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| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
Google DeepMind Chief Scientist Jeff Dean and 30+ employees from OpenAI and Google file an amicus brief supporting Anthropic in its legal fight with the US DOD — Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean is among the AI researchers and engineers rushing to Anthropic's defense.
More: CourtListener, The Information, MediaNama, The Independent, TechCrunch, Business Insider, OnMSFT, The Rundown AI, Gizmodo, and The Deep View
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Bluesky: @pamspaulding and @peard33
Forums: r/technology, r/google, r/Anthropic, and r/OpenAI
| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
More: The Information, WHDH-TV, SiliconANGLE, and Decrypt
Forums: r/tech, r/OpenAI, r/Anthropic, and r/technology
| Jack Queen / Reuters: |
More: Wired, New York Times, Fortune, TechRadar, Tech Times, CNN, San Francisco Examiner, CNBC, WinBuzzer, The American Bazaar, United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Associated Press, RedState, BBC, TechCrunch, Reality Tea, crypto.news, SupplyChainBrain, Cyber Security News, Computerworld, NPR, OnMSFT, One America News Network, Wall Street Journal, Politico, Financial Times, Politico, The Verge, Semafor, Telegraph, PCMag, Inc.com, NBC News, U.S. Courts of Appeals, Sherwood News, Implicator.ai, Business Insider, Axios, and Bloomberg
X: @deanwball, @deanwball, @_nathancalvin, @peterwildeford, @theobearman, @joycewhitevance, @deredleritt3r, @var_epsilon, and @hadas_gold
Bluesky: @revealinglight, @lorak, @flingjore.com, @seldo.com, @mrsdeborahlynn, and @leahfeiger
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/law, r/news, r/Anthropic, r/LegalNews, r/ChatGPT, r/artificial, r/ClaudeAI, r/Anthropic, and r/politics
| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Yann LeCun's Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs raised a $1.03B seed at a $3.5B pre-money valuation to work on world models, in Europe's largest-ever seed round — Meta's former chief artificial intelligence scientist Yann LeCun has raised more than $1bn for his new start-up in Europe's largest ever seed funding round.
More: New York Times, The Information, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, Silicon Republic, Bloomberg, Tech.eu, The Next Web, Tech Funding News, Le Monde, Agence France-Presse, The Decoder, DNYUZ, Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs, Nikkei Asia, The Straits Times, Business Today, The Sun Malaysia, Capacity, Tech in Asia, Sifted, RTHK, Pulse 2.0, France 24, and EU-Startups
X: @ylecun, @ylecun, @amilabs, @csprofkgd, @linusekenstam, @mavenlin, @himanshustwts, @kimmonismus, @nickclegg, @laurentsolly, @lxbrun, @aidenybai, @sainingxie, @austen, @beffjezos, @sanghyunwoo1219, and @pascalefung. Forums: Hacker News
| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
Anthropic debuts Code Review for Claude Code, which uses agents to check pull requests for bugs, and says a typical code review costs $15 to $25 in token usage — ZDNET's key takeaways — Anthropic launches AI agents to review developer pull requests. — Internal tests tripled meaningful code review feedback.
More: Claude, Moneycontrol, Help Net Security, ITPro, The Indian Express, Digit, SiliconANGLE, The Register, MarkTechPost, TechCrunch, The New Stack, and The Verge
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| Financial Times: |
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab signs a chip supply deal with Nvidia worth tens of billions of dollars, planning to deploy 1GW+ of next-gen Vera Rubin chips — Multiyear partnership includes a further ‘significant’ investment from Nvidia into one-year-old AI start-up
More: Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Law, and NVIDIA
| Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
MacBook Neo review: premium chassis, vivid display, mechanical touchpad is clickable anywhere, and affordable, but no backlit keyboard and no USB-C port labels — The MacBook Neo looks and feels like it's expensive. That's the magic. … Why you can trust Tom's Hardware …
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X: @chriswelch, @business, @chancehmiller, @lanceulanoff, and @ijustine
| Brian Westover / PCMag: |
MacBook Pro 16" (M5 Max) review: the “Super core” architecture and 40-core GPU mean beastly performance, but it has a five-year-old design and is $100+ pricier — EDITORS' CHOICE — 4.5 — Outstanding — THE BOTTOM LINE — The 2026 MacBook Pro 16-inch with M5 Max …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out Gemini-powered AI capabilities across Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive, including a “Help me create” tool in Docs to generate first drafts — Google announced on Tuesday that it's bringing a slew of new Gemini-powered AI capabilities to Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive.
More: The Keyword, CNET, 9to5Google, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, PCWorld, Fast Company, Wired, Mashable, and Digital Trends. X: @mweinbach
| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple made ~55M iPhones in India in 2025, up 53% YoY from 36M in 2024, or ~25% of total iPhone production, as it shifts away from China amid US tariffs — Apple Inc. increased iPhone production in India by about 53% last year and now makes a quarter of its marquee devices there …
| Wired: |
Sources: Nvidia is pitching NemoClaw, an upcoming open-source AI agent platform for enterprises, and plans to offer security and privacy tools as part of it — Ahead of its annual developer conference, Nvidia is readying a new approach to software that embraces AI agents similar to OpenClaw.
More: The Economic Times, International Business Times, Gizmodo, The Indian Express, CNBC, The Information, CoinDesk, Tech in Asia, and Blockonomi
X: @zeffmax, @benitoz, and @theaustinlyons
Forums: r/LocalLLaMA and r/technews
| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
Memo: Amazon SVP Dave Treadwell says junior and mid-level engineers now require more senior engineers to sign off any AI-assisted code changes, after outages — Ecommerce giant says there has been a ‘trend of incidents’ linked to ‘Gen-AI assisted changes’ — Amazon's ecommerce business …
X: @elonmusk, @rahll, @noahpinion, @lukolejnik, @tszzl, @milan_milanovic, @lukolejnik, @presidentlin, and @dan_jeffries1
Forums: Hacker News and Ars OpenForum
| Olivia Moore / Andreessen Horowitz: |
More: Forbes Australia and SmartCompany
X: @alexmashrabov, @changchen_cc, @scobleizer, @anisha_moonka, @lennysan, @aleximm, @a16z, @illscience, @a16z, @a16z, and @omooretweets. Forums: r/OpenAI
| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Jay Graber steps down as Bluesky CEO, saying a “seasoned operator focused on scaling and execution” is needed; Bluesky names VC Toni Schneider as interim CEO — Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky's board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.
More: TechCrunch, We Distribute, The Verge, Fortune, Silicon Republic, twitchy.com, Scripting News, Gizmodo, Business Today, Seattle Business Journal, Toni.org, Social Media Today, Business Insider, Fast Company, Reuters, and TheDesk.net
Bluesky: @fwsa, @carnage4life, @robynpowell, @toni.bsky.team, @kandake.africa, @fraying, @anildash.com, @danabra.mov, @gilliandn, @bnewbold.net, @clairewillett, @evansutton, @quillmatiq.com, @gendenelith, @davelee.me, @ryanlcooper.com, @caseynewton, @brainnotonyet, @masnick.com, @daveweigel, @chriswolfvision, @rose.bsky.team, @strngwys, @craigbrittain.com, @jay.bsky.team, @joshsternberg.com, and @wired.com. Mastodon: @liaizon@social.wake.st
Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, r/BlueskySocial, and Slashdot
| Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: |
Meta emails advertisers about “location fees” in select European countries to cover digital services taxes, starting July 1; Google and Amazon have similar fees — Meta Platforms is asking advertisers to cover the costs of digital services taxes, levies imposed by countries on local sales made by technology firms.| Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
How AI training company Mercor, valued at $10B in 2025, uses AI interviewer Melvin and invasive monitoring software Insightful to manage its 30K+ workforce — ART BY SAMAR HADDAD — This article is a collaboration between The Verge and New York Magazine.
Bluesky: @ketanjoshi.co
| Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: |
Swedish legal AI startup Legora raised a $550M Series D led by Accel, tripling its valuation to $5.55B since its October 2025 raise, as it expands in the US — Swedish legal artificial intelligence startup Legora has raised $550 million in a Series D funding round led by Accel …
More: Sifted, Reuters, Tech.eu, The Next Web, and Menlo Ventures
| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory, Richard Osman, and ~10,000 writers publish Don't Steal This Book, an “empty” book to protest AI companies using their work — About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign
More: The Verge, Türkiye Today, Gamereactor UK, LBC, ITV News, The Independent, and Daily Mail
X: @ednewtonrex. Bluesky: @paularmstrongtbd, @senategabe, @writersguildgb, and @emgeekay. Mastodon: @JulietEMcKenna@wandering.shop. Forums: r/books
| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
AI networking equipment startup Eridu emerges from stealth and raised a $200M Series A led by Socratic, John Doerr, and more, taking its total funding to $230M — Drew Perkins has been inventing computer network tech and building startups since the dawn of the internet age.
More: SiliconANGLE
| The Information: |
Sources: Tencent is developing a top-secret AI agent for WeChat, and has tested using models from Zhipu, Alibaba, and DeepSeek, to compete with Qwen and Doubao — Tencent Holdings is secretly building a new AI agent for its hugely popular WeChat messaging app, in hopes of leapfrogging rivals …
More: South China Morning Post
| Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg: |
Israeli startup Jazz, which uses AI agents to tackle data loss prevention, raised $61M across seed and Series A led by Glilot and Team8, and has 15 paying users — Israel's Jazz raised $61 million in funding to create a platform that uses artificial intelligence to tackle data loss prevention.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple delayed the release of its smart home display, planned for March, until around September, when the company anticipates the new Siri will be ready — Apple Inc.'s artificial intelligence struggles are rippling through its product plans, forcing the company to delay a long …
More: PYMNTS.com, The Verge, Spyglass, Digit, Silicon UK, DigiTimes, Business Standard, iDrop News, iPhone in Canada, Android Authority, iClarified, The Mac Observer, and Cult of Mac
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Kieran Smith / Financial Times: |
An interview with Hinge CEO Jackie Jantos, promoted from CMO in December 2025, as the dating app hits 1.8M+ paying users, gaining ground while others struggle — Jackie Jantos defies dating app decline with focus on serious relationships: 'It's not TikTok, you need to put in effort'| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon starts its bond sale, targeting ~$37B to ~$42B in an offering in dollars and euros, in potentially one of the biggest-ever corporate bond sales — Amazon.com Inc. has kicked off what is likely to be one of the biggest corporate bond offerings ever, in the latest blockbuster fundraising …
More: The Information
| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Paris-based Qevlar AI, an agentic AI developer for security operations centers, raised $30M led by Partech and Forgepoint Capital International — Qevlar AI, an agentic AI developer for security operations centers, raised $30 million led by Partech and Forgepoint Capital International …
More: FinSMEs, Ventureburn, Pulse 2.0, Pathfounders, Tech.eu, EU-Startups, and Tech Funding News
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