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Mistral raised a €3B Series D led by Samsung at a ~€21B valuation, up from €11.7B in September 2025, as it expands from developing AI models into data centers — Mistral is trying to keep pace with American and Chinese rivals while offering customers a European alternative for artificial intelligence.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic has decided against acquiring Decart for ~$6B after performing due diligence on the startup; a source says the two may still collaborate — Anthropic PBC has decided against acquiring artificial intelligence startup Decart AI, people familiar with the matter said.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's path to a foldable device, the biggest change in iPhone history; sources: memory shortages led Apple to blow past an early $1,999 price goal — Around 2020, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook returned from a trip to Asia unusually energized about a new product category: foldable phones.| Clare Armstrong / ABC: |
Australia proposes a “My Feed, My Way” initiative requiring social platforms to send users a notification asking them to opt in or out of algorithmic content — In short: — The federal government's proposed digital duty of care could let Australians opt in or out of algorithmically recommended social media content.
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| Dustin Volz / New York Times: |
Researchers say they used AI to build a zero-click worm that can hack WeChat accounts and spread across iOS and Android; Tencent says it fixed the vulnerability — The attack, discovered by A.I. researchers, could have compromised hundreds of millions of devices within hours, experts said.| Bloomberg: |
Samsung and TSMC commit to using ASML's High NA EUV machines by 2028 and 2030, joining Intel, with all four agreeing to shift from 6-inch to 12-inch photomasks — ASML Holding NV has won commitments from top chipmakers to use its latest semiconductor production gear, while embarking …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Google rolls out changes to search results in the EU to comply with the DMA, saying they mark the largest reduction in quality of service in Search's history — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google on Tuesday rolled out changes to its online search results in Europe to satisfy EU antitrust regulators … | The Block: |
The attacker who withdrew ~4,000 BTC from Blockstream's Liquid Network federation wallet returns 3,400 BTC after Blockstream said its bridge nodes were patched — - The attacker who withdrew roughly 4,000 BTC from a Liquid Federation wallet has returned 3,400 BTC after Blockstream said its bridge nodes had been patched.
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| Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Robinhood adds Crypto.com's yes-or-no contracts to its platform and takes minority stakes in the exchange and its prediction market business OG — The brokerage will add yes-or-no contracts from Crypto.com prediction business and take stake in digital-currency exchange
More: Quartz
| Howard Liu / South China Morning Post: |
China says its AI compute capacity rose 177% YoY to 2,185 eflops by the end of June, and is targeting 9,800 eflops by 2030 via ~$532B in IT infrastructure spend — China plans to deploy artificial intelligence computing clusters containing 100,000 accelerator cards and sharply expand …
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| Siobhan Roberts / New York Times: |
Fields medalist Jacob Tsimerman, set to join OpenAI later this month, launches the Mathematical AI Safety Institute to apply higher math to AI safety problems — Jacob Tsimerman, a recent recipient of the Fields Medal, believes that higher mathematics can help curb the dangers of runaway artificial intelligence.
More: Nature
| Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware: |
Arm debuts Neoverse CSS N4, its next-gen semi-custom chip design platform, and says it supports 8 to 128 Neoverse N4 cores at up to 3.8 GHz on TSMC's N3P node — Putting a little pep in Neoverse N-series' step. … Arm is bringing its next-gen Neoverse CSS N4 platforms to the cloud …
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| Micah Barkley / Bloomberg: |
Forus, which uses AI to help patients get prescribed drugs more quickly by navigating steps like insurance coverage, raised a $150M Series C at a $3B valuation — Healthcare automation startup Forus has raised $150 million at a $3 billion valuation just months after completing a previous funding round.
More: RuntimeWire
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Huawei is investing in Chinese lithography companies and helping them secure deals with leading fabs like SMIC to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers — Tech giant plays ‘project management’ role to build components needed for DUV machines and avoid export controlsSponsor Posts
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Copilot to autopilot: Why no single safeguard is enough — Microsoft designed a layered model that lets an AI agent resolve network incidents on its own within defined boundaries.
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