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Palantir Slack logs and staff interviews reveal internal debates over the company's ICE and DOD contracts during Trump's second term, its manifesto, and more — It took just a few months of President Donald Trump's second term for Palantir employees to question their company's commitments to civil liberties.
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| Benjamin Wallace / New York Times: |
A profile of Dwarkesh Patel, whose podcast has become mandatory listening in the AI community, with guests like Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg — Dwarkesh Patel was a bored college sophomore looking for intellectual stimulation. Now he commands interviews with Jensen Huang … | Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal: |
ASML says it plans to make at least 60 of its standard EUV machines this year, 36% more than it sold in 2025, as it races to meet demand for making AI chips — ASML is the only supplier of the machines needed to make cutting edge AI chips at scale — VELDHOVEN, the Netherlands …
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| Stephen Morris / Financial Times: |
Epoch AI: Google controls ~25% of global AI compute, with ~3.8M TPUs and 1.3M GPUs; Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says demand and revenue justify the spend — Thomas Kurian, Google Cloud's CEO, says its AI chips and models can help the data centre business gain ground| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Citizen Lab details two spying campaigns that abuse weaknesses in the SS7 and Diameter protocols across 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G networks to track people's locations — Security researchers have uncovered two separate spying campaigns that are abusing well-known weaknesses in the global telecoms infrastructure to track people's locations.
More: Wired, The Citizen Lab, The Record, Cyber Security News, TechRadar, CyberScoop, and Reuters
| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
A look at Tin Can's $100 retro-style, Wi-Fi-enabled landline phone, and how some schools are seeding the device to students in an attempt to curb smartphone use — The Tin Can has gone viral over the past year, mostly through word of mouth. Now schools want to get even more of them in students' homes.| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Collov Labs, whose visual interface lets users feed images and camera input into a model that AI agents can reason over and act on, raised a $23M Series A — Collov Labs, which turns images and camera input into real-world actions through AI, raised a $23 million Series A … | Lucinda Shen / Axios: |
Sources: Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup Genki Robotics, co-founded by Andy Rubin, raised a Series A at a ~$1B valuation; it raised a ~$50M seed in 2025 — Genki Robotics, a humanoid robotics company co-founded by Android creator Andy Rubin, is valued at about $1 billion following its recent Series A, Axios Pro has learned.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Trump hosted a gala luncheon for leading $TRUMP holders, where he spoke about his pro-crypto policies, but didn't mention the memecoin's declining value — The president's address touched on everything from the war in Iran to his policies supporting the crypto industry
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| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Cyera agrees to acquire Ryft, an Israeli startup building automated data access and governance tools for enterprise AI deployment, sources say for $100M-$130M — Ryft, founded in 2024, raised $8 million before the deal and has built tools for automated data access and governance in AI environments.
More: Business Wire
| Heather Knight / New York Times: |
Inside Andon Market, billed as the first retail boutique run by an AI agent; the Andon Labs experiment uses a Claude Sonnet 4.6-based agent to run the boutique — Andon Market in San Francisco is billed as the first retail boutique run by an artificial intelligence agent.
More: Times of India, Andon Market, Andon Market, Andon Labs on YouTube, Bloomberg, and Forbes
| Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: |
A look at Strider, an intelligence firm that claims to use agentic AI and public records to let the US Air Force, NATO, and others identify foreign state actors — Trump's economic crackdown on China's US interests is creating opportunities for a Utah-based intelligence firm| Stephen Totilo / Game File: |
An interview with Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and EVP Matt Booty on the “Return of Xbox” memo, making Xbox Series X and S the “first-class experience again”, and more — In a memo to Microsoft's video game team yesterday, the company's new CEO of Xbox, Asha Sharma … | Theo Baker / The Atlantic: |
A look at “Stanford inside Stanford”, where VCs pursue 18- and 19-year-old students, offering mentorship and funding in a bid to convert promise into profit — Silicon Valley venture capitalists are wining and dining 18-year-olds. — When i was a freshman at Stanford University … Sponsor Posts
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We can build it. Can we judge it? — As agentic AI shortens the path from idea to shipped code, journey evaluation becomes a critical design skill.
We can build it. Can we judge it? — As agentic AI shortens the path from idea to shipped code, journey evaluation becomes a critical design skill.
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