Notices by Techmeme (techmeme@techhub.social)

UK PM Keir Starmer says tech companies must introduce safety measures on kids' phones to stop them from sharing nude images or face laws forcing them to do so (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/big-tech-firms-must-stop-young-people-circulating-nude-images-says-uk-pm-starmer-2026-06-08/
http://www.techmeme.com/260608/p7#a260608p7

The US NTSB suspends access to its database of civil transportation accidents after people re-created voices of pilots killed in a 2025 UPS plane crash using AI (Jeremy Hsu/Ars Technica)

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/ai-users-re-create-dead-pilots-voices-from-crash-investigation-docs/
http://www.techmeme.com/260522/p33#a260522p33

GitHub confirms breach of ~3,800 repositories after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension; TeamPCP claimed responsibility for the hack (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-confirms-breach-of-3-800-repos-via-malicious-vscode-extension/
http://www.techmeme.com/260520/p14#a260520p14

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed the nation's first law banning prediction market sites from operating in the state; the CFTC has sued Minnesota in response (Bobby Allyn/NPR)

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/19/nx-s1-5821265/minnesota-ban-prediction-markets
http://www.techmeme.com/260519/p55#a260519p55

A look at Janitor AI, a romantic fantasy roleplay chatbot site run by three men that claims 2.5M DAUs and 15M total users, with 70% to 80% identifying as women (Anna Tong/Forbes)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/05/07/three-dudes-run-the-biggest-ai-romantic-fantasy-site-for-women/
http://www.techmeme.com/260510/p14#a260510p14

Source: Alphabet is in talks with Blackstone, KKR, and EQT to give their portfolio companies AI model access, after OpenAI's and Anthropic's JVs with PE firms (The Information)

https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/google-talks-blackstone-kkr-distribute-ai-models
http://www.techmeme.com/260506/p1#a260506p1

Google is rolling out Gemini to cars that have Google built-in, replacing Google Assistant, starting with English in the US (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/tech/921117/google-gemini-ai-assistant-cars-upgrade
http://www.techmeme.com/260430/p45#a260430p45

Microsoft is rolling out Copilot 365 to all of Accenture's roughly 743,000 employees, in the biggest enterprise deal for Copilot, following a 2023 pilot (Aditya Soni/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/business/accenture-roll-out-copilot-all-743000-employees-boost-microsoft-2026-04-27/
http://www.techmeme.com/260428/p53#a260428p53

Sources: OpenAI missed an internal goal of reaching 1B weekly active ChatGPT users by 2025's end and missed multiple monthly revenue targets earlier in 2026 (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-misses-key-revenue-user-targets-in-high-stakes-sprint-toward-ipo-94a95273?st=AiGMqm&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/260427/p46#a260427p46

Brazil's Finance Minister Dario Durigan says the country has blocked prediction market platforms and tightened derivatives rules to curb "bet-like" products (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-blocks-prediction-platforms-tightens-rules-curb-bet-like-products-2026-04-24/
http://www.techmeme.com/260424/p40#a260424p40

Google says 75% of new code created inside the company is now generated by AI and reviewed by human engineers, up from 50% last fall (Hugh Langley/Business Insider)

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-generated-code-75-gemini-agents-software-2026-4
http://www.techmeme.com/260422/p36#a260422p36

Filings: crypto PACs amassed a ~$180M war chest for the 2026 midterms, including Fairshake's $166M, giving them the ability to outspend some GOP super PACs (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/crypto-pacs-amass-180-million-war-chest-for-midterm-races
http://www.techmeme.com/260421/p19#a260421p19

A US judge grants an injunction to makers of the banned "ICE Sightings - Chicagoland" Facebook group and Eyes Up mobile app, who say DHS and DOJ violated the 1A (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)

https://www.engadget.com/apps/judge-sides-with-creators-of-banned-ice-trackers-who-allege-dhs-and-doj-violated-their-first-amendment-rights-191701801.html
http://www.techmeme.com/260418/p11#a260418p11

Omdia: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok now capture over 90% of social media ad revenue, with Meta accounting for 70% of the total (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/meta-social-media-ad-revenue-70-percent-facebook-instagram-1236563625/
http://www.techmeme.com/260414/p51#a260414p51

Cybersecurity analysis: Claude Mythos Preview had a 73% success rate on expert-level capture-the-flag challenges, which no model could finish before April 2025 (AI Security Institute)

https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-evaluation-of-claude-mythos-previews-cyber-capabilities
http://www.techmeme.com/260413/p20#a260413p20

Survey of 6,698 people across six EU countries: around 84% said they don't trust US tech companies with their personal data; 93% don't trust Chinese companies (Ellen O'Regan/Politico)

https://www.politico.eu/article/8-in-10-europeans-dont-trust-us-chinese-firms-with-data/
http://www.techmeme.com/260411/p12#a260411p12

Meta begins removing dozens of Facebook and Instagram ads that trial lawyers placed to reach eligible plaintiffs, after social media addiction trial losses (Dan Primack/Axios)

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/meta-social-media-addiction-ads
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p19#a260409p19

Mental health startup Kintsugi is shutting down and open-sourcing its AI tech to detect depression and anxiety, after failing to secure FDA clearance (Robert Hart/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/905864/depression-detecting-ai-kintsugi-clinical-ai-startup-shut-down
http://www.techmeme.com/260402/p24#a260402p24

Inside David Sacks' new role shaping Trump's AI agenda; officials say Sriram Krishnan is taking on a position at the National Economic Council to focus on AI (Axios)

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/30/david-sacks-trump-ai-agenda-plan
http://www.techmeme.com/260330/p44#a260330p44

Sources: US prosecutors are exploring whether some prediction market bets, including on the capture of Nicolás Maduro, violated insider trading and other laws (Kara Scannell/CNN)

https://cnn.com/2026/03/30/politics/prediction-markets-justice-department
http://www.techmeme.com/260330/p37#a260330p37