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| New York Times: |
Nvidia hires law firm Wachtell Lipton to investigate Jensen Huang's affair with an alleged Chinese spy, to be led by former acting US attorney Joon H. Kim — Wachtell partner Joon H. Kim, a former acting U.S. attorney, is leading the inquiry into the chip maker's chief executive.
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| The Information: |
Sources: Jensen Huang and Alice Huang's relationship dates back to at least 2023, facilitating $7.5B+ in Nvidia chip shipments via Chinese companies since then — The relationship between Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Alice Huang, the woman that the U.S. government reportedly identified …
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| Financial Times: |
How Alice Huang built her career with romantic partner and Hexi Capital founder Kang Wei, who faced stock market probes; sources believe she is back in China — Executive alleged to be Chinese spy who had affair with Nvidia chief had already built career alongside a man with a history of crossing regulators
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| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic launches its IPO roadshow, saying the company and shareholders plan to sell 825M Class A shares at $70 to $78 each, listing on the Nasdaq under ANT — Today Anthropic, PBC launched the roadshow for its proposed initial public offering of its Class A common stock.
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| CNBC: |
Filing: Anthropic's IPO could give it an up to $1.405T valuation on a fully diluted basis, up from the $965B valuation during its $65B Series H announced in May — Anthropic said it will offer 825 million shares in its upcoming IPO at a price range between $70 to $78 per share …
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| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
IPO prospectus: Anthropic and its investors are set to raise up to $64.4B, and it will also raise $26B via cornerstone investors like Google, AMD, and Nvidia — Anthropic is targeting a valuation of up to $1.02 trillion in its landmark U.S. IPO, its filing showed on Tuesday … | Echo Wang / Reuters: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Rockstar plans to make GTA VI available on Xbox Cloud Gaming at launch next week, likely restricting streaming to consoles, and confirms GTA VI runs at 30fps — Rockstar Games confirms GTA VI will run at 30fps across all consoles. … Rockstar Games is making Grand Theft Auto VI available …
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
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| Koray Kavukcuoglu / Google: |
Google rolls out Gemini 4 Carbon to paid API and AI Ultra users two weeks after releasing it to cyber defenders, and previews a swarm feature in Antigravity — Developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers can now try our latest frontier model. — SVP, Google DeepMind and Chief AI Architect, Google
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| Kyle Kucharski / ZDNET: |
Amazon's Ring unveils the $249 Ring Drone Cam and the $999 Ring Rover Cam, both using its AI Pilot to navigate interior spaces, under new subbrand Ring Robotics — Alongside the Ring Drone Cam, Ring introduced the Rover Cam for businesses. It investigates disturbances and streams 4K footage.
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Google DeepMind researchers used agentic AI framework AlphaProof Code to verify the Signal protocol's cryptographic guarantees, in a four-week proof-of-concept — DeepMind researchers were able to formally verify that the widely used encryption protocol works as intended. Their stretch goal?
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic unveils office tools, including a video call assistant, a data dashboard, and spreadsheet service Claude Sheets, competing with Microsoft and Google — Anthropic PBC is releasing a suite of tools that weave the company's artificial intelligence capabilities into more everyday office work …
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Reddit launches Reddit Reviews, a built-in hub using AI to turn subreddit comments into product pages with pros, cons, and sentiment, starting with 10K items — With a new product reviews hub, Reddit is creating something akin to a crowdsourced Wirecutter.
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| AI Futures Project: |
The AI Futures Project updates its AI timelines after METR's report on Anthropic R&D, saying it now expects a Superhuman AI Researcher to arrive in 2027 — We want to get this post out quickly given the urgency of the topic. It's possible that there are some errors in the modeling …
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Forums: r/neoliberal, r/accelerate, and r/singularity
| Jenny Lee / CNBC: |
SoftBank reports a Q2 net loss of ~$7B, down from a ~$15.8B profit in Q2 2025, and ~$14B revenue, above ~$12.8B est., as the tech selloff weighs on its results — SoftBank reported a fiscal second-quarter net loss of 1.12 trillion yen ($7 billion) on Tuesday, as losses tied … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
OpenAI launches Businesses in ChatGPT in beta, including Business Agents for companies to interact with users and a hub where companies can claim their profiles — ChatGPT's new AI agents represent companies and can help with things like comparison shopping.
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| Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: |
Anthropic's Fable 5.2 represents “Jagged AGI”, which matches human experts on most computer tasks like game design but lacks self-directed judgment and taste — General, often expert, and sometimes jagged … I have had the chance to use the new Claude Fable 5.2 quite a bit …
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Forums: r/ClaudeAI and r/singularity
| Sam Rutherford / Engadget: |
Google Fi launches “super network” for automatic carrier switching and Wi-Fi Auto-Connect+ to improve indoor connectivity in places like malls and airports — It's rolling out first on Pixel phones before wider availability arrives in 2027. — Getting the fastest mobile data speeds …
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| Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder: |
Scale Labs and CAIS' Remote Labor Index: Fable 5.2 completes 41.3% of freelance projects at professional quality, above Opus 5.5's 21.3% and GPT-6 Astra's 20.8% — - Fable 5.2 breaks through in 3D models, audio, and architecture … The test measures how often AI agents complete real freelance jobs …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and others in a 21-bank consortium committed around $270M to fund five years of a stablecoin venture announced in September — A group of financial firms including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Citigroup Inc., Banco Santander SA and Deutsche Bank AG …
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| Reuters: |
The White House picks Palantir CISO Michael LoSapio to lead the DHS' Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, replacing Acting Director Nick Andersen — The White House said on Monday it has nominated Michael LoSapio to be the director of the US Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity …
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How WCAG compliance makes modern workplaces more accessible — A workplace's approach to inclusivity starts with its everyday tools. Some of them can create barriers that inadvertently shut people out. Employees with visual, auditory, motor, or cognitive disabilities need communication …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Oura agrees to acquire AI and on-demand doctor service Counsel Health for $625M, says Q4 revenue grew 153% YoY to $533M and FY 2026 revenue grew 92% to $1.75B — Oura Inc. agreed to acquire artificial intelligence and on-demand doctor service Counsel Health Inc. for $625 million … | Reuters: |
AI training startup Mercor raised a $750M Series D from Benchmark, General Catalyst, Nvidia, and others at a $20B valuation, up from $10B in October 2025 — Mercor said on Tuesday it had raised $750 million in a funding round that valued the AI training startup at $20 billion.| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
IBM ends H-1B and green card sponsorships for most of the sponsored roles in IBM Consulting; source: workers can still work with IBM outside the US or leave IBM — International Business Machines Corp. is ending immigration sponsorship for some roles in its largest division following …
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