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a16z invests $35M in Horowitz Andreessen Academy, an independent, unaccredited two-year alternative to college; Anthropic, Meta, and others will provide compute (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)

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Cisco Talos releases CAIRN, an open-source framework designed to classify and analyze AI-integrated malware by tracking AI metadata and behavioral fingerprints (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

Cisco Talos releases CAIRN, an open-source framewo...

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Cognex agrees to acquire robotics and 3D computer vision company RealSense in a ~$600M deal, including $500M in cash; Intel spun off RealSense in July 2025 (Sophie Shulman/CTech)

Cognex agrees to acquire robotics and 3D computer ...

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Binance acquires a $100M stake in Circle, and both companies sign a five-year deal that pays the crypto exchange to promote the USDC stablecoin on its platform (CoinDesk)

Binance acquires a $100M stake in Circle, and both...

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DoorDash agrees to a $131.5M settlement with NYC's DCWP to resolve a year-plus investigation into its compliance with the city's 2023 delivery driver pay law (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)

DoorDash agrees to a $131.5M settlement with NYC's...

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Sources: DeepSeek and Moonshot are among the companies briefing the UN Security Council on AI risks and international security during the UN General Assembly (Laurie Chen/Reuters)

Sources: DeepSeek and Moonshot are among the compa...

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Sources: the Cyberspace Administration of China is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot over alleged data leaks to Anthropic and has questioned employees (The Information)

Sources: the Cyberspace Administration of China is...

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The Austrian Academy of Science, Mistral, and Sail Reply plan to launch Apollo, an Ancient Greek LLM trained on ~600M historical Greek words, available for free (Joel Khalili/Wired)

The Austrian Academy of Science, Mistral, and Sail...

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US startup Firebird is building a 300MW data center in Armenia, set to host 70K+ Nvidia chips by 2027; sources: Trump pledged Nvidia export approvals to Armenia (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

US startup Firebird is building a 300MW data cente...

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Sources: multiple staff at the UK's AISI have been signed off work with stress, as tight model release schedules and AI fears lead to low morale and burnout (Financial Times)

Sources: multiple staff at the UK's AISI have been...

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Finnish neocloud startup Verda raised $189M led by Emergence at a $1B+ valuation and aims to raise up to $1.5B in equity and debt in 2026 and up to $10B in 2027 (Paula Doenecke/Bloomberg)

Finnish neocloud startup Verda raised $189M led by...

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French pharma SaaS startup Biolevate raised a €30M Series A co-led by RAISE France and Orange Ventures, taking its total funding to €36M (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)

French pharma SaaS startup Biolevate raised a €30M...

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Chinese optical transceiver maker Ligent jumps 19% in its Hong Kong debut, giving it a ~$4.6B market cap, after raising ~$727M, the latest Hong Kong AI IPO (Sangmi Cha/Bloomberg)

Chinese optical transceiver maker Ligent jumps 19%...

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Apple unveils Apple Music Hall, a live music venue in London's Battersea Power Station with a capacity of up to 600 people and two recording and mixing studios (David Phelan/Forbes)

Apple unveils Apple Music Hall, a live music venue...

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Sources: Polymarket is lobbying regulators in London, Brussels, and across the EU to be governed by financial services laws rather than local gambling rules (Financial Times)

Sources: Polymarket is lobbying regulators in Lond...

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Some universities have barred using AI detectors due to student-instructor distrust over false positives; some educators have just cancelled writing assignments (Will Oremus/The Atlantic)

Some universities have barred using AI detectors d...

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Dutch nanoimprint lithography startup Morphotonics raised €40M from 3M Ventures, EIC Fund, and others, and plans to expand into data center optical components (TechCrunch)

Dutch nanoimprint lithography startup Morphotonics...

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Belgium-based AI recruitment platform Spott raised a $21M Series A led by Balderton, with Base10, YC, and Fortino participating, bringing total funding to $24M (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Belgium-based AI recruitment platform Spott raised...

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