The EU warns of possible action after the US imposes travel bans on five Europeans, saying it will defend its “regulatory autonomy against unjustified measures”
What You Need to Know for Your Next Trip Mohd Haider / Benzinga : Elon Musk Reacts To US Travel Ban On Former EU Commissioner: ‘...Gets His Dessert’ Sky News : EU warns of possible action after US bar...
President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval”
Transformer Weekly: Trump signs EO, Hochul guts the RAISE Act, and GPT-5.2 launches Michael Kan / PCMag : Trump Signs Executive Order to Go After ‘Burdensome’ State AI Laws Poligirlsayswhat / Baller A...
Palantir reports Q2 revenue up 48% YoY to $1B, vs. $940M est., and boosts full-year outlook guidance to $4.142B-$4.150B, up from $3.89B-$3.90B; PLTR jumps 5%+
where the economy ‘weakens in a self-reinforcing fashion’ Larry Dignan / Constellation Research : Palantir's software revolution: Forget sales people, let value do the talking Loredana Harsana / Watch...
Sources: repair demand in China for Nvidia's banned AI chips, including H100 and A100, surges as ~12 firms now repair chips that made their way into the country
companies resurrecting banned AI accelerators at a rate of up to ‘500 per month’ Chris Cooke / CMU : If China blocks TikTok deal app will “go dark” says US Commerce Secretary, but hints deal “coming s...
A US judge rules Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train AI was fair use, but its storage of pirated books in a central library for training LLMs was not
but it's still in trouble for stealing books Blake Brittain / Reuters : Anthropic wins key US ruling on AI training in authors' copyright lawsuit Jason Koebler / 404 Media : Judge Rules Training AI on...
Sources and docs: Amazon has increased Prime Video's ad load to 4-6 minutes per hour, up from 2-3.5 minutes per hour when it introduced ads in January 2024
streaming just got a lot worse David Satin / The Streamable : Prime Video has doubled the number of ads it makes viewers watch Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget : Prime Video reportedly shows almost twic...
SoftBank commits $3B annually for itself and its subsidiaries to use OpenAI's tech, and launches SB OpenAI Japan to market OpenAI's enterprise tech in Japan
Welcome to Cautious Optimism, a newsletter on tech, business, and power. SoftBank Group Corp. : OpenAI and SoftBank Group Partner to Develop and Market Advanced Enterprise AI The Asahi Shimbun : SoftB...
Letter: the US Treasury says China-backed hackers gained access to some Treasury workstations and unclassified docs; a vendor notified it of the hack on Dec. 8
FBI Investigation Underway, China Suspected Huileng Tan / Business Insider : The US Treasury says some computers were breached by China-backed hackers United States Department of the Treasury : Dear C...
The US FTC adopts its final “click-to-cancel” rule requiring businesses to make canceling a subscription as easy as signing up, after proposing the rule in 2023
WOOT. … Rebekah Valentine / IGN : FTC New ‘Click to Cancel’ Rule Will Make it Easier to Cancel Subscription Services Justin Bachman / Payments Dive : FTC unveils final ‘click-to-cancel’ rule for consu...
Meta's Yann LeCun says regulating R&D for AI “is incredibly counterproductive” and only serves to reinforce the dominance of Big Tech and stifle competition
Their innovation is about running over peoples autonomy [embedded post] X: Stephanie Hare / @hare_brain : “There's no question that we'll have machines assisting us that are smarter than us. And the q...