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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.
More: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada, Digital Trends, iThinkDifferent, Apple Must, and Forbes
| María Paula Mijares Torres / Bloomberg: |
Trump says he will appoint an AI czar and form an “AI Force”, in a Truth Social post that rejects AI safety concerns as a “hoax” — President Donald Trump said he would name an artificial intelligence czar as he continued to push tech companies to race ahead with development despite growing fears safety.
More: Axios, Financial Times, Politico, New York Times, NBC News, Washington Post, The Guardian, Mashable, BBC, Telegraph, Quartz, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Implicator.ai, The Business Times, Türkiye Today, Seoul Economic Daily, Trump's Truth, The Indian Express, GB News, Oman Observer, The Decoder, American Greatness, ABC7, Fortune, Althouse, Cointelegraph, International Business Times, The Hill, Unite.AI, Newser, The Information, Al Jazeera, Engadget, New York Post, Daily Mail, Washington Examiner, Fox News, and WTTG-TV
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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
More: The Block and crypto.news
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| 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 law| New York Times: |
Experts say AI kill-switch legislation is far harder to implement than lawmakers assume, warning a rogue AI could actively try to dismantle the mechanism itself — A bipartisan group in Congress and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California have floated ideas for building a mechanism that would instantly power down an A.I. system.
More: CNBC, CBS News, Jacobin, The Indian Express, Gizmodo, Seeking Alpha, New York Post, and Mashable
| New York Times: |
Former DraftKings employees detail how it uses ML to target likely losers with promotions, while efforts to flag problem gamblers were shelved or squashed — About a year into his job as a data analyst at DraftKings, Jayden Butts received a new assignment.
More: Tech Times, The Daily Caller, and Lawyers, Guns & Money
X: @quinnypig. Bluesky: @harrymccracken.com. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Forums: r/ArtificialInteligence, r/billsimmons, r/DanLeBatardShow, r/skeptic, r/technology, and r/nytimes
| Reuters: |
Chinese DRAM chipmaker CXMT says its new fifth-gen technology platform enters mass production and unveils two 24Gb LPDDR5X phone memory products built on it — Chinese DRAM chipmaker CXMT (688825.SS) said on Sunday its fifth-generation technology platform had entered mass production …
More: South China Morning Post and Finimize
| Josipa Majic Predin / Forbes: |
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.
More: TechCrunch, Vercel, Langfuse, MarkTechPost, The Stack, RuntimeWire, and Arize AI
| 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.| 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| 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’
X: @lilaphasia, @gloriousurbanii, @robcrilly, and @ft
| Katie McQue / NPR: |
US policy analysts, lawmakers, and others say several state-level AI chatbot safety bills included language that could provide loopholes for tech companies — Cynthia Montoya's daughter, Juliana, was 13 when she began talking to AI chatbots. It was 2023, and the technology was only beginning to enter widespread use.| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
Google says it didn't consider Gemini's hacks worthy of disclosure because Gemini acted “appropriately” and stopped after determining it hacked real companies — Google says that breaking containment and targeting real companies doesn't constitute ‘misalignment.’
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Bluesky: @maxnichols, @dlknowles, @malwarejake, @wajali, @rani, and @ppopiel. Mastodon: @tymwol@hachyderm.io. Forums: r/SGU
| Ann Cao / South China Morning Post: |
Alibaba's Damo Academy open sources RADAR, a medical vision-language model it says can read CT scans and identify ~150 abdominal conditions, including cancers — Tested on nearly 40,000 real-world exams, the model outperformed most radiologists, according to a new study published in Science
More: Alibaba DAMO Academy on GitHub, RuntimeWire, and Tech Times
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