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• Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative
• AMD acquires World Labs AI startup, upping the ante against Nvidia
• Trump ads paid for by US government allegedly violate anti-propaganda laws
• NASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers
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• Apple pressured to explain Trump role in ICE-tracking app removals
• This study looks at how and with whom connected cars share your data
• Less protein for maggots means longer lives for fruit flies
• OpenAI says planned GPT-6.1 is too insecure to release
• Anthropic’s IPO pitch includes a warning about human extinction
• Interview: Firefox's chief on why he hopes a redesign will help win users from Chrome
• Boeing "incredibly excited" to serve as nation's only astronaut transportation
• Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump
• SpaceX's Starship goes orbital, deploying first next-gen Starlinks
• Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development
• New device captures carbon dioxide by pumping it across a battery
• To keep drug prices high, pharma has been piling up the patents
• Trump cuts fuel economy standards back to 2014 levels
• Kalshi loses again as judges rule prediction markets must obey gambling laws
| • Trump releases a voluntary AI accord with tech leaders, asking companies to partner with external auditors and set up internal controls to monitor AI alignment (Kanishka Singh/Reuters)
• At the unBoxed conference, Amazon moves AI from being a feature to playing a more central role in ad-buying and brings previously separate ad workflows together (Ronan Shields/Digiday)
• A US appeals court upholds a ruling for Thomson Reuters in its copyright lawsuit against Ross Intelligence, rejecting Ross' fair use defense for AI training (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
• Efficient Computer, which uses dataflow architectures to develop faster and more energy-efficient chips, raised a $97M Series B at a $650M valuation (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
• Anthropic says GLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, like Claude Mythos Preview, but was released without robust safeguards against misuse (Anthropic)
• President Trump signs an executive order requiring federal government agencies to refer to AI as "Super Intelligence" or "SI" in all official communications (Michael Shepard/Bloomberg)
• IPO filing: Anthropic routed 47% of its sales, or ~$2.16B, in 2025 through cloud partners Amazon and Google; analysis: it paid ~$351M back in distribution fees (Reuters)
• Mark Zuckerberg says the voluntary "accord" on AI standards that tech executives agreed to includes internal risk reviews and external auditors (Axios)
• Trump says he signed a "morally binding" AI doc with AI leaders; Mike Johnson calls it a statement of principles that are "voluntary on behalf of the industry" (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
• After lunch with AI leaders, Trump rejects new federal AI rules, says "we automatically have regulation" via DOJ and FBI but "self-regulation is very important" (Bloomberg)
• Baseten partners with OpenAI to let OpenAI enterprise customers use existing commitments for open models served by Baseten within Codex or via the Responses API (Dannie Herzberg/Baseten)
• Interviews with Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah and 20 religious and philosophical leaders about their summits to investigate consciousness in Claude (Elizabeth Dias/New York Times)
• Sources: some potential Oura IPO investors decided to hold off, citing its ~$15B target valuation and poor post-listing performance of peers like Fitbit (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI prices GPT-6.1 Sol at $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, the same as GPT-6 Sol and Claude Sonnet 5.5, and says it performs well on safety tests (Maximilian Schreiner/The Decoder)
• OpenAI expands ChatGPT plugins with interactive panels and file viewers, launches a Plugin Creator tool, and adds MCP Events support for plugin automations (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
| • The AI industry wants models to assist in legal battles, but will they help?
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• Codenames Party is the latest addition to Netflix Games
• Apple's iOS 27.0.1 update arrives with fixes for Face ID and touchscreen issues
• Apple updates Final Cut Camera to support the iPhone 18 Pro's variable aperture
• Mozilla deploys a new-look Firefox across desktop and mobile
• Google partners with known nerd Henry Cavill on a video game to showcase Googlebooks
• Xbox just unveiled Mythic Achievements, which are basically PlayStation platinum trophies
• There's now an official US government AI chatbot
• Gemini and Find Hub can help you locate your important documents — here's how
• Apple's new iPhone and iPad security feature can protect you from scammers
• ChatGPT Space is a shared hub for work projects and personal AI agents
• OpenAI adds $500(!) Pro subscription, nerfs its existing $200 tier
• Dots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them
• McDonald's is reportedly using AI to "dynamically" price its burgers
• How to get your money's worth from Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
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