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Reddit signals ominous upcoming "changes” for old.reddit.com

Reddit says the beloved site is used for some "bad behavior."

Hank Green found the AI problem that YouTube labels can’t catch

YouTube currently requires that content creators let viewers know “when they use AI to meaningfully alter or generate photorealistic content.”

Meta is launching a dedicated coding agent.

Muse Code, a terminal coding agent in beta powered by the new Muse Spark 1.2 AI model, can take on “complex software engineering tasks across large repositories: planning changes, writing code, and validating the results,” Meta says.

Big US hedge funds targeted by wave of cyber attacks

Point72 and Citadel among firms hit by audio phishing schemes

Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup

The legendary Google executive is joined by other outgoing Google execs in a joint mission to use AI to push forward the process of scientific discovery.

House overhauls KOSA in a new kids online safety package

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Reddit is going to force you to log in to use old Reddit.

The logged-out experience on old Reddit is “a significant source of abusive scraping and automated traffic on the platform,” a Reddit admin (employee) says. The company will start requiring anyone who wants to use it to log in “over the next month.”

Nothing is using AI in promo materials for its new headphones.

Right now, I can see two images and a video on CMF by Nothing’s X feed about its Clip Pro earbuds that include hard-to-see disclosures about the use of AI: “Contains AI-generated imagery. Any resemblance to real persons is purely coincidental.” 9to5Google reports that some other images have been deleted as well.

Spotify adds a bunch of indie labels to its AI remix program.

A new partnership with licensing house Merlin has given artists on labels like Sub Pop, Warp, Epitaph, Domino, Stones Throw, Ninja Tune, Mad Decent, Polyvinyl Records and more the “option to participate” in Spotify’s “superfan” remix tool, which launched in May with UMG as the first participant.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis steps aside in shake-up of AI lab

Chief scientist Jeff Dean leaves the group to found his own start-up

What Trump's AI framework means for China

There are other tools at the U.S. government's disposal that could be used to address Chinese open models.

Jack Ma made a $30 million bet on one of San Francisco's hottest AI startups

Yunfeng Capital, led by Jack Ma, quietly invested $30 million in AI startup Corgi, marking a rare deal amidst US-China investment tensions.