The best VCs are closing deals on the mat now, and if you think that's about Jiu-Jitsu, you're missing the point. The Information profiled 15 rising VC partners poised to become general partners, revealing how deal-making has fundamentally changed
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A federal judge just ruled that the Pentagon can't blacklist an AI company for criticizing it in public. Judge Rita F. Lin granted Anthropic a preliminary injunction blocking the Pentagon's blacklist while the case proceeds, effective in seven days
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Pony AI just posted its first profitable quarter, but the money didn't come from driving people around. Pony AI reported its first profitable quarter, driven by gains from an early investment, not robotaxi revenue
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A federal judge just stopped the Trump administration from labeling Anthropic a supply-chain risk, and the timing tells you everything about how fast AI regulation is colliding with business reality.
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Anthropic is eyeing an October IPO, turning the AI foundation model race into a public market showdown. Anthropic is considering going public as soon as October 2026, racing OpenAI to the public markets
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The Pentagon tried to blacklist Anthropic as a supply chain risk, and a federal judge just told them to pump the brakes.
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The Valley's main line into Trump's AI policy just went dark. David Sacks stepped down as White House AI and Crypto Czar after hitting the 130-day limit for special government employees Sacks had been in the role more than a year, raising questions about how the SGE time limit actually worked
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The Trump administration tried to ban Anthropic's Claude from government use, and a federal court just hit pause on that ban. Anthropic won a court order blocking the Trump administration's ban on government use of its Claude AI chatbot, claiming billions in potential lost revenue.
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Apple just paid iPhone designers to stay, which tells you everything about who's winning the AI hardware war. Apple awarded rare bonuses to iPhone hardware designers to counter a wave of departures to AI startups
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Anthropic might IPO by Q4 2025 at a $60B+ valuation, and the timing tells you everything about where we are in the AI race. Anthropic executives are discussing a potential IPO as soon as Q4 2025, with bankers expecting a raise north of $60 billion
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Google just made switching AI assistants as easy as changing email providers, and that tells you everything about how commoditized the chatbot wars have become.
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Meta just silently 6.6x'd its El Paso data center budget to $10 billion, and the company won't say why. Meta increased its El Paso data center investment from $1.5 billion to $10 billion, announced in a blog post just five months after the original October reveal
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BlackRock's data center play just got $2.6 billion in institutional capital, and the smart money is betting infrastructure beats models.
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Microsoft just froze hiring across Azure and sales, the two engines supposed to fund its AI spending spree. Microsoft told managers at Azure cloud and North American sales divisions to suspend new hiring in recent weeks
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A jury just ruled that Meta and Google are liable for a user's social media addiction and mental health harm—the first domino in thousands of similar cases.
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Congress just weaponized the Super Micro indictment to harden the AI chip export wall. A House panel advanced legislation requiring Commerce to force chipmakers into stricter AI export controls after Super Micro's co-founder was indicted for allegedly smuggling Nvidia processors to China
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OpenAI shelves its adult content plans, revealing more about corporate AI governance than anyone's libido. OpenAI indefinitely postponed ChatGPT's planned "adult mode" after CEO Sam Altman teased it last October
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Novo Nordisk is using AI agents to cut months off clinical trial timelines, and the math is staggering: hundreds of millions in revenue per drug, fewer humans per trial.
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A U.S. senator just proposed taxing the infrastructure of AI to pay for the workers it displaces. Sen. Mark Warner is floating a tax on data centers as compensation for AI-driven job losses
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Cohere just made voice transcription cheap enough to run on the GPU gathering dust in your closet. Cohere released an open-source voice transcription model at 2 billion parameters, small enough to run on consumer-grade GPUs without cloud bills
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