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Safety policies define what constitutes safe and unsafe AI outputs, guiding data annotation and model development. However, annotation disagreement is pervasive and can stem from multiple sources such

Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Alex Karp went on CNBC this week and delivered what one outlet generously called a “televised nervous breakdown.” He called the artificial intelligence indus

Peter Vercoe / Bloomberg: WiseTech co-founder Richard White steps down as chair amid a police probe over claims he exploited a woman's immigration status for sex; WTC jumps 7%+ — Billionaire Richard W

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s oft-discussed promise that Americans w

Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: A profile of Kaley Glenn-Mills, the plaintiff in K.G.M. v. Meta et al., who was awarded $6M in damages in a landmark LA jury trial over social media addiction — Kaley Glen

Kate O'Keeffe / Bloomberg: A US federal judge orders the DOD to shield Alibaba from a law that led lobbyists to drop it as a client while she weighs the measure's constitutionality — A federal judge o

Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Alex Karp’s recent broadside against the frontier model vendors put a knife to the throat of the central enterprise artificial intelligence debate. Karp’s ar

Amazon Web Services Inc. is no longer accepting new customers for its decades-old Mechanical Turk service, in what is likely a death knell for the pioneering crowdsourcing marketplace. Launched in 200

New York Times: Analysis: ~1M TRUMP retail buyers lost a combined 3.81B, while ~500K mostly-early wallets captured $4B in gains, a textbook memecoin wealth transfer — A report from a cryptocurrency an

Financial Times: Bending Spoons' Nasdaq IPO caps its 50+ deals across 10+ years that transformed the Italian startup into a highly leveraged internet company with ~$4.4B in debt — Nasdaq listing caps

Wency Chen / South China Morning Post: ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen will disable humanlike and user-created agents before July 15, as China's anthropomorphic AI interaction rules take effect

Patricia Kowsmann / Wall Street Journal: Chainalysis: addresses linked to Iran, Russia, North Korea, and other US-sanctioned entities received 100B+ in crypto last year, almost 8x the amount in 2024 —

Chemical accidents involving releases of dangerous chemicals rose 57 percent between 2021 and 2025, from 83 to 131 incidents , with injuries or deaths rising from 60 to 89 over the same period . The E

Josh Zoffer / Financial Times: Data centers offer US a chance to get ahead in the next key technologies and to build domestic supply chains based on demand rather than subsidies and tariffs — America

Sejal Sharma / Hindustan Times: India issues a notice to Telegram, asking it to curb the spread of pirated films and other copyrighted content, and seeks an action-taken report within 15 days — The Mi

'Group project, but make it 1776.' That's how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there. The clip imagines what it would be like if the founding fathers turn

Ming-Chi Kuo: Kuo: suppliers plan to ship less than 1M iPhone fold units in 3Q26, which may push the start of device pre-orders and sales to Q4, with weeks of delivery delays — My latest industry surv

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Sofia Chesnokova / Tech Funding News: NY-based LinqAlpha, which provides AI-powered market research tools for hedge funds, raised a 22M Series A co-led by AVP, Atinum Investment, and GFT Ventures — -

Most Americans don't trust AI. It's proven that it doesn't know what safe toppings for pizza are. People don't even want to listen to AI music. But none of that matters for some of America's wealthy,

Kieran Smith / Financial Times: Sources: Uber halts plans to launch food delivery in five of the seven European countries it had targeted for expansion as it pursues a Delivery Hero takeover — Ride-ha

I wrote about the sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 release a couple of weeks ago. Since we only have Claude Fable on our Max subscriptions for a few more days, I decided to see if it could help me get to a 4.0 sta

Grace Kay / The Information: Tesla rolls out its Robotaxi service without a safety monitor in Miami, its fifth city, as it aims to expand to a dozen US states by the end of 2026 — Tesla said it rolled

Financial Times: A look at the troubled rollout of the EU's automated biometric entry/exit border system, as airport operators warn of severe delays ahead of the summer holidays — Automated system fir

Robert P Baird / The Guardian: A profile of Google DeepMind philosopher Iason Gabriel, whose work has tracked, and in many cases predicted, the ethical challenges posed by the success of LLMs — Since

Data center builder Crusoe Inc. is reportedly in talks to raise a 3 billion funding round. Bloomberg on Thursday cited sources as saying that the deal could value the company at 30 billion. That’s abo

Simon Sharwood / The Register: AWS says Mechanical Turk will no longer accept new customers and that it is placing the crowdsourcing service in maintenance, signaling its future retirement — Workers w

Better Models: Worse Tools Armin reports on a weird problem he ran into while hacking on Pi: The short version is that newer Claude models sometimes call Pi’s edit tool with extra, invented fields in

Building a World Map with only 500 bytes Iwo Kadziela (assisted by Codex) figured out a way to generate a credible ASCII world map using 445 bytes of data: The key trick is to use deflate compression,

Nilesh Christopher / Los Angeles Times: How ByteDance is making Hollywood inroads with its Seedance video generator, thanks to low pricing, striking realism, and features like timeline-based prompting

Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: How some high-income families use AI-powered private schools and tutors, such as Alpha School, to teach their children life skills and tailor their curriculum

Marcel Thee / Nikkei Asia: Indonesia's enforcement of social media restrictions for under-16s has been patchy, with tech companies ignoring the rules and youth still accessing platforms — JAKARTA — An

Mari Kiyohara / Bloomberg: Micron breaks ground on its ~9.3B Hiroshima factory expansion, part of its global ramp-up to meet AI demand, and plans to start HBM shipments from summer 2028 — Micron Techn

Madison McLauchlan / BetaKit: Montreal-based Stathera, a maker of MEMS-based silicon timing components for chips, raised a 55M Series B led by Maverick Silicon, taking total funding to 75M — Stathera

Bloomberg: Official data shows Hong Kong accounted for 50%+ of China's 239B in chip imports in the first five months of 2026, a record share, up from ~33% a decade ago — Hong Kong has become a vital c

Anna Heim / TechCrunch: Prague-based EquiLibre, which offers AI for quant hedge funds and is founded by three ex-Google DeepMind researchers, raised a Series A at a $500M valuation — Three former Deep

Jason Hiner / The Deep View: Q&A with Doug Brooks, senior product manager of Apple silicon, about Mac minis becoming preferred AI agent machines, future of on-device AI, and more — W — alk into any of

Supergirl follows Kara Zor-El on a protective quest across alien worlds that helps the young Kryptonian discover her identity and purpose . The origin story leans into the emotional fallout of grief w

Duc Dao / TNGlobal: Singapore-based dConstruct Robotics, which develops spatial tech to let autonomous robots operate in complex, GPS-denied environments, raised a 125M Series A — Singapore-based dCon

Aisha Down / The Guardian: Source calls UK- and OpenAI-touted plans in 2025 for Stargate's ~£20B Cobalt site a PR stunt; OpenAI and Nscale failed to visit Cobalt or lodge planning forms — Exclusive: £

Over the past week, a new fanworks movement has kicked off, with the aim to root out authors using generative AI. But the detection methods being implemented are questionable, and any fanfic writer co

A loss of smell can be an early sign of disease, while in other circumstances it may directly contribute to disorders. Smell helps parents and children bond, warns of environmental dangers, and anchor

Midjourney has shown more of its futuristic medical scanner. It still hasn't shown much proof it works. The AI startup, best known for generating images, released a behind-the-scenes video of its dunk

It’s not easy to transplant a whole human eye. The surgery is difficult. And the eyes themselves start to degenerate as soon as they’ve left the body. When surgeons attempted it a few years ago, the n

Bloomberg: A look at the quant fund frenzy in China, as assets under management have more than doubled to ~$384B in less than a year amid rapid AI adoption — Quant funds in China have become so popula

Janko Roettgers / The Verge: A look back at BitTorrent, launched by Bram Cohen 25 years ago, and how media piracy fueled its growth while its architecture shielded it from legal liability — Cath Virgi