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Instagram launches an Apple TV app for watching Reels, longer videos, and live shows; the app previously launched on Fire TV, Google TV, and Samsung smart TVs (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

Instagram launches an Apple TV app for watching Re...

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Kimi K3.1 Pro's debut draws scrutiny over allegations that influencers were asked to promote the model without disclosing a commercial relationship to Moonshot (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Kimi K3.1 Pro's debut draws scrutiny over allegati...

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LSEG agrees to acquire Octus, an NY-based provider of credit intelligence, data, and workflow software, from Permira and Octus' management for $3.54B in cash (Dominic Chopping/Wall Street Journal)

LSEG agrees to acquire Octus, an NY-based provider...

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A look at Meta's role in Brazil's runoff, where Lula da Silva alleges Meta restricts his content and a court ordered it not to interfere; Meta cites glitches (Augusta Saraiva/Bloomberg)

A look at Meta's role in Brazil's runoff, where Lu...

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Outside of tech there has been no financial payoff to US companies for using AI, now viewed as a margin-hurting cost center, as VC-backed firms burn more tokens (Torsten Slok/Apollo Global Management)

Outside of tech there has been no financial payoff...

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Source: Replit recently moved most AI spend from Anthropic to OpenAI, which gave 30%+ off in a deal worth $100M+/year, after Anthropic discontinued its discount (The Information)

Source: Replit recently moved most AI spend from A...

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A look at Alpha School, a network of private schools that claims to teach kids 2x as fast using AI; data shows ~50% of K-8 students missed this goal in math (Dana Goldstein/New York Times)

A look at Alpha School, a network of private schoo...

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An interview with Ciena CEO Gary Smith, a veteran of the 2001 telecoms crash, on AI demand outpacing supply for Ciena's optical networking chips, and more (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal)

An interview with Ciena CEO Gary Smith, a veteran ...

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Block unveils Dessa, a "true speech-to-speech" AI model trained on "nothing but human conversation" that it says runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max or better (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Block unveils Dessa, a "true speech-to-speech" AI ...

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Ukraine says Starshield was working normally again on Saturday morning; US officials said Trump asked Elon Musk to restore the service (Wall Street Journal)

Ukraine says Starshield was working normally again...

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Inside Meta's law enforcement outreach team, which uses AI and human reviewers to analyze social media posts, aiming to prevent threats like school shootings (Rachel Monroe/New Yorker)

Inside Meta's law enforcement outreach team, which...

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A look at OpenAI's Project Daybreak, which lets vetted partners use its top hacking models to find and fix vulnerabilities and helped uncover PHP2Shell RCE bugs (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

A look at OpenAI's Project Daybreak, which lets ve...

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The PHP Foundation, which coordinated fixes for two critical PHP flaws, operates on a shoestring budget with one full-time staff member and 14 contractors (Toby Sterling/Reuters)

The PHP Foundation, which coordinated fixes for tw...

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Google updates its privacy policy to clarify it could use data shared via Personal Intelligence from connected apps, including Gmail and Photos, to target ads (Shimul Sood/Android Authority)

Google updates its privacy policy to clarify it co...

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Andy Jassy says AWS capacity for 2027 is "largely sold out" and a "good chunk" of 2028 capacity is also sold, though AWS reserves some capacity for on-demand (Catherine Perloff/The Information)

Andy Jassy says AWS capacity for 2027 is "largely ...

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The UK plans to invest £100M to create the AI Biosecurity Lab to boost defenses against biological threats, supported by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind (Liv McMahon/BBC)

The UK plans to invest £100M to create the AI Bios...

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OpenAI says it built an "offline world" from cached web content to train isolated frontier models to browse, search for information, and use web apps (OpenAI)

OpenAI says it built an "offline world" from cache...

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Utopai, an AI film studio that says it has more than 20 projects in the works, raised $60M at a $1B valuation (Rocket Drew/The Information)

Utopai, an AI film studio that says it has more th...

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