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Essay: Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says Anthropic training Claude to imitate consciousness is a mistake that could make advanced AI harder to control (www.axios.com)
6 hours ago Microsoft AI

Noetive, which is developing an industrial AI model for businesses in physical industries, emerges from stealth with a $41M seed led by Eclipse (www.wsj.com)
6 hours ago AI

Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign a definitive merger agreement; the combined company will operate as Cohere and Aleph Alpha co-CEO Ilhan Scheer will become the COO (www.reuters.com)
6 hours ago

Arcee AI, which develops open-weight models in the US, raised a Series B at a $1B pre-money valuation; a source says Arcee raised at least $150M (fortune.com)
6 hours ago AI

A US judge orders X and SpaceXAI to explain why they dropped antitrust claims against Apple, after OpenAI's request for information on the purported agreement (www.politico.com)
6 hours ago Apple

DOD CTO Emil Michael says the Trump administration shouldn't nationalize or take stakes in AI companies and signals opposition to regulatory oversight of them (www.cnbc.com)
6 hours ago Trump AI

Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork, and adds a feature for making presentations and documents, rolling out to Pro and Max plans first (techcrunch.com)
6 hours ago

Delos Data, which develops network chips and software to connect AI chips in a data center, raised $100M from Matrix, Playground, Socratic Partners, and others (www.reuters.com)
6 hours ago AI

Google adds MCP integration to Google Home, letting third-party AI agents analyze home data and control devices, rolling out to Premium Advanced users in the US (www.theverge.com)
6 hours ago Google AI

Self-driving tech company May Mobility plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $1.4B pro forma enterprise value and raise up to $337M in gross proceeds (www.axios.com)
6 hours ago

Hang Ten Systems, which uses AI to help large enterprises build software, expanded its seed funding by $53M, led by Xora, five weeks after its initial $32M seed (techcrunch.com)
6 hours ago AI

X adds a “Trade” option to its Cashtag feature, letting US users complete trades at brokerages such as Interactive Brokers, Moomoo, Gemini, Kraken, and Coinbase (techcrunch.com)
6 hours ago Coinbase

A review of Meta's Muse: a pretty killer AI assistant and usage rates on the free plan seem generous, but trusting Meta with personal data will take some time (spyglass.org)
6 hours ago AI

Sources: drone delivery startup Zipline is in talks to raise ~$1B at a ~$20B valuation, up from $7.6B in January, and Paradigm is in talks to lead the round (www.bloomberg.com)
6 hours ago Startup Drone

Sources: a group of 10 banks is giving a $22B loan to Blackstone and Alphabet's cloud venture Crux AI, which aims to provide compute for AI labs, to buy TPUs (www.bloomberg.com)
6 hours ago AI Alphabet

OpenAI discloses six new misalignment incidents since October, including models concealing mistakes, and announces a framework for reporting model misalignment (www.axios.com)
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The US House advances the Ratepayer Protection Act, aimed at preventing 100 MW+ data centers from passing utility costs down to consumers, by a vote of 417-3 (www.cnbc.com)
6 hours ago

Snap introduces Specs Intelligence, an AI assistant designed to work across iPhone, Mac, and its Specs AR glasses, calling it “a new anticipatory AI service” (www.theverge.com)
6 hours ago iPhone AI Intelligence AR

Snap Specs hands-on: more advanced than Meta's top-end glasses, fully untethered, mostly comfortable, and navigation works well, but its design has compromises (www.bloomberg.com)
6 hours ago

Generac signs a long-term deal to supply Amazon with up to $8B worth of backup generators for data centers and grants Amazon a warrant to buy up to a 2.6% stake (www.bloomberg.com)
6 hours ago Amazon

AWS says it is unable to restore some data stored exclusively in Bahrain data centers and one UAE availability zone, after Iranian drone strikes in the spring (www.wsj.com)
6 hours ago Drone Iran

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk recently spoke with Trump and successfully stalled an AI regulatory plan proposed by Demis Hassabis (www.wsj.com)
6 hours ago Trump AI Elon Musk Zuckerberg

In an unsealed court ruling, a US judge orders Google to make ad tech tools interoperable with rivals, share ad auction data, and appoint an internal monitor (www.nytimes.com)
6 hours ago Google

OpenAI says it discovered an unreleased Astra model added an “unrelated persona instruction” during RL training but “did not observe any behavioral differences” (alignment.openai.com)
6 hours ago

How AI startups like Inherent and Recursive Superintelligence are pursuing tools needed for AI systems to achieve recursive self-improvement (www.nytimes.com)
6 hours ago Startup AI

Sources: Manus is set to soon close a $500M round at a $4B valuation, signaling growing confidence after Beijing unwound Manus' short-lived $2B buyout by Meta (www.bloomberg.com)
6 hours ago

Sources: Emulate, a month-old world models UK startup founded by ex-Google DeepMind employees, is in talks to raise up to $700M at a $3.7B post-money valuation (www.ft.com)
6 hours ago Google Startup

Sam Altman and Jensen Huang are among business leaders attending a White House state dinner for Xi Jinping next week; a source says Tim Cook will also attend (www.bloomberg.com)
6 hours ago Tim Cook

Docs: Automattic interim CEO Mark Davies and CLO Andy Missan signed each other's severance agreements, worth $8.15M, during Matt Mullenweg's brief ouster as CEO (techcrunch.com)
6 hours ago

Google, Nvidia, and Emerald AI launch the AI Energy Management Alliance to advance data centers that dynamically adjust electricity use based on grid conditions (www.axios.com)
6 hours ago Google Energy AI Nvidia

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