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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 …
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The value of US government's stake in Intel has increased fourfold to ~$36B, a roughly $27B paper gain since they announced the investment in August 2025 — The value of the US government stake in Intel Corp. has increased fourfold to hit a value of about $36 billion after the chipmaker's …
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Report: Samsung co-CEO TM Roh told company leaders that the mobile division MX could report its first ever annual loss this year, amid RAM and storage shortages — As AI continues to eat up the market's RAM output, smartphones are in crisis as costs continue to skyrocket.
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Anthropic details Project Deal, a marketplace experiment where Claude models bought, sold, and negotiated personal belongings on behalf of Anthropic employees — At Anthropic, we're interested in how AI models could begin to affect commercial exchange. (You might recall Project Vend … | Ian Duncan / Washington Post: |
Sources: the WH pushed out the head of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, Collin Burns, a former Anthropic researcher, after just four days on the job — The Department of Commerce had picked Anthropic researcher Collin Burns to lead the Center for AI Standards and Innovation. — Summary| Jenna Russell / New York Times: |
Maine's governor vetoes a bill that would have led to US' first state pause on data centers, citing its failure to exempt a project in a distressed mill town — Gov. Janet Mills said she rejected what would have been the nation's first moratorium on data centers because it failed to exempt a project in a distressed mill town.
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Europe's dependence on US companies in tech and finance is in no small part its own fault after overregulation left European businesses too weak to compete — It wasn't long after blue jeans, Hollywood blockbusters and Big Macs crossed the Atlantic last century that some worrywarts started fretting …
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| Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
Thrive is taking a stake in the San Francisco Giants via a new venture that will invest in franchises and cultural institutions that can't be replicated by AI — It's the first investment from the firm's new strategy focused on long-term investments in franchises and cultural institutions that can't be replicated by AI
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LinkedIn profile review shows Thinking Machines Lab has been hiring more researchers from Meta than from any other employer; TML's headcount now stands at ~140 — Weiyao Wang spent eight years at Meta — his first job out of college — helping build multimodal perception systems and contributing …
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Instacart co-founder Apoorva Mehta launches Abundance, a hedge fund that aims to have AI agents run the entire fund, with $100M in seed funding — Instacart co-founder Apoorva Mehta launched a hedge fund that relies on an army of artificial intelligence agents, one of the few using … | PYMNTS.com: |
Adyen plans to acquire Talon.One, a platform for loyalty and incentives that serves more than 300 global merchants, for €750M, expected to close in H2 2026 — Adyen plans to acquire Talon.One, a platform for loyalty and incentives that serves more than 300 global merchants …
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A $16B financing for a giant Oracle data center in Michigan has closed, with BofA selling $14B in bonds; Oracle plans to use the campus to power apps for OpenAI — A $16 billion financing for a giant Oracle Corp. data center in Michigan has wrapped after months of stop-and-start negotiations with investors.
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The Wire by Acutus, an AI-generated site with articles attacking AI industry critics, appears to be funded by the OpenAI-backed super PAC Leading The Future — The reporters at this news site are AI bots. OpenAI's super PAC appears to be funding it.
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Sam Altman apologizes to a Canadian town for not alerting police to the activity of a mass shooting suspect when her ChatGPT account was suspended — Sam Altman said AI company will work more closely with governments to prevent future tragedies — OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman apologized …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
X launches its standalone messaging app XChat on the App Store, saying it supports end-to-end encryption and has no ads — XChat, the standalone messaging app from X, is now available. X's new iPhone and iPad app has officially arrived on the App Store. — XChat has officially launched on iPhone and iPad
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| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
Lawmakers and lobbyists say the Trump administration has lobbied against legislation that would regulate AI in at least six Republican-led states — ‘I am disappointed that states are being told to wait to address this critical issue,’ one GOP state senator said
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
A US judge dismisses Elon Musk's fraud claims in his lawsuit against OpenAI at his request, and plans to proceed to trial on other claims — A U.S. judge on Friday dismissed Elon Musk's fraud claims in his lawsuit accusing OpenAI and co-founder Sam Altman of betraying OpenAI's original mission …
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| 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 … | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
ComfyUI, which gives creators granular control over image, video, and audio outputs from diffusion models, raised $30M at a $500M valuation — ComfyUI, a startup that helps creators control image, video, and audio outputs from diffusion models with a node-based workflow …
More: Entrepreneur and ComfyUI Blog
| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Diplomatic cable: US State Department has ordered a global push to bring attention to alleged distillation of US models by Chinese labs, including DeepSeek — The U.S. State Department has ordered a global push to bring attention to what it says are widespread efforts by Chinese companies …
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