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• FAA to finally ditch floppy disks in what it calls "historic" tech upgrade
• The folks behind John Wick are back with Karōshi trailer
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• “Does Meta think we can’t read?” Meta abandons sketchy commercial terms update.
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• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang summoned by Congress over Chinese espionage concerns
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| • Analysts warn Russia's Rassvet broadband satellite network could come online as early as 2027 after its troubled development, enabling more deadly drone strikes (Financial Times)
• US federal prosecutors say businesses have lost $129M+ to scam calls using AI-generated voices to mimic company executives in the 18 months since July 2024 (Adeel Hassan/New York Times)
• Sources: the EU sues IBM, French IT group Atos, and Italian contractor Leonardo over delays in developing its smart border system, which caused travel chaos (Laura Dubois/Financial Times)
• Chinese media denies Beijing's link to Jensen Huang's affair, accuses the US media of a fabricated spy narrative, and warns the issue may hurt trade relations (Bloomberg)
• As companies replace human workers with AI agents, determining managers' grade and pay is becoming harder, as both often depend on how many people they manage (Pilita Clark/Financial Times)
• Toronto-based Ada and SF-based Dialpad, both makers of AI customer service software, agree to merge, sources say in an all-share deal valuing Ada at ~$430M (Globe and Mail)
• Google rolls out a Googlebook update that frees up 3GB to 6GB of RAM via on-device AI optimizations, reduces Chrome crashes, patches ~60 Android flaws, and more (Jay Bonggolto/Android Central)
• Sources: ByteDance seeks to expand its data center project in Ceara, Brazil, with a second phase larger than its ongoing $10B, 300MW project (Peter Millard/Bloomberg)
• When talking about AI safety, President Trump says "I don't mind guardrails. But I don't wanna put us in a deep second position", and "China has no guardrails" (CBS News)
• Sources and filings detail how Jensen Huang has brought his children and other family members into Nvidia, making it unusually family-run for Silicon Valley (Wall Street Journal)
• Jensen Huang's scandal poses a rare crisis in US corporate history, given the national security stakes, his centrality to Nvidia, and its role in the AI race (Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson/Semafor)
• An interview with Cognition CISO Alex Stamos on how AI is upending cybersecurity, AI-powered red teaming, vulnerabilities in legacy codebases, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
• Tencent Chief AI Scientist Yao Shunyu says AI's bio abilities will soon make it "possible to do harm" and Anthropic has a "strong argument" for closed models (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
• Job listings show Amazon is building a "new-to-world" home robot to operate "alongside family members", after its $1,450 Astro reached only a few thousand homes (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
• President Trump says Jensen Huang should stay on as Nvidia CEO after his affair admission: he is a "fine person" and "I haven't heard he's done anything wrong" (Kate Sullivan/Bloomberg)
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