The AI industry just got a test it can't cram for. François Chollet's ARC Prize Foundation released ARC-AGI-3, a new benchmark with 1,000+ video-game-like scenarios testing on-the-fly reasoning instead of memorized responses.
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Granola just 6x'd its valuation in one round by doing what most AI tools refuse to do: listening when users said "we don't want another chatbot, we want something that actually works."
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A Bitcoin miner just signed a 15-year lease to host AI infrastructure instead of running hash power, and the market rewarded it immediately. Cipher Digital locked in a 15-year data center lease and secured $200 million in revolving credit, pivoting hard from Bitcoin mining to AI compute hosting
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Harvey just hit an $11 billion valuation building AI for lawyers, and that number tells you everything about who's actually winning the agent economy. Harvey raised $200 million at an $11 billion valuation, cementing its position as the dominant AI platform for legal work
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Bernie Sanders just proposed a full stop on data center construction until Congress figures out what "safe AI" means.
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The real story in Fast Company's computing innovation list isn't who made it, it's what kind of infrastructure race we're actually watching unfold.
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Apple isn't just renting Google's AI—it's got the keys to the server room and a license to remix. Apple has complete access to Google's Gemini model in its own data centers, can fine-tune it, and distill smaller versions for on-device use
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Vultr wants a billion dollars to prove that being early doesn't mean you win. Vultr, a 2014-vintage cloud provider backed by AMD, is raising at least $1 billion to compete in the AI compute arms race
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A one-year-old AI lab that hasn't shipped product is courting a $7 billion valuation, and the money is probably going to show up. Periodic Labs, founded by ex-OpenAI and DeepMind researchers, is in talks to raise hundreds of millions at ~$7B valuation after one year of existence
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While AI overviews are eating media traffic alive, breaking news clicks are up 103%, and the reason reveals exactly where human journalism still wins. Global publisher traffic from Google dropped one-third last year, with organic search down 42% according to Define Media Group analysis
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China just put the cofounders of Manus under exit ban while it reviews Meta's $2 billion AI agent acquisition, and this is the real opening shot in the AI sovereignty war.
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Cipher Digital just locked a 15-year hyperscale data center lease and $200 million in financing, and the stock jumped 9% because the market finally gets it: AI infrastructure is the new gold rush.
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A British bank just turned customer deposits into blockchain tokens, and regulators said yes. Monument Bank is tokenizing £250 million in retail deposits, making them programmable while keeping FSCS protection and interest payments intact.
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A two-year-old AI notetaker just hit unicorn status by doing one thing better than everyone else: getting out of the way. Granola raised $125 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, led by Index Ventures, two years after launch
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Anthropic just shipped the training wheels for autonomous AI agents, and they had to. Anthropic launched "auto mode" for Claude Code, letting the AI act independently while blocking risky actions like file deletion, data exfiltration, or executing malicious code before they run.
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The governor who made Elon Musk is calling him out for handing America's EV lead to China. California Gov. Gavin Newsom called Elon Musk "one of the great disappointments" of this era, accusing him of abandoning EVs for robotics while China now controls 70% of the global EV market
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The chatbot wars just became a checkout war. Google's Gemini partnered with Gap Inc (Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, Athleta) to let users buy clothes without leaving the chat interface, while OpenAI rolled out an updated shopping UI in ChatGPT.
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Europe just wrote a $40 million check to stop asking America for permission to move things in space. Swiss startup Pave Space raised $40 million in seed funding to build orbital transfer hardware for satellites and cargo
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The AI safety narrative just collided with the Pentagon's procurement office, and the wreckage tells us more about power than principles. Anthropic and OpenAI are both negotiating Pentagon deals, sparking user exodus from ChatGPT and London's largest AI protest to date
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Baltimore just made local consumer protection law the new frontier in AI liability, and it might actually work. Baltimore filed a consumer protection lawsuit against X and xAI over Grok-generated deepfakes, bypassing the stalled federal AI regulatory conversation entirely.
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