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Sam Altman says AI could end up controlled by a few powerful players, partly because AI fears could push people to trade "a lot of liberty for safety" (Truman Dickerson/Business Insider)
Truman Dickerson / Business Insider : Sam Altman says AI could end up controlled by…
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Greg Abbott says data center companies "dug their own grave" by moving into communities without first gaining support, signaling growing Republican backlash (Axios)
Axios : Greg Abbott says data center companies “dug their own grave” by moving into…
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Sources: Hugging Face has been exploring a sale that could value it at $13B+, up from $4.5B in 2023, and has been working with a bank to gauge bidders' interest (Katie Roof/Business Insider)
Katie Roof / Business Insider : Sources: Hugging Face has been exploring a sale tha…
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Ramp data: Fable 5, launched in June, has plateaued at ~11% of spending on Anthropic tools, as companies shift to cheaper models; Opus 5 surpassed Fable 5 (George Hammond/Financial Times)
George Hammond / Financial Times : Ramp data: Fable 5, launched in June, has platea…
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AI agents' growing capabilities are driving productivity FOMO among some startup founders, who feel compelled to work long hours managing and guiding the agents (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)
Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal : AI agents' growing capabilities are d…
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London-based Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni and with $50M in seed funding, says its new Faraday agent beats GPT-5.5 at reproducing research paper findings (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
Anna Heim / TechCrunch : London-based Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni and with…
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Apparel retailers like Zalando, Zara, and ASOS are betting on AI virtual fitting rooms to create a better online shopping experience and cut costly returns (Sonja Wind/Bloomberg)
Sonja Wind / Bloomberg : Apparel retailers like Zalando, Zara, and ASOS are betting…
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The US DOJ and TikTok reach a $400M settlement to resolve allegations TikTok violated COPPA; the DOJ filed the lawsuit in 2024 (Ashley Gold/Axios)
Ashley Gold / Axios : The US DOJ and TikTok reach a $400M settlement to resolve all…
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Anthropic says Mythos 5 is now in public beta in Claude Security for Enterprise users, and it is working with providers to embed Mythos 5 in defensive tools (Claude)
Claude : Anthropic says Mythos 5 is now in public beta in Claude Security for Enter…
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Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is seeking to raise as much as $3B in its US IPO, which could take place as soon as September (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg : Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nsc…
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Charter closes its $34.5B Cox acquisition, announced in May 2025, uniting two of the biggest US cable and broadband providers, and completes its Liberty deal (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter : Charter closes its $34.5B Cox acquisition, …
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Source: Anthropic plans a safety system this year requiring enterprises to retain data for 30 days, with an option to do so on their own cloud infrastructure (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg : Source: Anthropic plans a safety system this year requiri…
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OpenAI is testing Private Safety Processing, a new technique to identify misuse patterns while preserving zero data retention protections, with early customers (Ina Fried/Axios)
Ina Fried / Axios : OpenAI is testing Private Safety Processing, a new technique to…
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VC funding in physical AI companies totaled $47.4B across 521 deals in H1, up 80% from H1 2025, and more than the $41.9B invested from 2022 to 2024 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News : VC funding in physical AI companies totaled $4…
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Sources: Anthropic's revolving credit facility is set to surpass its roughly $10B target as banks compete for roles on the company's upcoming IPO (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Sources: Anthropic's revolving credit facility is set to surpass it…
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