RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116606089296164399
Remember this whenever you hear claims that your data is secure on some system or other that you do not own and control.
Like all that additional data governments want to gather via the slippery…
A look at creators and organizations warning of AI's existential threats to humanity; some organizations sponsor social media posts and partner with influencers (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/3OBACmq
Moonshot says Kimi K2.5 provides "the foundation" for Cursor's Composer 2 model and that Cursor accesses Kimi K2.5 via Fireworks AI (@kimi_moonshot)
https://x.com/kimi_moonshot/status/2035074972943831491
X launches Custom Timelines, a Grok-powered feature letting users pin any of over 75 topics to their home tab, in early access to Premium subscribers on iOS (Nikita Bier/@nikitabier)
https://x.com/nikitabier/status/2046736181002645520
A new media company called MTS launches for "monitoring the situation" across tech, business, politics, and culture, with backing from a16z and others (a16z)
https://www.a16z.news/p/monitoring-the-situation
Crypto exchange Blockchain.com confidentially files for a US IPO; the UK-based company founded in 2011 was once valued at $14B (Logan Hitchcock/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/368608/crypto-exchange-blockchain-com-files-ipo-us
Apple announces that John Ternus, senior VP of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple's next CEO on September 1; Tim Cook will become executive chairman (Business Wire)
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260420318241/en/
London-based Primer, which helps e-commerce merchants connect and manage multiple payment providers, raised a $100M Series C led by Sofina (Damisola Sulaiman/Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/primer-raises-100m-series-c/
Moonshot introduces Kimi K2.6, an open-weight model that it says shows strong improvements in long-horizon coding tasks, available under a modified MIT License (Kimi AI)
https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-6
OpenAI enables cost-per-click ads inside ChatGPT, setting bids at between $3 and $5 per click, in addition to CPMs (Digiday)
https://digiday.com/marketing/openai-turns-on-cost-per-click-ads-inside-chatgpt/