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UBS confirms data was stolen in a cyberattack on supplier Chain IQ, which said it and 19 other companies were targeted; Swiss media says it impacts 130K+ staff (Noele Illien/Bloomberg)

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An interview with Samsung SVP Dr. Hon Pak on the Galaxy Watch adding its first-ever blood analysis feature, AI health tools, and a potential subscription (Vanessa Hand Orellana/CNET)

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A look at California's 52-page California Report on Frontier Policy, which proposes an AI regulatory framework based on transparency, risk assessments, and more (Hayden Field/The Verge)

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Hands-on with Apple's new Speech framework components in the macOS Tahoe beta: the APIs deliver transcription speeds significantly faster than OpenAI's Whisper (John Voorhees/MacStories)

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AWS says Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 launched on its Trainium2 GPUs, and Project Rainier, AWS' supercomputer built for Anthropic, uses 500K+ Trainium2 chips (Kristina Partsinevelos/CNBC)

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Netflix signs a landmark deal with French network TF1 to show linear TV for the first time; TF1 will broadcast all five channels, showing live sports and more (Financial Times)

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Campaign Surprises in the Final Week: A Big Arrest, and Cross Endorsements

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The European Commission accuses Chinese marketplace AliExpress of failing to tackle illegal products on its platform, in preliminary findings under the DSA (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)

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A profile of LA-based Whatnot, a livestream marketplace valued at ~$5B, which has raised $700M+ since 2019 and expects its GMV to grow 100%+ YoY to $6B+ in 2025 (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)

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A look at embedded and immersion chip-cooling tech; industry sources indicate Nvidia is mulling 6,000W to 9,000W TDP for its next-gen GPUs, up from ~1,200W now (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)

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JD.com founder Richard Liu calls the past five years the company's "darkest period" and vows to speed up overseas expansion and challenge Meituan in new areas (Bloomberg)

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Ten current and former Samsung semiconductor engineers say many are leaving for SK Hynix and other rivals due to long hours, heavy workloads, and lower bonuses (Michelle Kim/Rest of World)

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Bitmain, Canaan and MicroBT, which build 90%+ of crypto mining rigs, are setting up US manufacturing footholds as Trump's tariff war reshapes the supply chain (Reuters)

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A look at the Catholic Church's decade-long dialogue with Silicon Valley on AI, as Pope Leo prepares to make AI's potential threat to humanity a signature issue (Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: lobbyists for Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta back a campaign for a 10-year US state AI regulation ban, a move dividing the AI industry and the GOP (Financial Times)

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Investigation: healthcare exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island share sensitive data with Google, LinkedIn, and Snapchat via web trackers (The Markup)

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Google rolls out the ability to upload videos in the Gemini app for both free and paid accounts across Android and iOS; the feature is not yet live on the web (Abner Li/9to5Google)

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The NAACP intends to sue xAI over the natural gas turbines at its Memphis data center, which it claims are polluting nearby predominantly Black neighborhoods (Hiroko Tabuchi/New York Times)

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Senate passes GENIUS stablecoin bill in a win for the crypto industry

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How Walmart plans to leverage its $2.3B Vizio acquisition to push shoppable TV experiences; Walmart's ad business had just $4.4B of sales in FY 2025 (Jaewon Kang/Bloomberg)

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