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1. IT law & regulation · IT industry & companies

   Man sues Kalshi over gambling losses

   A man who lost $308,000 betting on the prediction market Kalshi is suing to recover $580,000. The case touches on whether such platforms count as gambling or legal event contracts.

   Full story at Futurism ↗
2. Software & updates · Smartphones & apps

   Yahoo updates Search and launches Scout app

   Yahoo introduced Pivot Search for Yahoo Search and took the Yahoo Scout app out of beta. Scout has processed over 3 billion answers since launching earlier this year.

   Full story at seroundtable.com ↗
3. Artificial intelligence · New AI models

   Fable 5.2 completes 41 percent of real freelance jobs

   Anthropic's Fable 5.2 completes 41.3 percent of real freelance jobs at professional quality on the Remote Labor Index. A year ago the top score was 2.5 percent, and product design and animation remain weak spots.

   Full story at The Decoder ↗
4. Chips & hardware · IT industry & companies · IT law & regulation

   Nvidia reportedly helped end a chip smuggling probe

   According to the headline, Nvidia pulled strings to shut down a US government investigation into chip smuggling. The text also describes CEO Jensen Huang's admitted affair with a suspected Chinese spy, which unsettled markets.

   Full story at Futurism ↗
5. Artificial intelligence · Smartphones & apps · IT law & regulation

   Meta rolls out AI age checks on Instagram worldwide

   Meta is expanding AI age estimation to Instagram users worldwide. Suspected teens aged 13 to 17 are moved into Teen Accounts automatically, even if their profiles list adult ages.

   Full story at Analytics Insight ↗
6. Artificial intelligence · IT law & regulation

   Eight countries and AI labs sign Paris AI safety call

   Eight countries and representatives of OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Mistral AI signed the Paris Call for AI Safety and Security. It commits to shutdown mechanisms, independent audits and risk disclosure, but has no binding sanctions or deadlines.

   Full story at The Decoder ↗
7. IT industry & companies · Artificial intelligence

   Anthropic begins its IPO roadshow

   Anthropic targets a valuation of up to $1.02 trillion, with a public offering of up to $64.4 billion. It also secures $26 billion from Google, Nvidia, Microsoft and others, as investors grow more skeptical of AI.

   Full story at The Decoder ↗
8. New AI models · Artificial intelligence · Cybersecurity

   Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2

   Anthropic's most powerful models come in a free version and one for verified organizations. The company says they solve open physics problems and write over 90 percent of merged core code changes, with self-accelerating capabilities deliberately curbed.

   Full story at The Decoder ↗
9. New AI models · Artificial intelligence

   Gemini 4 Carbon arrives in Google Search AI Mode

   Google released Gemini 4 Carbon, its strongest model with frontier performance in cybersecurity and long-horizon agentic workflows. It is available to subscribers in Google Search via AI Mode.

   Full story at seroundtable.com ↗
10. New AI models · Artificial intelligence · Chips & hardware

    Nvidia's GR00T 2 teaches robots from human videos

    Nvidia's GR00T 2 transfers human hand movements from videos to robotic arms, trained on about 400,000 hours of footage. Success rates range from 10 to 80 percent depending on the task.

    Full story at The Decoder ↗

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