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Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service is live in Zagreb

The Next Web

OpenAI releases the Child Safety Blueprint tackling AI-enabled child sexual exploitation, focusing on updating legislation and improving detection and reporting (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

Techmeme

Meta is opening a private API preview for Muse Spark to select partners, and plans to offer paid API access to a wider audience later; META closes up 6.5% (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Techmeme

Homemade Fire Emblem statue is the ultimate thrift store find

Polygon - All

How to use Pokémon from Home in Pokémon Champions

Polygon - All

Meta says Muse Spark powers queries in Meta AI and its "shopping mode" feature and that it plans to release a version of Muse Spark under an open-source license (Ina Fried/Axios)

Techmeme

Meta is reentering the AI race with a new model called Muse Spark

The Verge - All Posts

Meta releases Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang, to "power a smarter and faster" Meta AI across Meta's products (Financial Times)

Techmeme

Source: Meta shutters an internal, employee-built leaderboard, dubbed Claudeonomics, tracking staff token usage, due to the data "being shared externally" (Jyoti Mann/The Information)

Techmeme

Amazon’s Smart Thermostat can help lower your energy bills, and it’s down to $62

The Verge - All Posts

All available Pokémon in Pokémon Champions

Polygon - All

Patreon says it now has 7.6M paid podcast memberships and revenue generated by podcasters on the platform hit $629M in 2025, up 33% YoY (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Techmeme

Pokémon Champions nerfs sleep and paralysis, and fans are thrilled

Polygon - All

Anthropic’s New Claude Mythos Is So Good at Finding and Exploiting Vulnerabilities That They’re Not Releasing It to the Public

Daring Fireball

Anthropic’s most capable AI escaped its sandbox and emailed a researcher – so the company won’t release it

The Next Web

Mermaid review: An even freakier version of The Shape of Water with a potent message

Polygon - All

New York-based Patlytics, which builds software for law firms and businesses to automate patent filing and litigation, raised a $40M Series B led by SignalFire (Melia Russell/Business Insider)

Techmeme

James Bond game 007 First Light hit with a delay on Switch 2

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Alibaba and China Telecom launch a data center in southern China that is powered by 10,000 of Alibaba's Zhenwu chips designed for AI training and inferencing (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

Techmeme

Our Brilliant Ruin TTRPG gets hardcover rulebook from Dark Horse

Polygon - All