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Asian Tech Stocks Surged After the Iran-US Deal, and AI Chipmakers Gained the Most

Asian tech stocks surged on the Iran-US deal, with SoftBank up 10%, SK Hynix 6.4%, and Samsung 4.5%, pushing the Nikkei past 69,000.

The Pentagon's AI platform went from 80,000 users to 1.5 million in six months

GenAI.mil now has 1.5 million daily users, up from 80,000 at launch, after the Pentagon deployed Google Gemini and clarified AI usage rules.

Facebook’s new AI Mode search gets its info from public posts

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Xbox is closing down Hellblade creator Ninja Theory

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Judge kills xAI trade secret case against OpenAI

A federal judge dismissed xAI’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI with prejudice, ruling it would be “futile” to continue. It is Musk’s second court loss against OpenAI in four weeks, following the May jury verdict that rejected his $150 billion claim on statute of limitations grounds.

Anthropic crisis talks with Commerce over Fable 5 ban

Anthropic’s senior technical staff will sit down with Commerce Department officials in Washington on Monday in a bid to resolve the escalating crisis over its suspended Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. The meeting, confirmed by Reuters and Bloomberg, comes after a week in which the dispute has metastasised from a narrow cybersecurity concern into a full-blown confrontation between Silicon Valley and the Trump administration.

Facebook now has an AI search engine that pulls answers from your Group posts and Reels

Meta launched AI Mode on Facebook, using Meta AI to surface answers from public posts across Groups, Reels, and Marketplace listings.

100 cyber experts say Fable 5 ban hurts defenders

Three days after the US government ordered Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5, roughly 100 of the world’s most prominent cybersecurity professionals have published an open letter demanding the ban be reversed. Their argument is blunt: pulling the best AI tools from defenders while adversaries keep building is not safety, it is sabotage.

AI Doesn't Feel. So Why Does It Have Something Like Emotions?

In 1960, when Jane Goodall told her mentor she’d seen a chimpanzee stripping leaves from a stem to fish for termites—proving that humans were not the only species to make tools—he wrote back: “now we must redefine tool, redefine man, or accept chimpanzees as humans.”

Huawei's 'chip queen' unveils Tau Scaling Law

Huawei’s semiconductor chief He Tingbo returned to public life after seven years to unveil the Tau Scaling Law and LogicFolding architecture. The company claims it can reach 1.4nm-equivalent chip density by 2031 without EUV lithography, but faces steep hurdles in heat dissipation, EDA tooling, and yield rates.

How embracing a data fabric architecture can help the SOC and NOC unify operations

SOC and NOC teams struggle with data silos. Splunk's data fabric helps unify access, improving incident detection and operational resilience.

YouTube's AI Slop Purge is Punishing the Human Creators Who Never Showed Their Faces

YouTube’s crackdown on AI slop is hurting legitimate faceless creators whose content is entirely human-made but penalised by the algorithm.