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OpenAI raised $110B at a $730B pre-money valuation, up from $500B in a secondary financing in Oct.; Amazon invested $50B, Nvidia and SoftBank invested $30B each — OpenAI announced a $110 billion funding round on Friday, a financing that's more than double the size of its last raise a year ago …
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says ChatGPT has 900M+ weekly active users, 50M+ consumer subscribers, and weekly Codex users have more than tripled since the start of the year to 1.6M — AI demand is surging across consumers, developers, and businesses. Meeting that demand and providing everyone access …
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| About Amazon: |
Amazon will invest $15B in OpenAI initially, followed by $35B if certain conditions are met; OpenAI commits to consuming ~2 GW of Trainium capacity through AWS — Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenAI will co-create a Stateful Runtime Environment powered by OpenAI models …
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| Anthropic: |
Dario Amodei says Anthropic cannot “in good conscience” accede to DOD's request to remove safeguards and will work to ensure a smooth transition if offboarded — I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries.
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| Washington Post: |
Sources detail how the standoff between the Pentagon and Anthropic escalated after discussions about using Claude during hypothetical nuclear missile attacks — Start-up Anthropic and the U.S. military are careening toward a clash over government use of artificial intelligence — and whether it should be allowed to kill.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: multiple federal agencies raised concerns about Grok's safety and reliability in recent months, before DOD approved Grok for use in classified settings — Warnings about xAI's safety and reliability preceded Pentagon decision to approve Grok for use in classified settings.
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| Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News: |
| Axios: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic's red lines with respect to AI use by the military, which are “an issue for the whole industry” — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote in a memo to staff that he will draw the same red lines that sparked a high-stakes fight between rival Anthropic …
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| Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal: |
Note to staff: Sam Altman says OpenAI seeks a DOD deal, except for use cases like domestic surveillance, and wants to “help de-escalate” DOD-Anthropic fight — Anthropic has spent weeks at odds with the Pentagon over the scope of how its Claude AI tools can be used
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Block says it is laying off 4,000+ of its 10,000+ employees, saying AI tools have changed “what it means to build and run a company”; XYZ jumps 15%+ — Block said Thursday it's laying off more than 4,000 employees, or about half of its head count. The stock skyrocketed as much as 24% in extended trading.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Security researchers detail AirSnitch, a series of attacks that bypass Wi-Fi client isolation, enabling machine-in-the-middle attacks in modern Wi-Fi networks — That guest network you set up for your neighbors may not be as secure as you think. — It's hard to overstate the role that Wi-Fi plays in virtually every facet of life.
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
India-based Ultrahuman launches the $479 Ring Pro, available for pre-order globally, excluding the US, after the ITC ruled in favor of Oura in a patent dispute — Ultrahuman on Friday unveiled a new smart ring with longer battery life and a redesigned form factor, as the Bengaluru-based wearable maker seeks …
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Netflix walks away from a deal to buy WBD's studio and streaming assets after WBD deemed Paramount's $31/share bid to be superior; NFLX jumps 8%+ — Netflix is walking away from a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming assets after the WBD board on Thursday deemed a revised bid by Paramount Skydance to be superior.
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| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
Letter: 100+ Google DeepMind and other AI employees urge Jeff Dean to block US military deals that use Gemini for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons — More than 100 Google A.I. employees sent a letter to Jeff Dean, a chief scientist, opposing Gemini's use for U.S. surveillance and some autonomous weapons.
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| Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
Dell reports Q4 revenue up 39% YoY to $33.4B, vs. $31.73B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue above estimates; DELL jumps 20%+ — Dell (DELL.N) forecast fiscal 2027 revenue above Wall Street estimates on Thursday, betting on growing demand for its artificial intelligence-optimized servers …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus is raising tens of billions to buy companies hit by AI; it was valued at ~$30B in November 2025 when it raised $6.2B — Project Prometheus in new talks with Abu Dhabi and JPMorgan over vehicle to buy up businesses disrupted by the technology| Christine Wang / Axios: |
TMTG says it is in talks to spin off Truth Social into a public company, following the close of its previously announced merger with nuclear fusion startup TAE — Trump Media & Technology Group said Friday it is in talks to spin off Truth Social into a new publicly traded company.| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Flux, which offers an AI-powered platform to design PCBs for electronic devices, raised $37M, including a $27M Series B led by 8VC and a $10M Series A — Senior Finance Reporter And Author Of Term Sheet — In 2018, Matthias Wagner was leading a 100-person Burning Man camp called Hotel California.| Kristin Robinson / Billboard: |
Suno CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman says the AI music company hit 2M paid subscribers and $300M ARR; pitch deck: it had 1M paid subscribers in November 2025 — The AI startup reports rapid growth, strong retention rates and rising engagement. … On Wednesday, Suno CEO … | John Yoon / New York Times: |
South Korea approves Google's request to export detailed geographic data overseas, reversing a longstanding policy that made Google Maps largely nonfunctional — South Korea approved Google's request to export detailed map data, reversing a longstanding restriction that made the tool largely nonfunctional.| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
French e-commerce marketplace ManoMano notifies its customers of a data breach affecting 38M; the company said the incident involved a third party subcontractor — DIY store chain ManoMano is notifying customers of a data breach that was caused by hackers compromising a third-party service provider.
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| Reuters: |
TikTok returns to Albania after a year-long ban, ostensibly linked to the death of a teenage boy, expired; Albania says TikTok has tightened safety measures — Social media platform TikTok is back in Albania after a year-long ban expired this month, in a case illustrating the complexity …
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| Luke Barr / ABC News: |
CISA's interim director Madhu Gottumukkala is reassigned as DHS' director of strategic implementation; executive assistant director Nick Andersen will take over — The nominee to serve as CISA director has not yet received a hearing. — The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) …
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Deepinder Goyal, who stepped down as Zomato's CEO, raised $54M at a $190M valuation for Temple, which aims to make high-performance wearables for elite athletes — Weeks after stepping down as CEO from food delivery service Zomato and its parent Eternal, Indian entrepreneur Deepinder Goyal …
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