JD.com: sales of the iPhone 17 series in the first minute after pre-orders opened in China surpassed the first-day pre-order volume of 2024's iPhone 16 series (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: JD.com: sales of the iPhone 17 series in the first minute after pre-orders opened in China surpassed the
Analysis: 13+ datasets used by tech companies without permission to train AI models contain 15.8M+ YouTube videos from 2M+ channels, including 1M how-to videos (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)
Alex Reisner / The Atlantic: Analysis: 13+ datasets used by tech companies without permission to train AI models contain 15.8M+ YouTube videos from 2M+ channels,
Sources: ASML is committing €1.3B for Mistral's €1.7B Series C funding round, becoming the top shareholder, and is expected to get a board seat (Reuters)
Reuters: Sources: ASML is committing €1.3B for Mistral’s €1.7B Series C funding round, becoming the top shareholder, and is expected to get a board seat
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
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,
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
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
