Paris is making a quiet bet that the next wave of AI labs won't all speak English. Station F is launching another cohort of its F/ai accelerator, backed by Xavier Niel's capital and Europe's regulatory posture
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The real AI boom isn't IPOs—it's billion-dollar follow-ons from companies already public, frantically raising cash to build infrastructure that doesn't exist yet.
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The Chinese government just drew a line between chatbots and companions, and it's not where you think. ByteDance and Alibaba are shutting down AI companion features ahead of new Chinese regulations on human-AI interaction
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The same regulator that rubber-stamped algorithmic trading for a decade now says AI is moving too fast for its rulebook.
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Britain's top diplomat just put AI in the same threat category as nuclear weapons — and she's betting the farm on getting Trump and Xi to shake hands over it.
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The founder of Business Insider wrote a thriller about an AI supervillain trying to live forever—and wouldn't let AI write it for him. Henry Blodget, Business Insider founder, published "The Upgrade," a novel about a tech billionaire using AI to clone himself and live forever
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The U.S. just handed China a masterclass in how not to regulate frontier AI models — and Beijing is taking notes.
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OpenAI's CEO wants the UN for AI, but with America holding the veto pen and his company writing the rulebook. Sam Altman proposed an international AI safety framework modeled after nuclear watchdog organizations, positioning it as necessary for global AI governance
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When your AI safety principles collide with Pentagon procurement, you don't get a conversation — you get a courtroom. Anthropic is in active litigation with the Pentagon over the military's use of Claude AI, with court documents exposing fundamental disagreements about ethical deployment
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Altman's playing both sides of the chessboard: giving Washington ownership points to keep them close, while building an international regulatory body to keep them at arm's length.
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Sam Altman just invented a new category of lobbying: equity diplomacy.
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The fundraise is real, but the revenue model is borrowed from mobile games—which means Shortical isn't selling stories, it's selling user addiction at scale.
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Anthropic's CEO just walked back his most famous prediction—and that honesty might be more valuable than the hype ever was. Anthropic launched Claude Science, a research-tuned AI model, while CEO Dario Amodei recalibrated his "compressed 21st century" timeline from 5-10 years to maybe 2036
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The U.S. just invented AI export licensing without calling it that, and nobody seems to have noticed they're now gatekeepers to the world's most powerful models.
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The same senators who just made crypto legal are now drawing hard lines around who gets to build with AI. Senators Tim Scott and Bill Hagerty introduced a bill to block AI technology transfers to foreign adversaries including Cuba and Iran — the same duo that pushed the crypto GENIUS Act into law.
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The most important cloud provider in AI just switched from renting servers to metering thoughts. Amazon moved Anthropic model billing from infrastructure-based pricing to per-token payments, marking a shift from selling compute to selling cognitive output
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Five years after coining the term that shaped how millions think about AI, the linguist who wrote it says we all got it wrong.
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While the federal government treats Anthropic like a threat, California just made it the state's default AI. California struck a deal with Anthropic to make Claude the first AI tool available to all state agencies and local governments at 50% off standard pricing
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When the government calls your product "dangerous," your VC pitch deck writes itself. Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue tells Bloomberg that being labeled "too dangerous" might actually be effective marketing for frontier AI companies, as government scrutiny intensifies around Anthropic's Mythos model
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The US government just drew a line between AI that defends and AI that could attack, and only one of Anthropic's flagship models made the cut.
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