The talent war between AI giants just got a legal choke hold — and the precedent could freeze agent development across the industry. Apple filed for an injunction to block OpenAI from using alleged trade secrets, escalating a lawsuit that centers on employee mobility and proprietary AI research
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The people writing AI regulation spent 88% of their AI budget on the company that's lobbying them hardest. ChatGPT captured $100,580 of $113,740 in House AI spending between April 2025 and March 2026, an 88% market share among the people shaping AI policy
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The AI model market just became a volume game, and American companies spent two years optimizing for margin.
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The Valley's favorite excuse for shipping half-baked software doesn't work when your AI controls two tons of steel at 45 mph. Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov rejected "move fast and break things" for physical AI, saying "when you're dealing with atoms instead of bits, breaking things is not really okay"
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The firms that wrote checks to OpenAI are raising billions while everyone else is explaining why Peloton seemed like a good idea. Felix Capital is stuck $150 million short of its $600 million fundraising target, with LPs demanding returns from older funds before committing new capital
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The VC world is fracturing into haves and have-nots, and the dividing line is whether you can write nine-figure checks for AI infrastructure. Felix Capital aimed for $600M, still $150M short — LPs want returns from old funds before committing new capital
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Australia's second-largest bank just announced it's testing AI agents that could handle real banking tasks — not chatbots that answer questions, but systems that move money and make decisions.
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The AI companies spent years worrying about deepfakes and misinformation. Turns out the real money was in old-fashioned romance scams, just scaled with chatbots. OpenAI shut down a Cambodia-based criminal network using ChatGPT to run investment, romance, gambling, and impersonation scams at scale
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Alibaba just claimed that its new open-weight model beats OpenAI's and Anthropic's best on the one benchmark that actually matters: whether an AI can use your computer without human handholding.
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The open-source revenge fork of your corporate project is not usually how you quit your job, but here we are. Michael Pfaffenberger, creator of Walmart's internal AI coding tool Code Puppy, is leaving for Pydantic after scaling the tool from 1,000 to 75,000 users in a year.
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While the rest of enterprise AI drowns in pilot purgatory, Palantir just posted growth numbers that read like a typo. Palantir's Q2 2026 revenue hit $1.94 billion, up 93% year-over-year, crushing Wall Street's $1.8 billion expectation and triggering a 10% share price jump
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The CEO of the web's most popular AI model repository just said the real threat isn't rogue agents—it's rogue monopolies wearing regulation as camouflage. Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue told Bloomberg that "concentration of power" is AI's biggest risk, not technical failures
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Big Tech just paid $1 billion for someone else to solve their power problem. Valar Atomics closed a $1B Series B led by Sequoia, plus a $200M credit facility, to build what they call America's first nuclear "gigasites"
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Google just ran the world's largest crash course in agent-building, and the curriculum wasn't "what is AI" — it was "ship something that works." Kaggle ran a free AI Agents Intensive that drew 353,000 participants across five weeks, focused entirely on building and deploying production AI agents
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Silicon Valley is finally remembering that atoms matter as much as bits. Felicis hired Graham Littlehale as partner to invest in hard tech — aerospace, defense, energy, manufacturing, robotics — from Point72 Ventures where he backed reusable rockets and military logistics software
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Alibaba just handed the world's developers a frontier-grade AI model for free, while America's labs debate whether to even ship you a chatbot.
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The hardest part of the AI revolution isn't building models anymore—it's getting companies to actually use them without breaking everything. June exits stealth with $20M pre-seed (Marc Benioff-backed) to solve enterprise AI deployment chaos
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While Nvidia prints money at the top of the AI stack, Korea just minted another unicorn betting on the edge — where the real computing bottleneck lives. South Korean AI chip designer DeepX raised funding at a $2.2 billion valuation — roughly 4x its previous round
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The moat everyone thought was 20 years deep just got crossed in 10 hours by an AI coding agent. AI coding agents are now writing CUDA-equivalent software — startup Infinity recreated CUDA-like code for chip startup D-Matrix in 10 hours using AI agents
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The gap between buying frontier models and shipping production AI just got a name: the last mile. And it's where most enterprise AI budgets go to die.
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