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Filings: Grubhub parent Wonder is raising hundreds of millions at a $9B valuation; source: founder Marc Lore indicated he'll contribute $200M to the round (The Information)

Filings: Grubhub parent Wonder is raising hundreds...

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Cognition releases SWE-1.7, trained from Kimi K2.7 and available at 1,000 tokens/second, claiming it nears GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8 on benchmarks at a lower cost (Cognition)

Cognition releases SWE-1.7, trained from Kimi K2.7...

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Block agrees to pay $45M and offer live customer support for Cash App to settle claims by 46 US states that the company failed to protect users from fraud (Daniel Wiessner/Reuters)

Block agrees to pay $45M and offer live customer s...

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Sources: Reno-based AI chip startup Positron is in talks to raise ~$750M in two phases, at valuations of $3.5B in the first tranche and ~$5B in the second (Bloomberg)

Sources: Reno-based AI chip startup Positron is in...

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The FTC settles with John Deere over a 2025 right-to-repair lawsuit, requiring the company to provide farmers and shops with equipment and software for 10 years (Boone Ashworth/Wired)

The FTC settles with John Deere over a 2025 right-...

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OpenAI says it found widespread task issues in SWE-Bench Pro, estimates ~30% of tasks are broken, and retracts its earlier recommendation to adopt the benchmark (OpenAI)

OpenAI says it found widespread task issues in SWE...

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Meta announces its first data center in Canada, a 1GW facility in Alberta that will cost the company about $9B and take two to three years to construct (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Meta announces its first data center in Canada, a ...

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Grok 4.5 is available in Grok Build, in Cursor, and from the SpaceXAI console, but not in the EU; it costs $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens (Axios)

Grok 4.5 is available in Grok Build, in Cursor, an...

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SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its first model built in partnership with Cursor, designed to "handle difficult, long-running" legal, finance, and coding tasks (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)

SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its first model built ...

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SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its first model built in partnership with Cursor, designed to "handle difficult, long-running" legal, finance, and coding tasks (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)

SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its first model built ...

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OpenAI rolls out two versions of GPT-Live: GPT-Live-1, powering ChatGPT Voice for Go, Plus, and Pro users, and GPT-Live-1 mini, the default for free users (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View)

OpenAI rolls out two versions of GPT-Live: GPT-Liv...

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OpenAI launches GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models built on a full-duplex architecture, meaning they can listen and speak at the same time (OpenAI)

OpenAI launches GPT-Live, a new generation of voic...

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Prime Intellect, which helps companies build their own AI agents by offering computing power and specialized tools, raised a $130M Series A at a $1B valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Prime Intellect, which helps companies build their...

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Arkenstone Defense, which is building software to handle back-office work for defense tech startups, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed led by J2 Ventures (Barratt Dewey/Tectonic Defense)

Arkenstone Defense, which is building software to ...

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China's Nexchip Semiconductor says it aims to raise around $890.37M in its Hong Kong share sale by offering 216.2M shares at ~$4.12 per share (Rajasik Mukherjee/Reuters)

China's Nexchip Semiconductor says it aims to rais...

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Israeli startup Alta, which develops an AI agent platform for marketing, sales, and business development teams, raised a $25M Series A led by IN Venture (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Israeli startup Alta, which develops an AI agent p...

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Chinese autonomous driving company Momenta saw a muted trading debut in its Hong Kong IPO, valuing the company at ~$9B, after raising $751M (Jiahui Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Chinese autonomous driving company Momenta saw a m...

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Sources: China plans to let some of the country's major AI companies buy a small number of Nvidia's H200 chips to alleviate a domestic computing shortage (Qianer Liu/The Information)

Sources: China plans to let some of the country's ...

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