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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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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
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 …
Jack Pitcher / Wall Street Journal:
Software stocks like AppLovin and CrowdStrike extended their weeks-long selloff; several of the biggest decliners were discussed in Citrini Research's post
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
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 …
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.
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 …
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg:
Basis, which builds AI agents to help accounting firms with tasks like tax returns, raised $100M led by Accel at a $1.15B valuation, for $138M in total funding  —  AI-for-accounting startup Basis has surged to unicorn status with a new funding round as advances in artificial intelligence rattle the financial services markets.
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  —  Streaming platforms in the U.K. are set to come under “enhanced regulation” from media regulator Ofcom …
Charlotte Hughes-Morgan / Bloomberg:
Dutch startup Axelera AI, which builds power-efficient AI inference chips, raised $250M+ led by Innovation Industries, with investment from BlackRock and others  —  Dutch chipmaker Axelera AI raised more than $250 million from investors including BlackRock Inc. to make power-efficient semiconductors …
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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.

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Peter Attia is stepping aside as a contributor to CBS News, after his correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein came to light in the release of US DOJ files

K.J. Yossman / Variety:
BAFTA host Alan Cumming thanks the audience for its “understanding” after outbursts from Tourette's campaigner John Davidson that weren't cut from the broadcast

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Paramount submitted a new bid for WBD that improves on its previous $30-a-share, all-cash proposal and addresses some of WBD's concerns

More News

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
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon plans to invest $12B in new data centers in Louisiana and says it worked with the local utility “to ensure we pay 100% of the costs” tied to the campus

Earlier Picks

Bloomberg:
Sources: PayPal is attracting takeover interest after a stock slide over the past year wiped out almost half of its market value; PYPL closed up 5.76%
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
OpenAI launches Frontier Alliances, entering into multiyear deals with Accenture, BCG, Capgemini, and McKinsey to help deploy its enterprise platform Frontier
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Sources: some Xbox staffers say they are relieved that Sarah Bond is leaving, after she led a pivot away from the console with the “Xbox everywhere” strategy
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