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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9B, its second-biggest acquisition yet, after it paid $20B to buy assets from chipmaker Groq in December 2025 — Nvidia has officially agreed to buy open-source artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion …
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LinkedIn: Irene Solaiman, Julien Chaumond, and Clem Delangue
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Forums: r/LocalLLM and r/nvidia
| 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| 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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| 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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| 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 organize their families' schedules and automate mundane household tasks via apps like Ollie, Cozi Max, Town, and Ava — 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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| 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.| 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 … | 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
| 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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| 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: |
| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
HTC rolls out its $499 Vive Eagle smart glasses, which let users choose between Gemini or ChatGPT as their assistant, in North America, Europe, 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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| 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 … | Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Upwind, which filters false security alerts in cloud apps so companies can focus on actual risks, raised ~$300M at a ~$3.8B valuation, up from ~$1.5B in January — The Israeli cloud security company was valued at $1.5 billion when it raised $250 million in January, and has since attracted fresh backing …
More: Bloomberg, Axios, Tech in Asia, Globes, and RuntimeWire
| 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.| Bloomberg: |
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| 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.| 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 … | Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
TrendForce: for a 256GB iPhone Pro model, Q3 memory costs are forecast to be up nearly 400% YoY; Apple is not expected to pass on the full increase 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.| Omar El Chmouri / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Riyadh-based AI startup 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 … | 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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