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Techmeme - 2025-07-26T13:10:45-04:00

Some users are circumventing UK's age checks by using VPNs, providing fake AI-generated photo IDs, or using images of high-fidelity video game characters (Jackson Chen/Engadget) - 2025-07-26T13:10:01-04:00

Sources: DOGE has built an AI tool aiming to cut 50% of federal regulations, or around 100,000 rules, by the first anniversary of Trump's inauguration (Washington Post) - 2025-07-26T12:25:00-04:00

Pony AI gets a permit to provide fully driverless robotaxi services in Shanghai, making it the only company with permits in all four of China's biggest cities (Pretish M J/Reuters) - 2025-07-26T11:05:02-04:00

US insurance giant Allianz Life says hackers stole the personal information of the "majority" of its customers, staffers, and employees, in a mid-July breach (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch) - 2025-07-26T10:00:00-04:00

The AI Action Plan suggests Trump wants to inculcate a "try-first" culture through regulatory sandboxes for AI, which have already popped up in some US states (Aaron Mak/Politico) - 2025-07-26T09:50:00-04:00

The SharePoint hacks increase pressure on Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative, which the company calls an ambitious effort expected to take years to complete (Andrew Martin/Bloomberg) - 2025-07-26T08:40:05-04:00

Google has defended Search against the first wave of disruption from generative AI, but AI agents and apps that can reduce clicks now threaten its ad business (Richard Waters/Financial Times) - 2025-07-26T05:35:00-04:00

Christina Marie Chapman, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison for aiding a North Korean remote IT worker scheme, details her time as a "laptop farmer" (Evan Ratliff/Bloomberg) - 2025-07-26T02:30:00-04:00

Source: India orders ISPs and app stores to block 25 streaming services, like Ullu and ALTT with millions of downloads, for allegedly promoting obscene content (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) - 2025-07-26T01:50:01-04:00

China's Unitree is marketing the R1, a humanoid robot that has multimodal AI and weighs 25kg, for $5,900, drastically lowering the entry price for such machines (Bloomberg) - 2025-07-26T01:40:01-04:00

China's premier Li Qiang proposes creating an organization for global cooperation in AI and says "bottlenecks" in chip supplies are hindering AI innovation (Financial Times) - 2025-07-26T00:40:01-04:00

Blackstone agrees to acquire a majority stake in NetBrain, valuing the Burlington, Massachusetts-based network operations and automation company at $750M (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg) - 2025-07-25T23:50:03-04:00

A US judge sentences an Arizona woman to 8.5 years in prison for running a "laptop farm" that enabled North Korean workers to secure IT jobs at 309 US companies (Jonathan Greig/The Record) - 2025-07-25T21:40:01-04:00

Sources: e-commerce startup OpenStore, co-founded by Keith Rabois, is raising a $15M Series C at a valuation of just $50M, down from $970M in September 2022 (Kate Clark/Bloomberg) - 2025-07-25T20:00:14-04:00

The UK starts enforcing new online child safety laws, requiring websites that host porn, self-harm, suicide, and eating disorder content to verify users' age (Wired) - 2025-07-25T19:25:00-04:00