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Sources: Anthropic's AI agents submitted 20 visa applications via a form on the US State Department website; the applications were incomplete and not processed — The Philadelphia Police Department said the agents had also sent in a false homicide tip. The incidents led the White House …
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| Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic says it is barring live internet access for internal evals until monitoring is reliable, after its agents exploited websites and bypassed restrictions — Anthropic said its models exploited websites on the internet, including some run by U.S. government agencies …
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| CBS News: |
A look at a 1,700-member Slack run by Medicare agency CMS where Microsoft, OpenAI, and other companies help shape policy on AI apps and medical records access — A cadre of elite techies, financiers, and high-level Trump administration officials have spent a year quietly charting an extraordinary … | 6abc: |
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| Adam Morgan / Wired: |
Dozens of staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette: without author consent, publishers are quietly using AI to make back-cover copy, cover art, more — Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy …
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at differing revenue calculations of Anthropic and OpenAI, as Anthropic books gross sales through cloud partners, while OpenAI records only its net share — When measuring the race between artificial intelligence leaders OpenAI and Anthropic PBC, investors have run into a problem …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
How Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown used GOP ties to end a June standoff over model safety and win over Musk, brokering a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal — Tom Brown is leveraging his Republican ties and business savvy to win over Washington and secure the computing power Anthropic needs| Jemima McEvoy / The Information: |
A profile of Zach Frankel, a secretive and unusually hands-on solo investor who wrote the first checks to startups like Ramp, Cognition, and Applied Compute — Last month, Zach Dell, son of billionaire Michael Dell and cofounder of Base Power, a billion-dollar battery startup … | William Langley / Financial Times: |
IDC: Shenzhen-based DJI and Insta360, accounting for 73% and 20% of global smart camera market in Q2, are vying for the top spot as GoPro's share drops to 3% — DJI and Insta360 engaged in ‘civil war’ to become world's top smart camera maker — The decline of action camera pioneer GoPro …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Dario Amodei spoke with Meta's Alexandr Wang earlier this year, hoping to source more compute; Meta declined the request — Bitter rivals are forming alliances and executives are having to personally intervene over the scramble for resources to fuel the AI boom
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources detail how Firmus' IPO collapsed in 48 hours after US fund managers deemed its $30B valuation too rich for a company with just $51M in FY 2026 revenue — Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 17.94% Playback Rate — This is a modal window. — Unmute — In 48 hours, Firmus Grid Ltd. went …
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| Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Walmart's troubled push to automate its ~200 US warehouses, as it and partners like Symbotic face technical setbacks; Walmart owns 12.6% of Symbotic — Machines programmed to sort merchandise in warehouses hit kinks with cardboard boxes and turkeys; automation push reaches ‘peak complexity’| Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / Politico: |
Current and former employees say TikTok US still coordinates closely with the global TikTok org, and US staff continue to use ByteDance's internal chat app Lark — In the months before TikTok finalized a deal to sell its U.S. operations to a group of investors friendly to President Donald Trump …
X: @politico, @sylviavarnham, @sylviavarnham, and @sylviavarnham
| Nik Popli / Time: |
A US Senate investigation led by Senators Warren, Van Hollen, and Blumenthal says some hyperscalers misled the public about AI data centers' costs and benefits — Nik Popli … As the world's biggest technology companies race to build data centers across the country to power an AI boom … | TrendForce: |
Laptop production share outside China is expected to fall from 24% in 2025 to 21% in 2026 as PC makers rethink shifting production amid soaring component costs — TrendForce's latest notebook industry research reveals that the primary risk facing the market in 2027 is expected to shift …
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