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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
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| Pia Singh / CNBC: |
IBM shares closed down 13.15% after Anthropic outlined in a blog post how Claude Code can automate the exploration and analysis phases of COBOL modernization — International Business Machines stock is getting slammed Monday, becoming the latest perceived victim of rapidly developing AI technology …
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| Jack Pitcher / Wall Street Journal: |
Software stocks extended their weeks-long selloff on Monday; several of the biggest decliners were discussed in a post by Citrini Research — The weeks-long selloff in software stocks deepened Monday amid general unease about the threat posed by AI. — Software-makers AppLovin, CrowdStrike …
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| 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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| 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 …
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Apple's efforts to reshore the US chip supply chain, as the company commits to buying more than 100M chips from TSMC Arizona in 2026 — The iPhone maker wants more supply based in U.S., which remains years behind Asia Share Resize 5 Listen (2 min) You may also like Checkbox Embed code copied … | Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
The administrator winding down Terraform Labs sues Jane Street, alleging it engaged in insider trading to profit from and ultimately hasten Terraform's collapse — The court-appointed administrator of Do Kwon's Terraform Labs alleged that Jane Street used nonpublic information from Terraform insiders to trade
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: PayPal is attracting takeover interest after a stock slide over the past year wiped out almost half of its value; PYPL closes up 5.76% — PayPal Holdings Inc., the digital payments pioneer, is attracting takeover interest from potential buyers after a stock slide wiped out almost half of its value … | 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 — But the Pentagon is threatening Anthropic in a dispute over safeguards and may soon need a replacement.
More: Benzinga, The Economic Times, and Digit
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| 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| 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 … | Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Uber agrees to acquire SpotHero for an undisclosed sum, to offer parking reservation for events and at venues and airports; SpotHero was last valued at $290M — Uber said it's acquiring SpotHero, a company that provides a parking reservation app for crowded downtowns, sporting events and concerts.
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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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X: @bradlightcap, @johnwilson, and @jasonlk
LinkedIn: Matt Hebard, Ali Gorsuch, Richard King, and Denise Holland Dresser
| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Tesla sues California's DMV to reverse a ruling that found Tesla violated the law by falsely promoting its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems — Tesla is suing California's Department of Motor Vehicles to reverse a ruling that found the automaker violated the law by falsely promoting its cars' self-driving capabilities.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic has lined up $5B to $6B for an employee share sale at a valuation of about $350B; outside investors will be buying up the insider shares — Anthropic is offering some current and former employees the ability to sell shares in the company at a valuation of about $350 billion … | 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) … Sponsor Posts
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