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Anthropic raised a $13B Series F led by Iconiq, Fidelity, and Lightspeed at a $183B valuation, up from $61.5B in March, and reports a $5B+ run-rate revenue — Anthropic has completed a Series F fundraising of $13 billion led by ICONIQ. This financing values Anthropic at $183 billion post-money.
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| Megan Morrone / Axios: |
OpenAI details its plan to add guardrails for teens and people in emotional distress by the end of 2025, including routing some conversations to GPT-5-thinking — ChatGPT guardrails for teens and people in emotional distress will roll out by the end of the year, OpenAI promised Tuesday.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Amazon says it will end the ability for Prime members to share their free shipping benefits with individuals outside their household, starting on October 1 — Starting October 1st, Prime members can no longer share free shipping with someone who doesn't live with them.| Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
Internal data: Amazon registered 5.4M US Prime sign-ups over the 21-day run-up to its four-day Prime Day event, ~116K less than in 2024 and 106K below its goal — Amazon (AMZN.O) doubled its Prime Day discount sales to four days this year and touted blowout numbers days after the event.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Dolby launches Dolby Vision 2, adding AI-powered Content Intelligence and Authentic Motion, first on Hisense TVs, after debuting HDR format Dolby Vision in 2014 — The updated format promises ‘authentically cinematic’ use of motion smoothing, and settings that automatically make content look the best depending on your TV and lighting.| Bloomberg: |
TSMC says the US revoked its authorization to ship gear to its main Chinese chipmaking base in Nanjing, after the US revoked Samsung's and SK Hynix's waivers — The US has revoked Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s authorization to freely ship essential gear to its main Chinese chipmaking base … | New York Times: |
An analysis of Grok's responses to 41 political questions in May and July shows it shifted to the right on 50%+ of them, often reflecting Elon Musk's priorities — Mr. Musk said he wanted xAI's chatbot to be “politically neutral.” His actions say otherwise.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft says it is giving the US GSA $6B+ in potential savings on Office, Azure, Dynamics 365, and more over three years, including $3.1B in the first year — Microsoft has agreed to give the U.S. General Services Administration $3.1 billion in potential savings over the course of a year …
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| Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: |
WLFI, run by the Trump family's World Liberty Financial, falls 25% to ~$0.21 on its first trading day, giving it a ~$6B market cap; Trump's WLFI is worth ~$3.6B — WLFI tokens in circulation have a total nominal value of $6.4bn — The crypto token of a project backed by US President Donald Trump fell …
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Winklevoss twins' Gemini plans to sell 16.67M shares at $17 to $19 each in its US IPO, seeking to raise $317M, which would value the crypto exchange at $2.22B — The Winklevoss-led company plans to sell 16.67M shares at $17-$19 each, tapping a hot IPO market. — What to know:| Emily Shugerman / The San Francisco Standard: |
OpenAI subpoenaed AI governance nonprofits Encode and CANI, alleging they are part of a conspiracy involving billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg — Two weeks ago, Nathan Calvin, the general counsel for a small AI governance nonprofit called Encode, was visiting family … | Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
US procurement records show the Trump administration jettisoned a Biden-era order and reactivated an ICE contract for phone spyware from Tel Aviv-based Paragon — US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is on track to gain access to controversial spyware designed to hack phones …
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| Kate Clark / Bloomberg: |
A look at a16z's Speedrun, a YC-like accelerator targeting a more creative demographic and which has invested $180M into 150 companies over the past 18 months — Big VC funds are moving further upstream, placing bets on the youngest companies. — A few weeks ago, about 150 people gathered …
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| Contessa Brewer / CNBC: |
Underdog and Crypto.com debut a sports prediction market to let US users in 16 states bet on the NFL, the NBA, MLB, college football, and more in Underdog's app — Fantasy and sports gaming operator Underdog is partnering with Crypto.com to offer sports prediction markets in 16 states …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
WordPress showed off Telex, its experimental AI development tool, at WordCamp US; CEO Matt Mullenweg called it “V0 or Lovable, but specifically for WordPress” — Web publishing platform WordPress is introducing an early version of an AI development tool, which CEO Matt Mullenweg described as a … | Alistair MacDonald / Wall Street Journal: |
How Ukraine has been using AI to allow groups of drones, known as swarms, to coordinate with each other to attack Russian positions for much of the past year — In a new frontier for warfare, Ukraine is using technology to allow groups of drones to communicate and make decisions independent of their operator| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the EU delayed a planned September 1 fine against Google over its ad tech practices due to fears it could provoke Trump to unravel EU-US trade progress — The European Union paused its immediate plans to punish Alphabet Inc.'s Google for abusing its dominance over advertising technology amid fears … | Hayden Field / The Verge: |
OpenAI acquires product analytics company Statsig for $1.1B and shuffles executive roles, with Statsig CEO Vijaye Raji becoming OpenAI's CTO of Applications — It was a big weekend for the ChatGPT-maker. … OpenAI has started to build out its Applications team under Fidji Simo …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Disney agrees to pay $10M to settle an FTC complaint that alleges Disney failed to designate certain YouTube videos as being made for children — The Walt Disney Company on Tuesday said it has agreed to pay $10 million to settle a children's privacy lawsuit with the Federal Trade Commission related …
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