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Sources detail how the standoff between the Pentagon and Anthropic escalated after discussions about using Claude during hypothetical nuclear missile attacks (www.washingtonpost.com)
24 days ago Pentagon

OpenAI raised $110B at a $730B pre-money valuation, up from $500B in a secondary financing in Oct.; Amazon invested $50B, Nvidia and SoftBank invested $30B each (www.cnbc.com)
24 days ago Amazon Nvidia

Memory Price Hikes Will Kill Off Budget PCs and Smartphones, Analyst Warns (hardware.slashdot.org)
24 days ago Budget

Tether says it has frozen $4.2B of its crypto token over links to “illicit activity”, including $3.5B since 2023 and $61M linked to pig-butchering scams (www.reuters.com)
24 days ago

Equinix and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board agree to acquire atNorth Holding, a pan-Nordic data center operator, valuing atNorth at $4B including debt (www.bloomberg.com)
25 days ago Canada

South Korea approves Google's request to export detailed geographic data overseas, reversing a longstanding policy that made Google Maps largely nonfunctional (www.nytimes.com)
25 days ago Korea Google

Moon's Ancient Magnetic Field May Have Flickered On and Off (science.slashdot.org)
25 days ago

Plaid allowed employees to sell some of their shares at an $8B valuation, up 31% from the $6.1B valuation in April 2025 and 40% below its $13.4B peak in 2021 (techcrunch.com)
25 days ago

Security researchers detail AirSnitch, a series of attacks that bypass Wi-Fi client isolation, enabling machine-in-the-middle attacks in modern Wi-Fi networks (arstechnica.com)
25 days ago

NASA Reveals Identity of Astronaut Who Suffered Medical Incident Aboard ISS (science.slashdot.org)
25 days ago NASA

California DMV records show Tesla has logged zero autonomous test miles on the state's roads since 2019, despite Musk's claims of an imminent CA robotaxi launch (www.reuters.com)
25 days ago Tesla California

Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus is raising tens of billions to buy companies hit by AI; it was valued at ~$30B in November 2025 when it raised $6.2B (t.co)
25 days ago AI Jeff Bezos

Sources: DOD was in talks with leading AI companies about building AI tools to automate reconnaissance of China's power grids, utilities, and sensitive networks (t.co)
25 days ago China AI

Anthropic CEO Says AI Company 'Cannot In Good Conscience Accede' To Pentagon (tech.slashdot.org)
25 days ago AI Pentagon

The Japanese government plans to invest ~$1.6B in Rapidus over the next two fiscal years to help it mass-produce 2nm logic chips and potentially challenge TSMC (www.bloomberg.com)
25 days ago Japan

Letter: 100+ Google DeepMind and other AI employees urge Jeff Dean to block US military deals that use Gemini for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons (www.nytimes.com)
25 days ago Google AI

CISA's interim director Madhu Gottumukkala is reassigned as DHS' director of strategic implementation; executive assistant director Nick Andersen will take over (abcnews.com)
25 days ago

xAI co-founder Toby Pohlen is leaving the company, the seventh of 12 xAI co-founders to depart; Elon Musk put Pohlen in charge of Macrohard earlier this month (www.bloomberg.com)
25 days ago Elon Musk

OpenAI says it will overhaul safety protocols and establish direct contact with Canadian police, after not alerting authorities about the Tumbler Ridge suspect (www.politico.com)
25 days ago Canada

Q&A with Terence Tao on AI-generated Erd&odblac;s solutions, “cheap wins”, hybrid human AI contributions, push-of-a-button workflows, new ways of doing math, and more (www.theatlantic.com)
25 days ago AI Mathematics

Sources: two members of Thinking Machines Lab's founding team, Christian Gibson and Noah Shpak, left the startup and have been working at Meta for a few weeks (www.businessinsider.com)
25 days ago Startup

Dario Amodei says Anthropic cannot “in good conscience” accede to DOD's request to remove safeguards and will work to ensure a smooth transition if offboarded (www.anthropic.com)
25 days ago

Four Convicted Over Spyware Affair That Shook Greece (yro.slashdot.org)
25 days ago Greece

Block reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $6.25B, gross profit up 24% to $2.87B, driven by a 33% surge in Cash App, and forecasts Q1 gross profit up 22% to $2.8B (www.reuters.com)
25 days ago 4Q

Duolingo reports Q4 revenue up 35% YoY to $282.9M, forecasts FY 2026 bookings below est. as it shifts focus to faster user growth; DUOL drops 20%+ after hours (www.reuters.com)
25 days ago 4Q

Intuit reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to $4.65B, vs. $4.53B est., and forecasts Q3 revenue growth of ~10% and EPS below expectations; INTU drops 5%+ after hours (www.wsj.com)
25 days ago

Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level (tech.slashdot.org)
25 days ago

Source: Meta has signed a multiyear deal to rent Google's TPUs to develop new models and has also been in talks to buy TPUs for its data centers as soon as 2027 (www.theinformation.com)
25 days ago Google

Jack Dorsey's Block Cuts Nearly Half of Its Staff In AI Gamble (slashdot.org)
25 days ago AI

Anthropic says new DOD “contract language” made “virtually no progress” on preventing Claude's use for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons (www.axios.com)
25 days ago

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