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Study: social networks drove 5.7M+ visits to nudify sites between December 2025 and March 2026, with YouTube accounting for 1.82M and X for 1.3M visits (Ej Dickson/Wired) [58d]
OpenAI says Apple's claim that OpenAI never responded to its concerns is false; emails: an Apple lawyer mixed up two OpenAI staffers in Apple's initial outreach (David Ingram/NBC News) [59d]
The Trump administration launches the "Gold Eagle" federal clearinghouse for sharing AI cyber threat information between the government and private sector (Derek B. Johnson/CyberScoop) [59d]
Cybersecurity stocks rallied on Tuesday after IBM CEO Arvind Krishna flagged cyber fears as a top priority for customers; CrowdStrike jumped 12%, Okta rose 11% (Samantha Subin/CNBC) [59d]
The UK government proposes a default overnight social media curfew for 16- and 17-year-olds and disabling features like auto-play and infinite scroll by default (Muvija M/Reuters) [59d]
Sources: OpenAI's first device will be a moveable, screen-free smart speaker with a camera and sensors, meant to serve as a humanlike AI companion (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [59d]
Sources: DeepSeek has started planning for an IPO in China and may file as soon as this year, allowing it to debut in 2027 (Lulu Yilun Chen/Bloomberg) [59d]
Anthropic faces ridicule and criticism for an ad titled "There's hope in hard questions" that unsettled viewers with weird graveyard imagery and doomer-ist tone (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch) [59d]
OpenAI says it is "not aware of any evidence" that Apple's lawsuit alleging trade-secret theft has merit, adding that it believes in fair competition (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [59d]
Adapter, which offers an infrastructure layer to help users leverage and control data for use by AI agents and apps, emerges from stealth with $17.8M in funding (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media) [59d]
Overtone, a "voice- and audio-forward" dating service founded by Hinge creator Justin McLeod that uses AI to make "highly curated introductions", raised $18M (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch) [59d]
A US judge dismisses a proposed class action accusing Apple of failing to stop the dissemination of CSAM through iCloud, saying Section 230 shields the company (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters) [59d]
PrismML launches Bonsai 27B, a model based on Qwen3.6 27B that it says runs natively on Apple devices via MLX; its CEO says Apple is evaluating the tech (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC) [59d]
A look at Founders Fund-backed State Affairs, which raised $70M and uses AI trained on reporting by its 76 staffers to power a Bloomberg Terminal-like product (Washington Post) [59d]