Common Sense Media calls ChatGPT for Teens an "unacceptable risk", saying its guardrails fall short of OpenAI's promises and it continues to do kids' homework (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Spotify expands audiobooks to 180+ markets, bringing its catalog to 750M+ users, and adds 350K+ titles in 120+ languages in partnership with 300+ publishers (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Turba Labs, which develops tech for optimizing AI infrastructure by creating digital twins of data centers, emerges from stealth with $52M seed and Series A (Sarah Klearman/Wall Street Journal)
Q&A with Senator Adam Schiff on recursive AI becoming a real national security threat, making AI companies retain training data, needing an FDA for AI, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
Analysis: insurers brace for multimillion-dollar claims caused by rogue AI agents, amid concern that execs like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei could be held liable (Lee Harris/Financial Times)
Sources: DeepSeek is close to raising $12B+ in a round that could reach ~$14.9B, with Tencent and CATL as the biggest contributors, ahead of an early-2027 IPO (Bloomberg)
A look at Alpha, an invite-only Discord server of ~30 mostly Gen Z Polymarket traders who pool research and capital and have made an estimated $40M since 2024 (Niamh Rowe/Financial Times)