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Wall Street Journal:
Meta agrees to acquire up to 6GW of AMD Instinct GPUs in a deal valued at $100B+ that could see Meta own up to 10% of AMD; Meta plans to deploy 1GW in 2026  —  The deal could result in Meta owning as much as 10% of AMD's stock as the chip maker seeks to challenge Nvidia
Tripp Mickle / New York Times:
How Silicon Valley has long ignored China's looming Taiwan invasion and its chip supply impact; US officials warned Apple, AMD, and Qualcomm about China's plans  —  Federal officials have for years tried to wean Silicon Valley from its dependence on Taiwan, an island democracy roughly the size …
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
Apple says it plans to move some Mac mini production to Houston from Asia later in 2026, as part of its efforts to invest $600B in the US over four years  —  The company will move some production of the desktop computer to Foxconn facility in Texas  —  Apple will move some production …
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Apple's efforts to reshore the US chip supply chain, as the company commits to buying 100M+ chips from TSMC Arizona in 2026, amid US-China tensions  —  The iPhone maker wants more supply based in U.S., which remains years behind Asia  —  PHOENIX—On a desolate stretch of land dotted …
Tom Singleton / BBC:
The UK ICO fines Reddit £14.47M for unlawfully using children's personal information; Reddit began verifying user ages in July 2025 to comply with the UK OSA  —  Reddit has been fined £14.47m by the UK's data watchdog for unlawfully using children's personal information.
Akila Quinio / Financial Times:
Stripe hits a $159B valuation after an employee share sale to investors like Thrive, Coatue, and a16z, a 70% jump from its $92B valuation in February 2025  —  Deal will allow payments company to stay private for longer  —  Stripe's valuation has soared by more than 70 per cent to $159bn …
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
Anthropic launches Claude Cowork agent tools for investment banking, HR, design, and more, including a specialized financial plugin developed alongside FactSet  —  Anthropic PBC is expanding the reach of its Claude chatbot into new sectors, weeks after the startup sparked a market meltdown …
Max Seddon / Financial Times:
Russian media: Russia opens an investigation into Telegram founder Pavel Durov for “abetting terrorist activities”, as it promotes its state-run rival Max app  —  Kremlin steps up curbs against messaging app and promotes a state-backed rival  —  Russia has opened an investigation …
Reuters:
A Trump administration official says DeepSeek's new model, expected next week, was trained on Nvidia Blackwell chips, in a potential US export control violation  —  Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's latest AI model, set to be released as soon as next week, was trained on Nvidia's (NVDA.O) …
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
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Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
ASML researchers unveil a breakthrough in EUV light source power, increasing output from 600W to 1,000W, a jump that could yield 50% more chips by 2030  —  Researchers at ASML Holding say they have found a way to boost the power of the light source in a key chip making machine to turn …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Discord says it “ran a limited test of Persona in the UK” to verify user ages and “that test has since concluded”, distancing itself from Persona amid backlash  —  The messaging platform says its ‘limited test’ of Persona in the UK has come to an end.
Reuters:
Filings: some Meta execs warned in 2019 that adding E2E encryption to Facebook and Instagram messaging would hinder the ability to flag CSAM to law enforcement  —  Meta (META.O) executives proceeded with a plan to encrypt the messaging services connected to its Facebook and Instagram apps …
Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal:
A court-appointed administrator winding down Terraform Labs sues Jane Street, alleging it engaged in insider trading to profit from and hasten Terraform's fall  —  The court-appointed administrator of Do Kwon's Terraform Labs alleged that Jane Street used nonpublic information from Terraform insiders to trade
Wall Street Journal:
How Binance staffers found $1B was sent to sanctioned Iranian entities via the exchange, which dismantled their probe and suspended them after Trump pardoned CZ  —  Weeks after Trump pardoned Binance's founder, the company dismantled probe and suspended the investigators; Binance denied inquiry ended or staff fired for the concerns
Anthropic:
Anthropic introduces “persona selection model”, a theory to explain AI's human-like behavior, and details how AI personas form in pre-training and post-training  —  AI assistants like Claude can seem surprisingly human.  They express joy after solving tricky coding tasks.
Natalie Breymeyer / Axios:
Slang AI, which develops voice-based software for the hospitality industry that answers inbound calls, manages reservations, and more, raised a $36M Series B  —  Slang AI, a New York-based AI platform for the hospitality industry, raised a $36 million Series B led by U.S. Venture Partners, CEO Alex Sambvani tells Axios exclusively.
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New York Times:
DOJ files reveal how Jeffrey Epstein ingratiated himself with top Microsoft executives, aiding his return to society after his release from prison in 2009  —  For more than two decades, the convicted sex offender developed a network at the tech giant, making him privy to succession discussions and other business.

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Deadline:
Nexstar closed down 13% on Monday after a US judge issued a temporary restraining order Friday evening blocking the company's $6.2B merger with Tegna

Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Ampere Analysis: global streaming subscription revenue grew 14% YoY in 2025 to $157.1B, up from $63B in 2020; including ad revenue, streaming revenue hit $177B

Corbin Bolies / The Wrap:
CBS News expands its investigative unit by hiring former Washington Post reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Gilbert and Free Press reporter Gabe Kaminsky

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K.J. Yossman / Variety:
The UK plans to update the Media Act 2024 to bring streaming platforms with 500K+ users under “enhanced” Ofcom regulation, giving it power to investigate them
Josh Dzieza / The Verge:
A look at the challenges some AI developers face in building models to extract trillions of high-quality tokens from PDFs, which are hard to parse, for training
Bloomberg:
Sources: Anthropic has lined up $5B to $6B for an employee share sale at a ~$350B valuation; outside investors, not Anthropic, will buy up the insider shares
Axios:
A DOD official says xAI has agreed to let the military use Grok in classified systems and agreed to the “all lawful use” standard, which Anthropic has refused
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