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AWS says it is “seeing connectivity and API recovery” for AWS services following a huge US-EAST-1 outage that started since at least 3:11am ET  —  The cause of the AWS outage is currently unclear. … A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage took down multiple online services …
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Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack:
Anthropic announces Claude Code on the web and in the Claude iOS app, available in beta as a research preview for Pro and Max users  —  Today, Anthropic's Claude Code agentic coding tool is moving beyond the terminal and coming to the web and the company's mobile app.
Jonathan Kemper / The Decoder:
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-OCR, a vision language model designed for efficient vision-text compression, enabling longer contexts with less compute  —  Chinese AI company Deepseek has built an OCR system that compresses image-based text documents for language models, aiming to let AI handle …
Vlad Savov / Bloomberg:
Counterpoint: iPhone 17 models outsold the iPhone 16 by 14% in the first 10 days of US and China sales; base iPhone 17 sales nearly doubled over the 16 in China  —  Apple Inc.'s latest generation of iPhones is off to a faster start than usual, with its most basic model surging in popularity.
Bloomberg:
Nexperia accuses ousted CEO Zhang Xuezheng of spreading “falsehoods” that the chipmaker is now operating independently in China and of “unauthorized actions”  —  Chipmaker Nexperia has accused its ousted chief executive officer of spreading “falsehoods” …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Oura launches a redesigned app with a new feature showing a weekly overview of stress management and says it's working with the US FDA on a blood pressure study  —  The company is launching a study that uses ring data to detect ‘early signs of hypertension.’
Reuters:
Evernorth, a digital asset treasury backed by Ripple, says it will list on the Nasdaq through a merger with a blank check company and expects to raise $1B+  —  Evernorth, a new crypto venture backed by digital asset firm Ripple, said on Monday it will list on the Nasdaq through a merger …
Sharon Goldman / Fortune:
LangChain, whose open-source framework connects AI apps to real-time data, raised a $125M Series B led by IVP at a $1.25B valuation  —  LangChain, one of the earliest breakout startups of the generative AI era, announced a $125 million Series B funding round on Monday at a $1.25 billion valuation.
Financial Times:
Blackstone President Jonathan Gray says AI risk is “top of our list” when evaluating deals; sources: the firm backed down from buying companies vulnerable to AI  —  Jonathan Gray says private capital group has put risks from the technology ‘top of our list’ when evaluating deals
David Pan / Bloomberg:
CleanSpark shares jump 12%+ after the bitcoin miner expands into AI infrastructure, hiring Humain's president Jeffrey Thomas as SVP of AI data centers  —  Shares of CleanSpark Inc. surged as much as 13% after the Bitcoin miner announced that it was expanding into date-center infrastructure …

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Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Sony's Spider-Man: Brand New Day opened to a record-setting $360M in North America, beating Avengers: Endgame's $357M; globally, it hit $932M, second to Endgame

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Former 60 Minutes correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Scott Pelley plan to serve as part-time journalists-in-residence at Columbia during the coming academic year

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