Google details Project Suncatcher, a plan to deploy machine-learning infrastructure in space.
Anthropic reportedly seeks a founder-control voting structure giving seven co-founders 50.1% of votes.
The Information : Sources: Anthropic asks shareholders to approve a Palantir-style structure granting its seven co-founders 50.1% of voting power if three retain minimum stakes — Anthropic is asking shareholders to approve a new corporate structure that would award CEO Dario Amodei and his six cofounders …
Anthropic commits $11.6B over seven years to Akamai cloud services, with an option for a 5% stake.
Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters : Anthropic commits to spending $11.6B over seven years on Akamai cloud services and secures an option to take a stake of up to 5%; AKAM jumps 17%+ after hours — Anthropic has signed an $11.6 billion cloud services agreement with Akamai Technologies (AKAM.O), as the AI lab seeks additional computing capacity …
Semafor reports the US alone rejected AI-safety concerns at the UN, weakening a nonbinding global effort.
Ashley Gold / Semafor : The US stood alone in dismissing AI safety concerns at the UN, leaving nations to set nonbinding rules without buy-in from the home of the biggest AI companies — ASHLEY'S VIEW — The White House and its allies are lonely in their insistence that AI development in America must accelerate without governments setting ground rules.
Financial Times reports AI “neolabs” raised $24B in two quarters despite many lacking products or revenue.
Louise Lucas / Financial Times : Radical Ventures: AI neolabs, many lacking products, markets, or revenue, raised $24B in the past two quarters, nearly 5x OpenAI and Anthropic pre-ChatGPT — It is true that these numbers can hide some sleight of hand — It would be a brave or foolhardy investor who set out today to build a new Walmart, Uber or Amazon.
Ex-Tesla Dojo leaders' chip startup DensityAI is reportedly raising at a $10B valuation.
The Information : Sources: AI chip startup DensityAI, founded by ex-Tesla Dojo team members, is in talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a $10B valuation — DensityAI, an AI chip startup founded just a year ago by former leaders of Tesla's Dojo supercomputer program, is in advanced talks …
Reuters examines Chinese local-government subsidies aimed at attracting AI filmmaking companies.
Reuters : Chinese local governments are offering subsidies like computing vouchers, rent waivers, and dedicated funding to lure AI filmmakers as part of China's AI push — When Zhu Zhili was looking for a base to set up an artificial intelligence film studio in China two years ago …
Insurers say hospitals' AI use added roughly $1B in 2024–25 expenses through larger, data-heavy claims.
New York Times : Report: insurers claim hospitals' AI use was responsible for ~$1B in extra expenses in 2024-25, as hospitals collect more patient data and submit larger claims — The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care.
The Verge explores the tradeoff between air-gapping AI systems and preserving meaningful evaluations and research.
Robert Hart / The Verge : Experts say that air-gapping AI could prevent events like the Hugging Face hack, but would undermine the value of evaluations and slow research to a crawl — Researchers are testing these systems precisely because they might behave in unpredictable, even dangerous, ways.
Databricks acquires spreadsheet startup Row Zero to expand Genie, its AI coworker.
Chris Metinko / Axios : Databricks acquires spreadsheet startup Row Zero to expand the capabilities of its AI coworker Genie; Row Zero raised a $10M seed led by IA Ventures last year — Databricks bought RowZero as it looks to build out its AI coworker platform Genie, co-founder Patrick Wendell tells Axios Pro exclusively.
Google adds lip-syncing, expressive Live Avatar personas to Gemini 3.8 Live for enterprise customers.
Emma Roth / The Verge : Google updates Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, an animated AI persona that lip-syncs and shows different facial expressions, for Gemini Enterprise customers — Google's Live Avatar can lip-sync and show different facial expressions. … Google's new Gemini 3.8 Live update lets users …
Xi says the US and China must jointly develop and manage AI “for good” at a White House summit.
Mallory Wilson / The Hill : At a White House summit, Xi Jinping says the US and China have “the capability and responsibility to develop and manage AI for good” as “leading nations” in AI — Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday the U.S. and China have an obligation to manage the development …
Dynamic Abliteration proposes Engram Steering to suppress model refusals without destructive weight edits.
RLCD paper explains the training method described as the mechanism behind Jev.
A practitioner shows how LLMs helped trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th-century letters.
Reports that attackers manipulated ChatGPT and Gemini to steer users toward scam centers.
The New Yorker examines whether AI firms should face legal liability when their systems cause harm.
Dutch governments are building a Microsoft alternative based on NixOS.
FT reports Oracle may owe data-center investors even if a site lacks electricity.
Cryptography paper presents a method for forging 1024-bit RSA signatures in nearly SNFS time.
Postmortem details a SourceHut account takeover through build-log XSS in ansi2html.
Technical write-up shows entry into and escape from the Avast Antivirus sandbox.
LinkedIn wins a court order blocking mass scraping of its user data.
Cell study finds creatine uptake can enhance antitumor immunity.
Linebender releases Fearless SIMD 1.0, a safety-oriented SIMD programming toolkit.
A technical guide implements Parquet-file writing in Haskell.
WaveDigger is an open-source tool for locating wireless signals physically.
XDA reviews the latest ESP32's Linux capability and its approach toward Raspberry Pi-class use.
Robert O'Callahan explains his decision to leave Google behind.
Land Economics analyzes California's competition for mobile wealth and taxpayers.
New York Times : Massachusetts' gambling regulator says it will examine how DraftKings and other betting companies in the state are using AI, in response to a NYT investigation — In response to a New York Times report on DraftKings, the state's gaming commission said it would evaluate how each company deployed the technology.
Matthew Brockett / Bloomberg : Bitget halts withdrawals after detecting unauthorized transfers from some hot and warm wallets, affecting ~$351.6M; CEO Gracy Chen says “user funds are safe” — Crypto exchange Bitget said it detected unauthorized transfers from some of its hot- and warm-wallet infrastructure and activated emergency response protocols.
Micah Maidenberg / Wall Street Journal : Documents: Jeff Bezos has invested $30B in Blue Origin since 2000, including $2B in its first outside funding round, which has raised $10B at a $140B valuation — The space company wants to rapidly boost revenue in the coming years, betting its rockets will make it a powerful industry player
Todd Bishop / GeekWire : Email: Microsoft is moving its communications function out of its marketing group and into the corporate, external, and legal affairs org led by Brad Smith — Microsoft is moving its communications function out of its marketing group and into the corporate, external and legal affairs organization led …