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Elon Musk petitioned the FTC in May to end its 2022 order restricting Twitter's data use, claiming Twitter no longer exists as X merged with xAI and then SpaceX (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)

Elon Musk petitioned the FTC in May to end its 202...

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Analysis: Meta discreetly added code for an unreleased "NameTag" face-recognition system for its AI glasses over multiple updates to the Meta AI app this year (Wired)

Analysis: Meta discreetly added code for an unrele...

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S&P Dow Jones rejected proposals to expedite S&P 500 eligibility for mega-cap IPOs such as SpaceX, which remains ineligible until one year after going public (Isabelle Lee/Bloomberg)

S&P Dow Jones rejected proposals to expedite S&P 5...

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An interview with Naomi Gleit, Meta's head of product who joined the company 20 years ago, on Zuckerberg's "unfair" reputation, AI agents' capabilities, more (Zoe Kleinman/BBC)

An interview with Naomi Gleit, Meta's head of prod...

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Denver-based Scotch, which makes AI-powered payments tools for liquor retailers, raised a $20M Series A from VMG Partners, following a $10M seed in 2024 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Denver-based Scotch, which makes AI-powered paymen...

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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says agentic traffic is "growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time" (Mark Tyson/Tom's Hardware)

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says agentic traffic...

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Anthropic calls for top AI labs to weigh slowing or temporarily pausing development, suggesting that self-improving AI systems may soon pose societal risks (Wall Street Journal)

Anthropic calls for top AI labs to weigh slowing o...

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Sources: US officials have held talks with AI companies about the government acquiring shares; Sam Altman first pitched the concept directly to Trump in 2025 (NOTUS)

Sources: US officials have held talks with AI comp...

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OpenAI updates ChatGPT memory with a "more capable and compute-efficient" architecture and a summary page that lets users review and steer what it remembers (OpenAI)

OpenAI updates ChatGPT memory with a "more capable...

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Quantinuum closed up 0.63% in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday, with a market value of $15.7B, after raising $1.68B in an upsized IPO (CNBC)

Quantinuum closed up 0.63% in its Nasdaq debut on ...

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Internal docs from lawsuits by 1,400 school districts show how social media companies targeted kids: Meta paid "teen ambassadors", Snap sent school-hour alerts (Jennifer Valentino-DeVries/New York Times)

Internal docs from lawsuits by 1,400 school distri...

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Poke, which lets users access AI agents via text message, becomes the first AI agent approved for Apple's Messages for Business platform (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Poke, which lets users access AI agents via text m...

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Unsealed 2020 lawsuit: ex-IBM VP of threat intelligence alleges that IBM and AT&T concealed foreign cyber breaches to maintain eligibility for federal contracts (Bloomberg)

Unsealed 2020 lawsuit: ex-IBM VP of threat intelli...

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Sources: Anthropic has embedded around half a dozen forward-deployed engineers within the NSA to help the agency deploy Mythos for offensive cyber operations (Financial Times)

Sources: Anthropic has embedded around half a doze...

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Sources: Brian Chesky is starting a new AI lab and considering a focus on user interaction and design; he will remain Airbnb CEO and will not be the lab's CEO (Bloomberg)

Sources: Brian Chesky is starting a new AI lab and...

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In a letter to Utah Senate President, Kevin O'Leary says he will cut a 40,000-acre AI data center project in Utah by roughly half, after backlash from lawmakers (John Ainger/Bloomberg)

In a letter to Utah Senate President, Kevin O'Lear...

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Supabase, which provides backend tools for building AI apps, raised a $500M Series F led by GIC at a $10B pre-money valuation, up from $5B in October 2025 (CJ Haddad/CNBC)

Supabase, which provides backend tools for buildin...

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Google now lets big creators and publishers in the US claim and customize dedicated Search profiles to aggregate their cross-platform content (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Google now lets big creators and publishers in the...

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