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NJ's Governor says a DMV software error led to the improper voter registration of ~6,600 noncitizens between June 2023 and June 2024; 400 of those cast ballots (www.nytimes.com)
3 hours ago

France becomes the first European country to pass a law banning social media access for users under 15, potentially going into effect as soon as September 1 (www.nytimes.com)
15 hours ago France Europe

Some Instagram and Facebook users say Meta's AI moderation deleted their accounts; Meta says AI makes 13% fewer errors and finds 10% more violations than humans (www.nytimes.com)
17 hours ago Facebook AI Instagram

NJ Governor says a software error at DMV led to the improper voter registration of ~6,600 noncitizens between June 2023 and June 2024; 400 of those cast ballots (www.nytimes.com)
18 hours ago

Google's AI Search is endangering the open web; Cloudflare: between June 2025 and April 2026, human traffic to sites of businesses in many industries fell ~40% (www.nytimes.com)
1 day ago Google AI

Sensor Tower: the number of new apps released in Apple's App Store doubled to ~560K in H1, vs. the ~600K added in all of 2025, as vibecoded apps flood the store (www.nytimes.com)
1 day ago Apple Sensor

Billionaire-backed Building A Better California reserves $87M in TV ad time to oppose California's proposed one-time wealth tax; Sergey Brin put $82M into BABC (www.nytimes.com)
1 day ago Tax California

Sensor Tower: in H1, the number of new apps released in the App Store doubled to ~560K, on track to pass 2025's ~600K total, as vibecoded apps flood the store (www.nytimes.com)
1 day ago Sensor

Sources detail Kalshi's and Polymarket's efforts to undermine each other, including lobbying regulators, trying to derail deals, and waging influence campaigns (www.nytimes.com)
2 days ago

Kalshi and Polymarket bets on the FIFA World Cup final top $5.69B; Dune Analytics says total wagers on the platforms surpassed $50B for the first time in June (www.nytimes.com)
2 days ago

Sources: Meta is in talks to rent computing power from its data centers to Anthropic in a deal that could be worth ~$10B over two years (www.nytimes.com)
4 days ago

Memo: MLB bans the use of league-provided dugout iPads to access GenAI for in-game strategy calls; sources say at least a third of teams used AI this way (www.nytimes.com)
5 days ago AI

An NYT reporter finds AI-generated, unauthorized biographies of herself and other journalists on Amazon, where AI-made books with elusive “authors” proliferate (www.nytimes.com)
5 days ago Amazon AI

Daniel Ek's Neko Health, which offers AI-based full-body scans, raised $700M co-led by Lightspeed and O.G. Venture Partners, sources say at a ~$7B valuation (www.nytimes.com)
7 days ago AI

Monitoring Analytics: PJM's recent electricity auction is expected to add $6.3B to customers' bills in 13 states and DC through 2029 due to data center demands (www.nytimes.com)
7 days ago

OpenAI strikes a partnership with Kalshi to show FIFA World Cup prediction market data in ChatGPT search results, its first deal with a prediction market (www.nytimes.com)
7 days ago

AI drug design startup Chai Discovery raised $400M led by Index at a $3.8B valuation, as it positions its Chai models as AI infrastructure for pharmaceuticals (www.nytimes.com)
7 days ago Startup AI

Nearly 200 economists, including 15 Nobel laureates and Anthropic's Jack Clark, sign a letter titled We Must Act Now, warning of rapid AI-led job displacement (www.nytimes.com)
9 days ago AI Nobel

Investigation: Western intelligence officials identify a Russian military intelligence unit in Tokyo that smuggles high-tech components for the war in Ukraine (www.nytimes.com)
9 days ago Russia Ukraine Intelligence Tokyo

A look back at the 2007 heist of a Verizon data center in London, highlighting the role of physical data security as cyber defenses grow more sophisticated (www.nytimes.com)
9 days ago London

How members of the extremist group Boko Haram are using AI chatbots to design explosives, fix or upgrade weapons, and brainstorm attack ideas (www.nytimes.com)
11 days ago AI chatbot

A US NLRB judge rules that Atlassian had illegally fired an employee in 2023 for pushing back against manager layoffs, and orders reinstatement and compensation (www.nytimes.com)
11 days ago Layoffs Atlassian

In preliminary findings, the EU Commission said Facebook and Instagram's addictive design violates the DSA, telling Meta to make changes or risk a hefty fine (www.nytimes.com)
12 days ago Facebook Instagram

Anthropic plans to lease a 16-story building in Lower Manhattan and double its NYC workforce to 1,000 people in 2026, as AI companies expand their NYC presence (www.nytimes.com)
13 days ago AI

Sources: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is raising $10B at a $130B pre-money valuation, its first outside funding round, with $4B from Coatue and $2B from Bezos (www.nytimes.com)
13 days ago Jeff Bezos

Anthropic plans to lease a 16-story building in Lower Manhattan and double its NYC workforce to 1,000 people this year, as AI companies expand in the city (www.nytimes.com)
14 days ago AI

Alibaba's Qwen models have made it an AI powerhouse, but the company has struggled to turn their global popularity into a profitable business (www.nytimes.com)
15 days ago Alibaba AI

A profile of Bernadette Meehan, a US diplomat who became Wikimedia Foundation CEO in January, as Wikipedia faces threats from MAGA, AI, and foreign autocrats (www.nytimes.com)
15 days ago AI

Some US voters are using AI tools as nonpartisan researchers, seeing them as a viable alternative to traditional news coverage, voter guides, and social media (www.nytimes.com)
16 days ago AI

A look at Threads and Q&A with its head Connor Hayes, as the platform passes 500M MAUs and increasingly resembles Reddit with its focus on community features (www.nytimes.com)
16 days ago Reddit

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