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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
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
AWS says Mechanical Turk will no longer accept new customers and that it is placing the crowdsourcing service in maintenance, signaling its future retirement — Workers who use OG crowdsourcing platform say AWS is closing accounts — Amazon Web Services will stop accepting new customers … | Aisha Down / The Guardian: |
Source calls UK- and OpenAI-touted plans in 2025 for Stargate's ~£20B Cobalt site a PR stunt; OpenAI and Nscale failed to visit Cobalt or lodge planning forms — Exclusive: £20bn of ‘potential’ £30bn AI investment touted by UK ministers appears to have been hypothetical| 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 …
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| 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 … | 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.
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| Sejal Sharma / Hindustan Times: |
India issues a notice to Telegram, asking it to curb the spread of pirated films and other copyrighted content, and seeks an action-taken report within 15 days — The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) issued a notice to Telegram on Saturday, asking the messaging platform … | Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Kaley Glenn-Mills, the plaintiff in K.G.M. v. Meta et al., who was awarded $6M in damages in a landmark LA jury trial over social media addiction — Kaley Glenn-Mills' lawsuit reshaped the fight to protect children from social media. She says she still can't stop scrolling.| Financial Times: |
Bending Spoons' Nasdaq IPO caps its 50+ deals across 10+ years that transformed the Italian startup into a highly leveraged internet company with ~$4.4B in debt — Nasdaq listing caps more than a decade of deals that transformed an Italian start-up into a global internet company
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| 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 …
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| 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 … | Financial Times: |
A look at the troubled rollout of the EU's automated biometric entry/exit border system, as airport operators warn of severe delays ahead of the summer holidays — Automated system first mooted in 2008 was meant to keep out criminals — instead, it is delaying travellers
More: Bloomberg and Austin American-Statesman
| 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 … | 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) …
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