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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 …
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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 …
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Bluesky: @colinmurray, @laurapurkess, @neverevertory, @rachelcoldicutt, and @heatherburnstech
Forums: r/worldnews and 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.
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| 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% … | 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 … | 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 …
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Bluesky: @frankpasquale, @mlobelart, and @brianstelter
Mastodon: @fullyabstract@fosstodon.org and @augieray@mastodon.social
Forums: r/berkeley, r/technology, and r/interesting
| 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 …
More: MediaNama, SecurityWeek, Android Central, and The Cyber Express
Forums: r/pcmasterrace and r/technology
| April Ma / Bloomberg: |
Tencent-backed Enflame receives approval for a Shanghai IPO and plans to raise ~$888M; Enflame is the last of China's four leading AI chipmakers to go to market — Tencent Holdings Ltd.-backed Shanghai Enflame Technology Co. has received approval for an initial public offering … | 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.| 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 …
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X: @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @neilcybart, and @mufasayc. Bluesky: @davidcrespo. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Forums: r/apple
| 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 …
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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| 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 … | 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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