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Exclusive: Meta parts ways with Virtue AI

“Unfortunately, the arrangement didn’t work out as planned,” a Meta spokesperson told Semafor.

TechCrunch

Meta and YouTube say they will run ads for ‘Musk’ documentary after all | TechCrunch

Two companies now say they will accept advertising for director Alex Gibney’s upcoming documentary about Elon Musk, following earlier reporting that a number of social media platforms had rejected the ads.

Orlando Sentinel

Florida’s de-Flocking: After state order, Central Florida municipalities end use of high-tech cameras

Law enforcement leaders warned ending the use of the high-tech cameras will hurt crime-fighting efforts, nothing they have been useful in tracking down violent suspects and missing people.

Trump says the US is officially renaming AI to ‘super intelligence’

Super American Intelligence.

Go.AI raises $85M to put AI inside bank networks

Banks have struggled to move AI into production.

TechCrunch

Google tests letting Gemini call businesses for you | TechCrunch

Google says the AI-calling feature will first be available to Pixel 11 owners in the U.S. who pay for a Gemini subscription.

ABC News

At least 12 states face cyberattacks on their water systems, sources say

Possible cyber intrusions targeting water and wastewater utilities have now been reported in at least a dozen states, multiple sources told ABC News.

Tesla, Alphabet lose hundreds of billions in value in post-earnings stock plunge

Both Tesla and Alphabet signaled higher spending as they invest in artificial intelligence.

abc.net.au

How a simple request for AI to book a gym class exposed a major threat

When Andrew asked his AI personal assistant to book him a spot in a gym class, he had no idea he would accidentally initiate an autonomous cyber attack.

Telegram CEO says an extortionist planted CSAM in a chat to get it pulled from the App Store

The illegal material was allegedly planted in an old post.

Are we human?

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Billionaire Elon Musk

After backlash, Meta pauses plan to ‘rate limit’ its smart glasses

A paywall is still coming, though.

CNET

Meta's Quest Game Subscribers Will Be Getting Some Xbox Extras - CNET

Meta’s throwing Xbox cloud gaming Into Its Horizon Plus Quest subscription, and converting its controllers to work with it.

Variety

Sony Music, Universal Music Group Sue Suno Over Label-Backed Model: ‘Fruit of the Same Poisoned Tree’

The two labels filed a new, 45-page lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in the District of Massachusetts against the AI music-generation company.

Cheating behaviour in frontier model evaluations | AISI Work

The Information

White House to Host AI Companies on Tuesday to Review AI Framework

The Trump administration has invited staffers from major tech companies including OpenAI, Google and Anthropic to the White House on Tuesday to review the completed version of an AI oversight framework, according to five people familiar with the matter. The framework will create a voluntary ...

BTC news: Iran's Strait of Hormuz toll booth has been settling in bitcoin since June

The U.S. Treasury sanctioned BitBank, a Tehran exchange it says moved hundreds of millions of dollars in bitcoin to the Revolutionary Guards and handled payments collected from ships buying passage through the world’s most important oil chokepoint.

Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) on X

Models as Insider Risks in the Super Intelligence Era

Tech Funding News

From MIT research to $1.5B unicorn: Ethan Hu’s Meshy raises $400M for AI-powered 3D creation — TFN

Meshy raises nearly $400 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, which it says is the largest round any dedicated AI-3D company has raised.

U.S. appeals court upholds Pentagon designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk

In a 2-1 decision, a federal appeals court upheld the Department of Defense's blacklisting of Anthropic.

Tether’s USDT at center of Iran’s shadow banking network, new Senate Report says

In the 28-page report, Sen. Blumenthal said the panel's Democratic investigators analyzed blockchain transaction data from 846 crypto wallets that had been sanctioned and associated with Iran.

David Sacks (@DavidSacks) on X

Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead. You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also cl…

Mark Zuckerberg (@finkd) on X

Last month I wrote about how we can build a positive and safe future for everyone: https://t.co/eoLGVY8yad Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens. The reality is: - Peo…

Director Michael Kratsios (@mkratsios47) on X

We have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic’s Fable for the development of its K3 model. To do this they developed a sophisticated internal platform to conduct large scale distillation against U.S. models, allowing them to quickly switch between multiple methods of access to avoid de…

OpenAI launches free AI access program for academic researchers

The program will provide selected researchers access to advanced models through 2027.

NBCUniversal and YouTube ink deal to embed Peacock in the video platform for premium subscribers

Beginning in early 2027, YouTube Premium subscribers will receive the entirety of Peacock content, including sports and movies.

Engadget

Meta brings FDA-cleared hearing enhancement to its smart glasses - Engadget

After a free trial it