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The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Voice actors worldwide are mobilizing to protect their livelihoods and personality rights as Hollywood studios push AI dubbing to replace human performances (Rina Chandran/Rest of World)

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A primer on interpretability and how AI researchers are figuring out how to open and understand the "black box" that holds the formulas within most AI models (Oliver Whang/New York Times)

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How cyberscammers are bypassing major banks' KYC facial scans using stolen biometric data and virtual camera tools sold via Telegram channels (Fiona Kelliher/MIT Technology Review)

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India produces over 1.5M CS graduates annually, but scale is no longer an advantage with the rise of AI coding tools; Infosys revamps hiring to focus on AI (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

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Analysis: China's chipmaking tool imports from Singapore rose 17% YoY to $5.7B in 2025, from Malaysia rose 2x+ to $3.4B; direct US imports fell 34% YoY to ~$2B (Nikkei Asia)

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Sources say Ola's AI venture Krutrim's smart assistant Kruti is unavailable to users and the development of its Indian multilingual LLM, Krutrim 3, has stalled (Swathi Moorthy/The Economic Times)

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Amazon launches its first smart warehouse in Shenzhen, aiming to cut local merchant storage costs by up to 45% as competition with Shein and Temu intensifies (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)

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Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream beginner's tricks and tips to help you get started

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How to share images and videos in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream

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How to cheer up your Miis in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream

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Ohio's gambling regulator proposes to fine Kalshi $5M for unlicensed sports gambling, after a federal judge ruled that Kalshi's sports bets constitute gambling (Max Filby/The Columbus Dispatch)

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OpenAI updates Agents SDK with native sandboxing and an in-distribution harness for deploying and testing agents on long-horizon tasks (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)

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Companies that hire young "AI natives" have found that AI tools can be both helpful and debilitating to workers, in some cases requiring more careful oversight (Jo Constantz/Bloomberg)

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European VC funding in Q1 2026 rose nearly 30% YoY to $17.6B, AI claimed over 50% of all European funding for the quarter, and deal volume dropped 40% YoY (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)

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Anthropic rolls out identity verification that may require Claude users to provide a government-issued photo ID and live selfie to access "certain capabilities" (Jose Antonio Lanz/Decrypt)

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So Close to Getting It

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A TTP analysis finds dozens of nudify apps in Apple and Google app stores via search, despite company policy prohibiting them; the apps earned $122M+ in revenue (Bloomberg)

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Sofa 5.0

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X launches Cashtags, a feature that lets users view real-time financial data on stocks and crypto directly in their timelines, in the US and Canada (Timmy Shen/The Block)

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Exclusive: Rev. Al Sharpton, More Black Leaders, Celebs Share Life-Changing Lessons

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