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Pro-Trump AI influencers are flooding social media.

The New York Times has found hundreds of fake accounts on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook that appear to be a pre-midterm push to get conservative voters to the polls in support of Trump’s agenda. The accounts often use the same captions and awkward phrasing.

Big Tech Ramps Enterprise Subscription Business

Subscriptions offer more reliable, recurring revenue than advertising and can also offer a hedge against slowing hardware sales growth.

AI tools accelerate short-form video and the clip economy

Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat are making it easier to share.

Wall Street wary on wearables

Many are still skeptical that hardware bets can scale, given disappointment over adoption for mixed reality headsets.

We're finally getting more control over social media feeds

Instagram, TikTok and others are giving people more say in what they see.

Anthropic’s relationship with the Trump administration seems to be thawing

Despite recently being designated a supply-chain risk by the Pentagon, Anthropic is still talking to high-level members of the Trump administration.

Build Your Own Financial Analyst With AI

A step-by-step guide to going from ChatGPT earnings previews to a custom investment dashboard—no engineering team required

The App Store is booming again, and AI may be why

New data from Appfigures shows a swell of new app launches in 2026, suggesting AI tools could be fueling a mobile software boom.

Dyson’s handheld fan is more powerful and louder than I expected

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"Digital fantasy": AI hair, makeup gets under beauty industry's skin

It's forced artists and stylists to serve as the beauty industry's reality checkers

Anthropic's Amodei meets Wiles and Bessent at the White House over Mythos access and Pentagon standoff

In short: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei met White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday in what the White House called “productive and constructive” talks over access to Mythos, the frontier AI model capable of finding thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities. The meeting signals a thaw in the standoff that began when the Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic for refusing to drop safety restrictions, though any deal would likely exclude the Defence Department and route Mythos access through civilian agencies.

Palantir, Thales, and a startup are competing to build the FAA’s predictive air traffic AI

In short: The FAA is developing SMART (Strategic Management of Airspace Routing Trajectories), an AI system that would extend air traffic conflict prediction from 15 minutes to two hours, with Palantir, Thales, and Air Space Intelligence competing for the contract. The project follows the LaGuardia crash that exposed controller overwork and aging systems, and sits within a $32.5 billion modernisation programme as the agency replaces 612 outdated radar systems and recruits 1,200 new controllers in fiscal 2026.