning loops” to compound human and token capital, or risk ceding all value to a handful of frontier models — I've been thinking a lot about the future of the firm in an AI-driven economy. This transition is different than any previous platform shift.
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