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A look at Japan's Team Mirai, a party founded by software engineers that won 11 of 465 parliament seats by promising self-driving buses and high-tech jobs (New York Times)

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A look at CISA during Trump's second term as it navigates job cuts, continues to operate without a Senate-confirmed leader, and faces a demoralized workforce (Adam Sella/New York Times)

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Samsung plans to add Perplexity to Galaxy AI on the upcoming S26 series; users can launch the Perplexity agent by saying "Hey Plex" or with a physical button (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)

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How OpenAI scrambled for compute as Stargate stalled amid clashes with SoftBank; sources say OpenAI building its own data centers is not its near-term priority (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)

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Google Antigravity users say their paid Google AI accounts were banned after linking Gemini models via OpenClaw; Peter Steinberger says he may "remove support" (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)

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How Russia-linked crypto exchanges, including Bitpapa and Exmo, help Russian entities move money across borders, bypassing banking oversight and sanctions (Elliptic)

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Sources: Dell, Lenovo, and other PC makers are working with Nvidia on laptops that use the Arm-based Nvidia-MediaTek SoC, which could launch in H1 2026 (Yang Jie/Wall Street Journal)

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In recent interviews, Sam Altman said AI's adoption faces more resistance than he expected, while Jensen Huang warned the "doomer narrative" may be winning (David Streitfeld/New York Times)

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US farmers are increasingly rejecting multimillion-dollar offers from data center developers; some estimate ~40K acres are needed globally for new AI projects (Niamh Rowe/The Guardian)

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Tencent closed its TiMi Montréal studio after nearly five years, without ever releasing a game, as Chinese giants scale back funding for Western game studios (Stephen Totilo/Game File)

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Documents submitted by Waymo and Tesla to the US government reveal new info about the remote assistance programs for their robotaxis, staffed by human operators (Aarian Marshall/Wired)

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The EU's DSA probe into Shein is just the latest of the company's problems, which are stacking up in many of its big markets as it seeks to push through an IPO (Financial Times)

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A profile of Neil Shen of HSG, formerly Sequoia China, which raised $9B from US investors before US restrictions and has funded Manus and other Chinese startups (Wall Street Journal)

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Sam Altman says discussions about AI's energy usage are "unfair", as it takes "20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time" to train a human (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

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Turkey launches a review of how social media platforms handle children's data as it prepares new rules that include identity verification and age restrictions (Turkish Minute)

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Tim Cook's increased mentions of Visual Intelligence hint it will be a major part of Apple's new wearables; sources: Apple considers a deep red iPhone 18 Pro (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Analysis: the crypto industry has spent $288M+ on the 2026 US midterms so far, over double the 2024 cycle; crypto PAC Fairshake is the US' fifth most-funded PAC (Molly White/Citation Needed)

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India's AI Summit highlighted the limits of the country's AI ambitions, as the US and its tech companies largely dismissed India's push for global AI governance (Krishn Kaushik/Financial Times)

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Anthropic's data shows software engineering accounts for ~50% of its AI agent tool calls; the remaining verticals are greenfields most founders are overlooking (Garry Tan/Garry's List)

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Source Global: the US consulting market is set to grow 7% in 2026, the fastest pace in the post-COVID era, as companies seek advice on profiting from AI (Stephen Foley/Financial Times)

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