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Sources: Google DeepMind reassigned majority of original authors of AlphaFold articles; about a quarter of newspapers’ full-time writers have left (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)
Taiwan tests its economic leverage after closing its representative office in Papua New Guinea – Radio Free Asia
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Technology UK CMA launches investigation into Microsoft for potential consumer law violations involving Microsoft 365 subscription renewals that added Copilot (Upmanyu Trivedi/Bloomberg)
Technology Sources: Google DeepMind reassigned majority of original authors of AlphaFold articles; about a quarter of newspapers’ full-time writers have left (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)
Technology Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic have lobbied the Trump administration to ensure lagging competitors must also comply with government reviews of their models (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)