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| Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: |
S-1 update: Anthropic reports Q3 revenue up 12x YoY to nearly $17B, a $23.3B net loss, up from $12.1B in Q3 2025, and operating expenses up 292% YoY to $17.5B — Anthropic PBC disclosed a twelve-fold increase in quarterly revenue while revealing that it intends to spend more than $895 billion …
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Amended S-1: Anthropic says it has purchase commitments and lease agreements of $895.4B, “substantially all of which is related to compute and infrastructure” — Anthropic reported updated financials as part of an amended Form S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday …
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| Yasutaka Tamura / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Anthropic aims to raise up to $3.5B from Japanese investors as part of its IPO; Australia, Canada, and parts of Europe will also have direct access — Anthropic PBC aims to raise up to $3.5 billion from Japanese investors in its initial public offering in the US …
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| Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: |
Marvell agrees to acquire optical components maker Lumentum in a $115B all-stock deal, as it aims to rival Broadcom; Nvidia invested $2B in each company in 2026 — Marvell Technology (MRVL.O) is buying optical components maker Lumentum (LITE.O) in a $115 billion all-stock deal, including debt …
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| Bloomberg: |
Marvell's $115B Lumentum acquisition is one of the biggest tech deals ever and 2026's top M&A deal; Lumentum is up 128% YTD, giving it a ~$76B market cap — Marvell Technology Inc. agreed to buy Lumentum Holdings Inc. at an enterprise value of $115 billion, clinching one of the largest technology deals … | Bloomberg: |
Supermarkets in Belgium, Ireland, Sweden, Finland, and Estonia report fridge and freezer temperature spikes due to suspected hacks, echoing attacks in France — Supermarkets across Europe were hit by suspected cyberattacks that resulted in sudden changes in the temperatures of their fridges …
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: SpaceX is in talks with EchoStar to acquire Boost Mobile or access its network, after Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T rebuffed requests for network access — Elon Musk approached the heads of America's top telecom companies in recent months with a request that would help him fulfill a years-long dream.
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| Aaron Tilley / The Information: |
Sources: Apple is developing a tabletop robot with a 9" screen and a swiveling arm, set for release in 2027 or 2028 for ~$1,000, as John Ternus pushes robotics — Apple's new CEO John Ternus wants the company to get serious about robots, but judging by Apple's plodding progress …
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| Siladitya Ray / Forbes: |
Elon Musk says the cost of serving Grok Bot was “unsustainably high relative to revenue”, in response to subscribers complaining about SpaceX's usage limits — Topline — Elon Musk acknowledged on Sunday that the cost of running SpaceX's AI agent Grok Bot was “unsustainably high” …
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| Bruno Ferreira / Tom's Hardware: |
Anthropic confirms new Claude Code limits “to steer it away from recreating someone else's specific game”, saying IP infringement violates its usage policy — Meanwhile, we now have direct reports of reverse engineering efforts being blocked, while online complaints grow.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Email: OpenAI plans to merge ChatGPT's Chat and Work tabs on desktop for select users before rolling it out widely; Codex “will remain a separate experience” — The ChatGPT desktop app can be a confusing piece of software, given that there are ChatGPT and Codex sections, and within the former, there are Chat and Work tabs.
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Investigation: a network of 400+ domains and apps linked to Chinese-language developers bypasses app store reviews to generate nonconsensual deepfakes and CSAM — WIRED uncovered some 400 apps and websites linked to Chinese-language developers that look like regular AI tools but had secret features … | Charlotte Klein / New York Magazine: |
A profile of OpenAI VP Charles Porch, an ex-Instagram executive who is rehabilitating AI's image across Hollywood and the media, including via celebrity dinners — Charles Porch is rich, super-connected, and tasked with getting celebrities (and everyone else) to not hate AI so much.
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| SemiAnalysis: |
SemiAnalysis launches GDPx, an AI frontier model benchmark measuring 11 domains, including chip design, cybersecurity, and RSI; Opus 5.5 tops with a 12% score — A comprehensive benchmark spanning RSI, hardware design, cyber, bio, finance, legal, quant trading, chip design, software engineering, materials science, and alignment
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| John Werner / Forbes: |
Tutor, which is training a frontier robot foundation model and builds AI warehouse robots, raised a $75M Series B led by a16z, taking total funding to $117M — This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. … When you look at some of what robotics companies are doing today …
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| Scott Alexander / LessWrong: |
A look at AI safety debates and the rising popularity of “Stop Unilaterally + Raise Awareness”, or SURA; safety-focused AI labs shouldn't abandon the AI race — The AI Futures Project[1] distinguishes several different plans for navigating the AI transition, which I'll lump into two broader categories:| Rest of World: |
Hirundo, Lazarus, and others are applying machine unlearning and weight edits to Chinese models to remove censorship and harden security for Western companies — A growing number of startups are editing powerful Chinese open-weight models for Western businesses that are concerned about censorship and security.| Rivka Galchen / New Yorker: |
A profile of UCLA math professor Terence Tao, who was once enthusiastic about AI's role in math but now warns of AI destroying the field's deliberative process — A.I. is solving problems that stumped the field for decades. Mathematicians look to Terence Tao for guidance on their altered world.| Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: |
Israeli startup 42AI, which is developing a “behavioral world model” that tries to predict human behavior, emerges from stealth with a $62.5M seed — Here's a question straight out of sci-fi: What if AI could predict what you were going to do before you decided to, even in a completely new situation?
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI launches the Grid Protectors Program, a US effort for its future data center campuses to reduce electricity demand when the grid is under strain — Today we're launching the Grid Protectors Program, a national effort to support affordable, reliable electricity for families and businesses in the communities where we build.
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| Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal: |
Filings: Oracle is selling $10B in common stock and $10B in bonds, as it rushes to get financing for its data center buildout and chip purchases; ORCL falls 5%+ — The software company is selling $10 billion in common stock and $10 billion in bonds — Oracle plans to raise $20 billion …
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| Reuters: |
Memo: Alphabet is issuing €6B in euro-denominated debt across seven tranches, attracting €17B+ in demand; Alphabet sold €9B of bonds in six tranches in May 2026 — Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL.O) is selling €6 billion ($6.7 billion) of bonds on Monday …
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
DeepSeek releases a “creator mode” that allows users of DeepSeek Harness to create custom plugins, like a 3D model renderer and a video editing workbench — DeepSeek has unveiled a new option to quickly create custom plugins that help users to tackle a range of complex tasks …
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| Tim Keary / Forbes: |
Data analytics provider Hex Technologies, which says it has rebuilt its platform for AI agents, raised a $100M Series D led by Peak XV at a $1.2B valuation — This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. … The SaaSpocalypse has become one of the most controversial topics in enterprise tech.| Emmy Martin / New York Times: |
How SF's AI boom is reshaping dating: founders treat first dates as interviews, use tech terms like “conversion rate” to track dates, and pay coaches $5K/month — San Francisco's A.I. boom has drawn a wave of young ambitious people who are now reshaping the city's dating life.Kelsey McClellan for The New York Times| Michael S. Rosenwald / New York Times: |
British physicist and materials scientist Cyril Hilsum, widely recognized as “the father of liquid crystals” for enabling flat-panel display tech, died at 101 — The man who helped develop the technology for liquid crystal displays — the screens in flat-panel televisions and laptops — has died at 101.
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