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The Trump administration plans to ease rules for self driving cars by removing some requirements designed for human drivers, such as windshield wipers (Keith Laing/Bloomberg)

Keith Laing / Bloomberg: The Trump administration plans to ease rules for self driving cars by removing some requirements designed for human drivers, such as

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China’s AI content labeling law takes effect, aligned with increased AI scrutiny, as concerns grow over misinformation, copyright infringement, and online fraud (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)

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xAI sues a former employee in federal court in California for allegedly stealing Grok trade secrets and taking them to OpenAI, where he recently accepted a job (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

Blake Brittain / Reuters: xAI sues a former employee in federal court in California for allegedly stealing Grok trade secrets and taking them to OpenAI,

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Anthropic reached a settlement in a copyright class action brought by authors whose works were included in two pirate databases Anthropic downloaded (Annelise Levy/Bloomberg Law)

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Some lawyers and bankers say the Intel deal may face legal challenges as the CHIPS Act may not allow the US government to convert grants into equity (New York Times)

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A US judge sentences Noah Urban, a member of Scattered Spider, to 10 years in prison in connection with a string of major hacks and cryptocurrency thefts (Margi Murphy/Bloomberg)

Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: A US judge sentences Noah Urban, a member of Scattered Spider, to 10 years in prison in connection with a string

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NYC-based Protege, which prepares and sells real-world datasets like lab results and sports footage for AI training, raised a $25M Series A led by Footwork (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)

Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information: NYC-based Protege, which prepares and sells real-world datasets like lab results and sports footage for AI training, raised a $25M

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Anthropic expands Claude's Learning Mode, available only to Education users since an April launch, to all users, including two learning variants for Claude Code (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Anthropic expands Claude’s Learning Mode, available only to Education users since an April launch, to all users, including two learning variants

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President Trump says that he initially asked Nvidia for a 20% cut of H20 sales to China, but the number came down to 15% after Jensen Huang negotiated with him (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

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Ripple and the SEC agree to dismiss their court appeals, ending a lawsuit but leaving a judge's injunction on XRP sales to institutions and a $125M fine intact (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: Ripple and the SEC agree to dismiss their court appeals, ending a lawsuit but leaving a judge’s injunction on XRP sales