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Bloomberg: President Trump says he will do “a ONE RULE” EO on AI “this week” and “you can’t expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something”  —  President Donald Trump said he would approve… Read More »President Trump says he will do “a ONE RULE” EO on AI “this week” and “you can’t expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something” (Bloomberg)

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: An OpenAI survey of 9,000 workers at 100 companies: it saves workers ~40 to 60 minutes per day on average for professional tasks; OpenAI has 1M business clients  —  OpenAI’s artificial intelligence products are saving workers… Read More »An OpenAI survey of 9,000 workers at 100 companies: it saves workers ~40 to 60 minutes per day on average for professional tasks; OpenAI has 1M business clients (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Netflix changed movie distribution and its executives now think that licensing shows leaves money on the table; YouTube may help Netflix’s WBD antitrust case  —  Warner Bros. started with distribution.  Just after the turn of the… Read More »Netflix changed movie distribution and its executives now think that licensing shows leaves money on the table; YouTube may help Netflix’s WBD antitrust case (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Barbara Moens / Financial Times: The EU says Meta agreed to make changes to its “pay or consent” model in the EU, including ad-lite Instagram and Facebook versions, but “the case is not closed”  —  Facebook agrees changes to ‘pay… Read More »The EU says Meta agreed to make changes to its “pay or consent” model in the EU, including ad-lite Instagram and Facebook versions, but “the case is not closed” (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)

Financial Times: Big Tech’s AI data center plans, which are set to need an estimated 44GW of additional capacity by 2028, face a power crunch that could deflate the AI “bubble”  —  A lack of electricity for new data centres… Read More »Big Tech’s AI data center plans, which are set to need an estimated 44GW of additional capacity by 2028, face a power crunch that could deflate the AI “bubble” (Financial Times)

Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia: Users of ByteDance’s agentic AI phone Nubia M153 report that its Doubao assistant is blocked or limited by Tencent’s WeChat, Alibaba’s Taobao, and other apps  —  HONG KONG — A battle over online security and… Read More »Users of ByteDance’s agentic AI phone Nubia M153 report that its Doubao assistant is blocked or limited by Tencent’s WeChat, Alibaba’s Taobao, and other apps (Cissy Zhou/Nikkei Asia)

Laith Al-Khalaf / Financial Times: Singapore-based banking and payments startup Airwallex raised $330M at an $8B valuation, after raising $300M at a $6.2B valuation in May, and plans a US HQ  —  Payments company opens San Francisco base and reduces… Read More »Singapore-based banking and payments startup Airwallex raised $330M at an $8B valuation, after raising $300M at a $6.2B valuation in May, and plans a US HQ (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times)

Alex Dooler / Bloomberg: Binance receives three licenses from Abu Dhabi’s financial regulator, allowing comprehensive operations across its exchange, clearing, and brokerage arms  —  Binance has won three separate licenses from Abu Dhabi’s financial regulator, giving the crypto exchange giant… Read More »Binance receives three licenses from Abu Dhabi’s financial regulator, allowing comprehensive operations across its exchange, clearing, and brokerage arms (Alex Dooler/Bloomberg)

Associated Press: Police in Edmonton, Canada partner with Axon to test body cameras with AI facial recognition, and say the results will be verified by human officers  —  Police body cameras equipped with artificial intelligence have been trained to detect… Read More »Police in Edmonton, Canada partner with Axon to test body cameras with AI facial recognition, and say the results will be verified by human officers (Associated Press)

Rohan Doshi / The Keyword: Google says Gemini 3 Pro sets new vision AI benchmark records, including in complex visual reasoning, beating Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 in some categories  —  Gemini 3 Pro delivers state-of-the-art performance across document, spatial,… Read More »Google says Gemini 3 Pro sets new vision AI benchmark records, including in complex visual reasoning, beating Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 in some categories (Rohan Doshi/The Keyword)