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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

Inside a growing movement warning AI could turn on humanity
Groups concerned that AI could evade human control are recruiting content creators to warn the masses about the dangers of smarter machines.

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

Kimi.ai (@Kimi_Moonshot) on X
Congrats to the @cursor_ai team on the launch of Composer 2! We are proud to see Kimi-k2.5 provide the foundation. Seeing our model integrated effectively through Cursor's continued pretraining & high-compute RL training is the open model ecosystem we love to support.

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

Nikita Bier (@nikitabier) on X
Ladies and gentlemen, today we're launching one of our biggest changes to 𝕏 Introducing Custom Timelines This feature allows you to pin a specific topic to your home tab. With support for over 75 topics, you can dive deep into your favorite niche on X. It's powered by Grok's

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

Monitoring the Situation
Thrilled to announce our investment in a new media company called MTS

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

Crypto Exchange Blockchain.com Files for IPO in the US
Long-running crypto exchange Blockchain.com has confidentially filed to take its business public via the U.S. markets.

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/

Balderton-backed payments startup Primer raises $100m Series C
London-based payments infrastructure provider Primer has raised $100m in a Series C funding round to make payments fully AI-enabled.

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/

OpenAI turns on cost-per-click ads inside ChatGPT
The move to introduce CPCs come as the platform looks to hire its first Advertising Marketing Science Lead.