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✅ Trump approves $14 billion TikTok sale
👀 Trump admin is going after semiconductor imports
⚖️ Amazon settles FTC Prime lawsuit for $2.5 billion
📰 OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse
🤖 Meta launches ‘Vibes,’ a short-form video feed of AI slop
💵 Cloudflare unveils the ‘NET dollar’ stablecoin for the agentic web
🎁 + 15 other news you might like
🔮 + 6 handpicked research papers and tools
✅ Trump approves $14 billion TikTok sale LINK
President Trump signed an executive order approving the $14 billion proposal for TikTok's U.S. business, which creates a new joint-venture company to avoid a potential nationwide ban.
Under the new deal, Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX will control about a 45% stake in the entity, while original owner ByteDance is set to retain less than 20%.
Tech giant Oracle will oversee all security operations for the app and provide cloud computing services for the new TikTok U.S. firm, with its CEO involved in the ownership.
👀 Trump admin is going after semiconductor imports LINK
The Trump administration is considering a ratio-based approach that would force semiconductor companies to make one chip in the U.S. for every single one their customers bring from overseas.
Firms unable to achieve this proposed 1:1 production balance between domestic and imported parts would be subject to financial tariffs, although a specific compliance timeline has not been announced.
This unusual policy could harm the American industry since constructing new manufacturing plants is a slow, expensive process, with Intel's Ohio factory now delayed until at least 2030.
⚖️ Amazon settles FTC Prime lawsuit for $2.5 billion LINK
Amazon will pay $2.5 billion to settle the FTC's lawsuit over its Prime subscription, which consists of a $1 billion civil penalty and $1.5 billion in refunds back to consumers.
The FTC lawsuit alleged Amazon tricked customers into signing up for Prime and created a “labyrinthine” cancellation process with four pages and six clicks to deter people from leaving the service.
Under the deal, the company must provide a clear and conspicuous button to decline Prime and pay for an independent, third-party supervisor to monitor its compliance with the settlement.
📰 OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse LINK
OpenAI is launching ChatGPT Pulse, a feature that provides daily morning updates and reminders based on your chats and connected apps, presenting everything in a series of scannable visual cards.
To create the morning briefing, ChatGPT performs asynchronous research overnight, synthesizing information from your memory, chat history, and direct feedback to learn what is most relevant to you.
Users can curate the next day's content with a "Curate for tomorrow" button, turning the AI into a proactive assistant that initiates helpful conversations without waiting for user prompts.
🤖 Meta launches ‘Vibes,’ a short-form video feed of AI slop LINK
Meta launched "Vibes," a new short-form video feed inside its Meta AI app that exclusively features AI-generated content, which the article describes as being essentially a feed of "AI slop."
The new feature allows people to create original videos or remix existing ones, with Meta partnering with AI image generators Midjourney and Black Forest Labs for the early version of Vibes.
The announcement was met with negative user comments, a puzzling move since Meta previously said it was tackling "unoriginal" content and advised creators to focus more on "authentic storytelling."
💵 Cloudflare unveils the ‘NET dollar’ stablecoin for the agentic web LINK
Cloudflare is introducing the NET dollar, a stablecoin fully backed by US currency, specifically created to handle instant, programmatic transactions carried out by autonomous software programs known as AI agents.
The company envisions personal AI agents using the digital currency to take immediate, programmatic actions, like automatically paying for the cheapest flight or ordering an item the moment it goes on sale.
The project is also intended to enable new business models by letting creators get rewarded for original content and allowing AI firms to compensate content providers directly for their data.
Other news you might like
- OpenAI says GPT-5 stacks up to humans in a wide range of jobsLINK
- Elon Musk’s xAI accuses OpenAI of stealing trade secrets in new lawsuitLINK
- Gemini now explains why your Sheets formula failedLINK
- Facebook and Instagram to offer ad-free service in UK for up to £3.99 a monthLINK
- Viral call-recording app Neon goes dark after exposing users’ phone numbers, call recordings, and transcriptsLINK
- Google DeepMind unveils its first “thinking” robotics AILINK
- Judge in Anthropic copyright case preliminarily approves $1.5 billion settlement with authorsLINK
- CoreWeave deal with OpenAI now worth $22.4 billion — another $6.4 billion of AI data center capacity addedLINK
- Amazon Fire TV devices expected to ditch Android for Linux in 2025LINK
- Gemini app updates 2.5 Flash with better response formatting, image understandingLINK
- Threads is developing a tool that lets you ‘tag’ its algorithm to configure your feedLINK
- ‘Mass deployment is just around the corner’: Pony AI’s Peng on the robotaxi revolutionLINK
- What happens when an AI-generated artist gets a record deal? A copyright messLINK
- SpaceX Wants to Fly Its Gigantic Starship Directly Over FloridaLINK
- Scientists unveil breakthrough pixel that could put holograms on your smartphoneLINK
Latest research and tools
macOS 26 Tahoe: a new operating system version that reportedly causes system-wide lag and stuttering when Electron-based applications like Discord are open.LINK
Bit is all we need: binary normalized neural networks: this paper proposes a method to create neural networks that use only binary values, making them much more efficient in terms of memory and speed.LINK
Copilot CLI: an AI-powered coding assistant for the command line that helps you build, debug, and understand code through natural language conversations.LINK
Can LIGO Detect Daylight Savings Time?: the sensitive detectors can measure the one-hour shift in human-caused ground vibrations, such as morning traffic, that occurs when the clocks change.LINK
A Software Engineering Analysis of the XZ Utils Supply Chain Attack: the paper details how a malicious actor spent years gaining trust within an open-source project to deliberately insert a sophisticated backdoor.LINK
The Memory Paradox: Why Our Brains Need Knowledge in an Age of AI: this paper argues that building an internal knowledge base is more crucial than ever for critical thinking, even when AI can instantly provide facts.LINK
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