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Instagram has been running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India, with terms like “rape video” and “child video” and linking to Telegram channels — Warning: This story contains descriptions of abuse — Instagram has been running paid adverts promoting …
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Forums: r/technology, r/india, and r/NotADragQueen
| Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros / SemiAnalysis: |
Meta could use its compute for its own models, ad scaling, SpaceX-like neocloud deals, and hosting 3rd-party models; it may be close to an Anthropic deal — Zuck Takes Plan B? SpaceX 2.0, Bedrock 2.0, MSL Isn't Giving Up, Scaling RecSys by 10x... ClusterMAX ranking coming soon?
More: Clouded Judgement. X: @benbajarin, @edzitron, @analysisop, @rhouseresearch, and @semianalysis_. Bluesky: @timkellogg.me
| Jason Hiner / The Deep View: |
Q&A with Doug Brooks, senior product manager of Apple silicon, about Mac minis becoming preferred AI agent machines, future of on-device AI, and more — W — alk into any of the frontier AI labs, and you'll find wall-to-wall Macs. — Decisions Apple made years ago … | The Information: |
Sources: Alibaba banned Claude Code internally and asked its employees to remove all Claude models from their work computers due to Anthropic security concerns — Alibaba Group has banned employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code, and asked them to remove all Claude models from their work computers …
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X: @kevinsxu, @andrewcurran_, @poezhao0605, @yacinemtb, @hiteshdotcom, @ajbutton2, and @chorzempamartin. Bluesky: @carnage4life
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| Bloomberg: |
Official data shows Hong Kong accounted for 50%+ of China's $239B in chip imports in the first five months of 2026, a record share, up from ~33% a decade ago — Hong Kong has become a vital conduit for high-tech products moving in and out of China, emerging as one node in a $2 trillion network …
More: KrASIA, South China Morning Post, and Christian Science Monitor
| Mari Kiyohara / Bloomberg: |
Micron breaks ground on its ~$9.3B Hiroshima factory expansion, part of its global ramp-up to meet AI demand, and plans to start HBM shipments from summer 2028 — Micron Technology Inc. on Saturday broke ground on the expansion of its factory in western Japan, a ¥1.5 trillion ($9.3 billion) … | Financial Times: |
An interview with Sriram Krishnan, who says “there will not be an FDA for AI” under Trump, blames the AI backlash on the industry's “doomer” messaging, and more — Sriram Krishnan tells the FT the president is against a centralised regulator as AI backlash grows| Anna Heim / TechCrunch: |
Prague-based EquiLibre, which offers AI for quant hedge funds and is founded by three ex-Google DeepMind researchers, raised a Series A at a $500M valuation — Three former DeepMind researchers who created an AI that beat humans at poker have now applied the same technology to trading stocks — and the bet appears to be paying off.
More: SiliconANGLE, EU-Startups, Tech.eu, and The SaaS News
| Robert P Baird / The Guardian: |
A profile of Google DeepMind philosopher Iason Gabriel, whose work has tracked, and in many cases predicted, the ethical challenges posed by the success of LLMs — Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate - and think through - the impact of AI.
X: @iasongabriel, @ethicsinai, @tomrachman, @david_gunkel, @jhimmelreich, @leonieclaude, and @dr_atoosa
LinkedIn: Lila Ibrahim and Morten Bay, Ph.D.
| Madison McLauchlan / BetaKit: |
Montreal-based Stathera, a maker of MEMS-based silicon timing components for chips, raised a $55M Series B led by Maverick Silicon, taking total funding to $75M — Stathera has raised $55 million USD ($78 million CAD) to boost production of its semiconductor clock technology amid an AI-fuelled push for compute power.
More: Stathera, FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, and Axios
LinkedIn: Josh Miner, Stathera, Inc., and George Xereas
| Gene Maddaus / Variety: |
Midjourney wants Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to reveal in court how they use AI across their companies; studios sued Midjourney in 2025 for infringement — The studios sued the AI image lab last year, accusing it of enabling massive infringement of their copyrighted characters.| Bloomberg: |
A look at the quant fund frenzy in China, as assets under management have more than doubled to ~$384B in less than a year amid rapid AI adoption — Quant funds in China have become so popular that they are being deluged with investors' money. — Ubiquant, one of the top players …
LinkedIn: Chris Zhang
| Nilesh Christopher / Los Angeles Times: |
How ByteDance is making Hollywood inroads with its Seedance video generator, thanks to low pricing, striking realism, and features like timeline-based prompting — - 8 min Click here to listen to this article … - A viral AI video of Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise sparked industry outrage … | Duc Dao / TNGlobal: |
Singapore-based dConstruct Robotics, which develops spatial tech to let autonomous robots operate in complex, GPS-denied environments, raised a $125M Series A — Singapore-based dConstruct Technologies has closed a $125 million Series A funding round, marking the standout achievement …
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