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New York Times:A look at the US market for humanoids in homes and businesses; PitchBook says investors have poured $7.2B into 50+ startups since 2015, including $1.6B in 2024  —  By getting its humanoids into people's homes, 1X hopes to gather enormous…

Emilia David / VentureBeat:Anthropic's Alignment Science team: “legibility” or “faithfulness” of reasoning models' Chain-of-Thought can't be trusted and models may actively hide reasoning  —  We now live in the era of reasoning AI models where the…

Wall Street Journal:Analysis: newly announced US tariffs for goods from China could raise the bill of materials for the iPhone 16 Pro with 256GB of storage from ~$550 to ~$850  —  This is what the company pays for components inside its bestselling phone,…

Xinmei Shen / South China Morning Post:DeepSeek and Tsinghua University researchers detail an approach combining reasoning methods to let LLMs deliver better and faster results to general queries  —  In collaboration with Tsinghua University, DeepSeek…

Ben Blanchard / Reuters:Foxconn reports Q1 revenue up 24.2% YoY to $49.5B, driven by AI demand, but says the impact of evolving global political conditions will need “close monitoring”  —  Taiwan's Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics…

Krystal Hu / Reuters:SandboxAQ, which uses quantum computing to develop AI, raised a $150M Series E extension from Google, Nvidia, and others, taking its total funding to $950M+  —  SandboxAQ, a startup drawing on quantum computing techniques to develop…

Charles Martin / AppleInsider:The BBC complains to the UK CMA that Apple and Google's news aggregators weaken its relationship with the public by downplaying the BBC branding  —  The British Broadcasting Corporation has complained to a UK antitrust…

Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget:Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will share news about a Llama 4 Reasoning model “in the next month”  —  Meta AI for WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram now has Llama 4.  —  Meta has released the first two models from its…

Tom Warren / The Verge:Microsoft unveils a demo of Quake II generated using its Muse AI model, with limited playability in a browser, as part of the company's Copilot for Gaming push  —  Microsoft's Muse AI model is now available as an AI-generated Quake…

Makena Kelly / Wired:Sources: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in Washington DC next week to build a “mega API” for accessing all IRS data, with Palantir as a possible partner  —  DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company…

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:Meta updates Meta AI in WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram Direct, and the Meta.AI website with Llama 4 in 40 countries; multimodal features are US-only in English  —  Meta has released a new collection of AI models, Llama 4, in its…

Meta:Meta launches Llama 4 Maverick with 400B parameters and Scout with 109B parameters and a 10M context window, and previews Behemoth with 2T total parameters  —  Takeaways  — We're sharing the first models in the Llama 4 herd, which will enable…

Joseph Bambridge / Politico:OpenAI and Google reject the UK's proposal to allow training AI on copyrighted work without permission unless rights holders opt out to “reserve their rights”  —  The U.K. government's AI copyright plans can't seem to please…

Harry Alston / TheGamer:Schedule 1, a drug-dealing simulator made by a single developer, tops Steam charts with an estimated 2M+ copies sold after going viral on streams and TikTok  —  I keep my eyes on new game releases because I have to: it's a part of…

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:Joel Kaplan says Meta's US fact-checking program will be over by Monday, and Community Notes will start appearing on Facebook, Threads, and Instagram  —  Meta will no longer have any fact-checkers in the U.S. come Monday,…