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Dubai is emerging as a global hub for AI talent, attracting workers with its Golden Visa program, no taxes, attractive salaries, and ease of setting up business (Amar Diwakar/Rest of World)

AI's real threat to education isn't that it encourages students to cheat, but that it short-circuits the learning processes needed to use generative AI adeptly (Nicholas Carr/New Cartographies)

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)

Share of news influencers on Bluesky has doubled after the 2024 US election to 43%, but X remains popular, with 82% of news influencers maintaining an account (Pew Research Center)

Sources: Abridge, which uses AI to transcribe medical chats, is raising $300M led by a16z at a $5.3B valuation, up from $2.75B in February when it raised $250M (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)

Q&A with Mary Meeker on publishing her first Trends report since 2019, its focus on the AI revolution, why OpenAI may have an insurmountable lead, and more (Dan Primack/Axios)

Sources: Trump administration plans to expand Entity List restrictions to cover subsidiaries of Chinese companies, aiming to block workarounds via new offshoots (Bloomberg)

Stargate's financing and future are far from straightforward, with ~$50B in commitments to date, far below the $500B touted by President Trump and Sam Altman (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)

Adam Mosseri says Instagram now supports photos with a 3:4 aspect ratio, ensuring that photos appear as they were originally shot, without cropping (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Sources: Apple's next operating systems will be called iOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26, and more, as it plans a rebrand with numbers based on the upcoming year (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Rillet raised a $25M Sequoia-led Series A and has added ~200 customers, including Windsurf, since debuting an AI tool in 2024 to automate general ledger systems (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Memo: the Trump admin pauses new student visa interviews as it mulls requiring all foreign students applying to study in the US to undergo social media vetting (Nahal Toosi/Politico)

Texas enacts an online child-safety bill requiring app stores verify users' ages and secure parental approval before minors can get most apps or make IAPs (Bloomberg)

Sources: Neuralink raised $600M at a $9B pre-money valuation; PitchBook: the company was valued at $3.5B in late 2023 (Liz Hoffman/Semafor)

The top contributor to X's Community Notes is Web3 Antivirus, a startup that uses an automated process to flag crypto scam posts and has posted 52,000 times (Alexios Mantzarlis/Indicator)

Scam victims in Singapore lost a total of ~$858M last year, up 70% YoY; most are contacted via Meta-owned apps, and deepfakes in scams are increasingly common (Owen Walker/Financial Times)

Sources, including 30+ current and former Meta employees and 10+ US officials, detail Mark Zuckerberg's embrace of Trump, which has yet to pay major dividends (Bloomberg)

People are using ChatGPT for unsparing assessments of their looks, with many also asking the chatbot to create plans to "glow up" their appearance (Tatum Hunter/Washington Post)

Source: the main topic at WWDC will be a redesigned software interface, dubbed Solarium, for all of Apple's operating systems, including tvOS and watchOS (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Some Amazon engineers say managers have increasingly pushed them to use AI over the past year, raising output goals and becoming less forgiving about deadlines (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)

Google expands Veo 3 availability to 71 additional countries, and Gemini Pro subscribers now get a trial pack of 10 Veo 3 generations on the Gemini web app (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)

A profile of Zach Witkoff, World Liberty Financial co-founder and son of Trump's Middle East envoy, who is pursuing crypto deals with countries like Pakistan (Wall Street Journal)

Accessibility consultants say the video game industry's accessibility advancements, which gained momentum in 2020, have slowed down due to cutbacks (Geoffrey Bunting/The Verge)

Texas is set to enact one of the strictest bans on social media for minors, with age verification requirements and letting parents request account deletions (Adam Edelman/NBC News)

Sam Altman and Jony Ive's awkward io video feels like empty hype until a compelling device is released, especially given Ive's post-Jobs design missteps (Jason Snell/Six Colors)