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Sources: DeepSeek is set to soon raise $7.4B at a $74B valuation from existing and new investors to fund R&D and its expansion into computing infrastructure (www.wsj.com)
10 days ago

SEC filing: OpenAI invests ~$400M in its second startup fund, after it raised $175M for its first fund in 2021 from outside investors, including Microsoft (www.wsj.com)
10 days ago Microsoft Startup

Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Barret Zoph is returning to Google as VP of research, after leaving OpenAI in June and Thinking Machines Lab in January (www.wsj.com)
11 days ago Google

Internal email: Google is moving DeepMind's ~90-person “AI responsibility” team, focused on the risks and societal impact of AI, to Google's global affairs unit (www.wsj.com)
11 days ago Google AI

AI assistant Instinct is raising a $250M Series B co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark at a $2.5B valuation, bringing its total raised to $350M (www.wsj.com)
11 days ago AI

Deep Cogito, which develops open-weight models and helps companies build their own specialized AI models, raised a $43M Series A led by TQ Ventures (www.wsj.com)
11 days ago AI

Banks are warming up to launching their own stablecoins as nonbank companies enter the market; sources: JPMorgan Chase evaluated launching its own stablecoin (www.wsj.com)
11 days ago JPMorgan

Meta's AG settlement will be distributed to the 48 signing states and four jurisdictions in annual installments over a 10-year period based on their populations (www.wsj.com)
11 days ago

Microsoft faces investor criticism over opaque financial reporting across capex, its OpenAI deal, and Azure, which is buried in the Intelligent Cloud segment (www.wsj.com)
11 days ago Microsoft

A profile of Leopold Aschenbrenner, who worked for SBF and OpenAI before launching Situational Awareness; Aschenbrenner married Dario Amodei's chief of staff (www.wsj.com)
11 days ago

Chris Malone, who joined OpenAI as head of data centers in March 2025, has left the company amid a broader exodus (www.wsj.com)
12 days ago

Intuit reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $4.35B, vs. $4.27B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue growth of 9% to 10%, below ~11% est.; INTU drops 8%+ after hours (www.wsj.com)
12 days ago 4Q

Sources: Chris Malone, who joined OpenAI as head of data centers in March 2025, left the company last week amid a broader exodus (www.wsj.com)
12 days ago

Sources: Anthropic is likely to tell IPO investors that its potential revenue opportunities are above $30T, topping SpaceX's $28.5T; Uber predicted $6T in 2019 (www.wsj.com)
12 days ago IPO Uber SpaceX

Apple raises Mac mini and Studio prices: the M6 and M5 Pro Mac mini are $899+ and $1,699+, $100 above M4 models, and the M5 Ultra Mac Studio is $5,499+, up $200 (www.wsj.com)
12 days ago Apple

A look at startups like General Intuition working on large action models, aka world models, which are trained on videogames and simulations, to pilot robots (www.wsj.com)
13 days ago Startup Robot

Temu owner PDD reports Q2 revenue up 8.1% YoY to ~$16.72B, missing estimate of ~$17.17B, net profit down 12% YoY to ~$4.04B, above ~$3.63B estimate (www.wsj.com)
13 days ago

Sources detail how the Trump admin bypassed the DOJ trial team and pushed to settle the Live Nation case, after CEO Michael Rapino met White House officials (www.wsj.com)
13 days ago Trump

The careers of Z.ai's Tang Jie and Moonshot AI's Yang Zhilin, once teacher and pupil at Tsinghua University, show that China's AI leap is no sudden development (www.wsj.com)
14 days ago China AI

Sources: Nvidia plans to use its $6B deal with Poolside to build an open-weight AI model to compete with Chinese models like DeepSeek and Kimi (www.wsj.com)
14 days ago China AI Nvidia

AI agents' growing capabilities are driving productivity FOMO among some startup founders, who feel compelled to work long hours managing and guiding the agents (www.wsj.com)
15 days ago Startup AI

How politicians who once championed data centers, including Greg Abbott and Josh Shapiro, are now slowing their development as the issue becomes a liability (www.wsj.com)
16 days ago

A bankruptcy court delays Google's $10M purchase of Spirit Airlines' data after former flight attendants sought assurances that their info would be removed (www.wsj.com)
17 days ago Google

PitchBook: California-based startups have raised ~$366B in 2026 so far across 4,000+ companies, more than triple the total of all other 49 states combined (www.wsj.com)
17 days ago Startup California

Stripe's OpenRouter deal, its largest-ever acquisition, is a bet on a future where users turn to a mix of AI models and gives it a foothold in the token market (www.wsj.com)
17 days ago AI

The US Army is phasing out its drone assault battalion, as part of a “back-to-basics” approach; it was created in January to learn from the conflict in Ukraine (www.wsj.com)
18 days ago Drone Ukraine

The FTC says businesses must disclose when they use personalized pricing and it will “deploy enforcement resources” against companies that do not disclose it (www.wsj.com)
18 days ago

Network Bio, which is developing an AI foundation model from datasets of patient tissue and blood samples created by pooling access to biobanks, raised $50M (www.wsj.com)
18 days ago AI

SMR startup Oklo is currently building its reactor in Idaho, a step towards supplying Meta with power; there are an estimated 22 active US reactor projects (www.wsj.com)
18 days ago Startup

US tech companies are offering community investments, guaranteed jobs, and hosting open houses to address concerns and win public support for AI data centers (www.wsj.com)
18 days ago AI

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