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NEWAnthropic Weighs $50 Billion Raise at Valuation Near $1 Trillion

NEWUS Suspects OBON Helped Smuggle Nvidia Servers to China, Alibaba Among Customers

Trial Emails Show Microsoft Doubted OpenAI but Feared Losing It to Amazon↩ cont.

Broadcom Wants Microsoft to Buy 40% of OpenAI’s First Chip Batch↩ cont.

NEWSK Hynix Draws Big Tech Funding Offers as AI Memory Supply Tightens

Zilis Testimony Suggests Tesla Was Considered for OpenAI For-Profit Subsidiary↩ cont.

NEWSony and TSMC Plan Kumamoto Joint Venture for Next-Generation Image Sensors

NEWSoftBank Cuts OpenAI-Backed Margin Loan Target to $6 Billion After Creditor Hesitation

Judge Rules DOGE Humanities Grant Terminations Unconstitutional, Says They Must Be Undone

xAI Widens Grok With Build Coding Agent, Apple CarPlay and Real-Time Search↩ cont.

Musk Says SpaceX Can Reclaim Anthropic Compute Under Colossus 1 Deal↩ cont.

Nvidia Backs IREN With Up to $2.1 Billion in 5-Gigawatt AI Partnership↩ cont.

McCauley Questions Altman Credibility as OpenAI Trial Awaits Nadella Testimony↩ cont.

South Korea Overtakes Canada and Becomes World’s Seventh-Largest Equity Market↩ cont.

Cloudflare Cuts More Than 1,100 Jobs as It Shifts to AI-First Model

OpenAI Trial Adds Altman-Murati Texts to Record on 2023 Firing Crisis↩ cont.

Hut 8 Surges 35% After $9.8 Billion Texas AI Data Center Lease↩ cont.

OpenAI-Broadcom Chip Plan Hits $18 Billion Snag as Microsoft Holds Sway↩ cont.

EU Lawmakers Delay High-Risk AI Rules to 2027 and Exempt Industrial AI↩ cont.

CoreWeave Beats on Revenue as Q2 Forecast Miss Weighs on Shares

Musk Says Multiple Grok Models Are Training Simultaneously at Colossus 2↩ cont.

Anthropic Releases Claude for Excel PowerPoint and Word as Outlook Enters Beta↩ cont.

Meta Prepares Hatch AI Waitlist Grounded in Instagram and Facebook Data↩ cont.

OpenAI Adds GPT-Realtime-2 and Two Voice Models to Realtime API

AI Rally Spreads Across Asia as Nikkei Climbs 5.6% at Record Close↩ cont.

US and China Weigh AI-Risk Talks Ahead of Trump-Xi Summit↩ cont.

Google Rolls Out Gemini Personal Intelligence in EU After Regulatory Hurdles↩ cont.

Apple AirPods With Cameras Reach Advanced Testing as Its First AI Wearable

EU Reaches Deal on Softer AI Rules and Delayed Rollout

SoftBank Weighs Japan-Made AI Server Push With Nvidia and Foxconn

Akamai Wins $1.8 Billion Cloud Infrastructure Commitment From Frontier Model Provider

AWS Enables USDC Payments for Bedrock AI Agents With Coinbase on Base

DeepSeek V4 Replaces cuBLAS With Faster Custom Deterministic Kernel Stack↩ cont.

Moonshot AI Raises About $2 Billion at $20 Billion-Plus Valuation↩ cont.

Lambda Secures $1 Billion Credit Facility to Expand AI Data Centers

Google Replaces Fitbit App With Google Health, Adds Gemini Coaching↩ cont.

Tesla Says Supervised FSD Passes 10 Billion Miles of Driving

Google Takes Stake in EVE Online Developer as DeepMind Trains AI↩ cont.

Google Unveils Google Health With Gemini Coach Alongside $100 Fitbit Air↩ cont.

Perplexity Brings Finance Search to Agent API With Real-Time Market Data↩ cont.

Grok Computer Starts Rolling Out as xAI Web App Shows New Selector↩ cont.

Anthropic Details Claude Tool That Converts Activations Into Readable Explanations

Google Prepares Flow Agent Mode as Gemini Expands Into Video Production↩ cont.

OpenAI Brings Codex Directly to Chrome on Mac and Windows

Google Makes Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Generally Available as Cost-Efficient AI Model

Scale AI Releases SWE Atlas Refactoring Leaderboard Led by Claude Opus 4.7

Firefox Says Claude Mythos Preview Helped Fix More Security Bugs Than Prior 15 Months

GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5-Cyber Roll Out for Defensive and Critical Infrastructure Security