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Meta sold teen safety tools that almost nobody used

Take a Break hit 1.8% adoption. Quiet Mode hit 8.7%. A 29-state case is seeking about $200 billion.

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The SEC has asked Wall Street banks for Situational Awareness records.

Goldman, JPMorgan, Citi and Bank of America got subpoenas. The fund has not been accused of wrongdoing.

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A Hosur firm wants Rs 100 crore to grow 12-inch silicon

Raana Semiconductors is closing a Series A to scale its crystal pullers. India still imports the wafers those machines are meant to make.

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ChatGPT on Mac can now read and send Apple Messages

The plugin is on Apple silicon, in ChatGPT Work and Codex. It needs Full Disk Access. Sending still asks you first, by default.

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TikTok will pay the US $400 million to settle a children's privacy case, and nobody admitted liability

$300 million now, $100 million after a 2019 Musical.ly decree is vacated. The department says the claims are allegations only.

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OpenAI has slowed frontier training after deciding Astra may have critical cyber capabilities

A two-week pause on reinforcement learning, a hold on the largest planned run, and a 30-minute rule if a security alert cannot be cleared.

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Google can buy up to $12.2 billion of Marvell stock if the custom-chip orders show up

The warrant is tied to silicon around Google's TPU. Broadcom shares fell about 4 percent.

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Unitree's shares opened above 1,100 yuan on Shanghai's STAR Market, more than six times the IPO price

The Hangzhou humanoid-robot maker raised about 6.1 billion yuan. Retail demand was more than 8,000 times subscribed.

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Nvidia filed an 8-K capping a $105 billion guarantee for OpenAI's campus in Ohio

OpenAI will be the tenant at SoftBank's Pike County site. Nvidia pays if the rent is not paid, up to that cap, from 2028.

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Alibaba is in talks to sell its Lingxi Games unit for more than $1.5 billion

Trustar Capital is the reported buyer. No deal has been signed. A sale would fit Alibaba's shift toward cloud and AI.

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Apple trained its own AI model for China with Alibaba's help, Reuters reports, and Beijing has registered it

Three people familiar with the matter told Reuters the Cyberspace Administration of China registered Apple's generative AI service last month. That would make Apple the first foreign company cleared to run its own model there.

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France's top court blocked a social media ban for under-15s, four days before it was due to start

The Constitutional Council said the bill failed to set limits on age checks and cut too far into freedom of expression. President Macron has asked for a rewrite before spring 2027.

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