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Sources: xAI nears a deal to raise $20B in equity and debt, tied to the Nvidia GPUs that xAI plans to use in Colossus 2; Nvidia is investing as much as $2B — Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI is raising more financing than initially planned, tapping backers including Nvidia Corp …
More: MarketWatch, Benzinga, South China Morning Post, Reuters, PitchBook, Capital Brief, Business Standard, Livemint, thesun.my, Simply Wall St, and DigiTimes
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Forums: r/AMD_Stock, r/StockMarket, and r/hardware
| 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.
More: Simon Willison's Weblog, Business Standard, Moneycontrol, Google AI for Developers, Digit, Analytics India Magazine, Neowin, The Indian Express, Google Cloud, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, 9to5Google, TestingCatalog, Android Headlines, and Blockchain.News
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Forums: Hacker News and r/Bard
| 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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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Elon Musk has appointed former Morgan Stanley banker Anthony Armstrong as CFO of xAI; he will also take over financial management for X — Anthony Armstrong will take over financial management for both the AI group and social media platform X — Elon Musk has appointed former …
More: Reuters, CFO Dive, The American Bazaar, Bloomberg, and Yahoo Finance
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| 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: Anthropic, ZDNET, SiliconANGLE, and The Decoder
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Qualcomm agrees to acquire the Italian open-source electronics platform Arduino for an undisclosed sum and says the Arduino brand will remain independent — Arduino is also launching a Qualcomm-equipped Uno Q that functions as a single-board computer and microcontroller.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mastodon plans to add Bluesky-like starter packs to suggest accounts to follow for new users, but will allow accounts to opt out of being included in Packs — Mastodon, the decentralized, open social network with over 8 million accounts and nearly 700,000 monthly active users …
More: Mastodon Blog, Flux, The Verge, and Engadget
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
AltStore, one of the first alternative app stores in the EU, raised a $6M Series A led by Pace Capital, aims to launch in Australia, Brazil, and Japan in 2025 — The third-party app store known as AltStore, one of the first companies to offer an alternative app marketplace in the European Union …
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| Theo Wayt / The Information: |
Sources: Tesla abandoned Elon Musk's goal to make thousands of Optimus robots in 2025 due to significant technical challenges, especially with the robots' hands — When Elon Musk takes the stage at Tesla's annual meeting next month, one of the centerpieces of his plan to impress shareholders …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: top Chinese VCs are close to raising up to $1.1B in total USD-denominated funds in 2025, marking a tentative return of global capital to Chinese tech — Venture capital funds close to raising $1.1bn this year in first signs of thaw for sector hit by geopolitical tensions| 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: Reuters and The Guardian
| Kunal Manchanada / Entrackr: |
Raise Financial Services, the parent company of Indian stock trading and investment app Dhan, raised $120M led by Hornbill Capital at a $1.2B valuation — Raise Financial Services, the parent company of stockbroking platform Dhan, has joined India's unicorn club after raising $120 million …
More: The Arc Web, Moneycontrol, The Economic Times, Inc42 Media, NDTV Profit, Livemint, VCCircle, and DealStreetAsia
| Financial Times: |
UK filings: Revolut CEO and largest shareholder Nik Storonsky has shifted his residency from the UK to the UAE; Revolut is awaiting a full UK banking license — Change in billionaire's country of residence disclosed in Companies House filing — Nik Storonsky, Revolut's billionaire co-founder … | Engineering at Meta: |
The Linux Foundation will launch the React Foundation, a new home for Meta's React and React Native; founding members include Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, others — Meta open-sourced React over a decade ago to help developers build better user experiences. Since then, React has grown …
More: React, SD Times, OpenJS Foundation, The Linux Foundation, W3Techs, and The New Stack
| Nikkei Asia: |
Chinese silicon wafer manufacturers like Eswin have rapidly gained market share by undercutting global leaders, such as Japan's Shin-Etsu Chemical, on price — TAIPEI — After more than a decade in the business, Hu, a representative of a distributor selling foreign-made silicon wafers in China … | Christopher Beam / Wired: |
A profile of Josh Wallace Kerrigan, also known as Neural Viz, an independent creator using Midjourney, Runway, and other AI tools to create a cinematic universe — Behold Neural Viz, the first great cinematic universe of the AI era. It's from a guy named Josh. — The filmmaker could not get Tiggy the alien to cooperate.
X: @jcbeam. Bluesky: @dmnd.me and @wired.com. Threads: @giddycat
Forums: r/aiwars, r/midjourney, and r/NeuralViz
| Katelyn Chedraoui / CNET: |
Meta updates Reels on Facebook to prioritize showing fresher and more-relevant content, and adds AI search suggestions and friend bubbles like on Instagram — Facebook's vice president of product, Jagjit Chawla, talks about how the platform treats AI-generated content and how you can see less of it.
More: Meta Newsroom, Social Media Today, Neowin, Engadget, WinBuzzer, iPhone in Canada, TechCrunch, and WeRSM
X: @metanewsroom and @loudmouthjulia
| 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 …
More: CoinDesk, CoinGape, crypto.news, Cryptonews, and Crypto Briefing
| 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.
More: Business Today, Reuters, Business Standard, Hindustan Times, Fortune India, BMI, Moneycontrol, Analytics India Magazine, and Livemint
X: @anthropicai, @kdeep, @miles_brundage, @yeshhhhhh7, @epic_bengaluru, and @drew_bent. LinkedIn: Michael Sellitto
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