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The European Commission proposes exempting wearable tech from rules requiring removable batteries, clearing a hurdle for Meta's smart glasses, after US pressure (Politico)

The European Commission proposes exempting wearabl...

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Anthropic announces a new Claude for Teachers initiative, as part of which it will provide K-12 teachers in the US free access to premium Claude features (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

Anthropic announces a new Claude for Teachers init...

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Sources: data center operator Switch has hired investment banks for a US IPO that could raise up to $10B and value it at $80B, set for as soon as Q4 (Reuters)

Sources: data center operator Switch has hired inv...

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Hachette, Elsevier, Cengage Learning, and author Scott Turow sue Google for allegedly using millions of copyrighted books and articles to build AI models (A.J. Katz/The Wrap)

Hachette, Elsevier, Cengage Learning, and author S...

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A Trump administration official says a "trivial" number of Nvidia's H200 chips were shipped to China after winning a US license, without offering specifics (Bloomberg)

A Trump administration official says a "trivial" n...

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Chinese startup DFSX launches an AI chip that it claims uses a fully domestic supply chain and is built on a 14nm process, but says it can rival 4nm chips (Wall Street Journal)

Chinese startup DFSX launches an AI chip that it c...

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Velocity, a stablecoin treasury and settlement platform, raised a $38M Series A led by Dragonfly and FirstMark, bringing its total funding to around $50M (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)

Velocity, a stablecoin treasury and settlement pla...

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OpenAI has struck a partnership with Kalshi to show World Cup prediction market data in ChatGPT search results, its first deal with a prediction market (Mike Isaac/New York Times)

OpenAI has struck a partnership with Kalshi to sho...

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Spotify launches a Talk to Spotify feature that lets users create playlists and more, rolling out in beta to Premium users 18+ in the US, Ireland, and Sweden (Steve Dent/Engadget)

Spotify launches a Talk to Spotify feature that le...

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Researcher: SpaceXAI's Grok Build CLI uploaded user repos to a Google Cloud Storage bucket; uploads have now stopped and Musk says prior uploads will be deleted (Connor Jones/The Register)

Researcher: SpaceXAI's Grok Build CLI uploaded use...

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Filing: Chinese chipmaker CXMT seeks to raise ~$9.8B in an IPO on Shanghai's chip-heavy STAR Board (David Morris/Bloomberg)

Filing: Chinese chipmaker CXMT seeks to raise ~$9....

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AI startup Reflection says it has signed a $1B+ deal to secure computing capacity from Nebius, including access to Nvidia chips, following a deal with SpaceX (Aditya Soni/Reuters)

AI startup Reflection says it has signed a $1B+ de...

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Kalshi launches a forward curve tool for AI compute, using event contracts to track the future rental costs of GPUs, storage, and memory (Katherine Doherty/Bloomberg)

Kalshi launches a forward curve tool for AI comput...

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Seattle-based Brinc Drones, which makes 911 response drones, raised $125M led by Motorola Solutions, bringing its total funding to more than $280M (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Seattle-based Brinc Drones, which makes 911 respon...

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Flex, which offers AI-based payment tools, credit, and more to mid-sized companies, raised a $70M Series B1 led by Halo Fund, a source says at a $1.2B valuation (Aditya Soni/Reuters)

Flex, which offers AI-based payment tools, credit,...

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Analysis: xAI has installed far more gas turbines without permits at Colossus 2 than it has publicly acknowledged, impacting Black neighborhoods the hardest (Reuters)

Analysis: xAI has installed far more gas turbines ...

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Discount airline Frontier partners with Starlink to offer Wi-Fi for the first time from early 2027, as it targets customers willing to pay for premium travel (Alison Sider/Wall Street Journal)

Discount airline Frontier partners with Starlink t...

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Custom AI chip design startup TYLsemi raised $43M in early-stage funding led by Matter Venture Partners to build modular chips thanks to packaging tech advances (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Custom AI chip design startup TYLsemi raised $43M ...

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