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❌ US bans new foreign-made drones and components
📅 ChatGPT gets its own Spotify Wrapped
💥 Apple hit with $115M fine for “extremely burdensome” App Store privacy policy
📅 ChatGPT launches a year in review feature for users
🫠 OpenAI admits prompt injection may never be fully solved
🤖 Chinese startup Z.ai takes on OpenAI
🔮 Coinbase doubles down on prediction markets
🎁 + 19 other news you might like
🧰 + 5 trending tools
📚 + 4 trending papers
❌ US bans new foreign-made drones and components LINK
The Federal Communications Commission has prohibited the import of upcoming foreign-made drones and their critical components by adding them to its Covered List due to risks of surveillance and data exfiltration.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr confirmed that people can keep using old drones and retailers may continue selling approved inventory, though the Department of War or Homeland Security could still allow specific new models.
While the agency did not name specific manufacturers, Chinese company DJI called the decision protectionism, arguing its products are secure and that the Executive Branch provided no evidence for the determination.
📅 ChatGPT gets its own Spotify Wrapped LINK
OpenAI is now rolling out “Your Year with ChatGPT,” a personalized retrospective feature that mimics the viral Spotify Wrapped format by turning conversations from 2025 into shareable themes and statistics.
Accessing these insights requires you to enable both “Memory” and “Reference Chat History,” meaning you must effectively trade data privacy for the social currency of seeing past usage habits.
This experience assigns distinct “Archetypes” like “The Navigator” based on activity while tracking specific metrics such as total messages sent, images generated via DALL-E 3, and the chattiest day.
💥 Apple hit with $115M fine for “extremely burdensome” App Store privacy policy LINK
Italy’s competition watchdog fined Apple $115 million for abusing its market dominance through the App Tracking Transparency framework, which regulators argue imposes unfair burdens on rival developers while boosting its own ad revenue.
The authority determined that this system forces third-party developers into a friction-heavy double consent loop to meet GDPR standards, whereas Apple exempts its own services from showing these specific prompts to users.
Officials noted that the discriminatory tool unfairly handicaps rivals so Apple’s advertising division could capitalize on the shift, creating a privacy moat that the regulator characterized as an exploitative abuse of position.
📅 ChatGPT launches a year in review feature for users LINK
OpenAI is rolling out “Your Year with ChatGPT,” a new annual review feature for eligible consumers in select markets that summarizes their conversation activity with personalized awards and graphics.
It is available to free, Plus, and Pro users in select English-speaking markets who meet a minimum activity threshold and have the reference saved memories and reference chat history options turned on.
The feature creates a custom poem, an image, and awards like “Creative Debugger” based on your interests, and you can trigger the experience by asking for “Your Year with ChatGPT.”
🫠 OpenAI admits prompt injection may never be fully solved LINK
OpenAI concedes that stopping prompt injection attacks in its new ChatGPT Atlas browser is a nearly impossible task that puts the future safety of AI agents on the open web into question.
The firm is attempting to find these bugs early by training an LLM-based automated attacker that uses reinforcement learning to simulate how a hacker might sneak malicious instructions into the software.
Security researchers warn that agentic browsers do not yet deliver enough value to justify a high risk profile, especially given their deep access to sensitive data like email and payment information.
🤖 Chinese startup Z.ai takes on OpenAI LINK
Chinese lab Zhipu AI is challenging OpenAI with GLM-4.7, a new open weights model that claims to match the performance of proprietary frontier models like GPT-5.1 High in coding benchmarks.
The architecture addresses context decay via Preserved Thinking, a feature that persists intermediate states across multi-step workflows so autonomous agents can maintain a continuous train of thought during long sessions.
A complementary granular control layer allows engineers to toggle the reasoning mode on or off for specific requests, balancing high accuracy for complex operations against lower latency and inference costs.
🔮 Coinbase doubles down on prediction markets LINK
Coinbase agreed to buy The Clearing Company to help grow its newly launched prediction market as the crypto exchange executes a plan to become a single platform for trading everything.
The startup recently applied for a license to run a clearinghouse from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission after raising a seed round led by Union Square Ventures back in August.
This transaction comes as weekly notional volume now tops $4 billion and rivals like Robinhood and Kraken start launching equity trading and prediction markets for their own bases of users.
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🧰 Trending tools
/agent by Firecrawl: automates web data extraction by navigating complex sites and returning structured datasets based on natural language descriptions of what you need.LINK
Super Agents by ClickUp: customizable AI assistants that automate workflows by handling tasks like triaging, emailing, and project management when mentioned or assigned in ClickUp.LINK
Aident AI: automates repetitive tasks by combining deterministic code execution with LLM reasoning through playbook documents that trigger skills and intelligent decision-making when needed.LINK
Guideit: an Adobe Illustrator plugin that automates the creation of brand guidelines, eliminating the tedious manual work designers face at the end of every branding project.LINK
Apple Health Wrapped 2025: transforms your iPhone Health app data into a personalized year-in-review with insights on movement, workouts, and habits you actually want to share.LINK
📚 Trending papers & reports
Reasoning model solves abstract puzzles without training examples: researchers created an AI that achieves 53.8% accuracy on visual logic puzzles by breaking problems into steps rather than memorizing patterns.LINK
Bouncing balls can perform any computation: researchers proved that simple 2D billiard systems can simulate any computer program through carefully arranged collisions.LINK
Quantum error correction gets practical gates: researchers discovered how to perform logical operations on protected quantum data by folding and twisting the code structure itself.LINK
Historical analysis traces foundational algebra theorem: researchers documented how mathematicians proved Hilbert's Nullstellensatz before modern techniques, revealing the evolution of algebraic geometry's core ideas.LINK
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