Internal docs show Meta plans to use AI to automate up to 90% of its privacy and integrity risk assessments, including in sensitive areas like violent content — For years, when Meta launched new features for Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, teams of reviewers evaluated possible risks: Could it violate users' privacy?
Google quietly released an Android app called Google AI Edge Gallery on GitHub, letting users run some AI models from Hugging Face locally on their phones — Last week, Google quietly released an app that lets users run a range of openly available AI models from the AI dev platform Hugging Face on their phones.
Grow a Garden, a hit game on Roblox, has spawned a market where in-game items are sold for real money on sites like eBay, potentially violating Roblox's ToS — At a recent peak on Saturday, May 24, some 8.7 million people were playing at once, roughly the population of Switzerland …
Brazil is piloting dWallet, a digital wallet program that allows users to monetize their data, the first nationwide initiative of its kind in the world — Brazil is piloting dWallet, a project that lets citizens earn money from their data. It is ahead of similar U.S-based initiatives.
Letter: Synopsys tells staff to stop sales, services, and new orders in China to comply with new US export curbs, and pulls its annual and quarterly forecasts — Semiconductor design software firm Synopsys (SNPS.O) has told staff in China to halt services and sales in the country and stop taking …
The US Treasury sanctions Philippines-based Funnull Technology for allegedly facilitating “pig butchering” crypto scams that stole over $200M from US victims — The U.S. government imposed sanctions on FUNNULL, a company accused of providing infrastructure for cybercriminals running so-called …
Sources say Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and other Chinese companies are testing domestic alternatives as they deal with a dwindling stockpile of Nvidia processors — Tougher US export restrictions on advanced chips give added urgency to testing of domestic alternatives
At Foxconn's shareholder conference, Chair Young Liu says 2025 revenue is set to reach ~$234B due to AI, and reassures shareholders amid US tariff uncertainty — The company has been diversifying its businesses, growing its footprint in areas like AI servers and electric vehicles
Inside Las Vegas' Bitcoin Conference: Eric and Donald Trump Jr gave speeches, JD Vance said bitcoin is “only going to help the American dollar”, and more — The US president is a crypto booster — and the faithful went to America's gambling capital to celebrate
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says Chinese AI rivals are filling the void left by US companies leaving China and Huawei has become “quite formidable” — Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said that Chinese AI rivals are filling the void left by the departure of US companies …
Sources: the Trump administration suspends sales of more US tech, including chips and jet engines, in response to China's critical mineral export restrictions — President Trump has stopped some critical products and technologies made only in the United States from flowing to China …
Filing: GameStop acquires 4,710 bitcoin for its corporate treasury, but does not disclose the total purchase amount, after announcing a bitcoin plan in March — - The video game retailer announced a 4,710 bitcoin purchase on May 28. — GameStop previously announced plans to adopt Bitcoin …
ASML's stock is down ~25% in the past year from a record ~€1,000 in July 2024, cutting $130B+ from its market cap, amid China export rules and US tariffs — More than $130 billion of value has been wiped off of ASML in under a year amid restrictions on exports to China and U.S. tariff uncertainty
Memo: Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff, set to become Tinder CEO in July, lays out a new vision for the app, including speeding up product changes and using AI — Spencer Rascoff is rethinking Match Group's biggest app as younger online daters grow tired of swiping
Getty Images CEO Craig Peters says Getty is spending “millions and millions” on its Stability AI lawsuit in the UK and the US, accusing it of copying 12M images — Peters told CNBC in an interview that both Stability AI — the U.K.-based startup best known for its text …
The European Commission says it is investigating Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX, and XVideos for potential child safety DSA violations “as a matter of priority” — New rules compel large online platforms to do more to protect users from harmful illegal content
The Browser Company says it is pivoting away from its Arc browser to build AI-native browser Dia, citing Arc's complexity and limited mass-market appeal — On Arc, its future, and the arrival of AI browsers — a moment to answer the largest questions you've asked us this past year. — The Browser Company
Sources: Tim Cook declined a WH invitation to join Jensen Huang and others on Trump's Middle East trip, during which Trump criticized Cook and praised Huang — Apple's chief executive has gone from winning President Trump's praise to drawing his ire, deepening the company's woes in a very bad year.
At its Build conference, Microsoft sought to show its key role in the AI industry, with Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Jensen Huang making virtual appearances — Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Jensen Huang's appearances at Build event reflect software giant's grip on AI industry
London-based Converge, which uses sensors and AI to optimize the use of concrete in construction projects, raised a $22M Series A led by Dutch bank ABN Amro — Converge, a concrete sensor and AI startup, has closed $22 million in the second tranche of a Series A round, the company tells Axios.
Sarvam AI's 24B-parameter LLM for Indian languages Sarvam-M receives only 334 downloads in two days on Hugging Face, raising concerns about AI efforts in India — Much of Sarvam's criticism comes from comparing it to OpenAI or DeepSeek, while the problem the company is trying to solve is fundamentally different.
Grok's tendency to repeat debunked claims raises doubts about Elon Musk's goal of making it a reliable source of information in high-stakes areas like medicine — Grok has proved popular with X users. But a string of bizarre blunders has threatened to turn it into a punchline.
Some VCs, such as Khosla Ventures, are considering acquiring mature businesses, like call center operators, and optimizing them with AI to serve more customers — Venture capitalists have always focused on investing in companies that leverage technology to either disrupt established industries …
Sources: Nvidia plans to launch a new AI chip priced between $6,500 and $8,000, well below the $10,000-$12,000 the H20 sold for, after US export curbs — Nvidia (NVDA.O) will launch a new artificial intelligence chipset for China at a significantly lower price than its recently restricted H20 model …
X appears to be in the midst of a significant outage globally, after a fire reportedly broke out in an Oregon data center owned by X on Thursday — Feeds aren't loading on X following a reported data center fire earlier in the week. … Elon Musk's X appears to be in the midst of a significant outage.
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