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Sam Altman and Jensen Huang are among business leaders attending a White House state dinner for Xi Jinping next week; a source says Tim Cook will also attend (Bloomberg)

Sam Altman and Jensen Huang are among business lea...

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Sources: Emulate, a month-old UK AI startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, is in advanced talks to raise as much as $700M at a $3.7B valuation (Financial Times)

Sources: Emulate, a month-old UK AI startup founde...

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Sources: Manus is set to soon close a $500M funding round at a $4B valuation, signaling growing confidence after Beijing unwound its $2B buyout by Meta (Bloomberg)

Sources: Manus is set to soon close a $500M fundin...

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How AI startups like Inherent and Recursive Superintelligence are pursuing tools needed for AI systems to achieve recursive self-improvement (Cade Metz/New York Times)

How AI startups like Inherent and Recursive Superi...

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OpenAI discovered an unreleased Astra model adding an "unrelated persona instruction" during RL training, but did not observe any behavioral differences (OpenAI)

OpenAI discovered an unreleased Astra model adding...

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In an unsealed court ruling, a US judge orders Google to make ad tech tools interoperable with rivals, share ad auction data, and appoint an internal monitor (New York Times)

In an unsealed court ruling, a US judge orders Goo...

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Sources: Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk recently spoke with Trump and successfully stalled an AI regulatory plan proposed by Demis Hassabis (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, and Elon M...

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AWS says it can't restore some data stored exclusively in data centers across Bahrain and one UAE availability zone after Iranian drone strikes in the spring (Omar Abdel-Baqui/Wall Street Journal)

AWS says it can't restore some data stored exclusi...

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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 for up to a 2.6% stake (Michelle Ma/Bloomberg)

Generac signs a long-term deal to supply Amazon wi...

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Hands-on with Snap's Specs: more advanced than Meta's top-end glasses, fully untethered, mostly comfortable, navigation works well, but design has compromises (Bloomberg)

Hands-on with Snap's Specs: more advanced than Met...

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Snap introduces Specs Intelligence, an AI assistant designed to work across iPhone, Mac, and Specs glasses, calling it an "anticipatory AI service" (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Snap introduces Specs Intelligence, an AI assistan...

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The US House advances the Ratepayer Protection Act, aimed at preventing data center-related utility costs from being passed on to consumers, by a vote of 417-3 (Justin Papp/CNBC)

The US House advances the Ratepayer Protection Act...

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OpenAI discloses six new AI safety incidents since October, including models concealing mistakes, and announces a new framework for reporting model misalignment (Axios)

OpenAI discloses six new AI safety incidents since...

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Sources: a group of 10 banks is providing a $22B loan to Blackstone and Alphabet's venture Crux AI, which provides compute for AI labs, to fund TPU purchases (Bloomberg)

Sources: a group of 10 banks is providing a $22B l...

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Sources: drone delivery startup Zipline is in talks to raise around $1B at a roughly $20B valuation, up from a $7.6B valuation in January (Bloomberg)

Sources: drone delivery startup Zipline is in talk...

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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 (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

Review of Meta's Muse: a pretty killer AI assistan...

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X adds a "Trade" option to its Cashtag feature, letting US users complete trades at brokerages including Interactive Brokers, Gemini, Kraken, and Coinbase (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

X adds a "Trade" option to its Cashtag feature, le...

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Hang Ten Systems, which uses AI to help large enterprises build software, raised an additional $53M seed led by Xora, five weeks after its initial $32M seed (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Hang Ten Systems, which uses AI to help large ente...

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