Technology A UK jury finds Jian Wen guilty of laundering bitcoin for a Chinese fugitive allegedly behind a ~$6B fraud in China; police had seized BTC worth $2.2B+ in 2018 (Bloomberg)
Sakana AI Introduces KAME: A Tandem Speech-to-Speech Architecture That Injects LLM Knowledge in Real Time
Google Introduces Simula: A Reasoning-First Framework for Generating Controllable, Scalable Synthetic Datasets Across Specialized AI Domains
Technology De-fi platform Drift suspends deposits and withdrawals after millions in crypto stolen in hack
Technology Q&A with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on the platform’s dominance, its impact on kids, the suspension and reinstatement of Trump’s YouTube account, AI slop, and more (Lulu Garcia-Navarro/New York Times)
