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An interview with Corning CEO Wendell Weeks on risk-sharing provisions that protect the company in multibillion-dollar fiber deals with Nvidia, Meta, and Amazon (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

An interview with Corning CEO Wendell Weeks on ris...

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South Korea's "semiconductor belt" town Dongtan has become one of the fastest-rising affluent areas, driven by windfall bonuses for Samsung and SK Hynix workers (Daniel Tudor/Financial Times)

South Korea's "semiconductor belt" town Dongtan ha...

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Huawei unveils HarmonyOS 7, introducing an "agent-friendly" architecture that connects to 2,000+ specialized AI agents and features an enhanced voice assistant (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)

Huawei unveils HarmonyOS 7, introducing an "agent-...

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A Ukrainian extradited from Ireland to the US pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his role in Conti ransomware attacks between 2021 and 2022 (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

A Ukrainian extradited from Ireland to the US plea...

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Anthropic says it believes the US government's export control order for Mythos 5 and Fable 5 is a "misunderstanding" and that it is working to restore access (Ananya Palyekar/Reuters)

Anthropic says it believes the US government's exp...

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Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.7-Code, claiming 30% lower reasoning token usage compared to K2.6, available under a modified MIT license (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)

Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.7-Code, claiming 30% ...

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Crypto-data provider Blockworks says it has acquired its rival Messari; source: Blockworks paid more than $10M for Messari, which was valued at $300M in 2022 (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Crypto-data provider Blockworks says it has acquir...

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Anthropic says it is disabling Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers after the US government issued an export control order, citing national security concerns (Anthropic)

Anthropic says it is disabling Fable 5 and Mythos ...

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Source: Howard Lutnick told Anthropic that Mythos 5 and Fable 5 would be subject to export controls after a company claimed it was able to jailbreak Mythos (Axios)

Source: Howard Lutnick told Anthropic that Mythos ...

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Sources: OpenAI was subpoenaed on Friday by a coalition of state AGs for documents covering a wide range of its activities and impact on users (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: OpenAI was subpoenaed on Friday by a coal...

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Sources detail frustration inside Meta's Applied AI team, formed in March to support Superintelligence Labs, over menial projects, "soul-crushing" work, more (Wired)

Sources detail frustration inside Meta's Applied A...

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The US DOJ approves Paramount's $111B purchase of WBD without forcing divestitures or behavioral remedies; state AGs could still try to block the move (Yasmin Khorram/Politico)

The US DOJ approves Paramount's $111B purchase of ...

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Sources: three ex-DOGE staffers are raising $130M from a16z, Sequoia, and others for a startup that aims to use AI to secure government systems (Vanity Fair)

Sources: three ex-DOGE staffers are raising $130M ...

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KPMG retracts a report on AI's benefits after it has been found to exaggerate AI adoption with case studies that appear to have been based on AI hallucinations (Financial Times)

KPMG retracts a report on AI's benefits after it h...

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Sources: Roku is in talks to sell itself; its shares have risen about 24% this year, giving the company a market value of $19.9B (Bloomberg)

Sources: Roku is in talks to sell itself; its shar...

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Staff memo: Meta plans to limit employee token usage and encourage employees to use MetaCode, after internal AI spending forecasts reached billions for 2026 (Jyoti Mann/The Information)

Staff memo: Meta plans to limit employee token usa...

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Sources: SpaceX decided to rent its Colossus 1 data center to Anthropic after internal teams struggled to use it for Grok development due to latency issues (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)

Sources: SpaceX decided to rent its Colossus 1 dat...

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Sources: Microsoft considered spinning out or restructuring its Xbox unit as a wholly-owned subsidiary, or creating a joint venture with other partners (Aaron Holmes/The Information)

Sources: Microsoft considered spinning out or rest...

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