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Sources: Anthropic and London-based PE firm Hg agree to launch a consultancy by the end of 2026 to embed AI consultants and engineers into European businesses (Financial Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Greece's parliament passes a bill to ban social media platforms for children under 15 from 2027 and gives companies two months to verify users' ages (Angeliki Koutantou / Reuters) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Anthropic says it partnered with Theorem to use Claude to formally prove security properties at the assembly level across 100+ real-world open-source libraries (Anthropic) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

SK Telecom unit SK Hyper is in talks with tech firms and investors to finance 15GW of data center capacity in South Korea by 2035; the first 5GW will cost $350B (Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Oura sues Indian smart ring rival Ultrahuman again to block US sales of Ring Pro, months after a redesign helped Ultrahuman return following an import ban (@jagmeets13 / TechCrunch) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Chinese state media: DeepSeek and MiniMax completed registration and won approval to open-source and deploy AI models overseas under proposed export controls (Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

SK Hynix says its SSD subsidiary Solidigm has halted a review of a potential US IPO to fund a new US chip fab, citing "market conditions and share price trends" (@byvenkat / Wall Street Journal) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

OpenAI suspected the three fired researchers of leaking internal model designs to AI safety researcher Ryan Greenblatt, including via disappearing Signal chats (Wall Street Journal) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Spotify confirms it is rolling out a new family plan verification method requiring members to scan QR codes on plan managers' phones within seven days of notice (@sarahpereztc / TechCrunch) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

US Treasury proposes rules tightening restrictions on US investments in areas including AI and supercomputing in China, Russia, and other "countries of concern" (Associated Press) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

An interview with Ondřej Surý, a volunteer who maintains PHP and automates its patches, about his role in fixing two critical PHP security vulnerabilities (@cwarzel / The Atlantic) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

German energy company PreussenElektra says it is working with Nvidia to assess whether the country's idle nuclear plants could be turned into data centers (Eva Brendel / Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

a16z rebrands a16z Crypto as a16z Frontier and expands the fund's scope to back startups developing AI, robotics, and other emerging technologies (@c_grigera / Fortune) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Sources: OpenAI has cut its valuation target to $1.25T, down from the $1.4T valuation it pitched earlier this month, after facing resistance from some investors (Financial Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Sources: SpaceX is in talks with at least one major cellular infrastructure firm to secure a minimum of 80K US cell sites, as it eyes a wireless carrier launch (@kelceegriffis / Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Anthropic donates the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation and says 70+ platforms have integrated it, after donating MCP to the AAIF in 2025 (Anthropic) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Sources: OpenAI nears an up to $30B round led by investors from the UAE and Coatue at a $1.25T pre-money valuation, as an "opportunistic" bridge ahead of an IPO (@kr00ney / CNBC) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Canva launches Craft, its first image generation model, trained on human-designed templates, available to all users, with plans to support third-party chatbots (@indianidle / TechCrunch) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Microsoft and Alphabet join 14 other companies objecting to a plan by OKXICE, a venture of OKX and ICE, to trade blockchain-based versions of their shares (@c_grigera / Fortune) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Amazon issues refunds from a 2025 settlement, crediting "President Trump's Federal Trade Commission," the first time an FTC refund has been tied to a president (@al___ng / Politico) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)