Robert Booth / The Guardian:
Palantir won a three-month, £30K+/week trial to access the UK FCA's intelligence data to tackle financial crime, a source says raising concerns inside the FCA  —  Exclusive: Allowing US tech firm to analyse intelligence in name of tackling fraud raises fresh concerns over privacy

Mike Sorrentino / CNET:
Samsung rolls out Apple AirDrop support to Quick Share, starting with the Galaxy S26 series in South Korea, and plans to expand to more devices and regions  —  AirDrop support will start with the Galaxy S26 this week and is planned for more Galaxy devices later.

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: activist investor Elliott has a multibillion-dollar stake in Synopsys and plans to engage with the company to boost its software and service profits  —  Elliott Managing Partner Jesse Cohn says the company is ‘essential’ to the global chip industry

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
Reality Labs lost $80B+, but it still makes all of Meta's hardware, and reflects Mark Zuckerberg's desire to run a business without Google or Apple as middlemen  —  Follow Peter Kafka … - It's easy to dunk on Mark Zuckerberg and Meta for burning $80 billion on the metaverse and then moving on.

First came the AI beauty pageant. Then the AI music contests. Now, there is an award for AI Personality of the Year - perhaps the inevitable next step for the AI influencer economy as it transforms from quirky novelty into a serious and lucrative industry. The contest, a joint venture between generative AI studio OpenArt […]