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Natsuki Yamamoto / Nikkei Asia: Sources: SoftBank, Sony, Honda, and six other Japanese companies launch a new AI company to develop a 1T-parameter foundation model for “physical AI” by 2030 — TOKYO —

Barbara Moens / Financial Times: The EU appoints Anthony Whelan as its top competition official; Whelan says he will press ahead with Big Tech investigations despite President Trump's pressure — Antho

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: The Trump family's World Liberty Financial faces an investor revolt; Justin Sun accuses WLFI of building a “backdoor” that could be used to blacklist investors — World Liberty

Jeff Tomich / Politico: Voters in Festus, Missouri, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection last week, days after the council's approval of a $6B data center — The rout of hal

New York Times: A look at the escalating global AI arms race, as the US, China, Russia, and others rush to build AI-backed autonomous weapons and defense systems — China, the U.S., Russia and others h

Tristan Anthony / Business Insider: Anthropic debuts Claude for Word in beta, adding AI editing tools and clickable citations, targeting document-heavy workflows, for Team and Enterprise users — - Ant

Jonah Owen Lamb / The San Francisco Standard: Police report: Sam Altman's home appears to have been targeted in a second attack after a gun appeared to have been fired at his home from a car early Sun

Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: Sources: the US' AI chip export push risks being undermined by licensing bottlenecks, staff attrition, and unclear policy at the Bureau of Industry and Security — Presiden

Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: Sources: the US FTC is in settlement talks with ad companies to end an antitrust probe into their alleged coordinated boycotts against sites like Elon Musk's X —

Satya Nadella says the public wouldn't tolerate a few AI labs 'doing all of the learning for the world', as Microsoft moves to provide low-cost models and tools (Wall Street Journal) (Visit Techmeme d

Social and low-evidence quarantine moved to raw as rejected. 168 high-specificity articles remain in inbox; four sources were filed.

slowdown? what slowdown? Sources: Anthropic considers releasing a new AI model to counter OpenAI's momentum since Astra's launch, ahead of an IPO and after Amodei's call for a slowdown (Reuters) (Visi

tokenmaxxing is officially over Sources: Amazon has shut down an internal leaderboard that tracked employees' use of AI tools after workers tried to boost their scores with needless tasks (@rafeuddin_

20x sales for something growing that fast js a great deal for @SpaceX It will be immediately accretive given @SpaceX is likely coming to the market at over 50x sales Source: Cursor reached 3B in annua