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The Department of Commerce loosens export controls to the UAE, letting G42 and US companies like Apple, Meta, and xAI export AI chips to UAE without a license (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)
Karen Freifeld / Reuters : The Department of Commerce loosens export controls to th…
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Filing: college social app Fizz accuses Maveron's Jerry Lu of giving confidential info to rival Sidechat after he met with Fizz as a potential investor in 2022 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Filing: college social app Fizz accuses Maveron's Je…
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Privacy advocates, CAA, and SAG-AFTRA slam Meta's Muse Image, which lets users create AI images using the likenesses of people with public Instagram accounts (Ina Fried/Axios)
Ina Fried / Axios : Privacy advocates, CAA, and SAG-AFTRA slam Meta's Muse Imag…
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The EU Parliament advances a bill letting tech companies scan for CSAM, reviving a proposal rejected in March, with an exemption for E2EE services like WhatsApp (Sam Clark/Politico)
Sam Clark / Politico : The EU Parliament advances a bill letting tech companies sca…
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OpenAI is discontinuing ChatGPT Atlas, its standalone desktop browser, in favor of the new ChatGPT desktop app (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac : OpenAI is discontinuing ChatGPT Atlas, its standalone desktop …
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Sources: AI contractor marketplace Mercor is discussing raising new funds at a roughly $20B valuation, less than a year after raising money at a $10B valuation (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Sources: AI contractor marketplace Mercor is discussing raising new fun…
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OpenAI merges Codex and ChatGPT desktop apps for Mac and Windows under a new ChatGPT desktop app, allowing users to switch between Codex, Chat, and Work (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac : OpenAI merges Codex and ChatGPT desktop apps for Mac and Windo…
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OpenAI says it found widespread task issues in SWE-Bench Pro, estimates ~30% of tasks are broken, and retracts its earlier recommendation to adopt the benchmark (OpenAI)
OpenAI : OpenAI says it found widespread task issues in SWE-Bench Pro, estimates ~3…
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Meta announces its first data center in Canada, a 1GW facility in Alberta that will cost the company about $9B and take two to three years to construct (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC : Meta announces its first data center in Canada, a 1GW faci…
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SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its first model built in partnership with Cursor, designed to "handle difficult, long-running" legal, finance, and coding tasks (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg : SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its first model built in pa…
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Meta launches Muse Image in Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and previews Muse Video, the first media generation models from its Superintelligence Labs (Meta)
Meta : Meta launches Muse Image in Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and previews M…
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Source: Kraken is pursuing a full banking license in Europe, with a focus on Lithuania as the jurisdiction to secure it (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)
Ian Allison / CoinDesk : Source: Kraken is pursuing a full banking license in Europ…
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Meta rolls out Muse Image, the first image generation model from its Superintelligence Labs, in Meta AI; it will also power new tools in Instagram and WhatsApp (Meta Newsroom)
Meta Newsroom : Meta rolls out Muse Image, the first image generation model from it…
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SCOTUS declines to block a Texas law requiring app stores and developers to verify the age of mobile device users, and for minors to obtain parental consent (Andrew Chung/Reuters)
Andrew Chung / Reuters : SCOTUS declines to block a Texas law requiring app stores …
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Sources: the US considers housing the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve at Commerce instead of Treasury amid concerns over Treasury's legal authority to manage it (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Sources: the US considers housing the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve at Comm…
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