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Cohere launches Transcribe, its first voice model; the 2B-parameter, open-source speech recognition model handles tasks like notetaking and speech analysis (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
The US FCC opens a comment period for a proposal to help return outsourced call center jobs to the US; critics say the plan could drive companies to automation (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)
ByteDance launches its Dreamina Seedance 2.0 audio and video model in its CapCut editing platform, supporting clips up to 15 seconds across six aspect ratios (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
A US federal judge dismisses X's antitrust lawsuit that accused the World Federation of Advertisers and a group of major companies of illegally boycotting X (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, an audio model with improved tonal understanding and lower latency for real-time dialogue, watermarked with SynthID (Valeria Wu/The Keyword)
Wikipedia bans using AI for writing or rewriting articles on its English-language site, citing AI-written articles' tendency to violate "core content policies" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
Cents, which makes operating and payments software for laundromats, raised a $110M Series C, following a $40M Series B in 2024 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
Apple expands its American Manufacturing Program, adding Bosch, Cirrus Logic, TDK, and Qnity Electronics to make components in the US for products sold globally (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
The European Parliament votes to delay EU AI Act deadlines, including pushing compliance for high-risk AI systems back to December 2027, and to ban nudify apps (Robert Hart/The Verge)
WhatsApp rolls out features and updates: an AI tool that suggests replies based on a user's conversations, the ability to touch up photos with Meta AI, and more (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Mistral launches Voxtral TTS, an open-source enterprise text-to-speech model that supports nine languages, including Hindi and Arabic, based on Ministral 3B (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Defense tech startup Shield AI raised $2B at a $12.7B valuation, up from $5.3B after raising $240M in March 2025; half of its business is autonomous software (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
Interviews with 37 Anduril sources detail safety concerns and project challenges at Anduril's manufacturing operations; Anduril calls the claims "inaccurate" (Paresh Dave/Wired)
The European Commission opens a DSA investigation into Snap for failing to protect kids on Snapchat, including whether it does enough to assess its users' ages (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)
The EU accuses Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX, and XVideos of failing to protect kids from exposure to pornographic content, in preliminary DSA investigation findings (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)

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EU says Pornhub and others failed to stop minors accessing adult content
AMD's Ryzen 9950X3D2 chip features an incredible 208MB of on-chip cache
How to use Apple's Playlist Playground to make AI-generated mixes
HBO Max finally launches in the UK and Ireland
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OpenAI drops plans to release an adult chatbot
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Oversight Board tells Meta expanding Community Notes outside of US poses 'significant' risks
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Jury rules against Meta and YouTube in social media addiction case
HBO Max's Harry Potter series premieres this Christmas
Webb and Hubble telescopes combine forces for a new view of Saturn
Razer's new Blade 16 has Intel's latest chips and ultra-fast RAM
Nintendo to start charging different prices for first-party digital and physical games
YouTube is bringing affiliate shopping features to more creators
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Google's Lyria 3 Pro can now generate AI music (slop) up to 3 minutes in length
Meta lays off hundreds of workers, including more from Reality Labs
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Supreme Court rules ISPs aren't liable for subscribers' music piracy
Spotify is testing a tool to help real artists deal with AI slop on their profiles
Reddit will prompt some accounts to 'verify humanness' in latest bot crackdown
Sony's upcoming Bravia 3 II is a mid-range LED TV available in sizes up to 100 inches
Sony adds the Bravia Theater Bar 5 and Bar 7 to its soundbar lineup
X is changing its revenue-sharing policy to deter users pretending to be Americans
Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang and Sergey Brin join Trump's tech advisory panel
Stephen Colbert is writing a new Lord of the Rings movie
Anthropic releases safer Claude Code 'auto mode' to avoid mass file deletions and other AI snafus
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Sennheiser's owners want to sell its consumer headphone business
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Jury rules against Meta, orders $375 million fine in major child safety trial
Sony is reportedly shutting down Dark Outlaw Games, run by former Call of Duty director
Baltimore sues xAI over Grok deepfakes
OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video generation app
Apple could give Siri a standalone app and an 'Ask Siri' button in iOS 27
Zoox is bringing its robotaxi to new cities and expanding coverage in Las Vegas and San Francisco
AccuWeather is now available inside ChatGPT
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