Tech news today captured the widening collision between AI ambition, public backlash, and government control. In Britain, Keir Starmer’s government moved to bar under-16s from major social platforms from 2027, arguing that addictive design and harmful content demand a tougher lin...
Tech news today captured the widening collision between AI ambition, public backlash, and government control. In Britain, Keir Starmer’s government moved to bar under-16s from major social platforms from 2027, arguing that addictive design and harmful content demand a tougher line, while leaving most messaging apps outside the ban. At Stanford, that same anxiety about technology’s social consequences turned sharply political as hundreds of students walked out of Sundar Pichai’s commencement address, protesting Google’s ties to Israeli government cloud and AI work under Project Nimbus. Meanwhile, the AI business boom accelerated: Salesforce agreed to buy customer-service AI firm Fin for about $3.6 billion to deepen its enterprise “agentic” push, and India’s Sarvam AI raised $234 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, underscoring how fiercely companies and countries alike are racing to build their own AI capacity.
Top Tech stories
- UK announces ban on social media use for children under 16 (58 sources)
- Stanford graduates walk out during Sundar Pichai’s commencement speech over Project Nimbus (14 sources)
- Stanford students stage walkout as Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at commencement (9 sources)
- Sarvam raises $234M Series B as HCLTech buys 10.46% stake, valuing it at $1.5B (9 sources)
- Salesforce to buy AI customer service firm Fin for about $3.6 billion (8 sources)
- Anthropic sends senior staff to Washington to negotiate over Mythos 5 and Fable 5 export restrictions (8 sources)
- Nvidia plans first investment-grade bond sale since 2021 to raise about $20bn (7 sources)
- US judge dismisses xAI trade-secret lawsuit against OpenAI (6 sources)
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