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OpenAI's disavowal of a liability shield in Illinois SB 3444 bill and endorsement of a stronger SB 315 suggest it is open to meaningful AI safety legislation (Transformer)

OpenAI's disavowal of a liability shield in Illino...

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ArXiv, the repository of preprint academic research, says it will ban authors for a year if their papers have "incontrovertible evidence" of AI-generated work (Samantha Cole/404 Media)

ArXiv, the repository of preprint academic researc...

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OpenAI memo: Greg Brockman says he will lead product strategy as part of a reorg, folding ChatGPT, Codex, and developer-facing API into one core product team (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

OpenAI memo: Greg Brockman says he will lead produ...

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Replit says it has "worked things out with Apple", which has approved a Replit update after four months, following a reported dispute over vibe coding apps (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

Replit says it has "worked things out with Apple",...

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OpenAI launches personal finance tools for US ChatGPT Pro users, letting them connect to 12K+ financial institutions to analyze spending, plan finances, more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

OpenAI launches personal finance tools for US Chat...

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A profile of AI video generation startup Runway, w...

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Gridcare, which uses AI to detect underused capacity in electric grids, raised a $64M Series A, following a $13.5M seed in 2025 (Bianca Giacobone/Latitude Media)

Gridcare, which uses AI to detect underused capaci...

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A look at Matthew McConaughey's novel legal strategy to fight unauthorized AI use of his image, which involves trademarking video and audio clips of him (Todd Spangler/Variety)

A look at Matthew McConaughey's novel legal strate...

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Ofcom says X has committed to implementing stronger protections for UK users, including reviewing illegal hate content within 24 hours, following a probe (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

Ofcom says X has committed to implementing stronge...

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Nvidia's future in China remains unclear after the Trump-Xi Summit; Trump says China "chose not to" buy Nvidia chips as "they want to try to develop their own" (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)

Nvidia's future in China remains unclear after the...

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Google confirms it's testing a new storage policy after some users reported that new Gmail accounts get only 5GB of free storage unless they add a phone number (Akshay Gangwar/Android Authority)

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Indian ride-hailing app Rapido raised $240M led by Prosus as part of a broader primary and secondary financing transaction, valuing Rapido at $3B post-money (Pramugdha Mamgain/DealStreetAsia)

Indian ride-hailing app Rapido raised $240M led by...

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The UK's HMRC tax authority announces a 10-year, £175M deal with London-based Quantexa to use its AI tech to identify fraud incidents and fix tax return errors (Zoe Kleinman/BBC)

The UK's HMRC tax authority announces a 10-year, £...

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xAI launches Grok Build, an agentic CLI for coding, building apps, and automating workflows, in beta for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)

xAI launches Grok Build, an agentic CLI for coding...

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Meta rolls out new features for Ray-Ban Display glasses, including neural handwriting support for all users, and opens up the device to third-party developers (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Meta rolls out new features for Ray-Ban Display gl...

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Akamai acquires Israeli cybersecurity startup LayerX Security, which develops a browser-based platform to secure employee use of AI tools, for ~$205M in cash (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Akamai acquires Israeli cybersecurity startup Laye...

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Sources: HSG, formerly Sequoia China, has set up a $3B continuation fund anchored by its ByteDance stake, offering entry into the company valued at $370B (Bloomberg)

Sources: HSG, formerly Sequoia China, has set up a...

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Bill Ackman says his fund has taken a new stake in Microsoft after the company's recent share price decline; Ackman says investors have underestimated Microsoft (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)

Bill Ackman says his fund has taken a new stake in...

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