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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: PayPal is attracting takeover interest from potential buyers after its stock fell ~46% over the last 12 months, giving PayPal a market value of ~$38.4B — PayPal Holdings Inc., the digital payments pioneer, is attracting takeover interest from potential buyers after a stock slide wiped … | Citrini Research: |
Imagining an AI-driven “2028 Global Intelligence Crisis”: as white collar layoffs grow, the human-centric consumer economy withers and the social fabric frays — A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future — Preface — What if our AI bullishness continues to be right …
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| Jack Pitcher / Wall Street Journal: |
Software stocks extend their weeks-long selloff, with AppLovin, Datadog, Workday down 7%+; several of the biggest decliners were discussed in a post by Citrini — The weeks-long selloff in software stocks deepened Monday amid general unease about the threat posed by AI.
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| Anissa Gardizy / The Information: |
How OpenAI scrambled for compute as Stargate stalled amid clashes with SoftBank; sources say OpenAI building its own data centers is not its near-term priority — When President Donald Trump announced the $500 billion Stargate AI data center project in January 2025, the three companies charged …
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| Axios: |
Sources: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summons Dario Amodei to the Pentagon on Tuesday morning for what is likely to be a tense meeting over Claude usage — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon on Tuesday morning for what sources …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Anthropic says DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot violated its ToS by prompting Claude a combined 16M+ times and using distillation to train their own products — The allegations mirror those of OpenAI, which told House lawmakers that DeepSeek used ‘distillation’ to improve models
More: Reuters, Bloomberg, and Anthropic
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
OpenAI launches Frontier Alliances, entering into multiyear deals with Accenture, BCG, Capgemini, and McKinsey to help deploy its enterprise platform Frontier — OpenAI on Monday announced it is entering into multiyear partnerships with four consulting firms that will help the company deploy its enterprise platform called Frontier.
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| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
In recent interviews, Sam Altman said AI's adoption faces more resistance than he expected, while Jensen Huang warned the “doomer narrative” may be winning — Tech leaders are beginning to worry about the public's underwhelming enthusiasm for their plans to remake the world with artificial intelligence.
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Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Shira Ovide / Washington Post: |
Economists at Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan report the AI boom contributed “basically zero” to US economic growth in 2025, challenging claims of up to 92% growth — Massive investment in AI contributed “basically zero” to U.S. economic growth last year, Goldman Sachs has calculated.
More: Gizmodo and Marcus on AI
| Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: |
Google Antigravity users say their paid Google AI accounts were banned after linking Gemini models via OpenClaw; Peter Steinberger says he may “remove support” — Google has restricted accounts of AI Ultra subscribers who accessed Gemini models through OpenClaw, a third-party OAuth client … | Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: |
Finnish quantum computing company IQM plans to go public via a SPAC merger with New Jersey-based Real Asset Acquisition in a deal set to value it at $1.8B — IQM Quantum Computers will go public through a merger with a blank-check vehicle in a deal expected to value the Finnish quantum computing firm …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft was forced to announce Xbox leadership changes early on Friday because the news had begun to leak to IGN, causing a day of internal chaos — Microsoft has a new gaming CEO who wants to bring Xbox back from the brink. … Xbox fans had been anticipating the retirement …
More: Forbes, Thurrott, HotHardware, TheGamer, Mashable, Pure Xbox, DayOne, GamingBolt, PocketGamer.biz, Gameranx, PlayStation LifeStyle, and Video Games Chronicle
Forums: r/consoles, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/gaming, r/xbox, r/LinusTechTips, and r/kindafunny
| Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: |
Samsung plans to add Perplexity to Galaxy AI on the upcoming S26 series; users can launch the Perplexity agent by saying “Hey Plex” or with a physical button — The wakeup phrase will be, ‘Hey Plex.’ — Samsung's next flagship devices will offer Perplexity as part of an expansion …
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| Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Dell, Lenovo, and other PC makers are working with Nvidia on laptops that use the Arm-based Nvidia-MediaTek SoC, which could launch in H1 2026 — AI leader and its partners hope to make PCs lighter and thinner while keeping long battery life — Nvidia chips for laptop computers …
More: PCMag, Thurrott, The Information, PCWorld, eWeek, Spyglass, and Digital Trends. X: @samirkhazaka
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic details the AI Fluency Index, tracking 11 behaviors that represent human-AI collaboration and measure how people collaborate with AI — People are integrating AI tools into their daily routines at a pace that would have been difficult to predict even a year ago.Sponsor Posts
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