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Tesla says Dutch regulators approved the use of its full self-driving software, marking the first regulatory sign-off for the feature in Europe (Reuters)
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Sources: Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and other banks are testing Anthropic's Mythos model internally; JPMorgan Chase is the only bank named in Project Glasswing (Bloomberg)
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Sources: a week before Mythos release, JD Vance and Scott Bessent questioned Amodei, Altman, and others about AI model security and responding to cyber attacks (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
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Analysis: Trump's World Liberty Financial used 5B of its WLFI tokens to borrow $75M from a platform its adviser co-founded; WLFI falls to an all-time low (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
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Source: federal prosecutors have subpoenaed Reddit to appear before a grand jury, to provide personal data on an anonymous user who criticized ICE (Ryan Devereaux/The Intercept)
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Microsoft unveils plans to streamline the Windows Insider program, offering a simplified channel structure, moving between channels without wiping PCs, and more (Ed Bott/ZDNET)
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Trump hails Palantir's "great war fighting capabilities", days after short seller Michael Burry said the company will lose to AI startups; PLTR is down ~25% YTD (Joe Miller/Financial Times)
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Three senior executives who helped launch OpenAI's Stargate initiative are leaving, sources say to join the same new company (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
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San Francisco police arrested a suspect for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home and also making threats outside OpenAI's headquarters (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
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France says it plans to move government computers running Windows to Linux, to further reduce its reliance on US technology, without providing a timeline (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
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Jury deliberations began Friday in the Live Nation antitrust trial, after state attorneys general continued to pursue the case even as the US DOJ settled (Ben Sisario/New York Times)
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Waymo and Waze launch a pilot program to send pothole data collected by robotaxi sensors to the Waze for Cities platform and Waze app, starting in five markets (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
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Documents: Amazon is working on "Project Houdini", which aims to cut the time it takes to construct data centers by preassembling core server rooms into modules (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)
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Snap announces a partnership between Specs, its AR glasses-focused subsidiary, and Qualcomm, whose Snapdragon XR platform will power Specs' upcoming AI glasses (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
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CoreWeave says it has signed a multiyear deal with Anthropic, including a variety of Nvidia chips at data centers in the US; it now has 43 active data centers (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)