The company that lost $2.7 billion last year is now worth more than Walmart, Home Depot, and Boeing combined. Anthropic has received pre-emptive funding offers at $850B-$900B valuations, potentially raising $50B in new capital
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When the Pentagon chooses your model, it's not just a contract — it's a signal that your AI is good enough to point at real targets. Google signed an AI contract with the Pentagon, triggering internal employee backlash similar to the 2018 Project Maven controversy
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While everyone's still gawking at AI-generated TikToks, Runway's CEO is already building the simulation layer beneath reality itself.
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The AI kingmaker who wanted to call his project "Freemind" as a dig at Google looked less like a visionary and more like a man settling scores on day one.
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Tech CEOs warning about mass job loss aren't accidentally talking to workers. They're pitching investors on the elimination of their largest cost center.
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The storefront isn't dying — it's just invisible to you now, and most merchants still can't see it either. PayPal's first U.S. Agentic Commerce Pulse Survey reveals 95% of merchants already detect AI agent traffic, but only 20% have machine-readable product catalogs that agents can actually use.
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The car you bought in 2022 is about to get smarter than the one sitting on dealer lots today. GM is pushing Gemini AI to ~4 million vehicles (model year 2022+) across Cadillac, Chevy, Buick, and GMC via OTA updates over the next several months
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The biggest AI funding round of 2026 just bet against the entire premise of ChatGPT. Ineffable Intelligence raised $1.1 billion to build AI systems using reinforcement learning instead of human-labeled training data
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Google's AI researchers are learning that "Don't be evil" expires the moment a defense contract gets amended. Google amended an existing Pentagon contract to allow classified use of its AI models, despite 600+ employees petitioning CEO Sundar Pichai to block exactly this scenario.
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YouTube just became a research assistant that talks back. YouTube is testing conversational AI search for Premium subscribers in the U.S., surfacing longform videos, Shorts, and text summaries in response to natural language queries.
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The Pentagon just bought Google's moral compromise at bulk rates. Google signed a classified deal giving the Department of Defense access to its AI models for "any lawful government purpose", joining OpenAI and xAI in military AI contracts
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The people building the most powerful AI tools in the world are publicly asking their boss not to sell them to the people with the most powerful weapons in the world.
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The man who taught computers to beat humans at Go just bet a billion dollars that human data is the wrong teacher. Ineffable Intelligence, founded by ex-DeepMind researcher David Silver, raised $1.1B at a $5.1B valuation — months after launch
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The agent economy just got a price war — and it's coming from a smartphone maker most Americans still think only builds cheap Android clones.
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The Maven rebellion is back, and this time the engineers know they're already too late to stop it. Over 600 Google employees, including 20+ senior leaders from DeepMind, signed a letter demanding CEO Sundar Pichai block Pentagon use of Google AI models for classified work
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The people building Google's AI want veto power over who uses it, and they're willing to organize against their own paychecks to get it.
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The first AI-native phone might not come from Apple or Google—it might come from the company that powers both of them. Qualcomm shares jumped Monday after a prominent tech analyst reported the chipmaker is collaborating with OpenAI on a smartphone
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The guy who taught AlphaGo to beat the world's best human players just raised more money than most companies earn in revenue — before shipping a single product.
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The biggest AI partnership in history just became an open relationship. Microsoft and OpenAI terminated the exclusivity clause that gave Microsoft sole rights to resell OpenAI's models, clearing the path for OpenAI to sell directly to Amazon, Google Cloud, and other hyperscalers.
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South Korea just became the first nation to get formal AI infrastructure backing from DeepMind — not a pilot program, a full partnership aimed at scientific moonshots.
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