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Ben Szalinski / Capitol News Illinois : Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signs the Children's Social Media Safety Act, a bill designed to limit children's access to “addictive” social media algorithms   —  Cracking down on social media algorithms one of governor's top priorities this year  —  Article Summary from Techmeme https://ift.tt/uJZshg3 via IFTTT

Geoff Brumfiel / NPR : Google rolls back an image generation tool in Google Earth to add “stronger guardrails” after concerns arose it can be used to create deepfake satellite imagery   —  A day after Google unveiled a new feature that allowed users to create AI-generated satellite images with the click … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/mv3UXJ7 via IFTTT

Lily Hay Newman / Wired : Google pilots a faster twice-a-week schedule for Chrome security releases as AI tools drive a surge in bug discoveries; Chrome 149 and 150 fixed 1,072 bugs   —  The two Chrome updates in June patched more bugs than the 23 updates before them.  Now, Google is ramping up its patching schedule thanks … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/CmTkofA via IFTTT

Google : Google launches its Lyria 3.5 music generation model in Google Flow Music, highlighting improved musicality, lyrics, vocal quality, and creative control   —  Our newest music generation model, Lyria 3.5, delivers significant advancements across musicality, lyrics, and vocal quality, empowering you to craft richer tracks. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/uP0ACta via IFTTT

The Information : Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Lilian Weng is returning to OpenAI after announcing earlier this week she was leaving TML over workload-related health concerns   —  Lilian Weng, a researcher who cofounded AI startup Thinking Machines Lab alongside former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/mRJlQrD via IFTTT

In June 2024, a small company called Zanskar purchased a geothermal power plant in New Mexico that was failing fast. The water coming from the underground reservoir was getting colder by the day, making the plant uneconomical to run. Now, two years later, that plant is running at full capacity again, thanks to a new well. With the help of advanced modeling and modern drilling technology, the company was able to identify a better potential well site, drill down thousands of feet, and revive the entire operation. As the world looks for more sources of emissions-free electricity that are available 24-7, Lightning Dock shows there’s still hidden potential deep beneath our feet.  Conventional geothermal power plants rely on having the right underground conditions. Water flows through fractured hot rocks to harvest heat and then through a power plant to generate electricity. If the water isn’t hot enough or not enough flows, the power plant can’t work efficiently. Ligh...

Bloomberg : Over 1,100 staffers from AI companies, including John Schulman and OpenAI's Jakub Pachocki, sign a letter requesting the US government to “pace” AI development   —  More than 1,100 staffers across top artificial intelligence firms have signed a petition that calls on the US government … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/ra0CgQ7 via IFTTT

Mark Zuckerberg / Wall Street Journal : Mark Zuckerberg argues that superintelligence should be widely distributed as a tool that empowers everyone, rather than centralized in a few institutions   —  The history of democracy and economics has proved that centralized power stifles human potential.  —  We are fortunate to live at an incredible moment in history. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/BMhZuTp via IFTTT

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac : X rolls out X Money to US Premium and Premium+ subscribers, combining a deposit account with up to 6% APY, free instant transfers on X, and a Visa debit card   —  X has officially launched X Money, which includes Apple Wallet support, moving the service beyond its invite-only beta and beginning a rollout today. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/kEOaY8M via IFTTT

Patrick Howell O'Neill / Bloomberg : The US National Vulnerabilities Database recorded 45,207 software security flaws so far in 2026, on pace to roughly double the tally of flaws recorded in 2025   —  The number of software security flaws discovered in popular technology products in 2026 is on pace to roughly double the tally … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/0CbS3TQ via IFTTT

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first,  sign up here . Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models broke their containment and hacked into the computer systems of Hugging Face , another AI company, was the first time I got genuine chills about what large language models are now able to do. But this is a case of human hubris, not rogue AI. I am not an alarmist. In fact, I have been pushing back against AI scare stories for years. Even so, this incident crossed a line. I think it’s the clearest illustration yet of how the people building and testing this technology do not fully understand what they’re doing. OpenAI could—and should—have seen this coming. Here’s what happened, at least according to the two companies involved. A couple of weeks ago, OpenAI started testing the hacking abilities of some of its new models, including GPT‑5.6 Sol (released in June) and what ...

Wall Street Journal : Sources: Nvidia is in talks to provide a ~$250B backstop for OpenAI as part of a 10GW data center project that SoftBank is developing in Ohio   —  Project would be one of the largest AI computing hubs and involve power controlled by the U.S. government  —  Nvidia is in talks to provide … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/cyDLEqQ via IFTTT

Jamie John / Financial Times : How AI companies are targeting the education market, including making free or cut-price tailored learning tools in partnership with schools and edtech startups   —  Anthropic and OpenAI are among groups providing free and cut-price tailored solutions for educators and students from Techmeme https://ift.tt/kzgFTDV via IFTTT

Aditya Kalra / Reuters : India eases foreign investment rules for e-commerce companies, a win for Amazon, which lobbied to buy goods directly from Indian sellers and sell them overseas   —  India's government on Thursday eased foreign investment rules to allow e-commerce companies to buy products directly from Indian sellers … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/vo9mFrl via IFTTT

Ashley Stewart / Business Insider : Once hailed as an AI visionary, Satya Nadella faces pressure as a compute crunch forces Microsoft to prioritize its own AI products over Azure cloud customers   —  Microsoft went all in on AI.  Is its North Star now a noose?  —  Three years ago, Satya Nadella catapulted Microsoft to the front … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/oKsT8Bq via IFTTT

Bloomberg : CXMT is poised for a debut pop that could lift its market cap several times above its initial ~$85B after raising $9.8B in a hugely oversubscribed Shanghai IPO   —  Investor excitement over the memory chip trade is setting outsize expectations for the Shanghai debut of CXMT Corp. … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/Hn4xJrc via IFTTT

Meir Orbach / CTech : Elio, which is developing a new type of image sensor designed for AI rather than human vision, raised a $21M Series A led by Innovation Endeavors and Xora   —  Elio's founders, Nadav Grossinger and Nitay Romano, spent seven years developing physical sensing systems at Meta. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/pW6AyZ3 via IFTTT

Financial Times : A look at China's bid to build an alternative global order in AI by making open models widely available and training people in developing countries to use them   —  Beijing makes most ambitious offer yet to build alternative global order  —  China's President Xi Jinping has set … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/xm3YeNX via IFTTT

Reuters : China's market regulator says it had fined and confiscated ~$770M from Trip.com for abusing its dominant position in the domestic online hotel-booking market   —  China's market regulator said on Saturday it had fined and confiscated a total of 5.2 billion yuan ($770 million) from Trip.com Group … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/hrEBfwg via IFTTT

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Cognition acquires the makers of Poke, an AI assistant that users can access via messaging services, in a deal valuing Poke's parent in the “low nine figures”   —  Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, is making its next big move.  The company behind the assistant … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/0bJOzL6 via IFTTT

Chris Metinko / Axios : Paper, which allows designers to connect directly with production code and the AI agents that create it, raised a $34M Series A led by Accel and ICONIQ   —  Paper, a design platform for teams using AI, locked up a $34 million Series A led by Accel and ICONIQ, CEO Stephen Haney tells Axios Pro exclusively. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/1FBgksH via IFTTT

Timothy Pratt / The Guardian : The DOJ is prosecuting a Cop City protester for allegedly providing CBP with a “duress” passcode that wiped the contents of his GrapheneOS phone   —  Concern over US effort to prosecute Sam Tunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using GrapheneOS from Techmeme https://ift.tt/1U4Yo7E via IFTTT

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Anthropic makes its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and says voice mode can now tap into some connected apps like Gmail, Slack, and Notion   —  Weeks after OpenAI rolled out a new family of conversational models and updated ChatGPT's voice mode, rival Anthropic is making … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/fVnqGBI via IFTTT

Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware : AMD unveils the Venice-X CPU, with 1152 MB of 3D V-Cache, 96 cores, and up to 5.15 GHz clock speeds, available in H2 2027   —  It's the same cache amount and core count as Genoa-X, but with far faster cores. … AMD's Venice-X CPU is launching in the second half of 2027, the company revealed Thursday at its Advancing AI event. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/yXjlnqc via IFTTT

Yueqi Yang / The Information : Source: Stripe revenue jumped by a third to $6.8B in 2025, its fastest revenue growth since 2021, with free cash flow up 52% to $3.2B   —  Stripe is coming off a banner year thanks to booming growth in the AI sector, where the company processes payments for big AI labs and small developers alike. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/yFJeBIi via IFTTT

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Yope, a social network that has ~15M registered users for its “micro communities” and no algorithms, ads, or public content, raised $12.3M seed led by Northzone   —  As social media has evolved from a place to connect with friends into large-scale entertainment platforms … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/UCny9P4 via IFTTT

Ina Fried / Axios : OpenAI says its models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and “an even more capable pre-release model”, breached Hugging Face while OpenAI tested their cyber capabilities   —  OpenAI said Tuesday that models it was testing escaped their sandbox and compromised parts of AI platform Hugging Face's production infrastructure last week. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/QM4fG8u via IFTTT

Iain Martin / Forbes : Poolside launches Laguna S 2.1, an 118B open-weight model built for agentic coding and long-horizon work, that it says competes with larger open models   —  Chinese open-source models like Kimi, Deepseek and Qwen are now dominant AI tools.  American upstarts like Mira Murati's Thinking Machines … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/OlnXLYM via IFTTT