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OpenAI:
OpenAI launches GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models built on a full-duplex architecture, meaning they can listen and speak at the same time  —  A new generation of voice models for natural human-AI interaction, now powering ChatGPT Voice.  —  Sign up to be notified
Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg:
SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its first model built in partnership with Cursor, designed to “handle difficult, long-running” legal, finance, and coding tasks  —  SpaceXAI has unveiled a new artificial intelligence model built in partnership with AI coding startup Cursor that's meant …
Axios:
Grok 4.5 is available in Grok Build, in Cursor, and from the SpaceXAI console, but not in the EU; it costs $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens  —  Elon Musk's SpaceXAI is launching Grok 4.5, its smartest model yet, and its first release since going public and acquiring the AI coding startup Cursor.
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
Apple reaches a deal with Broadcom worth $30B+ to make 15B+ chips in the US over the next five years, Apple's largest as part of its $600B US investment pledge  —  The deal, for billions of chips, is the latest part of Apple's domestic investment pledge  —  Apple is ramping up its investment …
Axios:
OpenAI says it will launch GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, publicly on Thursday; a source says the US Department of Commerce approved a broad rollout  —  The U.S. Department of Commerce has given OpenAI the green light for a broad launch of its advanced GPT-5.6 model …
Victoria Song / The Verge:
Meta says it will update its smart glasses with a new feature that disables the camera when it detects that someone tampered with the device's privacy LED light  —  The company is rolling out an update following increased scrutiny of its smart glasses.
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
Sources: Meta is testing AI glasses that continuously record audio and take photos every few seconds, letting users query or recall what they saw or heard  —  Mark Zuckerberg's hardware ambitions are edging into a new privacy fight over who gets recorded.  Meta is testing a prototype of …
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The EU General Court dismisses Apple's legal challenges against its designation as a DMA “gatekeeper” for its App Store and iOS; Apple filed the case in 2024  —  Apple (AAPL.O) lost its challenge on Wednesday against landmark EU rules that designate its app stores and operating system iOS …
New York Times:
Sources: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is raising $10B at a $130B pre-money valuation, its first outside funding round, including $4B from Coatue and $2B from Bezos  —  The rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos is set to take on external investors for the first time, at a $130 billion valuation.
Financial Times:
Sources: Apple begins testing CXMT's DRAM chips for devices sold in China; Apple's interest thrusts CXMT and CXMT's state-owned shareholders into the spotlight  —  Sharp turnaround for state-backed company central to Beijing's AI supply chain efforts  —  On a sprawling campus …
Bloomberg:
Chip startup SambaNova raised a $1B Series F led by General Atlantic at an $11B valuation and signs JPMorgan as a customer to deploy its chips for in-house AI  —  Chip startup SambaNova Systems Inc. has raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation, underscoring investors' conviction …
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg:
Crypto VC firm Paradigm raised $1.2B, its fourth fund, to invest in areas outside of crypto, like AI and robotics; Paradigm had $11.9B in AUM at the end of 2025  —  Paradigm, the venture firm founded to invest in cryptocurrency companies, has raised a new $1.2 billion fund to make more bets outside …
Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET:
Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke's Entire launches a decentralized Git network to handle high coding agent traffic, with servers in the US, the EU, and Australia  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — Entire launched a decentralized Git network built for agents.  — The company plans to open-source its backend.
Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
China's CNVD says it found “security backdoor vulnerabilities” in Claude Code that can be used to send info like “user location and identity to remote servers”  —  It advised users to uninstall the software or update to its latest version
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Prime Intellect, which helps companies build their own AI agents by offering computing power and specialized tools, raised a $130M Series A at a $1B valuation  —  Prime Intellect, a startup that provides computing power and specialized software tools that help companies build AI agents …
Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:
Mistral launches Robostral Navigate, a hardware-agnostic robotics navigation model trained via simulation that uses a single camera and basic language prompts  —  Mistral AI announced a new robotics navigation model, as the French startup expands in the emerging field of physical artificial intelligence …
Juro Osawa / The Information:
Sources: MiniMax is working on a 2.7T-parameter model internally called M3 Pro, which it could release as early as Q3 as open source; M3 has 428B parameters  —  Chinese AI developer MiniMax is working on a new large language model with 2.7 trillion parameters, larger than any other Chinese AI models currently …
Eugene Kim / Business Insider:
Internal documents: Amazon is working on an Alexa project, codenamed Moonraker, to handle more complex, multistep tasks, projecting $100M+ in GPU costs in 2026  —  Amazon's next Alexa AI upgrade may be able to handle more complex tasks.  Getting there is expensive, though.
Anna Washenko / Engadget:
DuckDuckGo updates its browser for iOS, Windows, and macOS to block most video ads by default, including those on YouTube, based on uBlockOrigin's filter lists  —  An unsubtle shot at Chrome.  —  DuckDuckGo announced that it can now block most video ads, particularly those on YouTube, when a video is playing in its browser.
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Corbin Bolies / Variety:
Kaon AI, which builds personalized story worlds using its AI-based FlowGPT and Emochi tools, raised $60M from B Capital and others, and says Emochi has 2M DAUs  —  Kaon AI, a start-up focused on building personalized story worlds powered by generative AI for its users through its products FlowGPT and Emochi …
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Axios:
Grok 4.5 is available in Grok Build, in Cursor, and from the SpaceXAI console, but not in the EU; it costs $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokensFind
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Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg:
SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its first model built in partnership with Cursor, designed to “handle difficult, long-running” legal, finance, and coding tasksFind
74 minutes ago
Sabrina Ortiz / The Deep View:
OpenAI rolls out two versions of GPT-Live: GPT-Live-1, powering ChatGPT Voice for Go, Plus, and Pro users, and GPT-Live-1 mini, the default for free usersFind
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OpenAI:
OpenAI launches GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models built on a full-duplex architecture, meaning they can listen and speak at the same timeFind
2 hours ago
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Prime Intellect, which helps companies build their own AI agents by offering computing power and specialized tools, raised a $130M Series A at a $1B valuationFind
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Barratt Dewey / Tectonic Defense:
Arkenstone Defense, which is building software to handle back-office work for defense tech startups, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed led by J2 VenturesFind
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Rajasik Mukherjee / Reuters:
China's Nexchip Semiconductor says it aims to raise around $890.37M in its Hong Kong share sale by offering 216.2M shares at ~$4.12/share, the top of its rangeFind
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Michael Savage / The Guardian:
Prince Harry and six other prominent figures face an up to £50M legal bill after losing their phone-hacking case against Daily Mail owner Associated Newspapers

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
The Hill launches The Hill Insider, costing $5.99 per month for exclusive content and $9.99 for an ad-free experience, Nexstar's first major DTC subscription

Dan Mangan / CNBC:
A federal judge orders that E. Jean Carroll be paid $5M plus interest for damages from a verdict holding President Trump civilly liable for sexually abusing her

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Matt Swayne / The Quantum Insider:
Oratomic, which is developing quantum computing hardware and software, raised a $300M Series A led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Sources detail Xbox's big reset after its Game Pass strategy failed; Xbox spent nearly $80B on content deals, but gamers prefer to stick with a handful of games
Reece Rogers / Wired:
As part of Meta's Muse Image rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their Posts and Reels by other users
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