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Modular data center startup Rune raised a $40M Series A led by Spark Capital to deploy off-grid compute capacity at solar farm and other renewable energy sites (www.fastcompany.com)
6 hours ago Energy Startup Solar Renewable

Sources: Apple is developing AI servers that could use M8 Ultra chips connected via Nvidia's NVLink Fusion, with plans to sell them to developers and others (www.theinformation.com)
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Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic staff felt blindsided by Dario Amodei's and Sam Altman's calls to slow the frontier; some fear evaluators may compromise security (www.ft.com)
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The iPhone Duo's squat, tablet-like outer display is a compromise, and a book-shaped foldable may lack broad appeal; its right-side UI bias is akin to a book's (daringfireball.net)
6 hours ago iPhone

Amazon says it is raising its minimum hourly pay for eligible full-time US operations workers by $1, taking it to $20 per hour, and gives them new banking tools (www.reuters.com)
6 hours ago Amazon

OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents with select US advertisers, letting users chat with business-sponsored agents and visit advertiser websites via ChatGPT ads (www.reuters.com)
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Google DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg warns that advancing AI must never run ahead of safety and opens the DeepMind Institute to explore the deployment of AGI (www.ft.com)
6 hours ago Google AI

Montreal-based LawZero, a non-profit founded by Yoshua Bengio to develop safe AI systems, says Canada and Germany are providing up to $300M in grant funding (www.theglobeandmail.com)
6 hours ago Germany AI Canada

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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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

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