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AI startups and founders have embraced "taste" as the new buzzword to make their products stand out, attempting to hitch themselves to an aura of artisanality (Kyle Chayka/New Yorker)

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A US DOJ operation disrupted four botnets that infected 3M+ devices and includes the Aisuru and Kimwolf botnets used in a 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack in November 2025 (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

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MiniMax releases M2.7, a proprietary "self-evolving" LLM that the company used to build, monitor, and optimize the model's own reinforcement learning harnesses (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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Valve’s huge SteamOS 3.8 update adds long-awaited features — and supports Steam Machine

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A man accused of using thousands of bot accounts to stream AI songs, making millions in royalties, pleads guilty in US district court to wire fraud conspiracy (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)

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OpenAI is planning a desktop ‘superapp’

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Sources: the White House plans to unveil a federal AI framework on Friday covering preemption of state laws, child safety, communities, creators, and censorship (Axios)

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US prosecutors charge three people affiliated with Super Micro, including a co-founder, with smuggling Nvidia chips to China; SMCI drops 11.85% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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OpenAI plans to unify ChatGPT, Codex, and its browser into a desktop "superapp" to simplify the user experience and focus on engineering and business customers (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: Anthropic met behind closed doors with House Homeland Security and discussed issues like export controls, only briefly touching on its DOD fight (Maria Curi/Axios)

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Nvidia says it will sell 1M GPUs and a broad mix of other chips, including new Groq chips, to AWS by the end of 2027; financial terms were not disclosed (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

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