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UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls for autonomous "killer robots" to be "banned by international law", a central issue in the US DOD-Anthropic clash (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal)

UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls for au...

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Norm, which runs an AI law firm that provides AI-powered legal services to clients alongside human lawyers, raised $120M led by Khosla at a $1.2B valuation (Guinevere Grant/Bloomberg)

Norm, which runs an AI law firm that provides AI-p...

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Coinbase secures UK FCA authorization to offer investment services, enabling it to expand into derivatives and equities trading, its largest UK expansion yet (Brian Danga/The Block)

Coinbase secures UK FCA authorization to offer inv...

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Sources: Amazon is looking to raise at least $25B from a US dollar bond sale to fund its AI infrastructure investments; the size could increase based on demand (Bloomberg)

Sources: Amazon is looking to raise at least $25B ...

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Paris-based UMA, founded by ex-Tesla Optimus scientist Rémi Cadene and ex-Google DeepMind researcher Pierre Sermanet, demos its Northstar AI humanoid robot (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)

Paris-based UMA, founded by ex-Tesla Optimus scien...

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Sources: Beijing recently held meetings with Alibaba, ByteDance, Z.ai, and others to discuss restricting overseas access to advanced open and closed AI models (Fanny Potkin/Reuters)

Sources: Beijing recently held meetings with Aliba...

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Survey: Chinese companies plan to allocate 46% of their AI accelerator budget to domestic products in the next 12 months, up from 30% today, a shift from Nvidia (Gao Yuan/Bloomberg)

Survey: Chinese companies plan to allocate 46% of ...

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Sources: DeepSeek is in the early stages of developing its own AI chip designed for inference, in a bid to reduce its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei hardware (Reuters)

Sources: DeepSeek is in the early stages of develo...

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US autonomous military vehicle startup Forterra says it deployed 100+ Lancer UGVs, based on Polaris ATVs, in Ukraine since 2025, completing 1,100+ missions (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)

US autonomous military vehicle startup Forterra sa...

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European banking watchdogs ECB and ESRB warn that frontier AI models pose "systemic risks to the financial system", giving lenders four months to prepare (Financial Times)

European banking watchdogs ECB and ESRB warn that ...

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UK-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale secures a $900M line of credit to expand its data center buildout across Europe, the US, and the Asia Pacific (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal)

UK-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale secures ...

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Munich-based nuclear fusion startup Proxima Fusion raised €411M led by trading firm XTX and UK-based East X at a €2.4B valuation, with participation from Google (Bloomberg)

Munich-based nuclear fusion startup Proxima Fusion...

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OpenRouter: Chinese AI models have drawn 30%+ of token use by US companies each week since February 8, peaking at 46%, up from 11% over the previous 12 months (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)

OpenRouter: Chinese AI models have drawn 30%+ of t...

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Counterpoint: China smartphone sales fell 13% YoY during the 618 shopping festival as brands raised prices to offset memory costs; Honor fell 33% and Xiaomi 24% (Reuters)

Counterpoint: China smartphone sales fell 13% YoY ...

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Alibaba's Qwen models have made it an AI powerhouse, but the company has struggled to turn their global popularity into a profitable business (New York Times)

Alibaba's Qwen models have made it an AI powerhous...

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Court filing: Meta says four US states seek $1.4T over claims it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict youth and misled the public; its market cap is ~$1.5T (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters)

Court filing: Meta says four US states seek $1.4T ...

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OpenAI, Anthropic, and other top AI companies are offering startups token credits and special promotions, as the AI companies seek lasting streams of revenue (Wall Street Journal)

OpenAI, Anthropic, and other top AI companies are ...

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A profile of Rachel Whetstone, who has led comms f...

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