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| Wall Street Journal: |
Anthropic says DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot violated its ToS by prompting Claude a combined 16M+ times and using distillation to train their own products — The allegations mirror those of OpenAI, which told House lawmakers that DeepSeek used ‘distillation’ to improve models
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: PayPal is attracting takeover interest from potential buyers after its stock fell ~46% over the last 12 months, giving PayPal a market value of ~$38.4B — PayPal Holdings Inc., the digital payments pioneer, is attracting takeover interest from potential buyers after a stock slide wiped … | Citrini Research: |
Imagining an AI-driven “2028 Global Intelligence Crisis”: as white-collar layoffs grow, the human-centric consumer economy withers and the social fabric frays — A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future — Preface — What if our AI bullishness continues to be right …
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| Jack Pitcher / Wall Street Journal: |
Software stocks extend their weeks-long selloff, with AppLovin, Datadog, Workday down 7%+; several of the biggest decliners were discussed in a post by Citrini — The weeks-long selloff in software stocks deepened Monday amid general unease about the threat posed by AI.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: some Xbox staffers say they are relieved that Sarah Bond is leaving, after she led a pivot away from the console with the “Xbox everywhere” strategy — Microsoft has a new gaming CEO who wants to bring Xbox back from the brink. … Xbox fans had been anticipating …
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| Anissa Gardizy / The Information: |
How OpenAI scrambled for compute as Stargate stalled amid clashes with SoftBank; sources say OpenAI building its own data centers is not its near-term priority — When President Donald Trump announced the $500 billion Stargate AI data center project in January 2025, the three companies charged …
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| Axios: |
Sources: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summons Dario Amodei to the Pentagon on Tuesday morning for what is likely to be a tense meeting over Claude usage — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon on Tuesday morning for what sources …
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
OpenAI launches Frontier Alliances, entering into multiyear deals with Accenture, BCG, Capgemini, and McKinsey to help deploy its enterprise platform Frontier — OpenAI on Monday announced it is entering into multiyear partnerships with four consulting firms that will help the company deploy its enterprise platform called Frontier.
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| Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: |
Some AI startups are boosting their valuations by raising capital in back-to-back or multitiered deals, raising questions about how much they are really worth — The race to get into hot AI startups has led to unequal deals for investors, raising questions about how much companies are really worth
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| Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: |
Finnish quantum computing company IQM plans to go public via a SPAC merger with New Jersey-based Real Asset Acquisition in a deal set to value it at $1.8B — IQM Quantum Computers will go public through a merger with a blank-check vehicle in a deal expected to value the Finnish quantum computing firm …
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| Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: |
Google Antigravity users say their paid Google AI accounts were banned after linking Gemini models via OpenClaw; Peter Steinberger says he may “remove support” — Google has restricted accounts of AI Ultra subscribers who accessed Gemini models through OpenClaw, a third-party OAuth client … | Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
Uber launches Uber Autonomous Solutions, offering services like insurance, roadside assistance, and “AV mission control” tools, and will offer fleet financing — App says new operation will boost commercialisation of AVs — Uber has set up a new initiative to serve a growing number … | Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: |
Samsung plans to add Perplexity to Galaxy AI on the upcoming S26 series; users can launch the Perplexity agent by saying “Hey Plex” or with a physical button — The wakeup phrase will be, ‘Hey Plex.’ — Samsung's next flagship devices will offer Perplexity as part of an expansion …
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic details the AI Fluency Index, tracking 11 behaviors that represent human-AI collaboration and measure how people collaborate with AI — People are integrating AI tools into their daily routines at a pace that would have been difficult to predict even a year ago.| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
In recent interviews, Sam Altman said AI's adoption faces more resistance than he expected, while Jensen Huang warned the “doomer narrative” may be winning — Tech leaders are beginning to worry about the public's underwhelming enthusiasm for their plans to remake the world with artificial intelligence.
More: TBPN, PR Daily, NextBigWhat, and TechCrunch
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Trump's “Board of Peace” is exploring a USD-pegged stablecoin for Gaza; a source says it will not be a “Gaza Coin” or a new Palestinian currency — Proposal to launch cryptocurrency pegged to US dollar comes after cash supply was decimated during Israeli offensive
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