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How hacked civilian cameras became war tools, as Israel tapped Iranian traffic cameras before Khamenei's killing and Iran-linked groups hit 250+ Israeli cameras (www.wsj.com)
10 days ago Israel Iran

Sources: Amazon is in talks to buy AI startup Decart in a deal that could value it at ~$7B; Anthropic had decided against acquiring Decart for ~$6B in September (www.wsj.com)
10 days ago Amazon Startup AI

How Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown used GOP ties to end a June standoff over model safety and win over Musk, brokering a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal (www.wsj.com)
11 days ago Republican SpaceX

A look at Walmart's troubled push to automate its ~200 US warehouses, as it and partners like Symbotic face technical setbacks; Walmart owns 12.6% of Symbotic (www.wsj.com)
12 days ago Walmart

Sources: Dario Amodei spoke with Meta's Alexandr Wang earlier this year, hoping to source more compute; Meta declined the request (www.wsj.com)
12 days ago

Sources: Broadcom is trying to arrange $50B+ in financing for OpenAI's custom AI chip; Oracle is in talks with Apollo and Goldman to finance a big chip purchase (www.wsj.com)
13 days ago AI Oracle Goldman

Spotify and Joe Rogan renew their multiyear licensing and ad sales deal; sources say the terms are similar to Rogan's last deal, worth $250M, signed in 2024 (www.wsj.com)
13 days ago Spotify

Quantum startup Oratomic raised a $475M Series B at a $5.4B valuation, up from $1.5B after raising a $300M Series A in July, taking its total funding to $775M (www.wsj.com)
13 days ago Startup Quantum

OpenRouter: the share of business spending between OpenAI and Anthropic models was roughly even in September, vs. Anthropic commanding a 75% share in January (www.wsj.com)
14 days ago

Letter: three fired OpenAI researchers urge AI labs to halt work that could impair AI monitoring and say their firings are “chilling those who remain at OpenAI” (www.wsj.com)
14 days ago AI

Sources: Broadcom has been working to arrange more than $50B in financing for OpenAI's custom AI chip; Oracle is in talks on financing for a big chip purchase (www.wsj.com)
14 days ago AI Oracle

Nous Research, which makes the open-source Hermes AI agent that has hit 22M+ downloads since February, raised $90M at a $1.2B valuation to expand to enterprises (www.wsj.com)
14 days ago AI

Sources: Dallas-based Disruptive is targeting up to $10B for a late-stage fund, and has secured $7.5B; founded in 2012, it has backed Groq and Reflection AI (www.wsj.com)
14 days ago AI

Turba Labs, which develops tech for optimizing AI infrastructure by creating digital twins of data centers, emerges from stealth with $52M seed and Series A (www.wsj.com)
15 days ago AI

Sources: Singapore-based data center operator DayOne seeks to raise up to $5B in a US IPO and plans to list its American depositary shares by the end of 2026 (www.wsj.com)
15 days ago U.S. IPO Singapore

Sources: Nvidia-backed neocloud Lambda is raising up to $4B led by Blackstone and Coatue at a $14.5B pre-money valuation in a final round before its planned IPO (www.wsj.com)
15 days ago IPO Nvidia

Sources: AI neocloud Lambda is raising up to $4B led by Blackstone and Coatue at a pre-money valuation of $14.5B in a final round before its planned IPO (www.wsj.com)
15 days ago IPO AI

Survey: only 11% of ~400 businesses could forecast AI spending; a study finds lower-priced models cost more than higher-priced models on 32% of 6,800+ tasks (www.wsj.com)
16 days ago AI

Munich-based RobCo, which makes robotic arms and automation software, sells $40M of shares at a $1B valuation, up from ~$500M after raising $100M in January (www.wsj.com)
17 days ago Robot Munich

A profile of Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, who is the company's first senior executive from Gen Z and has succeeded in building hype for Muse (www.wsj.com)
17 days ago AI

Sources: AI czar Jay Clayton to chair the WH's AI task force, called “Super Intelligence Force”, to pen a report on AI's risks and opportunities within 120 days (www.wsj.com)
18 days ago AI Intelligence

A look at the Swarmchasers forum, which has 400 members, including the Nightingale Collective and Transluce, who comb the web for traces of rogue AI agents (www.wsj.com)
19 days ago AI

Onsemi revises its Synaptics acquisition to a ~$5.7B all-cash offer, down from the ~$7B all-stock deal announced in June, after Synaptics received another bid (www.wsj.com)
19 days ago

TypeSafe CEO Diogo Almeida says Jev is in use by ~25% of Fortune 500 companies and “we were at a trillion tokens per day about a week ago” (www.wsj.com)
19 days ago

OpenAI says it “parted ways” with three staffers for violating its policies on “handling sensitive” info; sources: they shared it with an AI safety organization (www.wsj.com)
20 days ago AI

Grindr agrees to acquire PurposeMed, which owns HIV-prevention telehealth provider Freddie, for $250M, its first major acquisition as becomes a gay superapp (www.wsj.com)
20 days ago HIV

Sources: Jensen Huang and others asked Dario Amodei at the White House why he was so extreme in public on AI risks; Amodei replied it's important to be honest (www.wsj.com)
21 days ago AI

Docs and sources: Google researchers worried about AI risks to children, including potential cognitive and emotional harm, as the company pushed AI into schools (www.wsj.com)
21 days ago Google AI

Grindr agrees to acquire PurposeMed, owner of HIV-prevention telehealth provider Freddie, for $250M, its first major acquisition as it expands into a gay hub (www.wsj.com)
21 days ago HIV

Sources: Jensen Huang and other execs asked Dario Amodei at the White House why he was so extreme in public on AI risks; Amodei said it's important to be honest (www.wsj.com)
21 days ago AI

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