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Internal docs from lawsuits by 1,400 school districts show how social media companies targeted kids: Meta paid "teen ambassadors", Snap sent school-hour alerts (Jennifer Valentino-DeVries/New York Times)
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Poke, which lets users access AI agents via text message, becomes the first AI agent approved for Apple's Messages for Business platform (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Unsealed 2020 lawsuit: ex-IBM VP of threat intelligence alleges that IBM and AT&T concealed foreign cyber breaches to maintain eligibility for federal contracts (Bloomberg)
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Sources: Anthropic has embedded around half a dozen forward-deployed engineers within the NSA to help the agency deploy Mythos for offensive cyber operations (Financial Times)
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Sources: Brian Chesky is starting a new AI lab and considering a focus on user interaction and design; he will remain Airbnb CEO and will not be the lab's CEO (Bloomberg)
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In a letter to Utah Senate President, Kevin O'Leary says he will cut a 40,000-acre AI data center project in Utah by roughly half, after backlash from lawmakers (John Ainger/Bloomberg)
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Supabase, which provides backend tools for building AI apps, raised a $500M Series F led by GIC at a $10B pre-money valuation, up from $5B in October 2025 (CJ Haddad/CNBC)
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Google now lets big creators and publishers in the US claim and customize dedicated Search profiles to aggregate their content from multiple platforms (Jay Peters/The Verge)
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Founders Fund launches a TV-style game show featuring A-list founders and investors, including Sam Altman and Palmer Luckey, playing a game of Mafia (Tom Dotan/Newcomer)
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Arizona Public Service, the state's largest utility, proposes a 45% electricity-rate increase for data centers to ensure "that they are paying their fair share" (Jennifer Hiller/Wall Street Journal)
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Two House lawmakers unveil bipartisan AI legislation that would override some state AI laws and require top AI developers to implement risk-management plans (Politico)
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Meta's Oversight Board says Meta's account deactivations lack due process, violations are flagged without clarity, and there's little support for appeals (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Cloudflare acquires VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ frameworks, and says the projects will stay open source (Cloudflare)
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Anthropic details its progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications, and says 80%+ of the code merged into its codebase is authored by Claude (Anthropic)
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Coinbase and Better fund the first Fannie Mae-backed mortgage that uses bitcoin as collateral, with a nationwide rollout planned in the coming months (Yogita Khatri/The Block)