Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
AI leaderboard provider Arena says it hit $100M in annualized run-rate revenue eight months after launching AI Evaluations, which offers performance analytics  —  Just eight months after launching its commercial service, AI leaderboard provider Arena, which originated as a research project …

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Google says the Gemini app now offers personalized Nano Banana image generation, previously limited to Plus, Pro, and Ultra users, to eligible US users for free  —  Google announced on Monday that the Gemini app is now offering its personalized Nano Banana-powered image generation feature to a broader audience.

Wired:
Sources: hundreds of Meta contractors posed as minors to probe how competitor chatbots responded to prompts involving suicide, sex, and other high-risk subjects  —  Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids—and then prompted rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to discuss high-risk subjects.

Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
Tidal adopts an AI policy that blocks wholly AI-generated music from earning royalties and removes AI-generated music that impersonates artists  —  TIDAL is introducing an AI policy that will automatically tag wholly AI-generated music in its app and block it from earning royalties.

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
Digital Realty says it plans to acquire a majority stake in three fully leased Northern Virginia data centers from Blackstone-managed funds in a $7.8B deal  —  Digital Realty (DLR.N) said on Monday it would acquire a majority stake in three fully leased Northern Virginia data centers …