Sunday, November 2, 2025

An Italian law requiring porn sites, including Pornhub, YouPorn, and OnlyFans, to verify the ages of their users will go into effect on November 12 (Jackson Chen/Engadget)

Jackson Chen / Engadget:
An Italian law requiring porn sites, including Pornhub, YouPorn, and OnlyFans, to verify the ages of their users will go into effect on November 12  —  The age verification process is required for every visit and will be done through “certified third parties.”



Online harassers are using AI tools to create more realistic death threats, posting hyper-realistic AI-generated images and sounds to social media platforms (Tiffany Hsu/New York Times)

Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Online harassers are using AI tools to create more realistic death threats, posting hyper-realistic AI-generated images and sounds to social media platforms  —  Online harassers are generating images and sounds that simulate their victims in violent situations.



A profile of David Bailey, Trump's informal crypto advisor who organizes the Bitcoin Conference, as he seeks to turn a Utah health clinic into a bitcoin bank (Nina Bambysheva/Forbes)

Nina Bambysheva / Forbes:
A profile of David Bailey, Trump's informal crypto advisor who organizes the Bitcoin Conference, as he seeks to turn a Utah health clinic into a bitcoin bank  —  Bitcoin Magazine publisher David Bailey believes he can turn a tiny Utah healthcare clinic into the Berkshire Hathaway of bitcoin.



AI browsers can bypass some paywalls; OpenAI's Atlas seems to avoid content from companies suing OpenAI, providing summaries or alternate reporting instead (Columbia Journalism Review)

Columbia Journalism Review:
AI browsers can bypass some paywalls; OpenAI's Atlas seems to avoid content from companies suing OpenAI, providing summaries or alternate reporting instead  —  OpenAI's Atlas and Perplexity's Comet present a new challenge for media companies that want to limit AI access.



Saturday, November 1, 2025

A profile of AI contractor marketplace Mercor, which is valued at $10B and whose three 22-year-old founders are Thiel Fellows, each holding a roughly 22% stake (Richard Nieva/Forbes)

Richard Nieva / Forbes:
A profile of AI contractor marketplace Mercor, which is valued at $10B and whose three 22-year-old founders are Thiel Fellows, each holding a roughly 22% stake  —  Mercor founders (left to right): Adarsh Hiremath, Brendan Foody and Surya Midha.  —  ULY INC. FOR MERCOR



MediaTek says it is on track to generate $1B in revenue from its data center AI accelerator ASIC chips in 2026, after reporting Q3 revenue up 7.8% YoY to $4.64B (Reuters)

Reuters:
MediaTek says it is on track to generate $1B in revenue from its data center AI accelerator ASIC chips in 2026, after reporting Q3 revenue up 7.8% YoY to $4.64B  —  Taiwan's top chip design company, MediaTek (2454.TW), expects to earn revenue of billions of dollars from its AI accelerator ASIC chips by 2027 …



Singapore seizes more than $115M in assets linked to Cambodia's Prince Group, which the US and UK accuse of stealing billions of dollars via online scam centers (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Singapore seizes more than $115M in assets linked to Cambodia's Prince Group, which the US and UK accuse of stealing billions of dollars via online scam centers  —  Singapore has seized more than S$150 million ($115 million) in assets linked to alleged money laundering and forgery …



China says it will allow some Nexperia semiconductor chip exports to resume to ease critical supply shortages impacting global auto production (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
China says it will allow some Nexperia semiconductor chip exports to resume to ease critical supply shortages impacting global auto production  —  Dispute over Netherlands-based chipmaker has threatened to disrupt global auto supply chains  —  China has said it will allow some Nexperia chips …



Friday, October 31, 2025

Getty and Perplexity sign a multi-year licensing agreement to let the AI startup display Getty's images across its search and discovery tools; GETY jumps 55%+ (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)

Kritika Lamba / Reuters:
Getty and Perplexity sign a multi-year licensing agreement to let the AI startup display Getty's images across its search and discovery tools; GETY jumps 55%+  —  Getty Images (GETY.N) and Perplexity signed a global multi-year licensing agreement on Friday, allowing the AI startup to display …



Denmark says it will withdraw the EU "Chat Control" proposal, which would force tech companies to scan messages for CSAM, and instead support voluntary scanning (Claudie Moreau/Euractiv)

Claudie Moreau / Euractiv:
Denmark says it will withdraw the EU “Chat Control” proposal, which would force tech companies to scan messages for CSAM, and instead support voluntary scanning  —  The Danes will seek to propose a voluntary detection regime in the CSAM proposal, instead of controversial mandatory detection orders



Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says he still hopes to sell the company's Blackwell chips to China "someday", but points out the decision is up to President Trump (Reuters)

Reuters:
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says he still hopes to sell the company's Blackwell chips to China “someday”, but points out the decision is up to President Trump  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) CEO Jensen Huang said on Friday he hoped the company's state-of-the-art Blackwell chips can be sold in China …



Alibaba's DAMO Academy releases RynnBrain, an open-source foundation model to help robots perform real-world tasks like navigating rooms, trained on Qwen3-VL (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg : Alibaba's DAMO Academy releases RynnBrain, an open-source foundation model to help robots perform real-worl...