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Carl Zimmer / New York Times: Scientists trained AI on genetic sequences to design viruses not found in nature, yielding 16 viable viruses that can infect bacteria but don't threaten humans — Scientists trained…
Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times: How Trump's push for data centers is driving a boom in gas power plants, and a look at Meta's El Paso data center, which will have 813 gas-burning generators — In March, a…
Emmett Lindner / New York Times: TikTok's US entity says it is closing its Nashville office, which held some of its content moderation team; filing: TikTok laid off 250 employees at the office — The office was…
Cade Metz / New York Times: Discovery Loop, co-founded by Jeff Dean, is backed by seed funding from Radical Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and others; Google also has a stake in the company — Jeff Dean, who for years…
New York Times: Developers in Africa are increasingly choosing Chinese open-source AI models over US models, saying they are downloadable, easier to customize, and much cheaper — Developers built Sunflower, an…
Brooks Barnes / New York Times: Disney announces a global deal with TikTok to bring “thoughtfully curated” fan-created short-form videos based on Disney's IP to Disney+'s vertical Verts feed — Disney…
Emily Steel / New York Times: Uber is defending 4,000+ rider sexual-violence lawsuits by aggressively examining plaintiffs' drinking, clothing, and more, after promising to protect survivors — A 24-year-old woman…
New York Times: Sources: the US is focused on promoting US AI models to be more competitive, after officials considered taking a more interventionist approach to open source AI — The Trump administration has…
Devlin Barrett / New York Times: Court docs: an FBI agent has been charged with amassing ~$1M worth of cryptocurrency, largely by making unauthorized withdrawals from a criminal target overseas — The agent…
Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: A profile of Nanit, a maker of AI-equipped baby cameras for hyper-detailed tracking, which says it has 1M daily users and $100M+ in annual revenue — Young parents are…
New York Times: An unsecured police dashboard exposed China's extensive tracking of foreigners, aggregating data from surveillance cameras, facial recognition tools, and more — An unsecured police dashboard was a…
New York Times: Officials: the scope of cyberattacks on US water systems now includes at least seven states and may be far wider; MN was just the first to publicly report them — Michigan and Minnesota are among…
New York Times: A look at the deluge of AI computing power set to come online in the coming years; Epoch AI expects the number of AI chips in use to double every nine months — The milestones for artificial…
New York Times: Inside Larry Ellison's debt-fueled push to turn Oracle into an AI juggernaut by aligning with Trump, backing Project Stargate, and partnering with OpenAI — the first full day of the second Trump…
Sri Muppidi / New York Times: Simile, which offers “agentic twins” of real people to assess companies' products, brands, and services, raised $200M led by Greenoaks at a $2B valuation — Simile, a…
Niko Gallogly / New York Times: New York-based AI detection startup Pangram raised $9M led by Menlo, and releases Pangram 4.0 and its first AI image detection model, claiming 99.5% accuracy — Pangram, an A.I…
Lydia DePillis / New York Times: OpenAI, Google, Meta, BlackRock, and others are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands, with some of the highest pay the industry has ever seen — The future of…
Rebecca Robbins / New York Times: Doctors and researchers worry that FDA-related wagers on Kalshi and Polymarket could compromise drug development tests and erode public trust in the process — On the betting…
Dustin Volz / New York Times: Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview was able to break a weaker version of AES and it orchestrated another improved attack against HAWK cryptographic system — Claude Mythos Preview…
New York Times: European police say Binance's April 2025 policy asking law enforcement to route certain requests to foreign governments significantly delays criminal probes — Investigators in Europe said that the…
Kalley Huang / New York Times: Apple overtakes Nvidia to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company, two years after it lost the crown, closing at a $4.9T market cap on Monday — The company slipped…
New York Times: Microsoft introduces MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, an AI model trained for cybersecurity, and launches Perception, an agentic security system to patch vulnerabilities — As some executives fret over the…
New York Times: A look at the secretive process Meta used to get an advantageous deal for its Hyperion data center in Louisiana, including tax breaks and lack of public input — A Times examination details how the…
New York Times: Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic quietly lobby Washington regulators to restrict open-source AI models, even as Sam Altman publicly says he supports open source AI — Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing…
Eli Tan / New York Times: Meta launches Seller, a free standalone app version of Facebook Marketplace; Seller includes AI features that scan photos to fill out listings automatically — Seller is part of the…
Jack Ewing / New York Times: Ford says Apple's software will be available in its new EVs, helping determine autonomous driving via Apple Maps, and they are working to improve self-driving — In a first, Apple Maps…
David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: The Senate's Clarity Act, a crypto industry-backed bill set for a vote this summer, is mired in debate over rules to stop Trump from selling digital currencies — Democrats…
New York Times: The European Commission fines Google €890M under the DMA for illegally undercutting competition through its search dominance and Google Play developer rules — At a tense moment for…
New York Times: A Florida teenager drops his lawsuit accusing Meta of creating harmful social media features, following settlements with co-defendants TikTok, Snap, and YouTube — For Meta, the move was a reprieve…
Mark Landler / New York Times: France becomes the first European country to pass a law banning social media access for users under 15, potentially going into effect as soon as September 1 — Its new law, the first…
New York Times: Some Instagram and Facebook users say Meta's AI moderation deleted their accounts; Meta says AI makes 13% fewer errors and finds 10% more violations than humans — Users said the technology…
Tracey Tully / New York Times: NJ Governor says a software error at DMV led to the improper voter registration of ~6,600 noncitizens between June 2023 and June 2024; 400 of those cast ballots — A 2023 software…
Kate Conger / New York Times: Google's AI Search is endangering the open web; Cloudflare: between June 2025 and April 2026, human traffic to sites of businesses in many industries fell ~40% — When Google prepared…
New York Times: Billionaire-backed Building A Better California reserves $87M in TV ad time to oppose California's proposed one-time wealth tax; Sergey Brin put $82M into BABC — A coalition backed by the Google…
Kalley Huang / New York Times: Sensor Tower: the number of new apps released in Apple's App Store doubled to ~560K in H1, vs. the ~600K added in all of 2025, as vibecoded apps flood the store — Mobile apps are…
New York Times: Sources detail Kalshi's and Polymarket's efforts to undermine each other, including lobbying regulators, trying to derail deals, and waging influence campaigns — Early one morning in November…
Lauren McCarthy / New York Times: Kalshi and Polymarket bets on the FIFA World Cup final top $5.69B; Dune Analytics says total wagers on the platforms surpassed $50B for the first time in June — When Argentina…
New York Times: Sources: Meta is in talks to rent computing power from its data centers to Anthropic in a deal that could be worth ~$10B over two years — A deal would underline how scarce computing power is for…
Eno Sarris / The Athletic: Memo: MLB bans the use of league-provided dugout iPads to access GenAI for in-game strategy calls; sources say at least a third of teams used AI this way — In a crackdown that has…
Kashmir Hill / New York Times: An NYT reporter finds AI-generated, unauthorized biographies of herself and other journalists on Amazon, where AI-made books with elusive “authors” proliferate &mdash…
Bernhard Warner / New York Times: Daniel Ek's Neko Health, which offers AI-based full-body scans, raised $700M co-led by Lightspeed and O.G. Venture Partners, sources say at a ~$7B valuation — The health tech…
Ivan Penn / New York Times: Monitoring Analytics: PJM's recent electricity auction is expected to add $6.3B to customers' bills in 13 states and DC through 2029 due to data center demands — A power auction…
Mike Isaac / New York Times: OpenAI strikes a partnership with Kalshi to show FIFA World Cup prediction market data in ChatGPT search results, its first deal with a prediction market — The partnership, a first of…
Ben Casselman / New York Times: Nearly 200 economists, including 15 Nobel laureates and Anthropic's Jack Clark, sign a letter titled We Must Act Now, warning of rapid AI-led job displacement — Nearly 200…
New York Times: Investigation: Western intelligence officials identify a Russian military intelligence unit in Tokyo that smuggles high-tech components for the war in Ukraine — Operating out of a Tokyo high-rise…
Nathaniel Rich / New York Times: A look back at the 2007 heist of a Verizon data center in London, highlighting the role of physical data security as cyber defenses grow more sophisticated — Terry Ellis's fixer…
New York Times: How members of the extremist group Boko Haram are using AI chatbots to design explosives, fix or upgrade weapons, and brainstorm attack ideas — A.I. chatbots are not just a propaganda tool for…
Noam Scheiber / New York Times: A US NLRB judge rules that Atlassian had illegally fired an employee in 2023 for pushing back against manager layoffs, and orders reinstatement and compensation — A federal labor…
Adam Satariano / New York Times: In preliminary findings, the EU Commission said Facebook's and Instagram's “addictive design” violates the DSA, telling Meta to make changes or risk hefty fines &mdash…
New York Times: Sources: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is raising $10B at a $130B pre-money valuation, its first outside funding round, including $4B from Coatue and $2B from Bezos — The rocket company founded by Jeff…