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Internal email: Microsoft introduces token budget limits for employees' AI use, saying "tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for" (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)

Internal email: Microsoft introduces token budget ...

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Anthropic names Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, an ex-California Supreme Court justice and a special assistant in Obama's WH, as its first global affairs chief (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)

Anthropic names Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, an ex-...

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Sandisk and SK Hynix announce the High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) open specification that enables up to 512GB memory modules with 0.4 TB/s to 3.0 TB/s bandwidth (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)

Sandisk and SK Hynix announce the High Bandwidth F...

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Sources: the US is preparing to set a price floor and impose tariffs on polysilicon, a material critical to chips, later this month, in a bid to counter China (Reuters)

Sources: the US is preparing to set a price floor ...

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The DOJ secures a $3.2M settlement from OpenAI to resolve allegations it discriminated against US workers by preferring workers with temporary employment visas (Jimmy Jenkins/Bloomberg)

The DOJ secures a $3.2M settlement from OpenAI to ...

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Researchers: ChainDrop, a Shai-Hulud-based worm, compromised 1,300+ npm packages, including Keyv and Cacheable, with a combined 2B monthly downloads (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Researchers: ChainDrop, a Shai-Hulud-based worm, c...

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Oligo, which offers runtime security tools, raised $60M from Ballistic Ventures, Canon Capital, and others, bringing its total funding to $140M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Oligo, which offers runtime security tools, raised...

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Alpamayo 2 Super, Nvidia's frontier open reasoning model for robotaxis and AVs, is now available for commercial use under the OpenMDW-1.1 license (Jessica Soares/NVIDIA)

Alpamayo 2 Super, Nvidia's frontier open reasoning...

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Ambrook, which offers accounting software, raised a $30M Series B led by Lachy Groom as it expands beyond farming into trucking, construction, and real estate (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)

Ambrook, which offers accounting software, raised ...

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New Jersey files an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, alleging it uses its dominance to impose low pay and poor conditions on independent delivery drivers (Reuters)

New Jersey files an antitrust lawsuit against Amaz...

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A World Bank report says developing economies stand to benefit more from AI boosting their workers' output than they will lose in jobs being replaced by AI (Joseph Cotterill/Financial Times)

A World Bank report says developing economies stan...

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Convex, which provides an AI-optimized application backend for developers, raised a $57M Series B led by Insight Partners, taking its total funding to $110.5M (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)

Convex, which provides an AI-optimized application...

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Analysis: in 2026 so far, US police arrested at least 37 people in connection to data center protests and intervened to prevent confrontations in 12 more cases (Joe Wilkins/Futurism)

Analysis: in 2026 so far, US police arrested at le...

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Obsidian Security, which helps companies secure AI agents, raised an $85M Series D at a $1.1B valuation, after raising a $90M Series C in April 2022 (Akash Sriram/Reuters)

Obsidian Security, which helps companies secure AI...

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HappyRobot, which uses AI to automate freight operator communications, raised a $150M Series C at a $1.2B valuation, after a $44M Series B in September 2025 (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

HappyRobot, which uses AI to automate freight oper...

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Sources: Polymarket is in early talks with prospective investors to raise ~$1B at a $20B+ valuation, up from $15B in April 2026 and $9B in October 2025 (Todd Gillespie/Bloomberg)

Sources: Polymarket is in early talks with prospec...

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Sources: Anthropic agreed to a $10B deal for computing capacity in Norway from Nvidia-backed AI cloud startup Volta; Volta says the deal runs for six years (Bloomberg)

Sources: Anthropic agreed to a $10B deal for compu...

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AI cloud startup Volta raised $300M co-led by a16z and Altimeter at a $2.4B valuation and says it landed a $10B contract with an unnamed leading AI developer (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

AI cloud startup Volta raised $300M co-led by a16z...

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