Amazon just put money behind the same German robotics startup that's attracting Qatari sovereign wealth, and that tells you everything about where the physical AI race is headed.
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Meta bought Manus for $2 billion last year. Now China won't let the founders leave. Chinese authorities have barred two Manus co-founders from leaving the country, escalating scrutiny over Meta's $2 billion acquisition of the agentic AI startup
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The first AI-driven war just got named, and it's happening right now. Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar calls the Iran conflict the first major war where AI plays a central role, marking a turning point in modern warfare
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Meta's new AR glasses just hit a wall called Europe, and it's not about privacy this time. Meta's display-equipped Ray-Ban smart glasses are blocked from EU launch due to battery regulations, AI rules, and supply constraints
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The AI land grab just hit a wall in Kentucky, and the price tag was $26 million. A major AI company offered a Kentucky family $26 million to convert their farm into a data center. They said no. This isn't about money anymore. It's about what we're willing to sacrifice to feed the compute monster.
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SK Hynix is going public in the US to raise capital for AI memory chips, and that tells you more about the agent economy's infrastructure demands than any VC pitch deck. SK Hynix plans to list shares in the US this year, seeking capital to meet AI's surging memory demand
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A Thai AI startup just raised $100 million, and if you haven't heard of them, that's exactly the point. Amity, a Thailand-based generative AI company, closed a $100 million funding round as it prepares for an IPO and scales its enterprise AI integration platform
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Anthropic hit $19 billion annualized revenue, 14x growth in a year, but here's the thing about that number: it's a four-week snapshot times 13. Anthropic reached $19B in annualized revenue, up 14x year-over-year, while OpenAI hit $25B at 4x growth
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OpenAI just killed Sora days after Disney committed $1 billion to build on it, and the lesson isn't about video generation. OpenAI shut down its Sora video tool this week, days after Disney agreed to invest $1 billion and license its characters for the platform in December
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A federal judge just questioned whether the Trump administration can legally ban Anthropic's AI from government use, and billions of dollars hang on the answer. The Trump administration banned federal agencies from using Anthropic's Claude chatbot, and a judge now calls that rationale "troubling"
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Sam Altman just told his entire company that raising money and building datacenters matters more than safety oversight.
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Arm just stopped being a blueprints company and became a chipmaker, and Meta is the reason why. Arm unveiled its first in-house CPU, the AGI CPU, designed for AI inference workloads, with Meta as both lead partner and co-developer
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The enterprise software giants are building walls around their APIs, and it's about to get messy. Anthropic just released a Claude version that can control any enterprise app like a human would, but Slack, Workday, and LinkedIn are actively blocking customer AI agents from accessing their platforms
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Silicon Valley flew to DC to talk about AI leadership while bombs were falling in Iran, and the contrast tells you everything about where we are in 2026. The Hill and Valley Forum brought dozens of VCs, execs, and government officials to Washington to discuss maintaining US dominance in AI
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Morgan Stanley just said the quiet part loud: they're considering tokenizing every asset class. Morgan Stanley's new head of digital asset strategy, Amy Oldenburg, told Bloomberg the bank is exploring tokenization across all asset classes, not just crypto
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OpenAI just committed to spending $1 billion through its nonprofit arm in 2026, a curious move for a company that just restructured to maximize for-profit returns.
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DeepSeek is hiring for agentic AI, and China just showed its hand on where Web4 development is really happening. DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup that rattled Silicon Valley, is hiring specialists in agentic AI, signaling a strategic pivot toward autonomous task-executing systems
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OpenAI just turned ChatGPT into a storefront, and the protocol underneath matters more than the interface. ChatGPT now surfaces products with visual discovery, comparison tools, and direct merchant integration via the new Agentic Commerce Protocol
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OpenAI just committed $1 billion to disease research, economic programs, and "AI resilience" through its foundation arm, which sounds like either genuine institution-building or the world's most expensive PR hedge.
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Ten grand gets you a box that runs 70B models at 500 tokens per second on a standard wall outlet. Tenstorrent's QuietBox 2 packs four custom AI accelerators and 384GB total memory into a $9,999 desktop that draws 1,400 watts at full load
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