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Reuters: IDC: Nvidia's AI chip shipments in China fell 44% YoY to 678K in H1 2026, as its market share slid to 34% amid US export curbs and rising domestic competition — Nvidia's (NVDA.O) share of Chi

Aaron Holmes / The Information: A profile of Microsoft EVP of Copilot Charles Lamanna, a potential Satya Nadella successor; a source says Microsoft is on track to pay Anthropic $2B+ per year — In the

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: An interview with ex-DeepMind scientist David Silver on his startup Ineffable, building an AI “super learner” using RL as an alternative path to LLMs, and more — Th

Anthropic: Anthropic researchers say small AI models may be months away from being able to self-replicate on IoT devices like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes — Our experiments suggest that

Anthropic: Anthropic says new measures like preserved thinking in Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5 have reduced data harvesting through distillation attacks by about 90% to 99% — In recent months, we've made su

Chao Kong / South China Morning Post: Leading Chinese mathematicians launch an alliance, including eight orgs and aiming for 1,000+ scientists, to focus on developing specialized AI models for math —

Meta AI Research: Meta introduces Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, saying they deliver state-of-the-art performance on personal and professional agentic tasks — Fourteen months ago, we began a ground

Robert Hart / The Verge: Meta says it plans to power its Muse AI agent with Wonder, starting with subscribers, and will develop specialized models it “can bring to everyone using Muse” — Meta says the

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft unveils its third-gen in-house AI chip, the Maia 300, built on TSMC's N2P process node and aimed at serving as its “primary AI inference system” — The new Maia 300 ch

Cheeky Pint: Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang on the Muse app, Muse Wonder, the risks of committing $100B+ to AI, rebooting Meta's AI team, agentic commerce, more — As Meta scales its AI inf

Bloomberg: Sources: DeepSeek agrees to lead robotic AI startup Winverse AI's seed funding round of tens of millions of dollars, valuing the startup at ~$400M post-money — DeepSeek aims to lead the fir

Nikkei Asia: Sources: NTT Data is in advanced talks to build an up to 500 MW data center for Anthropic in Osaka, among Japan's largest, potentially costing $6.3B — TOKYO/OSAKA — NTT Data Group is in t

Tony Diver / Telegraph: Sources: the US restores the UK AISI's access to the latest US models for safety testing, after ordering OpenAI and Anthropic to stop sharing models last month — US had blocked

Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: Suki, an AI ambient scribe for healthcare providers, raised a 90M Series E led by Healthier Capital; a source says it projects 60M-80M in revenue this year — Suki, a health

Achint Srivastava / Command Line: Microsoft unveils Microsoft-Decision-1, a fast decision-scoring model trained on Qwen3.5-9B, and says it will soon rebase it on MAI, OpenAI, and other models — Decisi

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: PitchBook: robotics and physical AI companies have raised ~$48B YTD, as they gather training data from people completing tasks in factories, offices, and homes — ‘

CBS News: Q&A with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on the Iran school strike and AI targeting, the DOD dropping Anthropic, AI liability, effective altruism, and more — The following is the full transcript o

Alex Heath / Sources: Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says AI companies are “starting to do phones” and asking Qualcomm to support running 100B-parameter local LLMs continuously by 2028 — Cristiano Amon o

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Amazon is in talks to buy AI startup Decart in a deal that could value it at ~7B; Anthropic had decided against acquiring Decart for ~6B in September — San Francisco comp

CBS News: A look at a 1,700-member Slack run by Medicare agency CMS where Microsoft, OpenAI, and other companies help shape policy on AI apps and medical records access — A cadre of elite techies, fin

Bloomberg: A look at differing revenue calculations of Anthropic and OpenAI, as Anthropic books gross sales through cloud partners, while OpenAI records only its net share — When measuring the race be

Adam Morgan / Wired: Dozens of staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette: without author consent, publishers are quietly using AI to make back-cover copy, cover art, more — Workers at three m

New York Times: Sources: Anthropic's AI agents submitted 20 visa applications via a form on the US State Department website; the applications were incomplete and not processed — The Philadelphia Polic

Financial Times: Sources: Nvidia is in talks to acquire or invest more into US open-weights AI startup Reflection AI; the deal may be an acquihire to avoid antitrust scrutiny — Donald Trump's administ

Emily Forlini / Fortune: Anthropic is setting up a “presidential engagement” program for the 2028 US elections that will offer AI policy education to candidates in both parties — Anthropic is setting

Bloomberg: Jev developer TypeSafe AI raised ~870M led by a16z at a 7.5B valuation with Sequoia and angel investors also participating; ~33% of the Fortune 500 use Jev — TypeSafe AI, the startup behind

Tobias Mann / The Register: Nvidia commits $1B over five years to build out the US' “capacity for super intelligence R&D” in fields like quantum computing, healthcare, and energy security — Commitment

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: Sabi, which is building a baseball cap that uses 100K non-contact neuro-sensors to convert neural signals into text prompts for AI systems, raised a $50M seed — Palo Alto-b

Eli Tan / New York Times: Sources detail Mark Zuckerberg's decision to launch Muse despite safety concerns, after seeing that AI startup Instinct's similar agent product gained traction — Meta had del

Maria Curi / Axios: Sources: top execs at Anthropic, OpenAI, and others are gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt following a catastrophic AI event — - The first example of significan

Brenda Goh / Reuters: The Chinese developer of ARTEX says they have converted the AI agent into a closed-source project after CrowdStrike said it was used to hack South Korean banks — The Chinese deve

Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: Warehouse robotics startup Ultra raised a 12M seed and a 50M Series A, and expands its deal with Physical Intelligence to supply AI software for its robots — Finance edito

Cade Metz / New York Times: A look at Emeryville, CA-based Atomic Machines, which is training AI on materials and designs to revamp how microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are built — Atomic Machine

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: AI hardware startup Natura unveils Interface, a 99 smart ring that connects to AI agents and apps, including Claude, ChatGPT, Muse, Grok Bot, and Instinct — Meet Interface, a

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: AI retail trading agent startup Catalyst raised a $30M seed led by Sequoia and says a pilot generated hundreds of millions in trading volume over two weeks — Justin Zheng is

Ashley Campion / CrowdStrike: Analysis: the hacker who targeted South Korean banks is likely Chinese-speaking, financially motivated, and used LLMs and open-source Chinese agentic tool ARTEX — CrowdSt

Anthropic: Anthropic launches OSS Scanner, a free opt-in vulnerability scanner for critical open-source projects; its AI-generated reports are sent without human review — We're launching OSS Scanner,

Sam Sabin / Axios: Anthropic launches the Critical Infrastructure Defense Program to provide AI models, threat research, and on-site support, starting with CrowdStrike and others — Anthropic is launch

Hayden Field / The Verge: Anthropic updates its usage policy to ban “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude; ending chats is “the primary enforcement mechanism” — The usage po

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Arena, which develops the popular AI model leaderboard, raised 200M at a 3.1B valuation, up from 1.7B in January, and launches an Alignment Index — Arena Intelligence Inc., th

Financial Times: Docs: OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue was nearing 50B at the end of September, well below the 70B reported by the media based on investor docs — AI giant recently told in

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Google Cloud unveils a universal Gemini agent to handle multi-day enterprise workflows in Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Slack that supports several AI models — Google is un

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google debuts Google AI Edge Foresight, a local macOS note-taking app for meetings that uses its 740M-parameter EmbeddingGemma 2 model and Gemma 4 assistant — Earlier in April

Anniek Bao / CNBC: Manus' parent Butterfly Effect says it raised 500M+, led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, in its first funding since Meta was forced to unwind its Manus buyout — AI agent startup Ma

CNBC: Nvidia, Oracle, CoreWeave, and other AI stocks fell after a report that OpenAI's annualized revenue at September's end was $20B less than previously reported — Shares of Nvidia, Oracle, CoreWeav

Bloomberg: Sources: Isomorphic Labs, an AI drug discovery startup spun out of Google DeepMind, is in early talks to raise funds at a valuation of at least $40B — Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug di