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A federal appeals court rules New Jersey cannot block Kalshi users in the state from sports-related event contracts, finding CFTC has exclusive jurisdiction (Nate Raymond/Reuters)

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Sources: Meta is preparing to release the first AI models developed under Alexandr Wang, with plans to offer versions of those models via an open source license (Ina Fried/Axios)

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Netflix launches Netflix Playground, a games app for kids aged eight and under, in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, and New Zealand (Andrew Webster/The Verge)

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Source: Binance Chief Compliance Officer Noah Perlman is looking to leave in 2026 or 2027; other senior compliance staff have departed over the past few months (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

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OpenAI buying TBPN makes little sense, par for the course for a company that, like Twitter, stumbled into a big market and may never build a functional business (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

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How advanced chip packaging became one of Intel's fast-growing businesses; sources: Intel is in talks with Google and Amazon for its advanced packaging services (Lauren Goode/Wired)

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Xoople, which is developing a satellite constellation to collect earth data for training AI models, raised a $130M Series B, bringing its total funding to $225M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)

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Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid western sanctions after its Ukraine invasion (Financial Times)

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Interviews with Sam Altman and 100+ people on if he can be trusted amid allegations of consistent lying and more: some defend him as others call him a sociopath (New Yorker)

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Jack Dorsey says Apple removed his Bluetooth P2P messaging app Bitchat, used during protests in five countries, from the App Store in China at the CAC's request (Stephen Katte/Cointelegraph)

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OpenAI unveils policy proposals for a world with superintelligence: higher taxes on capital gains, a public AI investment fund, bolstered safety nets, and more (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)

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Japan, driven by labor shortages, is increasingly adopting robotics and physical AI, with a hybrid model where startups innovate and corporations provide scale (Kate Park/TechCrunch)

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Sources: Palo Alto Networks, Sophos, and others record an increase in demand for their ransom negotiators, as businesses seek help in talks with cybercriminals (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)

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Netflix debuts VOID, a vision language model that can erase objects from a scene and simulate how remaining objects would behave in the scene without them (Thomas Claburn/The Register)

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Indian IT giant Wipro agrees to acquire Mindsprint, the IT services arm of Singapore-based Olam, for $375M, and strikes an eight-year, $1B+ contract with Olam (Reuters)

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Docs: OpenAI and Anthropic have projected profitability to investors with and without training costs, and report inference costs exceeding half of their revenue (Wall Street Journal)

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Microsoft is updating devices from Windows 11 24H2 to version 25H2 with no way to fully opt out, and says an "intelligent" ML-based system handles the rollout (Kunal Khullar/Tom's Hardware)

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Sources: Sam Altman has excluded OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar from some key financial meetings; Friar began reporting to Fidji Simo, instead of Altman, in August 2025 (The Information)

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China, which dominates the global drone industry, has sharply tightened its drone use rules, as some users say they are hindering routine and lawful flights (Joy Dong/New York Times)

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A deep dive into China's efforts to integrate AI into K-12 education to reduce teacher workloads, improve rural schools, and help students with disabilities (Lily Ottinger/ChinaTalk)

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