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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : YouTube updates its $7.99 per month Premium Lite subscription to let users download videos for offline access and play videos in the background   —  YouTube is expanding its more affordable, $7.99 per month Premium Lite subscription service with new features, including the ability to download videos …

A federal judge in Minnesota ruled on Monday to hold government officials in civil contempt for violating a judicial order that prohibited the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from transferring detainee Fernando Gutierrez Torres, a Mexican national. U.S. District Judge Eric Tostrud, who was appointed by President Donald Trump in 2018, found that despite an earlier order prohibiting Torres' transfer out of Minnesota, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) moved him to Texas without notifying his attorney. A judge granted Torres' habeas petition and ordered ICE to release him from custody "as soon as practicable, but not later than 48 hours" after the order was entered, according to court documents. Filings state a major winter storm in Texas led to a state of emergency declaration, and Torres' ICE-scheduled flight was canceled. FEDERAL JUDGE STRIKES DOWN LARGE PARTS OF TRUMP MASS DETENTION POLICIES FOR MIGRANTS The agency realized the earliest ...

Lora Kolodny / CNBC : Waymo opens its robotaxi service to “select riders” in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando, expanding its operations to 10 US cities   —  Alphabet-owned Waymo on Tuesday opened its robotaxi service to some public passengers in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Orlando, the company announced.

Government documents reveal the fall of drug kingpin "El Mencho" over the weekend was the culmination of an aggressive, more than yearlong strategy of "total elimination" pursued by the Trump administration against the ruthless Jalisco New Generation cartel (CJNG), which is present in almost all 50 U.S. states. Ruben "Nemesio" Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho," the leader of the CJNG, was killed Sunday in a Mexican military operation in Tapalpa, Mexico, authorities said. Though the operation was carried out by Mexican forces, the United States laid the groundwork, making El Mencho’s fall possible. On President Donald Trump ’s first day in office, he signed an executive order directing the State Department to designate several cartels and international criminal groups "foreign terrorist organizations" (FTOs), a designation unlocking military-grade surveillance and "material support" prosecutions. Though lesser known ...

Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal : Some AI startups are boosting their valuations by raising capital in back-to-back or multitiered deals, raising questions about how much they are really worth   —  The race to get into hot AI startups has led to unequal deals for investors, raising questions about how much companies are really worth

Wall Street Journal : Anthropic says DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot violated its ToS by prompting Claude a combined 16M+ times and using distillation to train their own products   —  The allegations mirror those of OpenAI, which told House lawmakers that DeepSeek used ‘distillation’ to improve models