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AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators
https://www.rfi.fr/en/middle-east/20250629-ai-is-learning-to-lie-scheme-and-threaten-its-creators

AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators
The world's most advanced AI models are exhibiting troubling new behaviors - lying, scheming, and even threatening their creators to achieve their goals.

Michael Moritz's The San Francisco Standard buys Charter, a digital outlet focused on the future of work; Charter founder Kevin Delaney will be EIC of both pubs (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/busines

He Made Billions on Google and PayPal. Now, He’s Betting on News.
Michael Moritz co-founded The San Francisco Standard, a local news organization. It is acquiring Charter, a start-up focused on the future of work.

A week into training camp, the Giants are already wowed by Abdul Carter https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45852765/new-york-giants-already-wowed-abdul-carter-2025-training-camp

TikTok adds new safety features, including enhanced parental controls, and publicly launches Footnotes, its Community Notes-like feature, in the US (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/tiktok-adds-new-parental-controls-tools-for-c…

TikTok adds new parental controls, tools for creators | TechCrunch
The social network is bringing new parental controls to Family Pairing, its feature that allows parents to link their accounts with their teen's account to customize safety settings.

Scientists discover a whole new type of ecosystem 30,000 feet deep
For decades, scientists have studied organisms that thrive around hydrothermal vents, fissures spewing superheated fluids.
But the creatures that live around cold seeps
— places where gases such as methane and hydrogen sulfide ooze from the seafloor at near-freezing temperatures,
often where tectonic plates meet
— have been understudied.

So, to investigate, an expedition to the northwest P…

Scientists discover a whole new type of ecosystem 30,000 feet deep
In Pacific Ocean trenches, scientists found creatures that expand the limits of where we know life can live on Earth.

Ziff Davis is laying off 15% of its unionized workforce, or 23 people, 19 of which work for CNET; Ziff Davis has bought five companies in 2025 (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/715220/ziff-davis-creators-guild-cnet-layoffs

Layoffs hit CNET as its parent company goes on a buying spree
Media company Ziff Davis is laying off 15 percent of its unionized workforce, with the majority being from tech outlet CNET.

2025 NFL Draft first-round pick contract tracker: Giants sign Abdul Carter and Jaxson Dart

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-nf

Twitch plans to start testing the ability to host a vertical livestream and rolls out an open beta of 2k streaming, letting creators stream at 1440p (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/677548/twitch-twitchcon-e…

Twitch is getting vertical livestreams
Twitch is announcing a bunch of updates at TwitchCon Europe, including vertical livestreams and an open beta test that lets creators stream at a higher quality.

A coalition of European writers, publishers, and others warns that Europe's AI Act is not properly protecting copyrights and is selling out the creative sector (Scott Roxborough/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

European Creators Slam AI Act Implementation, Warn Copyright Protections Are Failing
Europe’s writers, actors, musicians and producers accuse the EU of selling out creative industries in favor of GenAI giants and demand urgent reforms to safeguard IP rights.

TikTok adds new safety features, including enhanced parental controls, and publicly launches Footnotes, its Community Notes-like feature, in the US (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/tiktok-adds-new-parental-controls-tools-for-c…

TikTok adds new parental controls, tools for creators | TechCrunch
The social network is bringing new parental controls to Family Pairing, its feature that allows parents to link their accounts with their teen's account to customize safety settings.