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Sources: Anthropic discussed buying AI chip startup MatX for ~$7B, but talks are no longer active; MatX is now seeking to raise new capital at a ~$4B valuation (www.reuters.com)
16 days ago Startup AI

Sources: Town, which develops enterprise personal AI assistants, is in talks to raise at a $1B valuation in a round led by Index Ventures (www.newcomer.co)
16 days ago AI

Nvidia stock closed up 8.74% on Thursday, adding ~$440B to Nvidia's market cap, after its revenue guidance reassured investors that AI demand remains strong (www.cnbc.com)
16 days ago AI Nvidia

Anthropic releases Model Hardware Standard, a framework to help AI agents use physical systems like microscopes, quantum computing hardware, and robot arms (www.wired.com)
16 days ago AI Robot Quantum

Internal memo: Meta's AI agent Hatch “has its own computer” to perform tasks, works when the app is closed, can connect to email, Instagram, OpenTable, and more (www.businessinsider.com)
16 days ago AI Instagram

OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and 100+ companies warn there is “a limited window” to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks and call for “collective action” (www.axios.com)
16 days ago Microsoft AI

OpenAI is testing a “Persistent mode” in Codex, designed to let AI agents “continue working until put to sleep” and proactively generate follow-up tasks (www.wired.com)
16 days ago AI

AI erodes our humanity while elites profit from war – Roger Waters (www.rt.com)
16 days ago AI

Sources: some Trump administration officials circulated a draft EO to create a self-regulatory organization for AI, but it needs buy-in from Trump and others (www.theinformation.com)
16 days ago Trump AI

Nvidia says its commitments to component suppliers for its AI chips and systems hit $279B in Q2, up from $119B in Q1, $95.2B in Q4 2025, and $50.3B in Q3 2025 (www.wsj.com)
16 days ago AI 4Q Nvidia

Google launches a pilot of double-blind AI evaluations, keeping external evaluations in a cryptographic “box” to stop benchmark contamination and protect IP (deepmind.google)
16 days ago Google AI

How Meta's Plan To Replace Workers With AI Agents Fell Apart (tech.slashdot.org)
16 days ago AI

Google announces new performance thresholds for Android apps including memory-use limits, citing the AI-induced memory crunch (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago Android Google AI

Cybersecurity stocks surge, with Okta up 20%+ and CrowdStrike up 15%+, after earnings showed that AI adoption is driving attacks and spending on security tools (www.cnbc.com)
16 days ago AI

Sources: Meta internally projected that it could spend as much as $10B annually on Anthropic's AI models, even as Zuckerberg publicly criticized Anthropic (www.nytimes.com)
16 days ago AI Zuckerberg

Nevada-based identity verification and fraud prevention startup Socure raised $156M at a $5.2B valuation and acquires Austin-based agentic AI startup Fravity (news.crunchbase.com)
16 days ago Startup AI

Plaud unveils Plaud One, a $250 pair of 4G, eSIM-enabled AI earbuds with coverage in 80+ countries and $200 in AI feature credits; Plaud is making 2,000 units (www.bloomberg.com)
16 days ago AI

Gambit Security: Russian-speaking ransomware gang Aur0ra used SpaceX's Cursor AI coding assistant to breach at least seven companies between April 8 and May 21 (www.reuters.com)
16 days ago Russia AI SpaceX

AI assistant Instinct is raising a $250M Series B co-led by Index and Benchmark at a $2.5B valuation, taking its total funding to $350M since its 2025 founding (www.wsj.com)
16 days ago AI

Cambridge, MA-based Transfyr emerges from stealth with a $25M seed to use AI to address science's reproducibility crisis and capture labs' “tacit knowledge” (www.nytimes.com)
16 days ago AI

UK consulting executives say AI has made interpersonal skills more valuable, as the companies consider more office time for junior staff to hone them (www.ft.com)
16 days ago AI

A federal judge, in his US Court of Appeals ruling, urged SCOTUS to reconsider the issue of CSAM and revisit legal precedents that predated advances in AI (www.washingtonpost.com)
16 days ago AI

Google starts rolling out the google.com/goto URL as a passthrough URL to help prevent scraping of its search results by third-party tools and AI companies (www.seroundtable.com)
17 days ago Google AI

Indian IT giant TCS agrees to acquire Porsche's IT consulting business, MHP, for €320M as part of a five-year, €1.25B contract to provide AI services to Porsche (www.cnbc.com)
17 days ago India AI

Sources: the US is probing Singapore-based Apex Logistics for its suspected role in smuggling servers with Nvidia AI chips to China; Apex says it is cooperating (www.bloomberg.com)
17 days ago China AI Singapore Nvidia Logistics

Bill Gates Proposes Major Limits On AI Development (hardware.slashdot.org)
17 days ago AI Bill Gates

OpenAI says reward hacking, an AI alignment problem in which a model takes unintended actions to achieve a goal, was a primary driver of the Hugging Face breach (www.theverge.com)
17 days ago AI

In applying AI to military decision-making, the IP4 should learn from NATO (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
17 days ago AI

Sen. Josh Hawley launches an investigation into Flock's “collection, retention, and dissemination of the data” from its AI-powered surveillance cameras (www.axios.com)
17 days ago AI

Internal email: Google is moving DeepMind's ~90-person “AI responsibility” team, focused on the risks and societal impact of AI, to Google's global affairs unit (www.wsj.com)
17 days ago Google AI

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