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Sources: senior Anthropic technical staff are in DC to meet WH officials and try to fix the Mythos 5 dispute; both sides say they are eager to resolve the issue — Senior technical Anthropic staff are in Washington to meet with White House officials to try to fix a dispute that has taken …
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| Bloomberg: |
Canadian PM says the Anthropic ban shows the dangers of “over-reliance on certain models”, and compares the risks to those that led to the 2008 financial crisis — Prime Minister Mark Carney said the US export ban blocking all foreign access to Anthropic PBC's latest artificial …
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| Emily Shugerman / The San Francisco Standard: |
Inside the Signal group chat where Sergey Brin, Marc Andreessen, Garry Tan, and other tech elites toss out strategies to oppose a proposed California wealth tax — The billionaires of California had a problem. — It was the fall of 2025, and a proposed ballot initiative to tax 5% … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Siri AI is good enough to ease Apple's AI crisis; sources: the ability to tap third party AI models beyond OpenAI's is already active in internal iOS 27 builds — The company prepares for the foldable iPhone and touch-screen MacBook. — Apple's new Siri AI, despite mainly delivering …
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| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
Chinese Tesla drivers are using tiny plastic heads to fool Tesla's distracted-driving controls, which appear unable to distinguish figurines from real people — A cottage industry of celebrity figurines, blinking screens, and other DIY gadgets is helping drivers bypass Tesla's distracted-driving controls.| New York Times: |
A profile of UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid, the world's leading digital forensics expert for 20+ years, who says he is now struggling to identify AI fakes — The emails began to arrive on a Sunday morning, as the worst ones often did. Hany Farid opened the first message at his home … | Satya Nadella / @satyanadella: |
Satya Nadella says companies must own their AI “learning loops” to compound human and token capital, or risk ceding all value to a handful of frontier models — I've been thinking a lot about the future of the firm in an AI-driven economy. This transition is different than any previous platform shift.
| David Wainer / Wall Street Journal: |
Health wearables are booming, with both Oura and Whoop eyeing IPOs, but investors remain cautious after Fitbit's struggles and low consumer hardware margins — Oura and Whoop are eyeing IPOs at heady valuations — From sleep scores to heart rate, our biology now arrives packaged as a dashboard.
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| Cathy Chan / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Alibaba is in talks to buy Chinese fresh grocery delivery platform Pupu for $1.5B, in a bid to better compete with food delivery rivals like Meituan — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is offering $1.5 billion to buy Chinese grocery delivery firm Pupu, initiating a bidding war as part …
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| Zain Khan / New York Post: |
Sundar Pichai faced a walkout at his Stanford commencement speech, as 100+ students left amid chants of “Free, free Palestine” over Google's ties with Israel — See more of our coverage in your search results. — Add The California Post on Google| Reuters: |
Sources: ByteDance is in talks with Shanghai-based Iluvatar CoreX to purchase AI inference GPUs, and is also considering a deal to buy Baidu's Kunlunxin chips — Chinese technology company ByteDance is in talks with Shanghai-based Iluvatar CoreX (9903.HK) to purchase AI chips for inference work … | Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
Madrid-based Orbio, which uses AI agents to help businesses interview, onboard, and manage frontline workers, raised a $21M Series A led by Dawn Capital — After Sergi Bastardas' decade at Amazon and floriculture startup Colvin, one thing always stood out — the feeling that there wasn't enough efficient … | Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Sandstone, which builds AI-powered workflow automation tools for legal teams at small and mid-sized businesses, raised a $30M Series A led by Lightspeed — With Harvey and Legora burning through eight-figure funding rounds, legal tools have proven to be one of the fastest-growing and most hotly contested verticals among AI startups.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Frank founder Charlie Javice, sentenced in September 2025 to 85 months for defrauding JPMorgan Chase, has been seeking a presidential pardon from Trump — The entrepreneur sold her startup Frank to the bank for $175 million and was sentenced in September to over seven years in prison for fraud
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