Pavel Durov says an extortionist planted “illegal porn in a public chat” to get the app pulled from the App Store and manipulated Apple into “overreacting” — Pavel Durov claims attackers post illegal content and manipulate reports to ‘trigger the removal of legitimate communities.’
Sources: the White House doesn't plan to publicly release its voluntary AI framework; details will be available to the companies that are part of the process — The White House does not plan to publicly release its new framework for evaluating advanced AI models, three sources familiar with the discussions told Axios.
Amazon becomes the fifth company to reach a $3T market cap, joining Nvidia, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Apple; its stock closed up 4.58% on Monday — Amazon.com Inc. surpassed $3 trillion in market value for the first time, becoming only the fifth company to ever reach the milestone.
Palantir reports Q2 revenue up 93% YoY to $1.94B, vs. $1.8B est., US commercial revenue up 149%, and raises FY 2026 revenue guidance; PLTR jumps 9%+ after hours — Palantir topped second-quarter earnings estimates on Monday and said commercial revenue more than doubled from a year ago.
Samsung says it's restricting app registrations and removing apps with SDKs that can turn smart TVs into residential proxy exit nodes, after a similar ban by LG — Several popular Samsung smart TV apps contain code that share the owner's internet connection with strangers …
Four US states rolled back or paused data center tax incentives, and nine others are weighing repeal measures, potentially adding 7% or more to equipment costs — Governors and legislatures in U.S. states that previously welcomed data centers are suddenly moving to rip away sales tax breaks …
LLMs are moving from generating artifacts to creating hyper-custom worlds on demand, but still lack the ability to natively perceive and audit what they create — We're starting to leave the territory where you'd test an LLM by e.g. “create an svg of pelican on a bicycle”.