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Libby's AI Filters Depend on Publishers Self-Labeling
OverDrive's Libby app is adding AI content filters that let readers opt out of AI-authored, AI-narrated, and machine-translated books, but the system depends entirely on publishers self-labeling their
Meituan Ships 1.6T Model on 50K Chinese Chips
Chinese food delivery giant Meituan released and open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter AI model trained entirely on a 50,000-chip cluster of domestic Chinese processors rather than Nvidia
Aikido Security acquires Root, opens Israel dev center
Belgian cybersecurity firm Aikido Security is acquiring Root, an AI platform for securing open-source components that has raised about $31M, and will open a new development center in Israel as part of
Walkinshaw: Trump 'fetishizing' Silicon Valley for defense
Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-Va.) unveiled plans to scrutinize Trump-era federal tech contracting, revive the dormant FITARA scorecard, push for AI accountability, and shore up CISA and FedRAMP, warning t
Meituan Open-Sources 1.6T LongCat-2.0 on Chinese Chips
Chinese food delivery giant Meituan released and open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter AI model trained entirely on a 50,000-chip cluster of domestic Chinese processors, marking one of th
How Bill Savitt Beat Elon Musk — Twice
Wachtell, Lipton attorney Bill Savitt opens up about his litigation playbook after defeating Elon Musk twice — first representing Twitter against Musk's attempt to abandon the buyout, then OpenAI in M
Reltio: Agricultural AI fails without clean data foundation
Sponsored content from Reltio argues that agricultural AI deployments are failing because farm and distributor data is fragmented, outdated, and poorly governed — and that data foundations must come b
Building tech in the world’s secret R&D hub
The Greater Zurich Area has quietly become Europe's most concentrated AI R&D hub, with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Disney Research all running operations from a regi
SF Six-Figure Tech Workers Say AI-Elite Pay Is Pricing
As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, San Francisco tech workers earning six figures say they can no longer keep up with the compensation of the new AI elite and may have to leave the city.
Digital Realty falls 5% after taking $3.5 billion stake in Blackstone's Virginia data centers
Digital Realty's stock dropped about 5.4% in premarket trading after the Austin-based data center firm announced a $3.5 billion deal to acquire Blackstone's stake in three Northern Virginia data cente
BIS Warns AI Buildout Mirrors Past Bust Cycles
The Bank for International Settlements warned that the current AI investment surge mirrors past technological revolutions that ended in painful busts, flagging concentrated risk in hyperscalers, suppl
Abivax shares jump 25% on obefazimod safety data
Abivax's U.S.-listed shares surged roughly 25% overnight after the French biotech disclosed new safety data for its ulcerative colitis drug obefazimod, apparently easing concerns triggered by cancer c
SCOTUS Limits Police Geofence Warrant Power
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that geofence warrants are unconstitutional 'searches,' ending law enforcement's warrantless ability to sweep up cell phone location data from Google and Apple.
Base44 launches own AI model to escape frontier-model
Base44, the vibe-coding platform Wix bought for $80 million a year ago, has launched Base1, its own LLM trained on tens of millions of user interactions, betting that owning the model stack beats rent
Supreme Court Limits Geofence Warrants
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that geofence warrants count as "searches" under the Fourth Amendment, requiring law enforcement to obtain a warrant before demanding cell-phone location data from tech
Open Memory Protocol Unifies AI Memory Across Tools
Open Memory Protocol launches as a vendor-neutral, self-hostable open standard that lets AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor share a single user memory store, breaking the silo where each tool i
Meta Contractors Posed as Teens Probing Rival Chatbots
Meta contractor Covalen ran a project called Cannes in which hundreds of workers posed as minors to probe ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI with more than 45,000 prompts covering suicide, sex, drugs,
South Korean tech giants commit over $550B to ease ‘RAMageddon’
Samsung and SK Hynix are committing $518 billion to build four new memory fabs in southwestern South Korea, part of a broader $900 billion national push into semiconductors and AI data centers targeti
Cursor Launches Mobile App for Coding Agents
Cursor launched Cursor Mobile on Monday, letting users prompt and monitor its coding agents from a phone — extending its October pivot toward agent-driven development and matching moves already made b
Apple Patches 30+ Bugs Including AI-Discovered Flaws
Apple released security updates for iOS, macOS, and Safari patching more than 30 flaws, including four WebKit vulnerabilities uncovered by AI tools from OpenAI and Anthropic, and said the accelerated
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