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Vercel, Cloudflare, and others quickly add Jev, as it makes AI tool selection much faster and cheaper; TypeSafe: Jev matches GPT-5.6 and Sonnet 5 workflow evals — Most of what an AI agent asks a frontier model to do is not writing. It is choosing. Which tool to call next, whether to retry, whether a command is safe to run.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A closer look at the upcoming Siri AI-powered home hub, a key pillar of Apple's strategy for the home; sources: Apple started cutting Fitness+ staff — Also: What happened with the iPhone Duo Pencil and layoffs at Fitness+. — Apple's new “intelligent personal hub” strategy is about much more than the iPhone.
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| Qwen: |
Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B open-weight model it says outperforms most closed-source models, with native transparency and up to ten reference images — · QwenTeam丨Translations:.体中文 — We are excited to open-source Qwen-Image-2.1 …
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| Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: |
Scott Bessent says the US proposed an AI incident notification mechanism to China, and both sides agreed to set up an AI dialogue ahead of the Trump-Xi summit — Treasury secretary Scott Bessent met his Chinese counterpart He Lifeng in New York — The US and China have agreed to set …
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| Michael Schuman / The Atlantic: |
China has made AI a national mission, but local workers' fear of displacement mirrors worries abroad, and potential for social unrest may force CCP to slow down — A top-down tech revolution is harder to manage than a bottom-up one. — anxiety about ai in the United States appears to be getting worse.| Alex Lawson / The Guardian: |
UK-based Unit1, which develops “hyper-realistic” digital avatars of musicians to recreate classic concerts, raised nearly £15M from Balderton Capital and others — Unit1 hopes to offer lower cost version of shows such as Abba Voyage, showcasing living and dead artists in any venue
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| Natalie Breymeyer / Axios: |
Mithrl, which integrates its proprietary biomedical world model with the R&D systems of pharmaceutical companies, raised a $20M Series A led by Obvious Ventures — Mithrl, an AI infrastructure company for biopharma, raised a $20 million Series A, CEO Vivek Adarsh tells Axios exclusively.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan dismissed concerns after fraudsters tried to launder $10M+ from stolen cards to clean accounts via its wagers in February — CEO Shayne Coplan brushed off concerns about scheme involving stolen debit cards; now the prediction market is bolstering executive ranks as it eyes IPO
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| Owen Walker / Financial Times: |
AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are putting pressure on office rents in Singapore as they embark on expansion in response to government overtures — Anthropic and OpenAI taking more space in city's already squeezed prime property market — AI heavyweights including Anthropic … | Truman Dickerson / Business Insider: |
Jensen Huang says AI leaders calling for regulation don't want new legislation, but to be “relieved of the laws we do have” because of “ulterior reasons” — Don't let the black leather jacket fool you, Jensen Huang isn't a doomer. — Nvidia's CEO said as much in an interview with CBS News aired on Sunday.| Owen Tucker-Smith / Wall Street Journal: |
Indeed: data center roles in the US offer a ~42% pay premium for hourly maintenance and installation workers compared with similar jobs at other businesses — Powering the nation's massive AI build-out requires lots of walking, checking for burning smells and monitoring for bird damage
X: @discoplomacy and @wsj
| John Thornhill / Financial Times: |
An interview with Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton on the Raspberry Pi Foundation, his skepticism of AI evangelists, AI driving edge compute device demand, and more — The British tech leader on coding as the modern form of literacy, his scepticism of AI evangelists — and why ‘the p(doom) is probably Russia’
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| Ken Bensinger / New York Times: |
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law that will penalize influencers who do not properly disclose paid political content, with fines of up to $5K per post — Under a new law, creators could face fines of $5,000 per post if they don't disclose that they were paid to make political content.
More: WeRSM, Governor of California, The Guardian, TechCrunch, and Straight Arrow
Forums: r/politics, r/California_Politics, and r/law
| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
Meta challenges Ofcom's OSA categorization of WhatsApp and Instagram imposing additional regulations; Roblox and Quora are also challenging their categorization — US tech giant's latest action against regulator Ofcom could slow down implementation of the far-reaching lawSponsor Posts
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