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Bloomberg: How Sergey Brin's political push against a proposed wealth tax in California has helped mobilize a network of fellow tech leaders to sway state issues — In a treehouse nestled in redwoods n

Will Knight / Wired: Ineffable Intelligence, founded by ex-Google DeepMind Principal Scientist David Silver, raised a 1.1B seed at a 5.1B valuation to build AI “superlearners” — David Silver has a new

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Kashable, which lets companies offer “socially responsible” credit and financial wellness programs for employees as a voluntary benefit, raised a $60M Series C — Ka

Ivan Levingston / Financial Times: Lithuania-based Vinted says it completed an ~€880M secondary share sale led by EQT, Teachers' Venture Growth, Schroders at an €8B valuation, up from €5B in 2024 — Se

Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: Meta says it signed a deal with Overview Energy for 1GW of space solar energy; the startup seeks to collect sunlight in satellites, with a demonstration in 2028 — Meta Platf

OpenAI: Microsoft and OpenAI amend their deal to let OpenAI serve all its products across any cloud provider; Microsoft will no longer pay a revenue share to OpenAI — Amended agreement provides long-t

Aaron Holmes / The Information: Microsoft and OpenAI remove a clause that would have given Microsoft IP rights until OpenAI achieved “AGI”; Microsoft retains use of OpenAI's models until 2032 — Micros

Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: More than 600 Google employees, including many from DeepMind, sign a letter to Sundar Pichai demanding he bar the DOD from using Google's AI for classified work — “W

Jer / @lifeof_jer: PocketOS founder Jer Crane says a Cursor agent running Claude Opus 4.6 accidentally deleted a production database when it was working in a staging environment — An AI Agent Just Des

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Quantum Art, a quantum computing startup focused on enhancing computational throughput using its unique “multicore” architecture, extends its Series A to $140M — Quantum

Paresh Dave / Wired: San Francisco public records: in 2024, Salesforce and Airbnb were among the top tech spenders in the city's 10B program, which lets them hire police officers — A recent attack on

Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Sources detail Microsoft's “Windows K2”, an ongoing initiative to address major Windows 11 user complaints about AI features, OS bloat, performance, and more — Microsoft

Financial Times: Sources: some UK officials fear Keir Starmer's plan for closer EU ties risks the US-UK alliance, and worry the UK may be forced to adopt the EU's AI regulation — Officials concerned a

Bloomberg: Spotify partners with Peloton to offer Premium subscribers access to curated playlists and 1,400+ ad-free fitness classes, its first foray into fitness content — Spotify Technology SA is no

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: The EU unveils new proposals under the DMA aimed at opening up Android to rivals' AI services; Google says the measures are “unwarranted intervention” — Google was targeted

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Truecaller faces mounting pressure as growth slows in India, its largest market, while telcos, Apple, and Google roll out caller ID and spam-blocking features — Truecaller

Benjamin Wallace / New York Times: A profile of Dwarkesh Patel, whose podcast has become mandatory listening in the AI community, with guests like Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg — Dwarke

Stephen Totilo / Game File: An interview with Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and EVP Matt Booty on the “Return of Xbox” memo, making Xbox Series X and S the “first-class experience again”, and more — In an excl

Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal: ASML says it plans to make at least 60 of its standard EUV machines this year, 36% more than it sold in 2025, as it races to meet demand for making AI chips — ASML

Chris Metinko / Axios: Collov Labs, whose visual interface lets users feed images and camera input into a model that AI agents can reason over and act on, raised a 23M Series A — Collov Labs, which tu

Stephen Morris / Financial Times: Epoch AI: Google controls ~25% of global AI compute, with ~3.8M TPUs and 1.3M GPUs; Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says demand and revenue justify the spend — Thomas

Heather Knight / New York Times: Inside Andon Market, billed as the first retail boutique run by an AI agent; the Andon Labs experiment uses a Claude Sonnet 4.6-based agent to run the boutique — Andon

Makena Kelly / Ars Technica: Palantir Slack logs and staff interviews reveal internal debates over the company's ICE and DOD contracts during Trump's second term, its manifesto, and more — It took jus

Lucinda Shen / Axios: Sources: Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup Genki Robotics, co-founded by Andy Rubin, raised a Series A at a ~1B valuation; it raised a ~50M seed in 2025 — Genki Robotics, a h

Eli Rosenberg / The Information: 33% of S&P 500 companies provided security perks for execs in 2025: Jensen Huang's security cost rose from 690K in 2023 to 3.5M in 2025, Zuckerberg spent $22M — Nvidia

Bloomberg: A 16B financing for a giant Oracle data center in Michigan has closed, with BofA selling 14B in bonds; Oracle plans to use the campus to power apps for OpenAI — A $16 billion financing for

Theo Baker / The Atlantic: A look at “Stanford inside Stanford”, where VCs pursue 18- and 19-year-old students, offering mentorship and funding in a bid to convert promise into profit — Silicon Valley

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: A look at Tin Can's $100 retro-style, Wi-Fi-enabled landline phone, and how some schools are seeding the device to students in an attempt to curb smartphone use — The Tin C

Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: A profile of Strider, an intelligence firm that leverages agentic AI and public records to help the US Air Force, NATO, and others identify foreign state actors — Trump's ec

PYMNTS.com: Adyen plans to acquire Talon.One, a platform for loyalty and incentives that serves more than 300 global merchants, for €750M, expected to close in H2 2026 — Adyen plans to acquire Talon.O

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: An overview of Elon Musk's $134B lawsuit against Sam Altman, scheduled to begin on Monday, accusing Altman of reneging on a vow to keep OpenAI nonprofit — A yearslong legal brawl

Bloomberg: Analysis: Taiwan's stock market value has surpassed the UK's at ~$4.3T, with South Korea close behind, driven by massive gains in TSMC, Samsung, and SK Hynix — The artificial intelligence b

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Citizen Lab details two spying campaigns that abuse weaknesses in the SS7 and Diameter protocols across 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G networks to track people's locati

Russell Contreras / Axios: How the Vatican is moving faster than most legacy institutions to shape AI rules and guardrails, with an AI framework, banning use of AI to write homilies, more — The Vatica

Ian King / Bloomberg: Intel's upbeat outlook suggests CEO Lip-Bu Tan is making progress on a turnaround, having strengthened the company's balance sheet and now improving operations — Intel's Strong A

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: LinkedIn profile review shows Thinking Machines Lab has been hiring more researchers from Meta than from any other employer; TML's headcount now stands at ~140 — Weiyao Wan

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Report: Samsung co-CEO TM Roh told company leaders that the mobile division MX could report its first ever annual loss this year, amid RAM and storage shortages — As AI contin

Sasha Rogelberg / Fortune: Survey of 1,050 Australian teens: ~60% said they retained access to social media accounts after ban; two-thirds say platforms took no action to remove accounts — If teenager

Bloomberg: The value of US government's stake in Intel has increased fourfold to ~36B, since an August 2025 announcement that the US will buy a stake worth 8.9B — The value of the US government stake

Wall Street Journal: Trump hosted a gala luncheon for leading $TRUMP holders, where he spoke about his pro-crypto policies, but avoided the memecoin's declining value — The president's address touched

Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: Alibaba says its Qwen AI models will be integrated into BYD, Volkswagen, and other cars, letting users buy food and tickets via voice commands on select models — BEIJING — Chinese

Anthropic: Anthropic details Project Deal, a marketplace experiment where Claude models bought, sold, and negotiated personal belongings on behalf of Anthropic employees — At Anthropic, we're interest

Bloomberg: Anthropic says Google is committing to invest 10B now in cash at a 350B valuation and will invest another 30B if Anthropic hits performance targets — Google will invest 10 billion in Anthro

Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: As part of the Cohere-Aleph Alpha deal, Aleph Alpha backer Schwarz Group plans to invest $600M in Cohere's Series E, which a source says is set to close in 2026 — Canadian AI

Reuters: Brazil's Finance Minister Dario Durigan says the country has blocked prediction market platforms and tightened derivatives rules to curb “bet-like” products — Brazil has blocked prediction ma

Financial Times: Canada's Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha agree to a merger deal valuing the combined group at ~$20B to work on sovereign AI; both governments support the deal — Canadian and German s