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Meta getting into the cloud business has been inevitable for a long time, as it seeks to diversify beyond ad revenue and monetize its AI buildout (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

Meta getting into the cloud business has been inev...

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Instagram has been running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India, with terms like "rape video" and "child video" and linking to Telegram channels (Divya Arya/BBC)

Instagram has been running ads promoting child sex...

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An interview with Sriram Krishnan, who says "there will not be an FDA for AI" under Trump, blames the AI backlash on the industry's "doomer" messaging, and more (Financial Times)

An interview with Sriram Krishnan, who says "there...

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Texas AG Ken Paxton opens an investigation into StubHub following complaints of last-minute ticket cancellations for FIFA World Cup matches (Giles Turner/Bloomberg)

Texas AG Ken Paxton opens an investigation into St...

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How Jeff Bezos' changing relationship with President Trump has impacted Bezos' companies, including increased federal contract awards during Trump's second term (Wall Street Journal)

How Jeff Bezos' changing relationship with Preside...

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Filing: GoDaddy challenges a New Delhi court ruling requiring domain sellers to stop offering privacy by default, saying it could expose website owners globally (Reuters)

Filing: GoDaddy challenges a New Delhi court rulin...

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India's IT secretary said the country is investigating a data breach at Apple supplier Tata, which exposed files that included photos of iPhone 18 Pro models (Reuters)

India's IT secretary said the country is investiga...

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Pitch document: Chris Larsen and Palmer Luckey invested an undisclosed amount in APEC, a derivatives exchange founded by the son of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (Declan Harty/Politico)

Pitch document: Chris Larsen and Palmer Luckey inv...

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Sources: Alibaba has banned employees from using Claude Code and asked them to remove all Claude models from their work computers, citing security concerns (The Information)

Sources: Alibaba has banned employees from using C...

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A look back at BitTorrent, launched by Bram Cohen 25 years ago, and how media piracy fueled its growth while its architecture shielded it from legal liability (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)

A look back at BitTorrent, launched by Bram Cohen ...

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Sources: Anthropic moves to close loopholes that let Chinese firms like Ant use its models via workarounds including cloud providers and overseas subsidiaries (Financial Times)

Sources: Anthropic moves to close loopholes that l...

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Blackstone's QTS abandons plans to build its portion of a 2,100-acre data center campus in Virginia, following years of local opposition and legal challenges (Dawn Lim/Bloomberg)

Blackstone's QTS abandons plans to build its porti...

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Letter: chip sector group SEMI, including Micron and Samsung, warns Scott Bessent US policies affecting prices or production capacity would worsen the shortage (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)

Letter: chip sector group SEMI, including Micron a...

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Sources: Alexandr Wang said Meta's model currently in training, codenamed Watermelon, matches GPT-5.5 and uses an "order of magnitude more compute than Avocado" (Business Insider)

Sources: Alexandr Wang said Meta's model currently...

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Sources: Anthropic's bankers have hired UK law firm Freshfields to advise on its IPO; it also advised on Google's acquisition of Wiz and ServiceNow's Armis deal (The Information)

Sources: Anthropic's bankers have hired UK law fir...

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Spotify removed 500K+ streams of Malcolm Todd's Earrings after a 70% surge in 24 hours sent it to #1 on Spotify USA and coincided with suspicious Kalshi wagers (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)

Spotify removed 500K+ streams of Malcolm Todd's Ea...

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Finnish quantum computing company IQM closed up 2% in its Nasdaq debut Thursday after going public via a SPAC merger at a ~$1.9B valuation (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

Finnish quantum computing company IQM closed up 2%...

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Sources: Crusoe is in active talks to raise ~$3B in a funding round expected to value the company in the ~$30B range, up from a ~$10B valuation in October (Bloomberg)

Sources: Crusoe is in active talks to raise ~$3B i...

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