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He was convicted of $8B fraud. Now he wants Trump's pardon.
Trump already said he has "no intention" of granting one. But he's reversed on pardons before, and SBF was the second-largest Democratic donor of 2022 begging a Republican. https://t.co/LJvahi9hRT

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Courts rejected the chatbot defence. 20+ lawsuits now hit OpenAI.
Section 230 protected social media because users made the content. A chatbot writes its own, so there’s no one else to blame. https://t.co/Vif3nc5YoN

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The World Cup spent $875M on robots. Fraud walked in free.
Robot dogs and hunter drones guard 16 cities, but 4,300 fake FIFA sites have been robbing fans since August. One cloned FIFA's login down to the real client ID. https://t.co/kVeLmUT2Zp

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After losing 2 chipmakers abroad, Britain wants £37B.
It lost Graphcore to SoftBank and Alphawave to Qualcomm, and decided guaranteed demand might keep the next one from selling. https://t.co/9CYP7soBgn

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The man behind Washington's AI access deals is suddenly leaving.
Sriram Krishnan brokered the Google, Microsoft, and xAI early-access deals in May, then announced he's out at the end of June. https://t.co/sZwN8tsr8l

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Anthropic refused autonomous weapons. Now vendors can't pull out.
Trump's new memo bars AI firms from disabling deployed military models without government approval. https://t.co/Uijta5aMwh

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One Airbnb host is suing The Bot Company for $12,383. https://t.co/5yvwRoYitB

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Europe weakened its AI Act. Then hired the people who pushed.
Siemens lobbied hardest to soften the rules, won a factory-floor exemption, and now its chairman advises Brussels on AI. https://t.co/NaANojG4mD

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The Bank of England just named what limits AI: electricity.
Andrew Bailey says AI will soon do more than we can power, forcing a choice between health breakthroughs and drones for Ukraine. The ceiling isn't intelligence anymore. https://t.co/Azx56LdrjV

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8 founding members fled to OpenAI and Meta. Murati unveiled this anyway.
$2B raised, a gigawatt of NVIDIA compute, and still just one shipping product. https://t.co/jxUNgIgcnW

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Altman offered OpenAI shares. Sanders wants to seize 50%.
The government would own a piece of the AI companies it also regulates. Nobody has explained how a $850B company hands equity to the state. https://t.co/L95uLOrXXd

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Japan's digital minister wants AI developers to use citizens' medical and criminal records, without individual consent. His pitch for skipping consent: do it, or Japan becomes an "AI colony." https://t.co/gcXe0o7k8v

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Brian Chesky helped put Sam Altman back in power in 2023. Now he's funding his own lab to compete with OpenAI. https://t.co/l9pxoZl6zM

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Anthropic's AI now wins 76% of its hardest problems. The same lab now wants a verifiable global pause button before AI starts building AI. https://t.co/IkKaRYifZ3

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South Korea's labour minister just asked chipmakers to share their AI windfall with workers.
The opposition is already calling it dangerous state intervention. https://t.co/Ujro6QP99Y

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Korea makes NVIDIA's memory. Huang just named its future.
He spent four days in Seoul pitching robots, not the chips that built the relationship. https://t.co/mRZWSR3r2v

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SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI plan $200B in 2026 IPOs. Databricks skips it.
A $134B company would rather wait than get lost in the crowd. https://t.co/fhoR7PU3Ec

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Revolut’s first employee is leaving. The bank earns £4.5B in revenue.
He joined before the company had a name, became CTO, and built the tech a $75B bank now runs on. https://t.co/1NIaeJJMPb

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Meta cut 8,000 jobs, then tracked the workers who stayed. In April it said there was no way to opt out, now 1,500 signatures later there’s a 30-minute pause button. https://t.co/xmruus4CkV

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Microsoft pays Anthropic millions. Now it wants that bill gone.
Suleyman says Anthropic, not OpenAI, is the rival Microsoft most wants to stop paying. https://t.co/D4NWxVJo7t