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Nvidia and OpenAI's wave of circular deals escalates concerns that they're artificially propping up the $1T+ AI market that is tied to every part of the economy — A wave of deals and partnerships are escalating concerns that the trillion-dollar AI boom is being propped up by interconnected business transactions.
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LinkedIn: Andrey Sidorenko, Paola Meta, Victor Baron, Jai Prakash Gautam, John Collins, Agnee Ghosh, and Senko Rašić
Bluesky: @aguasonic.com, @pauljdavies, @tomscocca, @mausellmoli, and @justinhendrix. Forums: r/AMD_Stock
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: xAI nears a deal to raise $20B in equity and debt, tied to the Nvidia GPUs that xAI plans to rent for Colossus 2, with Nvidia investing as much as $2B — Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI is raising more financing than initially planned, tapping backers including Nvidia Corp …
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| Caleb Mutua / Bloomberg: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft delays last week's 50% price hike for existing Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers in Germany, Ireland, South Korea, Poland, India, and other markets — Current subscribers in some European countries won't be affected by Microsoft's Game Pass price hikes just yet.
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| Sam Clark / Politico: |
A website set up by a Danish software developer floods EU lawmakers with emails opposing planned EU “Chat Control” laws to fight CSAM by scanning encrypted apps — A software developer from Denmark is having an outsized influence on a hotly debated law to break open encrypted apps.
More: Fight Chat Control, The Register, GovInfoSecurity.com, and Forbes
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Forums: Hacker News, r/europe, r/privacy, r/stupidpol, r/france, and r/europrivacy
| CryptPad Blog: |
Open letter: 40+ European companies oppose the EU's “Chat Control” proposal, which forces services to scan messages for CSAM, fearing it would mandate backdoors — Today we are adding our signature (and that of our parent company XWiki SAS) to a new open letter against the so-called “Chat Control” EU regulation.| Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: |
Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan says the startup raised two undisclosed rounds: $55M at a $350M valuation in 2024 and $150M at a $1.2B valuation earlier in 2025 — - Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan says the prediction platform raised $55 million in 2024 and $150 million earlier this year.
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| Bloomberg: |
Russian-speaking ransomware gang Qilin says it was responsible for an attack on Japan's Asahi and stole ~27GB of data, including financial docs and contracts — A cohort of Russian-speaking hackers known as Qilin has claimed responsibility for a ransomware attack that hobbled Asahi Group …
More: The Record, The Independent, ITPro, Security Boulevard, Comparitech, Cyber Daily, Kyodo News, SecurityWeek, Silicon UK, and Reuters
| The Keyword: |
Google releases the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model, built on Gemini 2.5 Pro's capabilities to power agents that can interact with UIs, in preview via the API — Available in preview via the API, our Computer Use model is a specialized model built on Gemini 2.5 Pro's capabilities to power agents that can interact with user interfaces.
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Forums: Hacker News and r/Bard
| John Revill / Reuters: |
SoftBank Group agrees to acquire ABB's robotics business, which generated $2.3B in sales in 2024, for $5.4B, in a deal expected to close in mid-to-late 2026 — SoftBank Group (9984.T) said on Wednesday it has agreed to buy the robotics business of Swiss engineering group ABB (ABBN.S) in a $5.4 billion deal.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: $TRUMP issuer Fight Fight Fight LLC is working to raise at least $200M to create a digital asset treasury company to accumulate the struggling token — The startup that issued Donald Trump's memecoin several days before his second presidential inauguration is working to raise … | Barbara Moens / Financial Times: |
Sources: Meta and Apple are close to settling two EU antitrust cases and agreeing a deal to change their business practices after a total €700M in DMA fines — US Big Tech groups in final stages of agreeing deal with Brussels to avoid series of escalating fines| Anthropic: |
Anthropic plans to open its first Indian office in Bengaluru in early 2026; Dario Amodei is visiting India to meet government officials and potential partners — Today we're announcing that we're expanding our global operations to India, with plans to open an office in Bengaluru in early 2026.
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LinkedIn: Drew Bent and Michael Sellitto
Threads: @gigabasee, @growwtogether__, and @chandrarsrikanth
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's unifying vision, infrastructure deals, the investor mindset, ChatGPT apps, Instant Checkout, Sora, copyright, feedback, and more — Today's Stratechery Interview is with OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman. I have interviewed Altman twice before …
| Washington Post: |
An analysis of 1,100 TikTok users' watch histories across six months in 2024 shows how effective TikTok is at getting even its heaviest users to watch more — More than 800 U.S. TikTok users shared their data with The Washington Post. We used it to find out why some people become power users, spending hours per day scrolling.
More: Michael Geist, The Boston Globe, and Washington Post
| Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune: |
Harvard economist Jason Furman estimates that investments in data centers and information-processing software accounted for 92% of US GDP growth in H1 2025 — U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025 was almost entirely driven by investment in data centers and information processing technology …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, r/wallstreetbets, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Financial Times: |
An overview of detailed AI usage reports from OpenAI and others, as Microsoft's AI for Good Lab estimates that 15% of the world's working population is using AI — New data shows the ways millions have integrated the technology into their everyday lives More than 18bn messages are sent to ChatGPT every week.| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic consider using investor funds to settle potential claims from multibillion-dollar lawsuits, as insurers balk at covering AI risks — Companies struggle to assess scale of financial risks emerging from artificial intelligence — OpenAI and Anthropic …
More: Fortune, Music Ally, The Decoder, Reuters, Tech in Asia, and Yahoo Finance
| Amos Zeeberg / New York Times: |
Researchers are investigating using synthetic diamonds to help cool AI data center chips; De Beers-owned Element Six has long used diamonds in satellite chips — Data centers squander vast amounts of electricity, most of it as heat. The physical properties of diamond offer a potential solution, researchers say.| Dasha Afanasieva / Bloomberg: |
US House lawmakers release a report criticizing ASML, Tokyo Electron, and other equipment makers for helping build China's chip industry; ASML fell more than 7% — Semiconductor companies including Applied Materials Inc. and ASML Holding NV fell after a US House committee said that the industry …
More: Quartz, ChinaTalk, Yahoo Finance, ZeroHedge News, Benzinga, Select Committee on the CCP, Silicon UK, and Reuters
X: @committeeonccp, @jchengwsj, @dnystedt, and @committeeonccp
| Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal: |
The European Commission outlines its Apply AI Strategy and AI in Science Strategy, aiming to speed up AI adoption in key industries and AI-driven research — There is concern the EU is too dependent on foreign tech companies — The European Union outlined plans to promote European adoption …
More: The Economic Times, eeNews Europe, The Decoder, European Commission, Reuters, WinBuzzer, and Politico
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic releases Petri, an open-source tool using AI agents for safety testing, and says it observed multiple cases of models attempting to blow the whistle — Petri (Parallel Exploration Tool for Risky Interactions) is our new open-source tool that enables researchers to explore hypotheses about model behavior with ease.
More: ZDNET, Anthropic, WinBuzzer, and SiliconANGLE
X: @sprice354_, @anthropicai, @saprmarks, @anthropicai, @anthropicai, @sleepinyourhat, and @miles_brundage. Mastodon: @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org
| Matthias Pfefferle / Open Channels FM: |
An interview with Evan Prodromou, “inventor of the Fediverse”, on ActivityPub's origins, Mastodon's privacy focus, expanding beyond microblogging, and more — In this episode of the Fediverse Flow series, host Matthias Pfefferle is joined by Evan Prodromou, often called the …
Mastodon: @pfefferle@mastodon.social
| Engineering at Meta: |
The Linux Foundation plans to launch the React Foundation, a new home for Meta's React and React Native; founding members include Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft — Meta open-sourced React over a decade ago to help developers build better user experiences. Since then, React has grown …
More: Silicon Republic, W3Techs, SD Times, OpenJS Foundation, The Linux Foundation, and React
| Bloomberg: |
Michel Devoret, a Google Quantum AI chief scientist, John Martinis, who left Google in 2020, and John Clarke win the Nobel in Physics for quantum computing work — Two physicists integral to efforts by Alphabet Inc.'s Google to build working quantum computers have been awarded the Nobel Prize …
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