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AWS says services have “returned to normal operations” after an outage in its US-EAST-1 region, first reported at 3:11am ET, that took down major websites  —  Amazon Web Services, a leader in the cloud infrastructure market, reported a major outage on Monday that took down numerous major websites.
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Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack:
Anthropic announces Claude Code on the web and in the Claude iOS app, available in beta as a research preview for Pro and Max users  —  Today, Anthropic's Claude Code agentic coding tool is moving beyond the terminal and coming to the web and the company's mobile app.
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Anthropic announces Claude Life Sciences, a new offering for researchers that integrates Claude AI models with lab tools like Benchling to boost efficiency  —  Anthropic on Monday announced Claude for Life Sciences, a new offering for researchers to use the company's artificial intelligence technology …
Jonathan Kemper / The Decoder:
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-OCR, a vision language model designed for efficient vision-text compression, enabling longer contexts with less compute  —  Chinese AI company Deepseek has built an OCR system that compresses image-based text documents for language models, aiming to let AI handle …
Jaures Yip / CNBC:
OpenAI says it will work with SAG-AFTRA, CAA, UTA, and others to crack down on Sora 2 deepfakes, following concerns from actor Bryan Cranston and SAG-AFTRA  —  OpenAI announced on Monday in a joint statement that it will be working with Bryan Cranston, SAG-AFTRA, and other actor unions …
Chris Welch / Bloomberg:
Doc: Google launched a Trusted Tester program that will select 15 of its “Superfans” to test unreleased Pixels, using protective cases to disguise the hardware  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google plans to let Pixel smartphone enthusiasts test out the company's next handset ahead of its public introduction.
Bloomberg:
Nexperia accuses ousted CEO Zhang Xuezheng of spreading “falsehoods” that the chipmaker is now operating independently in China and of “unauthorized actions”  —  Chipmaker Nexperia has accused its ousted chief executive officer of spreading “falsehoods” …
David Pan / Bloomberg:
CleanSpark shares jump 12%+ after the bitcoin miner expands into AI infrastructure, hiring Humain's president Jeffrey Thomas as SVP of AI data centers  —  Shares of CleanSpark Inc. surged as much as 13% after the Bitcoin miner announced that it was expanding into date-center infrastructure …
Antonio Regalado / MIT Technology Review:
Study: brain-computer interface company Science's PRIMA device, which includes a retinal implant and special glasses, restored vision in some blind patients  —  Science Corporation—a competitor to Neuralink founded by the former president of Elon Musk's brain-interface venture …
Vlad Savov / Bloomberg:
Counterpoint: iPhone 17 models outsold the iPhone 16 by 14% in the first 10 days of US and China sales; base iPhone 17 sales nearly doubled over the 16 in China  —  Apple Inc.'s latest generation of iPhones is off to a faster start than usual, with its most basic model surging in popularity.
Reuters:
Evernorth, a digital asset treasury backed by Ripple, says it will list on the Nasdaq through a merger with a blank check company and expects to raise $1B+  —  Evernorth, a new crypto venture backed by digital asset firm Ripple, said on Monday it will list on the Nasdaq through a merger …
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:
OpenEvidence, which makes an ad-supported AI chatbot for medical professionals, raised $200M at a $6B valuation, up from $3.5B after a $210M Series B in July  —  The three-year-old artificial intelligence start-up has drawn investor attention, and money, as its use among doctors, nurses and others skyrockets.
More: Forbes, TechCrunch, Axios, and Maginative
LinkedIn: Chantelle Darby, Taha Ziaee, and Sangeen Zeb.  Bluesky: @folletto
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Reid Hoffman calls Anthropic “one of the good guys” after David Sacks accused the company of running a “regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering”  —  Two of the main members of the PayPal mafia are sparring again — this time over artificial intelligence.

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Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Disney and OpenAI sign a three-year deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora; Disney makes a $1B investment in OpenAI and will become a major OpenAI client

Axios:
Sources: during the bidding process, Paramount promised WBD that its foreign partners and Jared Kushner's fund wouldn't have any voting or governance rights

Dan Friedman / Mother Jones:
Jack Posobiec, a new Pentagon press corps member, seems to be working in coordination with the Pentagon to threaten a journalist writing about a DoD official

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