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Meta says its AG deal requires it to create an age assurance standard that is subject to independent testing, with a false positive rate no higher than 10% (www.theverge.com)
27 days ago

Ubiquiti patches three max severity security vulnerabilities (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
27 days ago

Meta says it reached a deal with 51 US AGs, including “strict daily time limits teens can't turn off”, and calls on TikTok and YouTube to adopt the standards (about.fb.com)
27 days ago YouTube

Filing: Meta reaches a settlement to resolve 29 US states' claims under COPPA that it designed Instagram and Facebook to addict children and misled consumers (www.reuters.com)
27 days ago Facebook Instagram

Volodymyr Zelenskyy awards Elon Musk with Ukraine's Order of Freedom; sources say Zelenskyy asked Musk to authorize Starlink use up to 200km inside Russia (www.ft.com)
27 days ago Russia Ukraine Elon Musk

Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash, an open-weight, 125B-parameter model built on its next-gen Qwen 4 architecture, saying it rivals Opus 4.6 and V4-Flash (www.bloomberg.com)
27 days ago Alibaba

Scientists May Have Figured Out Why Dead Brains Don't Always Rot (science.slashdot.org)
27 days ago

Microsoft tests new privacy controls for Windows 11 desktop apps (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
27 days ago Microsoft

Microsoft faces investor criticism over opaque financial reporting across capex, its OpenAI deal, and Azure, which is buried in the Intelligent Cloud segment (www.wsj.com)
27 days ago Microsoft

Rockstar says GTA 6 gameplay leaking “in this way has been heartbreaking”, calling it “unfortunate” that the “game experience may now be impacted” by spoilers (kotaku.com)
27 days ago

Public polling suggests the US' severe anti-data center backlash is primarily driven by local environmental and economic concerns, not anti-Big Tech sentiment (blog.andymasley.com)
27 days ago

Q&A with SemiAnalysis founder Dylan Patel on Anthropic and OpenAI controlling global compute, $11T of AI capex between 2024 and 2029, China's compute, and more (www.dwarkesh.com)
27 days ago China AI

Hackers now exploit critical Gitea flaw in code injection attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
27 days ago

Study for 7 CompTIA certifications for $49.99 with this lifetime bundle (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
27 days ago

Investigation: Meta explored slashing many teams by ~60% to become “AI native”, but pulled back after staff revolted and data showed AI agents were ineffective (www.reuters.com)
27 days ago AI

Shanghai-based MiniMax reports H1 2026 revenue up 283% YoY to ~$116.6M, above 2025's 159% YoY growth, as its M3 model lags behind rivals like Z.ai's GLM-5.2 (www.bloomberg.com)
27 days ago AI Shanghai

Sources and documents: Huawei proposes exporting its high-end Ascend 950-series chips to build Egyptian government AI data centers, testing US tech diplomacy (www.bloomberg.com)
27 days ago AI Egypt

10 Bizarre Ways People Used Blood in the Past (listverse.com)
27 days ago

A profile of Leopold Aschenbrenner, who worked for SBF and OpenAI before launching Situational Awareness; Aschenbrenner married Dario Amodei's chief of staff (www.wsj.com)
27 days ago

Sources: Moonshot AI is in early talks over revenue-sharing agreements with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google to host Kimi K3, and is seeking up to a 30% share (www.reuters.com)
27 days ago Google Amazon Microsoft AI

Bill Gates says his Jeffrey Epstein association was a “huge mistake” driven by a desire to raise funds, and hopes the ties will not undermine his AI arguments (www.axios.com)
27 days ago AI Bill Gates

Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new iteration of its GLM series and says it will release the weights for it tonight; Ox Alpha topped OpenRouter's leaderboard (www.bloomberg.com)
27 days ago AI

Bill Gates says tech executives are privately “very worried” about AI disruption but publicly downplay the risks to protect fundraising and planned IPOs (www.nytimes.com)
27 days ago IPO AI Bill Gates

Bill Gates says “the AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history” and “we are not preparing adequately”, calling for a regulatory framework (www.gatesnotes.com)
27 days ago AI Bill Gates

Navitas Semiconductor agrees to buy Claros, which develops data center power management hardware and software, for ~$232.8M; Claros raised a $30M seed in March (www.bizjournals.com)
27 days ago

Revolut rolls out its euro-pegged stablecoin EURR, initially to eligible customers in Denmark, Poland, and Portugal; Stripe-owned Bridge issues the stablecoin (www.bloomberg.com)
27 days ago Poland Portugal

Sources: DeepSeek generated $70.7M in revenue and posted a $106M net loss in the first seven months of 2026, ~10x its full-year 2025 revenue on a $139M net loss (www.theinformation.com)
27 days ago

The US AI data center buildout is posing complex challenges to major lenders as they stretch themselves to finance, insure, and underwrite a novel asset class (www.ft.com)
27 days ago AI Asset

SpaceX Plans to Build a $100 Billion Spaceport In Louisiana (science.slashdot.org)
27 days ago SpaceX

Survey: 28% of Americans use AI chatbots to get health information quickly, 25% to figure out symptom causes, and 22% to get health information at no cost (www.pewresearch.org)
27 days ago U.S. AI chatbot

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