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Anthropic:
Anthropic signs an agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple GWs of TPU capacity, and says run-rate revenue has crossed $30B, up from ~$9B at 2025's end  —  We have signed a new agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity that we expect to come online starting in 2027.
New Yorker:
Interviews with Sam Altman and 100+ people on if he can be trusted amid allegations of consistent lying and more: some defend him as others call him a sociopath  —  New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.
Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI unveils policy proposals for a world with superintelligence: higher taxes on capital gains, a public AI investment fund, bolstered safety nets, and more  —  ChatGPT maker put out policy proposals so consumers benefit from rapid advancements in artificial intelligence
Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
How social media became a freak show: X punishes external links and most top accounts, such as Catturd, are very low-quality but get more engagement than NYT  —  The ecosystem is unhealthy, especially on Twitter, and that's producing some strange beasts among the most influential accounts.
More: Reason.  X: @nikitabier, @nikitabier, @redsteeze, @petersavodnik, @natesilver538, @catturd2, @alanmcole, @nikitabier, @devahaz, @blueboxdave, @elonmusk, @mikeisaac, @robbysoave, @mikeisaac, @micsolana, @ryanburge, @timcast, @natesilver538, @davidafrench, @kirkegaardemil, @davidu, @jason_koebler, @christopherrufo, @micsolana, @besttrousers, @paulnovosad, @kareem_carr, @natesilver538, @asymmetricinfo, @esjesjesj, @cesifoti, @jaybaxter, @richardhanania, @stefanfschubert, @notjessewalker, @natesilver538, @literaryeric, @richardhanania, @natesilver538, @yimbyland, @datarepublican, @david_ingram, @juliangough, @jason_kint, @ryanburge, @ddiamond, @soncharm, @neeratanden, @bretdevereaux, @nikitabier, @catturd2, @nateduncannba, @akarlin, @elonmusk, @richardhanania, @modeledbehavior, @mattvanswol, @ryanradia, @yacinemtb, @natesilver538, @natesilver538, @timcast, @jason_kint, @nikitabier, @jeremiahdjohns, @bing_chris, @jaredlholt, @natesilver538, @nikitabier, @benryanwriter, @natesilver538, @modeledbehavior, @alx, @sailaunderscore, @alanmcole, @nkulw, @haroon, @catturd2, @crazy_stephen_i, @buccocapital, @phl43, @razibkhan, @zerohedge, @mikeisaac, @katiemiller, @jamessurowiecki, @elonmusk, @natesilver538, @raharrisonpa, @phl43, @david_ingram, @asymmetricinfo, @jonatanpallesen, @aricohn, @richardhanania, @elonmusk, @richardhanania, @tha_muser, @jamessurowiecki, @kasparov63, @christopherrufo, @akoustov, @natesilver538, @modeledbehavior, and @noupside.  LinkedIn: Adam Shapiro.  Bluesky: @carnage4life.  Mastodon: @jalefkowit@vmst.io.  Forums: r/fivethirtyeight
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Andrew Webster / The Verge:
Netflix launches Netflix Playground, a games app for kids aged eight and under, in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, and New Zealand  —  It's called Netflix Playground, and it's out now. … Netflix has made family-friendly titles a key part of its current games strategy …
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
A federal appeals court rules New Jersey cannot block Kalshi users in the state from sports-related event contracts, finding CFTC has exclusive jurisdiction  —  A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that New Jersey gaming regulators cannot prevent Kalshi from allowing people in the state …
New York Times:
The rapid adoption of AI coding tools has let workers generate massive volumes of code, leaving companies scrambling to review and secure the AI-generated code  —  When a financial services company recently began using Cursor, an artificial intelligence technology that writes computer code, the difference that it made was immediate.
Reuters:
The US NHTSA ends a 2025 probe into ~2.6M Tesla vehicles over the “Actually Smart Summon” driverless feature after finding it involved only low-speed incidents  —  The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Monday it closed a probe into nearly 2.6 million Tesla …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Anthropic plans to invest $200M in a new venture with PE firms to sell AI tools to their portfolio companies; it's in talks to raise $1B for the effort  —  General Atlantic, Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman are among the firms exploring investments in the new venture, which aims to sell AI tools to portfolio companies
Elsa Ohlen / CNBC:
A look at Catches and other startups that are offering AI tools to let shoppers visualize fit and style before buying clothes, aiming to curb online returns  —  It pinches here; drags there; the draping is wrong.  These are some of the examples of the feedback a new crop …
More: PYMNTS.com
Ina Fried / Axios:
Sources: Meta is preparing to release the first AI models developed under Alexandr Wang, with plans to offer versions of those models via an open source license  —  Meta is preparing to release the first new AI models developed under Alexandr Wang, with plans to eventually offer versions …

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Associated Press:
After a short-term hold, SCOTUS denies former Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge's bid to stay an $800-a-day fine if she refuses to reveal a source

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Comcast co-CEO Brian Roberts' earlier bundling strategy for connectivity and content, and his plan now to unbundle in order to keep growing

Janko Roettgers / The Verge:
A look back at BitTorrent, launched by Bram Cohen 25 years ago, and how media piracy fueled its growth while its architecture shielded it from legal liability

More News

Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
OpenAI buying TBPN makes little sense, par for the course for a company that, like Twitter, stumbled into a big market and may never build a functional business
Lauren Goode / Wired:
How advanced chip packaging became one of Intel's fast-growing businesses; sources: Intel is in talks with Google and Amazon for its advanced packaging services
More: Blockonomi.  X: @laurengoode, @jukan05, and @laurengoode.  LinkedIn: Naga Chandrasekaran.  Forums: r/technology

Earlier Picks

Stephen Katte / Cointelegraph:
Jack Dorsey says Apple removed his Bluetooth P2P messaging app Bitchat, used during protests in five countries, from the App Store in China at the CAC's request
Wall Street Journal:
Docs: OpenAI and Anthropic have projected profitability to investors with and without training costs, and report inference costs exceeding half of their revenue
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk:
Drift details how suspected North Korean attackers stole $270M posing as a quant trading firm in a 6+ month operation with in-person meetings and a $1M+ deposit
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