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- Scale AI wins a $500M DOD contract through the Chief Digital and AI Office to help sift data and assist in decision-making, after receiving a $100M deal in 2025 (Jen Judson/Bloomberg) [69d]
- Musk v. Altman: Shivon Zilis testifies her relationship with Musk didn't influence her duties as an OpenAI board member; she left in 2023 after Musk started xAI (Carly Nairn/Courthouse News Service) [69d]
- Filing: Meta asks a judge to overturn the jury's verdict in the Los Angeles social media addiction trial or order a new trial, citing Section 230 protections (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters) [69d]
- Snap reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $1.53B, in line with est., and says it ended its $400M Perplexity deal announced in November; SNAP drops 4%+ after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) [69d]
- DoorDash reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to $4.04B, vs. $4.14B est., and forecasts Q2 marketplace gross order value above estimates; DASH jumps 11%+ after hours (Koyena Das/Reuters) [69d]
- Arm reports Q4 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.5B, says AGI CPU demand will drive $2B in sales in 2027 and 2028, over 2x its prior guidance; ARM jumps 11%+ after hours (Michael Acton/Financial Times) [69d]
- Google Chrome silently installs a ~4GB Gemini Nano model on desktop devices; Google says it has been offered since 2024 and users can remove it via settings (Ben Schoon/9to5Google) [69d]
- Corgi, which provides insurance for startups and uses AI to generate quotes, manage claims, and more, raised a $160M Series B led by TCV at a $1.3B valuation (Richard Nieva/Forbes) [69d]
- Musk v. Altman: Mira Murati testifies that Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new OpenAI model and that he made her work more difficult (Jay Peters/The Verge) [70d]
- Instacart reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.02B, GTV up 13% to $10.29B, and orders up 10%, compared with a 16% growth a year earlier; CART drops 11%+ (Neil J Kanatt/Reuters) [70d]
- Anthropic says it signed a deal with SpaceX to use "all of the compute capacity" at Colossus 1, giving it access to over 300 MW of new capacity within the month (Axios) [70d]
- Google releases Multi-Token Prediction drafters for its Gemma 4 models, which use a form of speculative decoding to guess future tokens for faster inference (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica) [70d]
- Sources: Microsoft is considering delaying or dropping its 2030 goal of matching its hourly power use with renewable energy purchases, amid the data center boom (Bloomberg) [70d]
- Anthropic says it is doubling Claude Code's five-hour rate limits for paid plans and removing Claude Code's peak hours limit reduction for Pro and Max plans (Anthropic) [70d]
- SpaceX signs an agreement with Anthropic to provide access to Colossus 1, and says Anthropic expressed interest in partnering for orbital compute capacity (xAI) [70d]
- Anthropic updates Claude Managed Agents with "dreaming", a scheduled process that reviews recent work and updates memory, available in research preview (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack) [70d]
- Sources: DeepSeek is in talks to raise $3B to $4B led by China's national AI fund, valuing DeepSeek at up to $50B (Reuters) [70d]
- London-based Ethos, which lets companies use AI for hiring, including for voice interviews and profile analysis, raised a $22.75M Series A led by a16z (Ana-Maria Stanciuc/The Next Web) [70d]
- Google DeepMind takes a minority stake in the maker of Eve Online, a multiplayer role playing game set in outer space, and plans to train its tech on the game (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg) [70d]
- SCOTUS rejects Apple's request to temporarily block a judicial order in the Epic Games lawsuit that found Apple in violation of court-mandated App Store changes (Mike Scarcella/Reuters) [70d]
- The UK FCA says it is investigating PayPal, Mastercard, and Visa for alleged anti-competitive behavior, in a rare antitrust investigation by the regulator (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times) [70d]
- Google updates AI Mode and AI Overviews to add "a preview of perspectives" from firsthand sources like social media and Reddit, presented as "Expert Advice" (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) [70d]
- Morgan Stanley rolls out a crypto trading pilot on E*Trade, charging clients lower prices than Coinbase and Robinhood, ahead of a wider launch later in 2026 (Hannah Levitt/Bloomberg) [70d]
- Apple's R&D spending hit 10.3% of revenue in Q2, up from 7.6% in Q1 and 9% in Q2 2025, amid the AI boom; Q2 revenue rose 17% YoY, while R&D jumped 34% YoY (CNBC) [70d]
- Nvidia is investing $500M in Corning as part of its partnership to expand US manufacturing of fiber optics for AI infrastructure; GLW jumps 20%+ pre-market (Nicholas G. Miller/Wall Street Journal) [70d]
- reMarkable Paper Pure review: the new $399 e-paper slate has a great display, responsiveness, and design, but no backlight or typing, and some software issues (Daniel Cooper/Engadget) [70d]
- Magnitt: startup funding in the Middle East and North Africa was flat YoY at $799M in Q1 amid the Iran war; Saudi VC firms are pressing ahead with fundraising (Yassmin Jabri/Bloomberg) [70d]
- A profile of David Sacks, appointed as White House AI adviser in December 2024, who has a ruthless devotion to self-interest and helped pass the GENIUS Act (George Packer/The Atlantic) [70d]
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