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A look at the nasty fight between Anthropic-backed super PAC Public First and OpenAI-backed Leading the Future to sway midterms, especially Democratic primaries — One super PAC is allied with Anthropic. The other is tied to OpenAI. They're both spending millions to influence this year's elections.| Financial Times: |
SoftBank pledges to invest up to €75B in AI computing clusters in France, first leading a €45B investment to build 3.1GW of capacity by 2031 in Hauts-de-France — Masayoshi Son places France at the centre of his global AI ambitions — SoftBank has pledged to invest up to €75bn …
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China's tech boom is creating a new kind of tech tourism where visitors pay for curated robotaxi rides and tours of EV factories and AI and robotics companies — Foreign visitors are flocking to China's factories and AI startups in search of the next technological breakthrough.| Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic cuts its list of unauthorized secondary market sellers from eight to four after the initial notice caused panic and pushback from investors — Anthropic PBC updated its warning about secondary markets for its shares, cutting the number of unauthorized platforms by half … | John Koblin / New York Times: |
Antenna: bundles make up 33% of new major streaming service subscriptions in the US, and 28% of all subscriptions, up from just 10% of new subscriptions in 2024 — Warner Bros. and Disney have been fierce rivals for decades. But like other entertainment companies, they both struggled … | Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
PitchBook: VC investment in global robotics and physical AI jumped to $26B in 2025 from $4.2B in 2019, and has already topped $23B as of May 20 this year — Investors bet big on infrastructure and ‘physical AI,’ enticed by prospect of revenue opportunities| SemiAnalysis: |
Why “Dark Output”, the AI-generated economic value that is currently invisible to national statistics, may be one of the hardest measurement problems in history — Why AI's increasing output is going to be one of the hardest economic measurement problems in history.| Pritam Biswas / Reuters: |
Coinbase and Kalshi introduce perpetual crypto futures, marking the first time the contracts will be available to US investors via domestic, regulated exchanges — Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase (COIN.O) and prediction markets platform Kalshi said on Friday they are introducing perpetual crypto futures …
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| Patricia Cohen / New York Times: |
How Schneider Electric is using AI in call centers and manufacturing to complement employees' work and boost productivity, rather than to replace them — For many chief executives, success in adopting artificial intelligence is measured by the number of jobs they can eliminate.| Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of OpenAI President Greg Brockman, who is overseeing product in his new role and has become an important ambassador for AI to the Trump administration — After years in the shadow of better-known co-founders, Greg Brockman is stepping into the spotlight. He and his wife Anna are also Silicon Valley super-donors.
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Sources detail AI companies' engagement with US FERC as the energy regulator readies a June proposal to speed up data center connections to regional power grids — “The hyperscalers, when they do come speak to us, they don't speak FERC,” Swett said. “Their complaints about the utilities …
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The DOD's $9.7B contract with Dell has raised eyebrows as a potential payback for Michael and Susan Dell's $6.25B donation to 25M US children's Trump Accounts — Michael Dell bought into President Donald Trump's second term early. Now his hardware company, Dell Technologies …
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Internal memo: Meta plans to start testing an AI pendant in 2027, release new AI glasses next month, start a “Wearables for Work” unit for enterprises, and more — Meta Platforms plans to start testing an AI pendant in the next year as part of an ambitious roadmap … | Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: |
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SoftBank pledges to invest up to €75B in AI computing clusters in France, first leading a €45B investment to build 3.1GW of capacity by 2031 in Hauts-de-FranceFind
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