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Sources: Jensen Huang and Alice Huang's relationship dates back to at least 2023, facilitating $7.5B+ in Nvidia chip shipments via Chinese companies since then — The relationship between Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Alice Huang, the woman that the U.S. government reportedly identified …
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Trump says the FBI is “looking into” Jensen Huang's affair, and the Nvidia CEO told him that he “had absolutely no idea that the person in question was a spy” — President Donald Trump said Monday that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang should not worry about the FBI looking …
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Short seller Culper Research's May 13 report, which flagged Jensen Huang's relationship with Alice Huang as “uncomfortably close”, resurfaces on social media — Six months before the Nvidia spy scandal emerged, the New York-based short seller firm Culper Research …
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Analysis: Nvidia's 2025 figures to the US government undercounted chips sold to Megaspeed via partners by 50,000; Nvidia did not give Bloomberg an exact figure — Nvidia Corp.'s general counsel intervened in a US government probe of suspected smuggling of AI chips by Megaspeed International …
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Anthropic launches its IPO roadshow, saying the company and shareholders plan to sell 825M Class A shares at $70 to $78 each, listing on the Nasdaq under ANT — Today Anthropic, PBC launched the roadshow for its proposed initial public offering of its Class A common stock.
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Filing: Anthropic's IPO could give it an up to $1.405T valuation on a fully diluted basis, up from the $965B valuation during its $65B Series H announced in May — Anthropic said it will offer 825 million shares in its upcoming IPO at a price range between $70 to $78 per share …
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| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
IPO prospectus: Anthropic and its investors are set to raise up to $64.4B, and it will also raise $26B via cornerstone investors like Google, AMD, and Nvidia — Anthropic is targeting a valuation of up to $1.02 trillion in its landmark U.S. IPO, its filing showed on Tuesday … | Echo Wang / Reuters: |
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Anthropic releases Mythos 5.2 and Fable 5.2, saying they are “best for the most ambitious, open-ended technical work”, with outputs up to 30% faster than 5.1 — We've upgraded Claude Fable and Claude Mythos—models that are designed to tackle the most daunting technical challenges.
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Scale Labs and CAIS' Remote Labor Index: Fable 5.2 completes 41.3% of freelance projects at professional quality, above Opus 5.5's 21.3% and GPT-6 Astra's 20.8% — - Fable 5.2 breaks through in 3D models, audio, and architecture … The test measures how often AI agents complete real freelance jobs …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Google DeepMind researchers used agentic AI framework AlphaProof Code to verify the Signal protocol's cryptographic guarantees, in a four-week proof-of-concept — DeepMind researchers were able to formally verify that the widely used encryption protocol works as intended. Their stretch goal?
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Rockstar plans to make GTA VI available on Xbox Cloud Gaming at launch next week, likely restricting streaming exclusively to consoles; GTA VI runs at 30fps — Rockstar Games confirms GTA VI will run at 30fps across all consoles. … Rockstar Games is making Grand Theft Auto VI available …
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| Kyle Kucharski / ZDNET: |
Amazon's Ring unveils the $249 Ring Drone Cam and the $999 Ring Rover Cam, utilizing its AI Pilot navigation software, under new subbrand Ring Robotics — Alongside the Ring Drone Cam, Ring introduced the Rover Cam for businesses. It investigates disturbances and streams 4K footage.| Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: |
Apple begins offering additional AI access via one-time $50 “intelligence usage packs” when users meet monthly usage caps, starting in its Creator Studio apps — Apple has said it will eventually charge for expanded usage of select AI features.| Reuters: |
The White House picks Palantir CISO Michael LoSapio to lead the DHS' Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, replacing Acting Director Nick Andersen — The White House said on Monday it has nominated Michael LoSapio to be the director of the US Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity …
| Andy Lin / Bloomberg: |
Filings: Moonshot signed a deal in August to rent 32 China-based Super Micro servers with Nvidia B300, the most powerful AI chip, possibly in breach of US rules — Moonshot AI accessed a trove of Nvidia Corp.'s most advanced chips this summer, according to documents filed with Beijing regulators …
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Take-Two reiterates its FY 2027 outlook and reports Q2 total net bookings down 18% YoY to $1.6B, below $1.65B est.; NBA 2K27 missed sales forecast due to GTA VI — The video-game publisher may have hurt one game's sales with another of its own games — Take-Two Interactive Software Inc …
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| James Mayger / Bloomberg: |
Australia is drafting legislation for an AI safety regulator that can impose “significant penalties” after an OpenAI model hacked a government site in September — Australia will create a new artificial-intelligence safety regulator that will have the power to impose …
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| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
Cyanogen's co-founder and two others debut Kora, a Linux desktop OS that integrates AI models at a system level, set for a 2027 launch on Snapdragon and x86 PCs — Hailing from Cyanogen's cofounder, Kora is a next-gen alternative to Windows and macOS for power users running local AI models.
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| Anna Tong / Forbes: |
AI infrastructure provider Fireworks says hackers accessed some customers' datasets, incomplete model weights, and billing information over the past month — Two customers told Forbes they had already substantially moved their business off Fireworks' systems, with one describing a series …
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BT CEO Allison Kirkby says a Starlink deal is “ready to launch” but the company is “cautious on how Starlink might be viewed” after the Ukraine service cutoff — Launch will not proceed until ‘noise has died down’ over battlefield service disruptions, says CEO Allison Kirkby
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Reddit launches Reddit Reviews, a built-in hub using AI to turn subreddit comments into product pages with pros, cons, and sentiment, starting with 10K items — With a new product reviews hub, Reddit is creating something akin to a crowdsourced Wirecutter.
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TSMC plans to invest up to $500M in Anthropic at its IPO price and up to $500M in OpenAI to acquire preferred stock — TSMC (2330.TW) plans to invest up to $1 billion across leading AI developers Anthropic and OpenAI, highlighting the Taiwanese chipmaker's confidence in long-term demand …
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