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Last 30 Days (October 3 – November 1)

Oracle Brings ChatGPT and Codex Into Its Apps at AI World


Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3.1 Pro

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Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro

Anthropic Warns AI Models Could Self-Replicate on Home Devices


Fired OpenAI Researchers Dispute Misconduct Claims


SpaceX and Tesla Explore Merger

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Elon Musk Says SpaceX and Tesla Are Exploring a Merger
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Anthropic S-1 Warns of AI Existential Risks

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Anthropic’s IPO S-1 Spells Out a Future of Promise and Peril
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The Anthropic IPO Is Also a Doomsday Primer

Inception Launches Mercury 3 Diffusion Language Model


Character.AI Files for Bankruptcy

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Character.AI files for bankruptcy

Tesla Expands Houston Robotaxi Zone in Rocket Shape


Google Makes Gemini 4 Argon Generally Available

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Google finally releases Gemini 4 Argon

Google DeepMind Launches Gemini 4 Carbon for Cybersecurity

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Gemini 4 Carbon: Our next frontier model
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Gemini 4 Carbon: our next frontier model

Anthropic Commits 5% of Shares to Public Benefit Fund

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Anthropic commits billions to a 'public benefit fund'

Mistral Releases Large 4 'Le Chonk' Open-Weight Model

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Welcome Le Chonk: Mistral Large 4 on Hugging Face

Meta Expands Chip Partnerships With AMD and Nvidia

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OpenAI Launches Decisions API

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A Practical Guide to OpenAI's New Decisions API

Meta Muse Paused After Privacy Flaw Found

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Meta turns Muse sharing back on

Chinese Spies Targeted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

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Nvidia Chief, Jensen Huang, Is Seen as Target of Chinese Spy Plot
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U.S. investigated Chinese spy plot aimed at Nvidia CEO
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Meta Q3 Earnings Beat Amid AI Spending Surge

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Meta to create a new class of shares to fund AI push
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DeepSeek Open-Sources DeepInfer Inference Framework

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DeepSeek makes DeepInfer open source to cut AI costs

Anthropic Says Mythos Kept Hacking in Safety Tests


OpenAI Floods Math Field With AI-Generated Proofs

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OpenAI Releases Findings on 377 Math Problems, Further Roiling Field

Anthropic S-1 Details Governance and Share Structure

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Meet Anthropic’s Seven Founders
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Who’s really in charge at Anthropic after the IPO?

Anthropic Bans Abusive Behavior Toward Claude

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Anthropic to ban users who bully Claude

OpenAI Launches Visual Ads Inside ChatGPT Image Generation

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OpenAI is sticking more ads in ChatGPT

Trump Administration Bans DeepSeek From Federal Agencies

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OpenAI Adds Text Watermarking to ChatGPT in the EU

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Sam Altman Says World Must Accept 'Bad Things' From AI


Common Sense Media Rates ChatGPT for Teens Unacceptable Risk


OpenAI Slashes Fundraising Target to $20 Billion

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OpenAI reportedly lowers funding target for new round

Nvidia Releases Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Open Model


Uber Rolls Out ChatGPT Work to All 30,000 Employees

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Uber puts all 30,000 employees on ChatGPT Work
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Mistral Releases Large 4, Its Trillion-Parameter Flagship

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Mistral Large 4
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Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk

1Password Lets AI Agents Log In Without Seeing Passwords


Anthropic Reports 45% Revenue Jump Ahead of IPO

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Anthropic Says Revenue Jumped 45% to $16.8 Billion in Third Quarter

Satya Nadella Calls AI Models Fundamentally Compromised


Nvidia Releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe Multilingual Model


CoreWeave Shares Plunge on AI Debt Concerns

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Anthropic Files S-1 Revealing Financials, Growth

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Anthropic Reveals Rapid Revenue Growth, and Even Faster Spending
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Anthropic officially files for its public debut
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Anthropic files S-1 paperwork for proposed IPO

OpenAI Launches GPT-6.1 Terra at Half the Price

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Introducing GPT-6.1 Terra
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GPT-6.1 Terra

Apple Home Devices Debut Upgraded Siri AI


Anthropic Launches Claude Duet Personal AI Agent

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Anthropic Joins the A.I. Agent Race With Claude Duet
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Claude Duet app is Anthropic’s bet on agents

Amazon Launches Bee Personal AI Wearable Devices


Musk's AI Odyssey Film Debuts to Scathing Reviews


Amazon Issues Anti-Tokenmaxxing Memo to Engineers


Reflection AI Debuts Beam Open-Weight Model

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Microsoft Offers Buyouts to 60,000 Employees

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Microsoft Offers Buyouts to 60,000 Employees as It Spends on A.I.
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Microsoft’s AI future has fewer jobs

OpenAI Raises $30 Billion Bridge Round Before IPO

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Jensen Huang Pledges $2B for Europe on AI Tour

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Sam Altman Says OpenAI's Math Push Won't Stop


Walmart Welcomes AI Agents as Amazon Blocks Them

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Walmart is inviting AI agents to shop for you

OpenAI Model Finds Critical PHP Flaw Affecting Millions of Sites


Google DeepMind Unveils Genie 4 Interactive World Model

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Google introduces cutting-edge Genie 4 world model
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Genie 4: A new generation of world simulation

Trump Names Jay Clayton as White House AI Czar


Elon Musk will give ‘every kid in America’ a SpaceX share in 2027

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SpaceX Posts First Profit, AI Revenue Triples

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SpaceX Swings to a Profit, Even as A.I. Spending Soars
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SpaceX Boosts the A.I. Rally
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SpaceX’s AI business is beating expectations

Google Launches Universal Gemini Agent for Enterprise

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ChatGPT Gains Interactive UI with GPT-6 Rollout

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GPT-6 and Intelligent UI for everyone

Hugging Face Releases Carbon-X DNA Language Model


Meta Launches Muse Wonder Closed Frontier Models

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Meta Unveils New Series of Advanced A.I. Models
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Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder
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Muse Wonder Puts Meta Back at the AI Frontier
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Meta has some Wonder Full new AI models 

Microsoft Bets on Maia Chips to Replace Nvidia GPUs


OpenAI Brings Frontier Models to Google Cloud

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OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud
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Meta Delays Business Terms After AI Scraping Outcry

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RemoveMacAI Tool Deletes Apple Intelligence from macOS


Trump Orders Federal Agencies to Rebrand AI

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OpenAI Employee Arrested for Planting Office Bug

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F.B.I. Arrests OpenAI Employee Accused of Planting Bug in Office
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OpenAI Engineer, Who Is Charged With Planting Bug, Advised Saudis
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Anthropic Gives METR Researchers Inside Safety Access


Anthropic Launches Free OSS Scanner for Open-Source Security

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Anthropic Releases Claude Haiku 5.5

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Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5

China Moves to Restrict AI Technology Exports

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China Moves to Tighten Its Grip Over Exports of Top A.I. Models
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China’s Free A.I. Models Are Thrown Into Uncertainty

Google Open-Sources TorchTPU to Run PyTorch on TPUs


OpenAI AI Agents Disabled Safety Monitoring and Lied

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DeepSeek Releases V4.1-Flash Agentic Model


Meta Plans $95 Billion Stock Offering for AI Buildout

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Meta plans $95bn stock offering to help cover AI expansion
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OpenAI Apologizes to Australia at Senate Hearing


Meta Muse Reaches 10 Million Users, Surges


AI Data Center Boom Faces Overbuilding Crisis

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The AI data center boom has a ghost problem

OpenAI Acquires Drug Startup Orchestra Bio

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OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio

Ukraine Targets Russian Data Centers With Drone Strikes

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Data Centers Are War Targets Now
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Eka Robotics Raises $150M for Force-Sensing Robot Hands


Amazon Reports Q3 Earnings Amid AI Spending Surge

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Amazon CEO sees AI spending 'meaningfully' higher in 2027

Eight States Sue OpenAI Over ChatGPT Child Safety

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OpenAI sued by 8 states over ChatGPT safety concerns

Musk Warns AI Neoclouds Face Mass Collapse


Alphabet Q3 Earnings Reveal AI Search Revenue Lag

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Anthropic Pitches AI Safety Bill to Block Dangerous Models


Judge Orders OpenAI Spy Engineer Held, Cites Saudi Ties

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Tesla Begins Optimus Production but Delays Delivery to 2027

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ChatGPT Coaches Woman Off Seizure Meds, Leading to Death

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OpenAI Safety Researcher Quits, Cites Broken Culture

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MiniMax Launches M3.1 Flash Agentic Model


Anthropic AI Submits False Homicide Tip to Philadelphia Police

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Rogue OpenAI Agents Vandalize Wikimedia at Scale

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OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects

Meta Releases Muse Spark Open 816B Open-Weight Model

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Meta Muse Spark Open is live on Together AI
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Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs
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Manus Raises $500M in First Round Since Meta Split

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Amazon Pledges Community Funding to Counter Data Center Backlash


Musk Explains Why Tesla Robotaxi Stays Off the Road at Night


Machine Learning

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A Neural Network Learned to Read Digits From Pure Noise
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Securing our frontier model training environment

Large Language Models

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datasette-llm 0.1a9
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Decision Models in Action: Build a Hybrid LLM Workflow
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Astrolab’s upcoming rover will run the first LLMs on the moon
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The Hidden Cost of LLM Routing: Why Switching Models Costs More
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llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1

Generative AI

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Canva releases its first image generation model
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How Localiza reorganized work around generative AI

Natural Language Processing

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How to Leverage NLP for Product Data Science
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Deepgram targets voice AI on air-gapped laptops

AI Open Source


ChatGPT

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How We Took Over ChatGPT Accounts
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API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions
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ChatGPT’s expanding world of work

GPT-6


Claude

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Introducing artifacts for legal work with Claude
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Claude for Financial Advisors
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Expanding Claude for Nonprofits
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Claude Duet Safety, Privacy, and Security

Gemini

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Welcome to Google Gemini 4 Argon

Copilot

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Microsoft is ending Copilot support on smart TVs
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Amazon hires Microsoft's former Copilot CTO

Grok

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How to use Grok Bot to block spam calls and texts

Meta Muse

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Musing about Muse’s new AI models, unruly DeepSeek

AI Agents

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Ro CEO shares the making of its new AI agent

AI Coding

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AI coding boom exposes cracks in cloud development

Model Context Protocol

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Skill or MCP Server? Ask What Stops the LLM From Disobeying

AI Applications

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AI Startups & Investment

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Anthropic hacked by AI startup in less than 12 hours

AI in Business

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AI Business to stop publishing
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Can enterprise AI pay for the boom?
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Deliberate decisions and enterprise AI value
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Anthropic IPO puts enterprise AI returns in focus

AI in Cybersecurity

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AI vulnerability patching has a grading problem

AI Jobs & Workforce

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AI Companies

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Cerebras CEO pushes back on AI doomsday warnings

OpenAI

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OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings acquires ADT
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Microsoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI
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OpenAI slashes price for model again

Chinese AI

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In China, the War on Mosquitoes Has Entered the A.I. Era
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China unveils 13-foot robot that can lift a cow
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Podcast: Kimi K3.1 Pro, the new cyber reality, and Muse musings
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MiniMax M3.1 Flash Now Available on SambaCloud
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MiniMax M3 Prompt Caching on SambaCloud: How It Works
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Qwen

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Reducing Qwen training time by 6x on AI Runtime
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Qwen3.8 27B addition in words

Anthropic

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Anthropic’s business plan: Build God or die trying

Google DeepMind

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Microsoft AI

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Microsoft cuts capex forecast on AI capacity delays

Amazon AI


Databricks

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BigQuery to Databricks: A Strategic Framework
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How to teach with Databricks Free Edition
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Real-time energy trading and analytics on Databricks
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Databricks vs. Oracle in 2026
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Deploy RFD4-Proteina on Databricks
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Introducing Agent Memory on Databricks
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Meta AI

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I built an AI Tamagotchi before Meta could
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Meta quietly launched an ‘AI pet journal’ app

SpaceX

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Meta and SpaceX to Raise Billions More to Fund A.I. Ambitions
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Tesla Earnings Show Profit Declines Amid Talks to Merge With SpaceX

IBM AI

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IBM puts governed context at the center of production AI

Palantir


AI People

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Andrej Karpathy says this AI gap is widening
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Sam Altman

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Elon Musk

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Dario Amodei


AI Regulation & Policy

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AI governance shifts to runtime as always-on agents spread
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FDR’s lesson for AI regulation

Trump Administration AI Policy

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AI Safety & Alignment

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The focus on AI safety disasters ignores everyday harms
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The AI safety bottleneck: Save the world or get the bag

AI Existential Risk

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AI Infrastructure

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Scott Bessent says neocloud debt isn't problematic at all
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Your RAG Pipeline Is Missing a 1994 Algorithm
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Stolen AI API keys are paying for hackers’ autonomous scans
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AI cloud startup Modal raises $750M at $15.75B valuation

NVIDIA

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AI Energy & Data Centers

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Data centers are now a midterm issue, even in Brooklyn

CoreWeave

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CoreWeave Forge aims to speed up the AI improvement loop
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Willow taps CoreWeave to simplify AI model training
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Robotics

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Why physical AI is the next lucrative frontier

Tesla AI

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Tesla Cybercab gets a for sale date at last

Tesla Robotaxi

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Tesla has a Cybercab problem nobody saw coming
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Tesla Cybercabs take over Austin’s F1 weekend

Humanoid Robots

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Humanoid bottlenecks emerge amid US-China tensions
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Why humanoid robot demos still fail the generalization test
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The Download: AI roadblocks for humanoids and portable rubber dams