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Meta says its AG deal requires it to create an age assurance standard that is subject to independent testing, with a false positive rate no higher than 10% (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

Meta says its AG deal requires it to create an age...

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Meta says it reached a deal with 51 US AGs, including "strict daily time limits teens can't turn off", and calls on TikTok and YouTube to adopt the standards (Meta Newsroom)

Meta says it reached a deal with 51 US AGs, includ...

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Filing: Meta reaches a settlement to resolve 29 US states' claims under COPPA that it designed Instagram and Facebook to addict children and misled consumers (Reuters)

Filing: Meta reaches a settlement to resolve 29 US...

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy awards Elon Musk with Ukraine's Order of Freedom; sources say Zelenskyy asked Musk to authorize Starlink use up to 200km inside Russia (Fabrice Deprez/Financial Times)

Volodymyr Zelenskyy awards Elon Musk with Ukraine'...

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Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash, an open-weight, 125B-parameter model built on its next-gen Qwen 4 architecture, saying it rivals Opus 4.6 and V4-Flash (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)

Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash, an open-weight, 12...

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Microsoft faces investor criticism over opaque financial reporting across capex, its OpenAI deal, and Azure, which is buried in the Intelligent Cloud segment (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)

Microsoft faces investor criticism over opaque fin...

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Rockstar says GTA 6 gameplay leaking "in this way has been heartbreaking", calling it "unfortunate" that the "game experience may now be impacted" by spoilers (John Walker/Kotaku)

Rockstar says GTA 6 gameplay leaking "in this way ...

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Public polling suggests the US' severe anti-data center backlash is primarily driven by local environmental and economic concerns, not anti-Big Tech sentiment (Andy Masley)

Public polling suggests the US' severe anti-data c...

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Q&A with SemiAnalysis founder Dylan Patel on Anthropic and OpenAI controlling global compute, $11T of AI capex between 2024 and 2029, China's compute, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)

Q&A with SemiAnalysis founder Dylan Patel on Anthr...

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Investigation: Meta explored slashing many teams by ~60% to become "AI native", but pulled back after staff revolted and data showed AI agents were ineffective (Katie Paul/Reuters)

Investigation: Meta explored slashing many teams b...

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Shanghai-based MiniMax reports H1 2026 revenue up 283% YoY to ~$116.6M, above 2025's 159% YoY growth, as its M3 model lags behind rivals like Z.ai's GLM-5.2 (Bloomberg)

Shanghai-based MiniMax reports H1 2026 revenue up ...

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Sources and documents: Huawei proposes exporting its high-end Ascend 950-series chips to build Egyptian government AI data centers, testing US tech diplomacy (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

Sources and documents: Huawei proposes exporting i...

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A profile of Leopold Aschenbrenner, who worked for...

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Sources: Moonshot AI is in early talks over revenue-sharing agreements with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google to host Kimi K3, and is seeking up to a 30% share (Reuters)

Sources: Moonshot AI is in early talks over revenu...

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Bill Gates says his Jeffrey Epstein association was a "huge mistake" driven by a desire to raise funds, and hopes the ties will not undermine his AI arguments (Ina Fried/Axios)

Bill Gates says his Jeffrey Epstein association wa...

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Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new iteration of its GLM series and says it will release the weights for it tonight; Ox Alpha topped OpenRouter's leaderboard (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)

Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new iteration of its G...

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Bill Gates says tech executives are privately "very worried" about AI disruption but publicly downplay the risks to protect fundraising and planned IPOs (Karen Weise/New York Times)

Bill Gates says tech executives are privately "ver...

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Bill Gates says "the AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history" and "we are not preparing adequately", calling for a regulatory framework (Bill Gates/GatesNotes)

Bill Gates says "the AI era will be one of the mos...

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