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From Techmeme: How Amazon's expansion into fashion helped Jeff Bezos enter fashion's inner circle, as he and Lauren Sánchez Bezos become underwriters for this year's Met Gala (Chavie Lieber/Wall Street Journal)

From Techmeme: Nintendo's share price has fallen by ~45% since August 2025, as rising memory chip costs drive investor concerns over profit margins for the Switch 2 (David Keohane/Financial Times)

From Techmeme: A profile of BlackBerry's QNX division, whose operating system controls safety features in 275M cars and accounts for half of BlackBerry's revenue (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

From Techmeme: An evaluation by NIST's CAISI says DeepSeek V4 Pro lags behind leading US AI models by about eight months and is the most capable Chinese AI model to date (NIST)

From Techmeme: A slew of top Boston Dynamics execs have left the Hyundai-owned company in recent months, as sources say it faces pressure to speed the delivery of humanoids (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)

From Techmeme: Sources: OpenAI employees have raised alarms internally over failures to alert law enforcement when users describe plans for real-world violence to ChatGPT (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)

From Techmeme: Palo Alto Networks agrees to acquire Portkey, which develops AI gateway tech to manage and secure AI agents; sources say the deal values Portkey at $120M-$140M (The Economic Times)

From Techmeme: Amadeus IT Group, which operates the world's largest travel booking system, plans to acquire French biometrics company Idemia Public Security, for €1.2B in cash (Javi West Larrañaga/Reuters)

From memeorandum: Medicare portal database exposed Social Security numbers: Reports (Sarah Davis/The Hill)

From memeorandum: Trump's Cuban American base is no longer guaranteeing him loyalty (Politico)

From memeorandum: 'Six months to catch up': What the shutdown cost DHS (Politico)

From memeorandum: America Will Pay Dearly for Its Energy Arrogance (Gregory Brew/New York Times)

From memeorandum: How Germany May Have Misjudged Trump's Anger on Iran (Jim Tankersley/New York Times)

From memeorandum: Trump fundraiser shares plans for 'Garden of Heroes,' golf course as takeover looms (Washington Post)

From memeorandum: Spirit Airlines appears closer to a shutdown as time dwindles for a government bailout (Associated Press)

From memeorandum: New Video Analysis Suggests Suspect in Correspondents' Dinner Attack Fired First (New York Times)

From memeorandum: Event With Links to Oil Industry Teaches Judges "Healthy Skepticism" of Climate Science (Abrahm Lustgarten/ProPublica)

From memeorandum: Data centers used to be a prize. States are having second thoughts. (Politico)

From memeorandum: Bill Maher Singles Out His Own Audience For Laughing About Trump Being Killed: 'You're Not a Good Person' (Tommy Christopher/Mediaite)

From memeorandum: Spirit Airlines shuts down after rescue talks with White House fall through (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)