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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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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.
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Anthropic announces Claude Life Sciences, a new feature 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 …
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| Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
Coinbase agrees to acquire Echo, a blockchain platform to let crypto companies quickly raise capital, for ~$375M, marking Coinbase's eighth acquisition in 2025 — Acquisition marks Coinbase's eighth deal this year — Coinbase Global has struck a roughly $375 million deal to acquire Echo …
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Internal Amazon documents and sources: executives believe Amazon is on the cusp of replacing 500K+ jobs with robots and aims to automate 75% of its operations — Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has a far-reaching plan to automate 75 percent of its operations.
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| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
To secure vast compute for OpenAI, Sam Altman's deal spree pits Silicon Valley giants against each other as they race to cash in, making OpenAI too big to fail — The CEO's dealmaking blitz has convinced Silicon Valley's giants to tether their fates to his company, essentially making it too big to fail| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Apple challenges the DMA in the EU's General Court, saying it “imposes hugely onerous and intrusive burdens” at odds with Apple's rights in the EU marketplace — Apple Inc. lashed out at the European Union's attempts to tame the power of Silicon Valley in the most far-reaching legal challenge … | 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 …
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Sources: Chinese DRAM chipmaker CXMT plans a Shanghai IPO as soon as Q1 2026, targeting an up to ~$42B valuation and aiming to raise between ~$2.8B and ~$5.6B — - Firm plans Shanghai IPO in first quarter of 2026 — Aims to raise funding of 20 billion to 40 billion yuan| Bloomberg: |
CoreWeave says it won't increase its $9B offer for data center provider Core Scientific, despite opposition to the deal from major Core Scientific shareholders — CoreWeave Inc. won't increase its $9 billion offer for data center provider Core Scientific Inc., despite opposition to the deal from major shareholders.| 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 …
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| Antonio Regalado / MIT Technology Review: |
Study: brain-computer interface company Science Corp.'s PRIMA device, comprised of 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 …
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| Kate Clark / Bloomberg: |
Anrok, which helps software companies automate sales tax compliance, raised a $55M Series C at a $525M valuation, up from $250M after raising $30M in April 2024 — Investors are betting on new software tools to grapple with one of the thorniest problems in business and life — taxes.| Bloomberg: |
Lagos-founded payments startup Moniepoint raised $90M at a $1B+ valuation, after raising $110M in October 2024, and says it processes $250B+ yearly transactions — Visa Inc.-backed fintech Moniepoint has raised an additional $90 million in investment to accelerate the startup's African expansion plans …
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