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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B, its second-biggest purchase after it paid $20B for Groq assets at the end of last year — Nvidia has officially agreed to buy open-source artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, as the chipmaker moves beyond hardware and further up the AI stack.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Meta rolls out Muse Spark 1.3 in Muse Code and Meta Model API, saying it improves performance across agentic and coding tasks, at the same pricing as Spark 1.2 — Meta on Wednesday released Muse Spark 1.3, an update it says significantly improves performance in coding and agentic tasks.
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| Mark Zuckerberg / @finkd: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's Watermelon model and Muse Spark open weights are “coming soon” — Muse Spark 1.3 is rolling out today with frontier performance almost too cheap to meter. This is the biggest jump we've made so far on coding and agentic work. Try it in Muse Code and our API. Next up 🍉 and Muse Spark open weights releases coming soon.
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| @artificialanlys: |
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| Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
All G20 nations unanimously endorse the non-binding Carolina Principles, a US-proposed framework calling for a lighter touch to governing emerging tech like AI — Representatives from the world's largest economies unanimously agreed to adopt guidelines proposed by the US that call …
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| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
At the G20 summit, Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk joined Trump officials in lobbying policymakers against heavy AI regulations — Company bosses, officials say advances in technology are already making AI safer than under government regulations| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft plans to start disclosing Azure quarterly revenue as part of a shift in its reporting structure, under which Azure revenue grew 42% to $29.42B in Q4 — Microsoft will start disclosing quarterly revenue for its Azure cloud business for the first time, providing investors …
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| Valeriya Safronova / Financial Times: |
How some parents, mostly mothers, use AI to help them organize their families' schedules and automate mundane household tasks via apps like Ollie and Cozi Max — Parents are using AI to organise their families, from managing busy schedules to researching preschools, planning meals and grocery shopping.| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Anker unveils the Eufy MindBase, a local AI hub for its cameras that runs an on-device, Anker-developed LLM, with a dedicated AI chip and up to 48TB of storage — The company also announced a new Eufy video doorbell with VR features and a window camera.
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| Anil Dash: |
Modern venture capital has transformed into an unchecked oligarchy, or “Cancer Capital”, where mega-firms managing $50B+ live off fees and shift risk elsewhere — We really, really need to talk about venture capital. Because it's not “venture capital” anymore.
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| Wired: |
Sources: Meta adjusts employee review language around “AI-driven impact” and token usage, easing off on tokenmaxxing, while promoting the use of AI agent Hatch — The company is reducing pressure on workers to use artificial intelligence tools while encouraging them to experiment with Hatch … | Dawn Lim / Bloomberg: |
How organized opposition that toppled a $100B data center project in Virginia's Prince William County became a blueprint for data center backlash in the US — Organized opposition toppled a $100 billion project from developers backed by two of the world's biggest private equity companies.| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
| Farah Stockman / New York Times: |
The Trump administration imposes tariffs of up to 100% on foreign drones, including 100% on models over 55lbs or with thermal imaging, in a bid to thwart China — In addition, the F.C.C. is weighing stiff restrictions on common drone technology such as thermal imaging and aerosol spraying.
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| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
HTC rolls out its $499 Vive Eagle, which let users choose between Gemini or ChatGPT as their assistant, in North America, Europe, the UK, and Australia — HTC Corp. is rolling out its Vive Eagle smart glasses in the US, entering a market where category leader Meta Platforms Inc …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber launches London's first commercial robotaxi service; the vehicles use UK-based Wayve's autonomous driving tech and will initially have human safety drivers — The cars have no lidar and no geofence, but still will have human safety drivers for the initial launch.
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Forums: r/london and r/SelfDrivingCars
| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Palo Alto Networks paid $500M in cash and stock to acquire agentic IT support startup Console; PitchBook: Console had a $157M valuation before the sale — Palo Alto Networks paid $500 million in cash and stock to acquire Console, a two-year-old startup that uses AI agents … | MarketWatch: |
Snowflake reports Q2 revenue up 35% YoY to $1.55B, vs. $1.48B est., a $191.7M net loss, and forecasts Q3 and FY 2027 product revenue above est.; SNOW jumps 20%+ — Companies looking to build AI tools on top of their data are turning to Snowflake, driving robust revenue growth| Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
Munich-based Atira, which aims to use AI to automate the parsing and generation of complex bid proposals, raised a $15M seed led by Accel and a $2.5M pre-seed — When a company that builds fire trucks, rail-maintenance machinery, or electric vehicle chargers is invited to bid on a big contract … | CNBC: |
Equinix, whose stock is up 33% YTD, pushing its market cap to $100B, inks a deal with Nvidia to let customers run their AI models on the Together AI platform — Long before the era of the hyperscalers and neoclouds, and decades ahead of the AI data center boom, there was Equinix.| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
PitchBook: 95+ investors put money into both Anthropic and OpenAI amid shifting norms; sources: Menlo, Lightspeed, and Iconiq each hold 1%-2% Anthropic stakes — As the artificial intelligence companies Anthropic and OpenAI prepare to go public, the question around Silicon Valley is which investors will win big.
More: Fortune
| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
Uber is aligning with drivers' unions in a bid to slow the rollout of robotaxis across the US, as it faces a technological disruption to its core business — Ride-hailing app admits its effort to back workers may appear ‘ironic’ after years of clashes with drivers.
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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
TrendForce: for a 256GB iPhone Pro model, Q3 memory costs are forecast to be ~400% higher than a year prior but Apple won't pass on the full cost to customers — A new market intelligence report suggests that Apple will be paying four times more for iPhone 18 Pro memory than it did for last year's model.
More: MacRumors, The Apple Post, and MacTech.com
| Omar El Chmouri / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Saudi AI company Humain is planning to raise an initial $2.5B fund to help finance data center capacity of 250 MW in Saudi Arabia — Artificial intelligence firm Humain is planning to raise an initial $2.5 billion from global and domestic investors for a fund to invest in data centers … | Ryan Gould / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Thoma Bravo-backed Proofpoint is in talks to acquire cybersecurity company Varonis; Varonis rose 10.4% on Wednesday, giving it a market value of ~$5.4B — Thoma Bravo-backed Proofpoint Inc. is in talks to acquire cybersecurity company Varonis Systems Inc., according to people familiar … | Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: |
Tel Aviv-based Guardio, which offers a subscription-based consumer security service that protects digital accounts like emails, raised $40M at a $1.1B valuation — Israeli cybersecurity startup Guardio raised funds from investors including Assaf Rappaport, the founder of cloud security firm Wiz …
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