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• President Trump signs exec order to make Musk’s DOGE commission more official [1h]
• Trump signs exec order delaying TikTok enforcement action for 75 days [1h]
• President Trump repeals Biden’s AI executive order [2h]
• UK to unveil ‘Humphrey’ assistant for civil servants with other AI plans to cut bureaucracy [3h]
• OpenAI’s agent tool may be nearing release [4h]
• Friend delays shipments of its AI companion pendant [5h]
• US safety regulators expand Ford hands-free driving tech investigation [5h]
• At the Microsoft Excel World Championship, selfies and a ‘hype’ tunnel [5h]
• Flipboard’s new app Surf adds its own video feed, too [8h]
• DeepSeek claims its reasoning model beats OpenAI’s o1 on certain benchmarks [9h]
• RedNote, Flip, Clapper and Likee claim the top of the App Store as TikTok comes back online [9h]
• Meta confirms it will keep fact-checkers outside the U.S. ‘for now’ [10h]
• Here are the types of AI companies enterprise VCs want to back in 2025 [12h]
• Confirmed: AI vision startup Metropolis acquires Oosto (formerly known as AnyVision) for just $125M [15h]