Wall Street Journal:
Back-to-back jury verdicts against Meta could spur a flood of litigation against social media companies and threaten to undermine Section 230 protections  —  Social-media giants confront existential dilemma as a flood of litigation challenges their product designs

Michael Kan / PCMag:
The US DOJ charges a Chinese national and two Americans for allegedly trying to smuggle ~$62M worth of export-controlled A100 and H100 Nvidia chips into China  —  The US has disclosed a new Nvidia chip-smuggling case that also seems to involve San Jose-based server manufacturer Supermicro.

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Deccan AI, which supplies post-training data and evaluation work, raised a $25M Series A led by A91 Partners; most of its workforce of experts is based in India  —  As demand grows for training and refining AI models, Deccan AI — a startup supplying post-training data and evaluation work …

Charles Rollet / Business Insider:
Leaked memo: Meta's Reality Labs is reorganizing staff into AI-native “pods” focused on specific outcomes, flattening the organization's leadership structure  —  - A large division within Meta Reality Labs is undergoing an overhaul to become fully “AI-native.”

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Reflection AI, which is developing open foundation models, seeks to raise $2.5B at a $25B pre-money valuation of; JPMorgan is in talks to participate  —  Reflection is one of several startups working alongside Nvidia to build powerful, freely available ‘open-source’ AI models