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Okta agrees to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso; source: the acquisition is valued at just under $200M and is structured as an almost all-cash deal (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Okta agrees to acquire AI identity security startu...

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Thinking Machines releases Inkling-Small, an open-weight model with 276B total and 12B active parameters, saying it "achieves comparable performance" to Inkling (Thinking Machines Lab)

Thinking Machines releases Inkling-Small, an open-...

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Sources: a group of banks is in talks to lend $15B to Nexus to build a Texas data center; Anthropic will lease it and Google has provided financial guarantees (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: a group of banks is in talks to lend $15B...

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Google pilots a faster twice-a-week schedule for Chrome security releases as AI tools drive a surge in bug discoveries; Chrome 149 and 150 fixed 1,072 bugs (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

Google pilots a faster twice-a-week schedule for C...

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OpenAI says it is cutting the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by ~80% and the price of GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% after improving the efficiency of the systems that serve them (Ina Fried/Axios)

OpenAI says it is cutting the price of GPT-5.6 Lun...

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LinkedIn introduces a "seems like AI slop" button to allow users to report posts they think are AI-generated (Joseph Cox/404 Media)

LinkedIn introduces a "seems like AI slop" button ...

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Friend announces an AI pendant with a speaker for spoken replies for $249, up from its original necklace's $129 price, with an optional $10 monthly subscription (Boone Ashworth/Wired)

Friend announces an AI pendant with a speaker for ...

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Wiz says a now-patched flaw in Azure CosmosDB would have let a hacker remotely compromise any of its users; Microsoft has seen "no evidence of customer impact" (Raphael Satter/Reuters)

Wiz says a now-patched flaw in Azure CosmosDB woul...

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Source: Situational Awareness has a $5B stake in Anthropic, and will continue to run as a private investment firm after suffering heavy losses in recent days (Financial Times)

Source: Situational Awareness has a $5B stake in A...

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Sources: AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness sold the bulk of its stock portfolio to Ken Griffin's Citadel after suffering deep losses (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awarene...

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Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics 2, which combines several different AI models into a single system to control a range of robots, including humanoids (Will Knight/Wired)

Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics 2, which ...

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Israel-based Xsight, which makes server networking and storage chips, raised $300M led by Fidelity Investments at a $2.8B post-money valuation (Phoebe Liu/The Information)

Israel-based Xsight, which makes server networking...

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Enterprise data pipeline startup DataBahn raised a $40M Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $59M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Enterprise data pipeline startup DataBahn raised a...

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Sources: Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness has sold all of its public stock holdings after losses on AI stocks and a bad bet against software stocks (David Faber/CNBC)

Sources: Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Aware...

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Sources: Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness has sold all of its public stock holdings after losses on AI stocks and a bad bet against software stocks (David Faber/CNBC)

Sources: Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Aware...

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London-based Inforcer, which helps managed service providers handle their clients' Microsoft 365 accounts, raised a $50M Series C led by Insight Partners (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

London-based Inforcer, which helps managed service...

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Scale AI hires former Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza as CEO, replacing interim CEO Jason Droege, who took over last year after Alexandr Wang left for Meta (Madison Mills/Axios)

Scale AI hires former Google Cloud COO Francis deS...

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Simile, which offers "agentic twins" of real people to assess companies' products, brands, and services, raised $200M led by Greenoaks at a $2B valuation (Sri Muppidi/New York Times)

Simile, which offers "agentic twins" of real peopl...

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