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Experts say Meta's new terms of use will allow scraping of websites, including news sites, "associated with" business accounts on its platforms, with no opt out (Nieman Lab)

Experts say Meta's new terms of use will allow scr...

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Thoma Bravo-owned cybersecurity company Proofpoint plans to buy data security firm Varonis Systems in an all-cash deal valued at about $6.3B (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

Thoma Bravo-owned cybersecurity company Proofpoint...

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A US official says Trump didn't order any limitations on Ukraine's access to SpaceX's Starshield; Elon Musk said any limits are ultimately decided by POTUS (Kate Sullivan/Bloomberg)

A US official says Trump didn't order any limitati...

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A researcher says modern neural networks are far more interpretable than believed, with most neurons understandable in models up to trillions of parameters (Nick Cammarata/Goodfire)

A researcher says modern neural networks are far m...

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Perplexity open sources SPACE, its AI agent sandbox, and says partners including CoreWeave, Akamai, and Crusoe agreed to offer SPACE to customers (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

Perplexity open sources SPACE, its AI agent sandbo...

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Sources: top DOJ officials halt career prosecutors' Biden-era investigation of Meta over facilitating illegal drug sales and are weighing more lenient options (Ben Penn/Bloomberg Law)

Sources: top DOJ officials halt career prosecutors...

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Google says it has 400+ publications in its News AI pilot, which tests features like overviews; participants include Financial Times, CNN, and The Texas Tribune (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)

Google says it has 400+ publications in its News A...

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Two workers have been killed and another seriously injured at Intel's Kiryat Gat fab in Israel in an explosion resulting from a gas cylinder malfunctioning (CTech)

Two workers have been killed and another seriously...

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Volvo says it will use Nvidia's Hyperion platform to launch a Level 2++ hands-free, point-to-point automated driving system by 2030 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Volvo says it will use Nvidia's Hyperion platform ...

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Memo: Accenture has told many employees, some of whom had been spending as much as $1,000 monthly, that it will now only spend $29 a month per person on Claude (Joseph Cox/404 Media)

Memo: Accenture has told many employees, some of w...

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Anthropic says it is giving employee-like access to METR as part of its pledge to partner with evaluators for assessment of its models and safety practices (Anthropic)

Anthropic says it is giving employee-like access t...

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Sunbound, which makes software for handling billing, insurance claims, and payments for senior living operators, raised a $24M Series A led by TTV Capital (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

Sunbound, which makes software for handling billin...

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Alexandr Wang says ex-Apple exec Daniel Gross, now at Meta, helped bring Meta and Apple together: "we're excited for mommy and daddy to be playing nice again" (Ina Fried/Axios)

Alexandr Wang says ex-Apple exec Daniel Gross, now...

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Meta says it worked with Apple to make Muse Spark Open run locally on M5 Ultra Mac Studios, letting users pair two to four Studios to code or do agentic work (CNBC)

Meta says it worked with Apple to make Muse Spark ...

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Meta releases Muse Spark Open, saying it is the most capable US open-weight model, with 816B total and 42B active parameters and a 1M-token context window (Meta AI Research)

Meta releases Muse Spark Open, saying it is the mo...

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Sources: Binance.US seeks to raise up to $100M, targeting a ~$1B valuation in the private round, as it aims to expand its US business; WLF is not participating (Bloomberg)

Sources: Binance.US seeks to raise up to $100M, ta...

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E Ink unveils Kaleido 4, its next-gen color e-paper tech, replacing the Kaleido 3 displays currently used by brands including Amazon, Kobo, and PocketBook (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)

E Ink unveils Kaleido 4, its next-gen color e-pape...

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Nvidia launches Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B-parameter open model for enterprise agents, and says it outperforms frontier models on specialized benchmarks (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Nvidia launches Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B-para...

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