Max Tani / Semafor:
Adam Mosseri says “maybe we'll need” premium longform video for Instagram, and that TikTok's US sale turmoil has given Meta time to retune algorithms  —  A day before Instagram's new integration for Amazon Fire smart TVs was set to roll out, Adam Mosseri, who runs the platform for Meta …

CNBC:
Waymo resumes robotaxi service in SF after suspending it during a blackout, and says most trips were completed before vehicles returned to depots or pulled over  —  Alphabet-owned Waymo has resumed its driverless ride-hail service in the San Francisco Bay Area after a temporary pause during blackouts …

Bloomberg:
Uber plans to trial driverless taxis in London using Baidu's Apollo Go RT6 robotaxis, starting in H1 2026 with services available by the end of 2026  —  Uber Technologies Inc. said it's teaming up with Baidu Inc. to trial driverless taxis in the UK, following the lead of American self-driving …

Kashmir Hill / New York Times:
Some experts in the human-computer interaction field say making AI chatbots act humanlike creates cognitive dissonance for users over how much to trust them  —  I first noticed how charming ChatGPT could be last year when I turned all my decision-making over to generative A.I. for a week.

Mitchell Peters / Billboard:
Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files  —  The breach allegedly includes 86 million audio files.