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Anthropic is not just preparing a public float. It is rewriting who gets to tell the founders no once the stock starts trading. The Information reported Tuesday that Anthropic has been preparing a new class of stock with extra voting power for CEO Dario Amodei and the other co-founders
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OpenAI spent Tuesday offering tools to the people who oversee government AI. Robin Williams' kids spent it trying to take his face back from the feed. OpenAI said Tuesday it will put $5 million of training, technical support, and API credits toward democratic oversight bodies that are supposed to
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The next AI check is not for another chatbot. It is for the machines that drive, fly, and shoot. Physical AI companies raised $47.4 billion across 521 deals in the first half of 2026, Crunchbase News reported Tuesday — nearly 80 percent more than the $26.4 billion they took
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OpenAI just rewrote the rules for models still in the lab. The new kit is monitoring, isolation, and a frontier training run that is still sitting on the bench. OpenAI said Tuesday it has frozen its largest planned frontier reinforcement-learning run and rolled out new containment rules for models
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Inference silicon just got a customer-led mark-up. A quant fund tested the hardware, put a rack in its own datacenter, then wrote the check. Etched said Tuesday it has raised another $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, led by Jane Street after the trading firm installed the
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Harvey spent years selling Big Law a stack built on other labs' models. Today it says it has one of its own — trained on mock disputes, cheap enough to leave on, and meant to become the starting weight for every firm's private fork. Harvey introduced Harvey Tenet,
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Baidu finally printed the mix it has been selling for two years. The same quarter shows the old search-ad engine shrinking faster than the new one can replace it. Baidu said AI-powered businesses made up half of general-business revenue in the second quarter — 12.5 billion yuan,
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A demo video buried in Apple's latest macOS release candidate shows the next AirPods watching the room — not to shoot photos, but to give Siri eyes. Apple appears to have accidentally shipped a launch clip for camera-equipped AirPods inside the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate, and
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The AI build-out keeps slamming into a wall cash cannot move: watts. A Santa Clara chip shop just got priced like it already found a way around it. Velaura AI closed a $110 million Series A on Tuesday at a valuation of more than $1 billion, selling investors on
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OpenAI is finally putting a name on the teen product it spent a year assembling. A continent away, Perplexity's India giveaway is starting to look like more than a download spike. OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on Tuesday, automatically routing anyone it estimates is under 18 — or who
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Five European Central Bank economists just argued that history does not care whether today's AI valuations are a bubble or a fair bet — either way, a pullback is the base case. A Monday ECB Blog post concludes that a correction in current stock-market valuations is likely, even
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A JAMA Perspective published Monday asks regulators not to hard-code a physician veto into medical AI — just as the evidence for that future is still mostly simulated. Ezekiel Emanuel and three coauthors argue in JAMA that autonomous AI will soon outperform any doctor-plus-model team at medical reasoning,