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Sources: Prentis, which develops computer use models and is co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Marc Pincus, is in talks to raise $100M at a $1B valuation (techcrunch.com)
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US Accuses American of Allegedly Wiping His Phone Using a 'Duress' Password During Border Search (yro.slashdot.org)
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An OpenAI staffer says the Hugging Face breach is “a big warning shot” externally but internally “related incidents have been happening for a while” (time.com)
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Google says it appreciates the engagement by the Trump administration and US government on the EU's $1B fine; Trump called the fine “illegal” (news.bloomberglaw.com)
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Roku Raises Prices of Streaming Devices By Up To 60% (news.slashdot.org)
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Cognition acquires the makers of Poke, an AI assistant that users can access via messaging services, in a deal valuing Poke's parent in the “low nine figures” (techcrunch.com)
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Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta Warn Against 'Premature Restrictions' of Open-Weight Models (meta.slashdot.org)
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OnTrac notifies customers of data breach after network hack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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Sources: Waymo is exploring exiting its Uber partnership, with their relationship souring amid an intense lobbying battle over the future of robotaxis (www.ft.com)
3 days ago Uber

Paper, which allows designers to connect directly with production code and the AI agents that create it, raised a $34M Series A led by Accel and ICONIQ (www.axios.com)
3 days ago AI

Anthropic's New Opus 5 Model Rivals Fable 5 For Half the Price (slashdot.org)
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Hermes AI agent used to automate attack on Thai Finance Ministry (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
3 days ago Thailand AI

The DOJ is prosecuting a Cop City protester for allegedly providing CBP with a “duress” passcode that wiped the contents of his GrapheneOS phone (www.theguardian.com)
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Trump says the US will initiate a probe into the EU's practice of “robbing” US tech giants with fines, threatening the bloc with “substantial” tariffs (www.cnbc.com)
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Letter: Qualcomm tells customers it plans to raise prices by double digit percentage points, after exhausting its ability to absorb higher costs from suppliers (www.bloomberg.com)
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Anthropic expects Opus 5 “classifiers to intervene around 85% less often than they do for Fable 5”; Opus 5 is not included in its 30-day data retention policy (www.engadget.com)
3 days ago

Hackers hijack hotel Wi-Fi DNS to steal Microsoft 365 accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
3 days ago Microsoft

Meta updates Meta AI with Muse Spark 1.1-powered agentic capabilities, connecting to Gmail and Google Calendar to perform tasks like creating daily updates (www.axios.com)
3 days ago Google AI

Opus 5 improves coding, reasoning efficiency, and prompt-cache-friendly tool use, and is priced at $5/1M input tokens and $25/1M output, same as Opus 4.8 (www.zdnet.com)
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Anthropic says Opus 5 model “is the least susceptible to being tricked into misuse”; it is Anthropic's fourth model release in less than two months (www.axios.com)
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Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, which it says comes close to Fable 5 performance at half the price; it is the new default model on Claude Max (www.anthropic.com)
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John C. Dvorak, an Early and Influential Technology Journalist, Dies At 80 (news.slashdot.org)
3 days ago

World Foundation, the nonprofit behind the World protocol, raised $52.5M led by Pantera through a strategic sale of its WLD token with a one-year lockup (www.theblock.co)
3 days ago

Facebook plans to test a full-screen “immersive video” player when users open the app, replacing the newsfeed, in select international markets this year (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
4 days ago Facebook

Stripe Eyes $10 Billion Deal For AI Model Marketplace OpenRouter (slashdot.org)
4 days ago AI

Microsoft blames massive Microsoft 365 outage on maintenance bug (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
4 days ago Microsoft

Astronomers May Have Discovered First Moon Outside Our Solar System (science.slashdot.org)
4 days ago Solar

Midjourney bought astrology app Co-Star, which uses AI to offer personalized advice, in the spring and is building its first standalone image-generation app (www.bloomberg.com)
4 days ago AI

10 Rare Hybrids with Wild Backstories (listverse.com)
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10 Infamous Crime Scenes That Became Tourist Hotspots (listverse.com)
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