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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 … | Associated Press: |
Trump says the FBI is “looking into” Jensen Huang's affair, and the Nvidia CEO told him that he “had absolutely no idea that the person in question was a spy” — President Donald Trump said Monday that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang should not worry about the FBI looking … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Short seller Culper Research's May 13 report, which flagged Jensen Huang's relationship with Alice Huang as “uncomfortably close”, resurfaces on social media — Six months before the Nvidia spy scandal emerged, the New York-based short seller firm Culper Research … | Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: Nvidia's 2025 figures to the US government undercounted chips sold to Megaspeed via partners by 50,000; Nvidia did not give Bloomberg an exact figure — Nvidia Corp.'s general counsel intervened in a US government probe of suspected smuggling of AI chips by Megaspeed International … | Anthropic: |
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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 … | 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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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 … | Anthropic: |
Anthropic releases Mythos 5.2 and Fable 5.2, saying they are “best for the most ambitious, open-ended technical work”, with outputs up to 30% faster than 5.1 — We've upgraded Claude Fable and Claude Mythos—models that are designed to tackle the most daunting technical challenges.| 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 … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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Rockstar plans to make GTA VI available on Xbox Cloud Gaming at launch next week, likely restricting streaming exclusively to consoles; 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 … | 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?| Kyle Kucharski / ZDNET: |
Amazon's Ring unveils the $249 Ring Drone Cam and the $999 Ring Rover Cam, utilizing its AI Pilot navigation software, under new subbrand Ring Robotics — Alongside the Ring Drone Cam, Ring introduced the Rover Cam for businesses. It investigates disturbances and streams 4K footage.| Reuters: |
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Filings: Moonshot signed a deal in August to rent 32 China-based Super Micro servers with Nvidia B300, the most powerful AI chip, possibly in breach of US rules — Moonshot AI accessed a trove of Nvidia Corp.'s most advanced chips this summer, according to documents filed with Beijing regulators … | Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: |
Apple begins offering additional AI access via one-time $50 “intelligence usage packs” when users meet monthly usage caps, starting in its Creator Studio apps — Apple has said it will eventually charge for expanded usage of select AI features.| James Mayger / Bloomberg: |
Australia is drafting legislation for an AI safety regulator that can impose “significant penalties” after an OpenAI model hacked a government site in September — Australia will create a new artificial-intelligence safety regulator that will have the power to impose … | Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Take-Two reiterates its FY 2027 outlook and reports Q2 total net bookings down 18% YoY to $1.6B, below $1.65B est.; NBA 2K27 missed sales forecast due to GTA VI — The video-game publisher may have hurt one game's sales with another of its own games — Take-Two Interactive Software Inc …
WebBrain: an open-source AI agent for your browser — Read pages, fill forms and automate tasks in Chrome or Firefox. Use local models or your preferred AI provider. Get started free.| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
Cyanogen's co-founder and two others debut Kora, a Linux desktop OS that integrates AI models at a system level, set for a 2027 launch on Snapdragon and x86 PCs — Hailing from Cyanogen's cofounder, Kora is a next-gen alternative to Windows and macOS for power users running local AI models.| Reuters: |
TSMC plans to invest up to $500M in Anthropic at its IPO price and up to $500M in OpenAI to acquire preferred stock — TSMC (2330.TW) plans to invest up to $1 billion across leading AI developers Anthropic and OpenAI, highlighting the Taiwanese chipmaker's confidence in long-term demand … | Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Meta releases Muse Ember, its smallest and most cost-efficient AI model yet, saying it delivers more intelligence per dollar than Claude Haiku 5.5 or GPT-6 Luna — Meta Superintelligence Lab released a new AI model on Monday called Muse Ember, the lab's lightest and most cost-efficient AI model yet.
SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
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.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
WebBrain: an open-source AI agent for your browser — Read pages, fill forms and automate tasks in Chrome or Firefox. Use local models or your preferred AI provider. Get started free.
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