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Mistral releases Shieldstral, a 3B multimodal safety classifier that it says matches models up to 7x its size on text safety, available under Apache 2.0 (Mistral AI Blog)
Sources: the White House doesn't plan to publicly release its voluntary AI framework; details will be available to the companies that are part of the process (Maria Curi/Axios)
Internal email: Microsoft introduces token budget limits for employees' AI use, saying "tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for" (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
Anthropic names Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, an ex-California Supreme Court justice and a special assistant in Obama's WH, as its first global affairs chief (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)
Sandisk and SK Hynix announce the High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) open specification that enables up to 512GB memory modules with 0.4 TB/s to 3.0 TB/s bandwidth (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
Sources: the US is preparing to set a price floor and impose tariffs on polysilicon, a material critical to chips, later this month, in a bid to counter China (Reuters)
The DOJ secures a $3.2M settlement from OpenAI to resolve allegations it discriminated against US workers by preferring workers with temporary employment visas (Jimmy Jenkins/Bloomberg)
Researchers: ChainDrop, a Shai-Hulud-based worm, has compromised 1,300+ npm packages, like Keyv, Cacheable, and flat-cache, with a combined 2B monthly downloads (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
Oligo, which offers runtime security tools, raised $60M from Ballistic Ventures, Canon Capital, and others, bringing its total funding to $140M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
Nvidia makes Alpamayo 2 Super, its frontier open reasoning model for robotaxis and AVs, available for commercial use under the OpenMDW-1.1 license (Jessica Soares/NVIDIA)
Ambrook, which offers accounting software, raised a $30M Series B led by Lachy Groom as it expands beyond farming into trucking, construction, and real estate (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
New Jersey files an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, alleging it abuses its dominance to impose low pay and poor conditions on independent delivery drivers (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
A World Bank report says developing economies stand to benefit more from AI boosting their workers' output than they will lose in jobs being replaced by AI (Joseph Cotterill/Financial Times)
Convex, which provides an AI-optimized application backend for developers, raised a $57M Series B led by Insight Partners, taking its total funding to $110.5M (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
Analysis: in 2026 so far, US police arrested at least 37 people in connection to data center protests and intervened to prevent confrontations in 12 more cases (Joe Wilkins/Futurism)

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How One Startup Built a (Mostly) China-Free Robot
‘Everyone Is Doing It’: The Truth About AI in Hollywood
How Data Centers Broke American Politics
The Real Story Behind the 2018 Google Walkout
Mistral Is in the Right Place at the Right Time
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Engadget

DOJ extracts $3.2 million from OpenAI over hiring discrimination allegations
Can MS Paint run Doom? (Yes)
Apple caps bug bounty program due to deluge of AI submissions
NJ antitrust suit accuses Amazon of unlawfully wielding power over delivery contractors
Don't use your car's USB ports to charge your laptop — Do this instead
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CMF announces its first pair of open-ear earbuds for under $100
How to cancel your PlayStation Plus subscription
Apple claims that even more ex-employees may have given trade secrets to OpenAI
exFAT vs NTFS: What's the difference between these formats?
2026 Lexus ES 500e first drive: A classy sedan with a slow charge
New Samsung TVs will support HDR10+ Advanced streaming on Prime Video starting this month
You have no reason not to watch Babylon 5 now that it's free on YouTube
How to connect your Roku Streaming Stick or TV to Wi-Fi without the remote
You can now bug your WhatsApp group chats with an @all ping
Never put your phone in the refrigerator — here's why
Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Ultra Aura Edition review: A capable ultralight laptop that's way too expensive
Spotify just hit 300 million Premium subscribers
DJI's Mic Mini 2S is the first in its Mini lineup that can record your audio internally

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