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Meta Expands Instagram’s AI Age Checks Worldwide
The AI checks text across profiles and visual cues in photos and videos, then places suspected teens in accounts with stricter messaging and privacy settings.
Meta says it is also rolling the technology out on Facebook and plans to bring it to Threads globally later this year.
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Nvidia’s Huang Probe Puts Governance Veteran in Focus
Lead independent director Stephen Neal, who chairs Nvidia’s governance committee, is positioned to play a central role in the board’s review, which is being conducted with outside counsel.
Congress Seeks Answers on Nvidia CEO’s China Ties
A House China committee has requested a closed-door briefing with Jensen Huang on November 18, focusing on espionage safeguards and his relationship with Alice Huang, a former Megaspeed executive whom U.S. intelligence suspects of working for China.
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Meta Debuts Low-Cost Muse Ember Agent Model
Priced at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens, Ember can process context up to 1 million tokens and handle routine agent work such as tool calls, coding subtasks, data extraction and long-document parsing.
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Anthropic Unveils Faster Claude Models for Technical Work
Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 generate responses up to 30% faster than their predecessors and improve at coding, reasoning and vision.
Disney Taps Adobe for Custom AI Tools
Adobe’s Firefly Foundry will build models based on Disney characters, environments and visual styles, with artists guiding the creation of commercially safe, production-ready content.
Nvidia Board Probes Reports CEO Was Targeted by Chinese Spy
U.S. intelligence reportedly suspects Megaspeed executive Alice Huang was recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security and passed information to Beijing; she is not related to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
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Nvidia Board Probes Jensen Huang Spy Allegations
Nvidia shares fell about 6% on Monday, wiping roughly $250 billion from the company’s market value.
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Uber Adds In-App Parking Reservations
Drivers in 15 U.S. cities can reserve garages, lots or valet parking for a specific date and time, compare upfront prices and pay in the app.
Coinbase Wins National Trust Bank Charter
The OCC charter puts Coinbase’s custody operations under federal oversight and allows it to offer payments and support stablecoin issuance.
It does not permit ordinary deposits or lending; Circle and Ripple have also received trust-charter approvals.
