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Sources: the US government plans to let the Federal Data Center Enhancement Act, which details standards for data center use and operations, expire in September (Wired)

Sources: the US government plans to let the Federa...

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Docs: Tesla sent Swedish and Dutch regulators Full Self-Driving safety data that traffic-safety researchers called misleading; Dutch RDW approved FSD in April (Reuters)

Docs: Tesla sent Swedish and Dutch regulators Full...

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Fox says it is acquiring Roku in a deal worth around $22B, including debt, giving it access to more than 100M streaming households (Joseph De Avila/Wall Street Journal)

Fox says it is acquiring Roku in a deal worth arou...

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Court reporting shows AI's limits in replacing human skill, as reporters remain crucial for capturing gestures and working through noise, amid a worker shortage (Allison Pohle/Wall Street Journal)

Court reporting shows AI's limits in replacing hum...

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Tencent-backed Enflame receives approval for a Shanghai IPO and plans to raise ~$888M; Enflame is the last of China's four leading AI chipmakers to go to market (April Ma/Bloomberg)

Tencent-backed Enflame receives approval for a Sha...

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The FBI dismantles Outsider Enterprise, an AI-powered Chinese phishing operation, and seizes $100K in Tether in joint effort with Google and Black Lotus Labs (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

The FBI dismantles Outsider Enterprise, an AI-powe...

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The UK social media ban will apply to Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X, and will require platforms to stop children from livestreaming (Liv McMahon/BBC)

The UK social media ban will apply to Snapchat, Ti...

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Letter: US cybersecurity leaders urge the White House to lift the ban on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable 5, arguing the move hurts defenders more than attackers (Sam Sabin/Axios)

Letter: US cybersecurity leaders urge the White Ho...

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UK PM Keir Starmer says the UK will ban social media for under-16s and restrict gaming and livestreaming platforms, aiming for regulation by the end of 2026 (Reuters)

UK PM Keir Starmer says the UK will ban social med...

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President Trump says he warned Emmanuel Macron to drop France's 3% digital services tax on US tech giants, or face a 100% tariff on French champagne and wine (James Franey/New York Post)

President Trump says he warned Emmanuel Macron to ...

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As "nudify" tools proliferate, unleashing a new form of bullying among kids, parents and schools are struggling to protect young victims from AI deepfakes (Wall Street Journal)

As "nudify" tools proliferate, unleashing a new fo...

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A profile of UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid, the...

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Sources: Alibaba is in talks to buy Chinese fresh grocery delivery platform Pupu for $1.5B, in a bid to better compete with food delivery rivals like Meituan (Cathy Chan/Bloomberg)

Sources: Alibaba is in talks to buy Chinese fresh ...

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Madrid-based Orbio, which uses AI agents to help businesses interview, onboard, and manage frontline workers, raised a $21M Series A led by Dawn Capital (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

Madrid-based Orbio, which uses AI agents to help b...

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Inside the Signal group chat where Sergey Brin, Marc Andreessen, Garry Tan, and other tech elites toss out strategies to oppose a proposed California wealth tax (Emily Shugerman/The San Francisco ...)

Inside the Signal group chat where Sergey Brin, Ma...

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Sources: ByteDance is in talks with Shanghai-based Iluvatar CoreX to purchase AI inference GPUs, and is also considering a deal to buy Baidu's Kunlunxin chips (Reuters)

Sources: ByteDance is in talks with Shanghai-based...

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Health wearables are booming, with both Oura and Whoop eyeing IPOs, but investors remain cautious after Fitbit's struggles and low consumer hardware margins (David Wainer/Wall Street Journal)

Health wearables are booming, with both Oura and W...

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Rylo, which develops real-time speech and sign-language translation tools for deaf and hard-of-hearing users, raised $85M led by General Catalyst and Canaan (Sophie Shulman/CTech)

Rylo, which develops real-time speech and sign-lan...

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