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Reed Albergotti / Semafor:Q&A with Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora about the role of the tech industry in Trump's administration, AI, the future of cybersecurity, and more  —  The Scene  —  While Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora and his firm are…

Eileen Guo / MIT Technology Review:A look at biometric ID company Clear, as it works to expand its face-based line-cutting service at retailers, banks, doctor's offices, and other places  —  If you've ever been through a large US airport, you're probably…

Swetha Gopinath / Bloomberg:London-based Lighthouse, which offers tools to help hotels analyze market demand and rates, raised a ~$370M Series C led by KKR, sources say at a $1B+ valuation  —  Lighthouse, a startup that helps hotels analyze market demand…

Kent Walker / The Keyword:Google says the US DOJ's “wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision”, would hurt US consumers and jeopardize US' global tech leadership  —  President, Global Affairs & Chief Legal Officer, Google &…

Paresh Dave / Wired:Four former Google executives say innovation by rivals is key to breaking Google Search's dominance, and ChatGPT-like tools will one day supplant Google Search  —  Despite shared concerns about Google's power, critics of the company and…

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:Jensen Huang says “foundation model pretraining scaling is intact” and models like OpenAI's o1 could play a larger role in Nvidia's business moving forward  —  Nvidia raked in more than $19 billion in net income during the…

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:A look at OpenScholar, an LLM for scientific research built by the Allen Institute for AI and the University of Washington that outperforms GPT-4o on accuracy  —  Scientists are drowning in data.  With millions of research…

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:Filing: the US DOJ's proposal requires Google to allow websites more ability to opt-out of its AI products and provide more ad placement controls to advertisers  —  - Antitrust officials propose options in historic lawsuit  —…

Brian Fung / CNN:As part of its proposed remedies, the US DOJ says Google should be required to syndicate its US search results to other rival search engines for the next decade  —  The US government formally proposed a partial breakup of Google on…

Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:Filing: DOJ asks judge to force Google to sell Chrome, restrict Android from favoring Google's search engine, ban default search deals on iOS and other devices  —  U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google…

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:OpenAI releases a free online course for K-12 teachers to integrate ChatGPT into their classrooms, but some educators remain skeptical about the technology  —  OpenAI envisions teachers using its AI-powered tools to create lesson…

Rod McGuirk / Associated Press:Australia introduces a bill in Parliament to ban children younger than 16 from social media; companies would face fines of up to AU$50M for violations  —  Australia's communications minister introduced a world-first law into…

Sarah McBride / Bloomberg:Neuralink receives approval from Canada to launch clinical trials of its brain implants and plans to run its first non-US trial with Toronto Western Hospital  —  The billionaire's brain device company is currently recruiting…

Matt Swayne / The Quantum Insider:Google researchers introduce AlphaQubit, a machine-learning decoder that surpasses existing methods in identifying and correcting quantum computing errors  —  - Google researchers introduced AlphaQubit, an AI-powered…

Sara Fischer / Axios:Adtech company The Trade Desk announces Ventura, a smart TV operating system, and plans to partner with TV manufacturers for its rollout, expected in H2 2025  —  - “We're looking at a concentration around a handful of players that…