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Meta’s Oversight Board is raising concerns that leading AI models may be over-restricting free expression, pushing its mandate beyond Meta’s own platforms.

TV Time is shutting down as its parent company launches Bingers, an AI-focused replacement app, expected before the end of July.

Meta deactivated Muse Image, a tool that generated AI images of any public Instagram account via @-mention, with no explanation given.

Waymo is removing human supervisors from vehicles in San Diego, Las Vegas, Tampa, and Denver, expanding its fully autonomous operations to four new cities.

Smartwatches use AI to detect breaks from your personal biometric baseline, flagging potential illness before symptoms appear — prompting earlier doctor visits.

Valve’s Steam Machine draws skeptical first impressions over its high price, while Sony confirms it will end PlayStation physical discs by 2028.

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5, trained to improve agentic task performance — the category driving up costs for enterprise and power users.

Australia doubles the maximum penalty for its social media ban to 99 million AUD ($68M USD), raising pressure on platforms to enforce age restrictions for minors.

California Governor Gavin Newsom and the state’s employment department launched a tracker to monitor AI-related job losses across the state.

Mark Zuckerberg has directed Meta to build a prediction market platform, entering a space dominated by Polymarket and Kalshi.