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DeepSeek releases its new flagship models V4 Pro and V4 Flash in preview, saying V4 Pro trails the performance of state-of-the-art models by about 3 to 6 months — DeepSeek rolled out preview versions of a new flagship artificial intelligence model a year after upending Silicon Valley …
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
DeepSeek V4 Pro costs $1.74/1M input and $3.48/1M output tokens while V4 Flash costs $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens, both the cheapest in their class — Chinese AI lab DeepSeek's last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) last December. They just dropped the first of their …
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| South China Morning Post: |
DeepSeek V4 Pro has 1.6T parameters, DeepSeek's largest model by that metric, and V4 Flash has 284B parameters; both models have a context window of 1M tokens — The company says its cost-efficient new V4 model is competitive with top closed-source models from OpenAI and Google DeepMind| Financial Times: |
Canada-based Cohere and Germany-based Aleph Alpha agree to a merger valuing the combination at ~$20B, to work on sovereign AI; both governments support the deal — Canadian and German start-ups to focus on ‘sovereign’ AI systems independent of US and China
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| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
As part of the Cohere-Aleph Alpha deal, Aleph Alpha backer Schwarz Group plans to invest $600M in Cohere's Series E, which a source says is set to close in 2026 — Canadian AI lab Cohere announced on Friday that it planned to acquire German AI company Aleph Alpha, as it eyed major expansion in Europe.| ABC News: |
The US DOJ arrests a soldier involved in the capture of Nicolás Maduro for allegedly making $400K+ on Polymarket by betting on Maduro's removal from office — The bet was allegedly placed by a commando involved in Nicolas Maduro's capture. — Katherine Faulders, Aaron Katersky, Peter Charalambous, and Alexander Mallin
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| Joe Wertz / Bloomberg: |
France's forecasting office refers suspected weather sensor tampering at Paris airport to police, after detecting unusual readings alongside Polymarket betting — France's forecasting office flagged suspected tampering with weather sensors at the country's largest airport and referred the case to police …
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Meta and Amazon reach a multibillion-dollar, multiyear deal for Meta to rent hundreds of thousands of Amazon's Graviton chips for its AI inference needs — Amazon.com Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. have struck a multibillion-dollar deal for the social-media giant to rent hundreds of thousands …
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| Bloomberg: |
Anthropic says Google is committing to invest $10B now in cash at a $350B valuation and will invest another $30B if Anthropic hits performance targets — Google will invest $10 billion in Anthropic PBC, with another $30 billion potentially to follow, strengthening the relationship between … | Terje Solsvik / Reuters: |
Norway plans to ban children from using social media until they turn 16; the government says it will introduce a bill in parliament by the end of 2026 — Norway said on Friday it would present a bill in parliament by year-end to ban children from using social media until they turn 16 …
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| Reuters: |
S-1 filing: SpaceX warns that investigations into Grok creating and disseminating sexually abusive AI imagery may cause SpaceX to lose access to certain markets — The multiple investigations into xAI's creation and dissemination of sexually abusive imagery may lead the company to lose access … | Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Alibaba says its Qwen AI model will be integrated into select car models from BYD, Volkswagen, and others, letting users buy food and tickets via voice commands — BEIJING — Chinese tech giant Alibaba said Friday that its Qwen artificial intelligence model will be integrated into vehicles …
More: Benzinga
| Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg: |
The DOJ joins xAI in its legal challenge to a new Colorado law that seeks to prevent discrimination by AI tools in employment and other areas — The Trump administration is joining Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI in its legal challenge to Colorado's new state law that seeks …
More: Reuters
| Connor Stringer / Telegraph: |
President Trump threatens to “put a big tariff on the UK” if it does not drop its digital services tax, which he views as unfairly targeting US tech companies — President tells The Telegraph he will retaliate if Britain continues to ‘target’ major American companies such as Apple, Google and Meta
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: in recent weeks, China told tech companies, like ByteDance and Moonshot AI, to reject US capital without state approval, after Meta's Manus acquisition — Chinese regulators plan to restrict technology firms including some of the country's highest-profile AI pioneers …
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| Mimi Billing / Sifted: |
Helsinki-based Verda, formerly Datacrunch, which aims to become Europe's first AI cloud hyperscaler, raised €100M in debt and equity — The Finnish cloud provider, formerly known as Datacrunch, says its success comes from being vertically integrated — Helsinki-headquartered Verda … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: JPMorgan Chase and other banks struggled to spread the risk of billions in loans they made for data centers leased to Oracle in Texas and Wisconsin — The AI boom has hit a funding snag, compounding power constraints and a growing public backlash against data centers
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: AI coding startup Cognition is in early talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a $25B valuation, up from $10.2B announced in September 2025 — Cognition AI Inc. is in early talks to raise a new round of funding that would more than double its valuation to $25 billion … Sponsor Posts
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