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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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Hypha, which extracts data from private-market documents to create workflows for underwriting, portfolio monitoring, and asset management, raised a $50M seed (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

Hypha, which extracts data from private-market doc...

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Sandstone, which builds AI-powered workflow automation tools for legal teams at small and mid-sized businesses, raised a $30M Series A led by Lightspeed (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

Sandstone, which builds AI-powered workflow automa...

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Sundar Pichai faced a walkout at his Stanford commencement speech, as 100+ students left amid chants of "Free, free Palestine" over Google's ties with Israel (Zain Khan/New York Post)

Sundar Pichai faced a walkout at his Stanford comm...

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Sources: Frank founder Charlie Javice, sentenced in September 2025 to 85 months for defrauding JPMorgan Chase, has been seeking a presidential pardon from Trump (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Frank founder Charlie Javice, sentenced i...

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A profile of Kalshi COO Luana Lopes Lara, who has ...

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Chinese Tesla drivers are using tiny plastic heads to fool Tesla's distracted-driving controls, which appear unable to distinguish figurines from real people (Zeyi Yang/Wired)

Chinese Tesla drivers are using tiny plastic heads...

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A government crackdown on online casinos operating in the Isle of Man has led to a major tax revenue loss, accelerating the island's slide toward a fiscal cliff (Jack Adamović Davies/Bloomberg)

A government crackdown on online casinos operating...

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Satya Nadella says companies must build both human capital and token capital, with human judgment guiding AI systems that learn and improve over time (Satya Nadella/@satyanadella)

Satya Nadella says companies must build both human...

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