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Sources say the US government is investigating Binance around Iranian sanction evasion. Meta is helping authorities worldwide crack down on scammers. YouTube literally now is, officially, the biggest media entity in the world. And the legal way to listen to full songs right inside of TikTok.


Justice Department Probes Iran’s Use of Binance to Evade Sanctions (WSJ)


Meta, Thai police shut down 150,000 scam accounts (Axios)


Anthropic is launching a new think tank amid Pentagon blacklist fight (The Verge)


YouTube Lays Claim to Another Crown: The World’s Largest Media Company (THR)


Nintendo Shares Soar 10% as Surprise Hit Pokémon Game Lifts Mood (Bloomberg)


TikTok Teams With Apple Music to Allow Users to Stream Full Songs (Variety)

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Meta moves for the social network for AI bots. Code Review for Claude Code seems to be like another revolution for the software development industry. Yan LeCun raises the biggest European seed round of all time. And the MacBook Neo… worth investing in or not?


Exclusive: Meta hires duo behind Moltbook (Axios)


OpenAI and Google employees rush to Anthropic’s defense in DOD lawsuit (TechCrunch)


This new Claude Code Review tool uses AI agents to check your pull requests for bugs - here's how (ZDNet)


Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages (FT)


Yann LeCun’s AI start-up raises more than $1bn in Europe’s largest seed round (FT)


MacBook Neo review: the Mac for the masses (The Verge)

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Anthropic is fighting the government in court. Microsoft is turning to Anthropic to get agentic in all its productivity products. A big new hyperscaler startup has raised a monster round. And could the war with Iran be something that could pop the AI bubble?


Anthropic is suing the Department of Defense (The Verge)


Microsoft announces Copilot Cowork with help from Anthropic — a cloud-powered AI agent that works across M365 apps (VentureBeat)


Nscale Raises $2 Billion and Adds Sandberg, Clegg to Board (Bloomberg)


Iran War Imperils $300 Billion in Gulf AI Spending (The Information)


When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry” (HBR)

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Dario might need some message discipline as Anthropic is officially designated a risk by the US government. GPT-5.4 is here. Oracle is considering laying off a ton of people and Softbank is considering taking on a ton of debt, both for the same reason. An early warning system for AI job destruction. And, of course, The Weekend Longreads Suggestions.


Anthropic says it will challenge Defense Department's supply chain risk designation in court (Engadget)


Anthropic CEO apologizes for lashing out at Trump as he gears up for court battle with Pentagon (NYPost)


OpenAI’s new GPT-5.4 model is a big step toward autonomous agents (The Verge)


Oracle Plans Thousands of Job Cuts in Face of AI Cash Crunch (Bloomberg)


SoftBank Seeks Record Loan of Up to $40 Billion for OpenAI Stake (Bloomberg)


Anthropic launches AI job destruction detector (Axios)


Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence (Anthropic)

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SpaceX: the final frontier of IPOs (FT)


Who needs data centers in space when they can float offshore? (TechCrunch)

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Is the long war between Google and Epic Games finally over? OpenAI wants you to know its revenue numbers are also stellar. Maybe ChatGPT isn’t so great at medical advice. Maybe the chip shortage isn’t great for Nintendo specifically. And maybe the MacBook Nano isn’t great for the Windows ecosystem generally.


Google Revamps Android App Stores to Resolve Antitrust Claims (Bloomberg)


Tim Sweeney signed away his right to criticize Google until 2032 (The Verge)


Google’s AI-powered workspace is now available to more users in Search (The Verge)


OpenAI Tops $25 Billion in Annualized Revenue as Anthropic Narrows Gap (The Information)


ChatGPT Health 'under-triaged' half of medical emergencies in a new study (NBC News)


Nintendo Switch 2 Users Face Storage Woes as Memory Crisis Bites (Bloomberg)


I can't believe it: Apple’s $599 MacBook Neo just lit a monstrous fire under the Windows laptop market — Microsoft better be panicking (Windows Central)

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