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Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allegedly replicating his voice in NotebookLM without permission; Google says the voice is based on a paid actor (Will Oremus/Washington Post)
Will Oremus / Washington Post : Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allege…
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Admin official: Pentagon may sever Anthropic relationship over AI safeguards; Anthropic says only mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons are off limits (Axios)
Axios : Admin official: Pentagon may sever Anthropic relationship over AI safeguard…
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India approves a $1.1B state-backed VC fund to finance high-risk areas like AI and advanced manufacturing, doubling down on an effort that debuted in 2016 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch : India approves a $1.1B state-backed VC fund to finance…
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Analysis: despite investing $150B+ in 10+ years, China is expected to produce 2% of global AI chips in 2026 and 70x less memory storage than foreign chipmakers (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)
Meaghan Tobin / New York Times : Analysis: despite investing $150B+ in 10+ years, C…
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A deep dive into a global money-laundering ecosystem powered by crypto and messaging apps like WeChat and Telegram, used by drug cartels and criminal groups (Jessica Brice/Bloomberg)
Jessica Brice / Bloomberg : A deep dive into a global money-laundering ecosystem po…
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Q&A with Dario Amodei on getting close to "a country of geniuses in a data center", how AI will diffuse through the economy, frontier lab profits, China, more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast : Q&A with Dario Amodei on getting close to “…
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Sources: the US FTC accelerated a probe into whether Microsoft illegally monopolized the enterprise computing market with its cloud software and AI offerings (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Sources: the US FTC accelerated a probe into whether Microsoft illegall…
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YouTube launches an app for the Apple Vision Pro, with standard videos, 180° and 360° videos, and YouTube Shorts; devices with the M5 chip can play 8K videos (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors : YouTube launches an app for the Apple Vision Pro, with …
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Meta plans to spend more than $10B to build a 1GW data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana, expected to be operational at the end of 2027 or in early 2028 (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
Riley Griffin / Bloomberg : Meta plans to spend more than $10B to build a 1GW data …
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Inertia, co-founded by ex-Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson to build one of the world's most powerful lasers for a grid-scale fusion power plant, raised a $450M Series A (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
Tim De Chant / TechCrunch : Inertia, co-founded by ex-Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson to bui…
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Microsoft is automatically replacing Secure Boot certificates for older PCs before they start to expire later in 2026; Secure Boot was first introduced in 2011 (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge : Microsoft is automatically replacing Secure Boot cert…
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Lyft launches teen accounts in the US more than two years after Uber, with safety features such as PIN verification, real-time tracking, and audio recordings (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
Samantha Subin / CNBC : Lyft launches teen accounts in the US more than two years a…
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Beast Industries, the entertainment conglomerate founded by MrBeast and last valued at $5.2B, acquires Step Mobile, a teen-focused banking app (Valida Pau/The Information)
Valida Pau / The Information : Beast Industries, the entertainment conglomerate fou…
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Moltbook was peak AI theater, less of a glimpse at the future and more of a mirror simply reflecting society's current obsession with AI (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review : Moltbook was peak AI theater, less of…
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How AI is impacting the romance novel industry, with authors failing to disclose AI use and using pen names more, bogging down the publishing ecosystem (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
Alexandra Alter / New York Times : How AI is impacting the romance novel industry, …
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