Anthropic’s Mythos Spooked DeepSeek, Prompting Its $7.4 Billion Fundraising
DeepSeek’s expansion could be a tipping point in the global AI race, highlighting China’s push to narrow the gap with U.S. leaders like Anthropic.
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Tencent Gets $3 Billion Worth of Memory Chip Supply from China’s CXMT
Tencent’s $3 billion agreement with memory chipmaker CXMT highlights how China’s biggest tech companies are turning to domestic suppliers under global memory shortage.
Firmus And Nvidia Partner On Massive Data Center Project In Indonesia
What’s different about this deal: hyperscalers like Microsoft and Google can’t be customers, and Nvidia will get a cut of the revenue.
Google Put Limits on Meta’s Use of Gemini Due to Capacity Constraints
Google restricted other clients as well and has since signed a deal to rent cloud computing capacity from Elon Musk's SpaceX.
Chinese AI Matches Mythos in Cybersecurity, Report Says
The researchers found that the new GLM-2 model from Z.ai can find bugs as well as Mythos, the Journal report said.
Coinbase Cuts AI Spending in Half As Usage Rises, Armstrong Says
Coinbase has experimented with open-weight models developed by Chinese AI firms.
White House lifts some export controls on Anthropic’s Mythos
The government will allow Anthropic to release its model to more than 100 U.S. institutions.
OpenAI Hires Apple Vision Pro and Smart Glasses Executive
The move represents the latest departure from Apple to the AI startup.
AWS Raises Prices for Some Nvidia Compute by 20%
It’s the latest company passing rising chip prices along to customers
OpenAI Releases GPT-5.6 to U.S. Government-Approved Customers
The move confirms The Information’s Thursday report that OpenAI will release the new models in a limited fashion over cybersecurity concerns.
SpaceX Debt Weakens, Stock Falls Below First Trading Price
A large dealer was quoting SpaceX’s 2056 bonds at as much as 0.28% higher than their issue price, which was 1.75% above treasuries.
Samsung Plans $648 Billion Investments in South Korea, Including New Foundries
The investments include $194 billion into chipmaking expansion to power the AI boom.
Bumble Explores Sale as Dating App Growth Slows
Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, who stepped down as CEO in 2023 before returning to the top job a little over a year ago, has been trying to turn the company around.
NHTSA wants to remove brake pedal requirement for self-driving cars
The proposed policy change would remove regulatory hurdles for Tesla and Zoox.
Apple Raises Mac, iPad Prices Due to ‘Extraordinary’ Component Shortage
The company’s shares fell nearly 5% on the news.
Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Illicit Access to Claude Models
Anthropic’s accusations of illicit Claude use by multiple Chinese AI developers this year come amid a growing tech rivalry between the U.S. and China.
Startup Trase Raises $107 Million to Help Large Firms Adopt AI
The startup aims to help healthcare and other large corporate customers learn how to incorporate AI-assisted automation into their business operations.
OpenAI Hires AWS Partnerships Chief in Business AI Push
As OpenAI looks to drum up more AI business from large corporate customers, it is turning to seasoned enterprise software veterans to lead the charge.
Qualcomm to Acquire Startup Modular for Nearly $4 Billion
Qualcomm has been looking for ways to compete better with rivals in the AI data center chip market.
Compute Data Startup Ornn Raises $33 Million in Andreessen Horowitz-led Round
The money will allow Ornn to expand from offering indices to creating a marketplace for buying and selling compute.
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