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AI

  1. AI Regulation, Shopping, and Leaks: Friday HeadFlash Canada's new Digital Safety Act targets AI chatbots alongside social media; OpenAI bans China-based influence ops; Anthropic CEO calls for mandatory audits; Gemini 3.5 leaks; ChatGPT partners with Visa for shopping.
  2. OpenAI’s $500B Ohio Bet, LeCun’s JEPA, Nemotron 3, Murati’s Startup, Claude Fable 5 OpenAI eyes a 10-gigawatt data center with Nvidia backing, LeCun pushes JEPA, NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Ultra, Mira Murati reveals her model, and Anthropic drops Claude Fable 5.
  3. AI News: China's $295B Buildout, Claude Finds Zcash Bug, and More China commits $295B to domestic AI chips, Claude uncovers a critical Zcash flaw, and Google's NotebookLM gains code execution.
02

Privacy

  1. ID Leak Exposes 985K; Signal Threatens UK Exit; Canada Targets Teens Nearly a million passports exposed, Signal ready to quit UK over encryption, prosecutor misuses police databases, Canada introduces sweeping child safety laws, and Acxiom's geo-targeting goes live.
  2. UK device scanning, Meta AI shift, and a record GDPR fine Signal warns UK plan is mass surveillance; California launches data deletion tool; Meta expands AI data use; Norway fines Elkjop.
  3. Privacy Alert: NSO Contempt, Mass. Location Ban, Health Data Breach Meta contempt vs NSO; Mass. bans location data sale; health sharing exposes 300k files; Europe eyes smart glasses; Israeli pardon data at risk.
03

Security

  1. Record fine, zero-day, FBI domain seizures, AI phishing, and OpenAI bans Coupang hit with $409M fine over 37M customer breach; researcher drops 7th zero-day; FBI seizes 13 Chinese spy sites; AI agent phished; OpenAI bans influence accounts.
  2. HeadFlash Security: FBI VPN Takedown, North Korea Scam, Record Patches FBI helps dismantle ransomware VPN, inside a North Korean hiring scam, CrowdStrike warns on China, and record Patch Tuesday.
  3. Security Digest: Tchap Breach, GPS Jamming, Check Point, Microsoft Today's key security events: France's Tchap hacked, Russian GPS jamming, critical Check Point VPN flaw exploited, Microsoft repos compromised.