Episode Details

Episode 39. Today the accountability bill for AI media came due: San Francisco ordered Apple and Google to pull thirteen 'nudify' deepfake apps, landing liability on whoever publishes and distributes AI content. We also cover Google turning AI Mode search into an action surface with Instacart, Canva and YouTube Music; a Suno breach exposing how it scraped training data; Moonshot's open-weight Kimi K3 pushing frontier-class AI toward commodity pricing; Gemini 3.5 Pro's fourth missed launch; and Anthropic pressing states for tougher frontier-AI rules as the EU AI Act's Article 50 deadline (Aug 2) closes in.

Today's stories:

• San Francisco orders Apple & Google to pull 13 AI "nudify" deepfake apps — TechCrunch, Engadget
• Google AI Mode adds connected apps — Instacart, Canva, YouTube Music — Search Engine Land, 9to5Google
• Suno hack exposes source code and data-scraping methods — TechCrunch, Music Business Worldwide
• Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 open-weight frontier model — Tech Reader
• Gemini 3.5 Pro misses its fourth launch target — Technology.org, 9to5Google
• Anthropic pushes states for tougher frontier-AI rules; WAICO governance bloc forms — Tech Startups

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