A federal judge in Virginia ruled that Norfolk's use of ~200 Flock automated license plate scanners is constitutional and doesn't violate the Fourth Amendment (Cyrus Farivar/Ars Technica)
Q&A with James Wu on leaving his role as DJI's chief scientist to found FJDynamics to build robots for labor intensive sectors like agriculture and construction (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)
Sources: Google's "cease and desist" letter forces Kantar and Barb to halt UK TV measurement service comparing YouTube viewership with linear TV and streamers (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
Moonshot says Kimi K2.5 builds on K2 with "pretraining over ~15T mixed visual and text tokens" and "can self-direct an agent swarm with up to 100 sub-agents" (Kimi)
Chinese startup Moonshot updates its Kimi model, saying K2.5 can process text, images, and videos simultaneously and beats its open-source peers in some tests (Bloomberg)
TikTok US says it doesn't "have rules against sharing the name Epstein in direct messages" and is "investigating why some users are experiencing issues" (Bobby Allyn/NPR)
Sources: SoftBank halts talks about a ~$50B acquisition of US data center operator Switch, a setback to Masayoshi Son's goal to roll out Stargate infrastructure (Bloomberg)