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• In a preliminary ruling, a US judge orders Perplexity to stop using Comet browser to make purchases on behalf of users from password-protected Amazon accounts (Bloomberg)
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• An interview with Sonos CEO Tom Conrad about Sonos' new speakers, its first consumer product since 2024, killing its set-top box plans, the app fiasco, and more (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
• Emil Michael says Google will deploy Gemini AI agents to Pentagon's 3M-strong workforce, initially on unclassified networks for tasks such as creating budgets (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)
• Rhoda AI, which is developing an AI model for industrial robots trained on public internet videos, raised $450M led by Premji Invest at a $1.7B valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
• YouTube expands its likeness detection tool to select government officials, political candidates, and journalists to "manage unauthorized AI-impersonation" (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
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• EA laid off staffers across Battlefield studios to 'better align' its teams
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• Anthropic sues US government over supply chain risk designation
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• iPad Air M4 review: Still Apple's best overall tablet, with a few caveats
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• Indonesia announces a social media ban for anyone under 16
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