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A senior official says Pentagon is “close” to designating Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, requiring all US military contractors to sever ties with the company — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is “close” to cutting business ties with Anthropic and designating the AI company a …
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Sources: SpaceX and xAI are competing in a $100M DoD contest to make voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarms; OpenAI is helping Applied Intuition's submission — Elon Musk's SpaceX and wholly owned subsidiary xAI are competing in a secretive new Pentagon contest to produce voice-controlled …
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Ireland's DPC says it has opened a “large-scale” inquiry into X over the creation and publication of “potentially harmful” sexualized images by Grok — ‘Large-scale’ inquiry is latest sign of how regulators are scrutinising the group's Grok chatbot| Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: |
Micron, which has undertaken a $200B US expansion, says it can currently meet about 50%-66% of demand for some key customers, as AI drives memory chip demand — For decades, memory chips were low-margin commodity products. Now the industry can't make enough to satisfy data centers' hunger.
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As India hosts its AI Impact Summit in New Delhi this week, the country is promoting its approach of developing cheaper AI tools aimed at solving local problems — The world's most populous country is looking at how it can become an artificial-intelligence power without breaking the bank
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Apple says it will bring “advanced video capabilities” to Apple Podcasts this spring, including allowing users to switch between watching and listening to shows — Apple Podcasts is finally giving video a full embrace. — The tech giant, which pioneered the podcast audio format …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple debuts iOS 26.4 beta 1 for developers, adding limited support for encrypted RCS messages, enhancements to Apple Music, a Smart List for Reminders, more — iOS 26.4 beta 1 is now available in beta for developers. The update includes a ton of new features and changes for iPhone users.
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Manus launches Manus Agents, allowing users to access Manus directly inside messaging apps, starting with Telegram and coming soon to other platforms — Today, we're introducing Manus Agents — a new way to access and use Manus directly inside your messaging apps. Telegram is the first supported channel.
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| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
Alibaba debuts Qwen3.5, a 397B-parameter open-weight multimodal AI model that it says is 60% cheaper to use and 8x better at large workloads than Qwen3 — Alibaba on Monday unveiled a new artificial intelligence model Qwen 3.5 designed to execute complex tasks independently …
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| Aaron Klotz / Tom's Hardware: |
Micron introduces the first mass-produced PCIe 6.0 SSDs, with read speeds up to 28GB/s, double that of PCIe 5.0 SSDs, optimized for AI/data center deployments — Micron's new drive is so fast that it fully benefits from liquid cooling, but air cooling is still supported
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| Rei Nakafuji / Nikkei Asia: |
Sony says it has developed tech to identify copyrighted music in AI-generated songs, aiming to help rights holders receive compensation if their music was used — Japanese company seeks to help copyright holders receive share of revenue — Sony Group operates major music labels under its umbrella.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Moonshot, the Chinese startup behind Kimi chatbot, is targeting a $10B valuation in a funding round expansion after securing $500M at a $4.3B valuation — Moonshot is targeting a valuation of $10 billion in an expansion of a funding round already backed by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd … | Latent.Space: |
Q&A with Google Chief AI Scientist Jeff Dean about the evolution of Google Search, TPUs, coding agents, balancing model efficiency and performance, and more — From rewriting Google's search stack in the early 2000s to reviving sparse trillion-parameter models and co-designing TPUs …
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| Politico: |
Internal email: the European Parliament has blocked AI features on the work devices of lawmakers and their staff over cybersecurity and data protection concerns — BRUSSELS — The European Parliament has disabled AI features on the work devices of lawmakers and their staff over cybersecurity …
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| Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: |
In a podcast, OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger describes his phone calls with Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman, and says he had been contacted by “every big VC” — Mark Zuckerberg needed ten minutes. He was finishing code. — Peter Steinberger had called him on WhatsApp without scheduling anything.
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