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Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal:
How some high-income families use AI-powered private schools and tutors, such as Alpha School, to teach their children life skills and tailor their curriculum  —  People who can afford to send their grade-school kids anywhere are choosing new alternative education
Marcel Thee / Nikkei Asia:
Indonesia's enforcement of social media restrictions for under-16s has been patchy, with tech companies ignoring the rules and youth still accessing platforms  —  JAKARTA — Andreas Humala, a multimedia lecturer at the London School of Public Relations in Jakarta, recently overheard …
Sofia Chesnokova / Tech Funding News:
NY-based LinqAlpha, which provides AI-powered market research tools for hedge funds, raised a $22M Series A co-led by AVP, Atinum Investment, and GFT Ventures  —  - LinqAlpha, an AI research platform for hedge funds and asset managers, has raised $22 million in a Series A round led by AVP, Atinum Investment and GFT Ventures.
Kieran Smith / Financial Times:
Sources: Uber halts plans to launch food delivery in five of the seven European countries it had targeted for expansion as it pursues a Delivery Hero takeover  —  Ride-hailing company will no longer launch in five of its seven planned new markets this year  —  Uber has paused the majority …
More: Reuters
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?

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David Ellison / @ellisonskydance:
David Ellison announces that the combined Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery will be called Skydance “to preserve what has made each of these studios iconic”

New York Times:
Sources: Trump personally told his budget director to use taxpayer money for TV ads praising his presidency; at least four spots have run at a cost of ~$5.5M

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney licenses a large group of titles to Netflix, including all five Ice Age movies, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Felicity, Elio, and more

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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

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Divya Arya / BBC:
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
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
More: Benzinga.  X: @sriramk, @gerritd, @gerritd, and @gerritd.  Bluesky: @caseynewton
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
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