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Q&A with Senator Adam Schiff on recursive AI becoming a real national security threat, making AI companies retain training data, needing an FDA for AI, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A with Senator Adam Schiff on recursive AI becom...

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Analysis: insurers brace for multimillion-dollar claims caused by rogue AI agents, amid concern that execs like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei could be held liable (Lee Harris/Financial Times)

Analysis: insurers brace for multimillion-dollar c...

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Sources: DeepSeek is close to raising $12B+ in a round that could reach ~$14.9B, with Tencent and CATL as the biggest contributors, ahead of an early-2027 IPO (Bloomberg)

Sources: DeepSeek is close to raising $12B+ in a r...

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Sources: Seagate and Toshiba are bidding for TDK's HDD magnetic head business in a multibillion-dollar deal, as they compete for AI data center storage demand (Bloomberg)

Sources: Seagate and Toshiba are bidding for TDK's...

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Singapore-based data center operator DayOne files for a US IPO, reporting its H1 revenue more than tripled YoY to $512M while its net loss widened to $77.2M (Pragyan Kalita/Reuters)

Singapore-based data center operator DayOne files ...

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Sources: Moonshot AI closes its final private funding round at a ~$50B valuation and is targeting a Hong Kong IPO in Q1 2027 to raise up to $5B (Bloomberg)

Sources: Moonshot AI closes its final private fund...

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Sources: AI inference-chip startup Etched is in early talks to raise funding at a $40B-$50B valuation, up from $21B in August (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Sources: AI inference-chip startup Etched is in ea...

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Analysis: Anthropic's subscriptions offer ~5x more API-equivalent value per month than OpenAI's for agentic workloads with Claude Opus 5.5 vs. GPT-6.1 Sol (SemiAnalysis)

Analysis: Anthropic's subscriptions offer ~5x more...

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SpaceX stock closes up 7.6% after Morgan Stanley called SPCX "cheap", reaching its highest level since mid-June and returning Elon Musk to trillionaire status (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

SpaceX stock closes up 7.6% after Morgan Stanley c...

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TikTok debuts Shopping Assistant, a conversational AI agent that helps users find and buy products, and Buy Direct for one-click purchases from the For You feed (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

TikTok debuts Shopping Assistant, a conversational...

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Reflection unveils open-weight model Beam, saying it excels at coding and agentic tasks, uses 3x-4x less compute than comparable models, and nears Qwen 3.8-Max (Semafor)

Reflection unveils open-weight model Beam, saying ...

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Sources: Meta and Microsoft are working to cut their employees' use of Claude; Meta employees using Claude Code have dropped to ~30K from ~60K earlier this year (The Information)

Sources: Meta and Microsoft are working to cut the...

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Ghost, which makes a $3,499 computer designed for AI agents and includes an RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell GPU, emerges from stealth with an $11M seed led by a16z (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

Ghost, which makes a $3,499 computer designed for ...

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Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon and representatives from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Meta testified at a New York City Council hearing on AI safety (Bloomberg)

Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon and repres...

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The CFTC proposes a federal framework for crypto exchanges to offer retail customers leveraged and margined spot trading, without requiring congressional action (Jason Shubnell/The Block)

The CFTC proposes a federal framework for crypto e...

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An official says the DOD has stopped using Anthropic's tools; sources: Claude was in use as recently as last week, including in military operations against Iran (BBC)

An official says the DOD has stopped using Anthrop...

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To comply with the EU AI Act, OpenAI plans to add text watermarking for ChatGPT and Codex users in the EU and an opt-in setting for API customers globally (OpenAI)

To comply with the EU AI Act, OpenAI plans to add ...

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In a first-of-its-kind pilot in the US, Nolla Health will use AI to diagnose and prescribe acne medications to Utah patients without direct human oversight (Annika Inampudi/Bloomberg)

In a first-of-its-kind pilot in the US, Nolla Heal...

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