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- For publishers, pirated audiobooks made with AI on YouTube are a growing issue: removal is cumbersome, and some are hiring tech companies to take them down (Alexandra Alter/New York Times) [51d]
- How Anthropic's ongoing discussions with the Vatican about ethics and AI led to Christopher Olah being invited to Pope Leo's unveiling of an encyclical on AI (Jack Jenkins/RNS) [51d]
- Sources: the ECB warned EU finance ministers that proposals to issue more euro stablecoins could reduce bank lending and make controlling interest rates harder (Reuters) [51d]
- Jensen Huang urged Super Micro to tighten up compliance after Taiwan detained three people for allegedly trying to export servers with Nvidia chips to China (Debby Wu/Bloomberg) [51d]
- Dell says it has 5,000 clients for its AI Factory, a product line of servers with Nvidia chips, software, and services, including 1,000 new clients last quarter (Dina Bass/Bloomberg) [51d]
- Delivery Hero says it received a takeover offer from Uber for €33 per share, a discount of 1.76% from Delivery Hero's close on Friday (Anusha Shah/Reuters) [52d]
- A look at a copy of the AI EO that President Trump was expected to sign on Thursday; the unsigned EO emphasized that government AI reviews would be voluntary (Sophia Cai/Politico) [52d]
- A profile of TP-Link, whose share of the US consumer router market grew from 10% to 60%+ between 2019 and 2025, as it seeks to rebut national security concerns (Noah Berman/The Wire China) [52d]
- As the US House probes Airbnb's use of Chinese AI models, CEO Brian Chesky says the company is not sharing data with Chinese firms and uses open-source models (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg) [52d]
- Q&A with Sundar Pichai on the future of Google Search, Google's place in the AI race, public skepticism toward AI, AI agents, AI safety, TPUs, and more (New York Times) [52d]
- FOIA lawsuit documents show hackers who breached SolarWinds potentially had access to all "treasury.gov" email addresses from July 6, 2020 to October 12, 2020 (Jordan Robertson/Bloomberg) [52d]
- Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says AI won't replace builders or sellers, but it will affect middle managers, operations jobs, and other "measuring" positions (Matthew Prince/Wall Street Journal) [52d]
- Samsung's bonus deal is fueling employee resentment over a 100x payout gap between memory division staff and those making smartphones, TVs, and home appliances (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg) [52d]
- Fresha, a London-based beauty and wellness booking marketplace, raised $80M from KKR's growth equity arm at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total raised to $285M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch) [52d]
- Filing: Zoom's stake in Anthropic is worth ~$1.27B based on a February round which valued Anthropic at $380B; Zoom invested an additional $46M in recent months (Brody Ford/Bloomberg) [52d]
- The US NTSB suspends access to its database of civil transportation accidents after people re-created voices of pilots killed in a 2025 UPS plane crash using AI (Jeremy Hsu/Ars Technica) [52d]
- Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview has been used to find more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities since the launch of Project Glasswing (Anthropic) [52d]
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