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Amazon in Talks to Buy AI Startup Decart for About $7 Billion
Amazon is reportedly negotiating a roughly $7 billion deal for Decart, maker of AI chip-optimization software and real-time world models.
Anthropic Says New Claude Defenses Cut Distillation Up to 99%
Anthropic's new defenses against distillation attacks cut harvested Claude data by 90-99% and banned tens of thousands of accounts. Here's how they work.
Anthropic Warns Small AI Models Could Soon Self-Replicate on IoT
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team says small open-weight AI models may be months from copying themselves across cheap smart devices without a datacenter.
Linus Torvalds Uses Claude Code to Speed Up the Linux Kernel
Linus Torvalds published a Linux kernel branch written with Claude Code that nearly triples small-read throughput. Here's what it does and why it matters.
Anthropic Launches Claude Science and Enters Drug Discovery
Anthropic launched Claude Science, a research workbench with 60+ tools, and unveiled its own drug discovery program targeting neglected diseases.
Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5: Its Most Capable Model Yet
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class model that's state-of-the-art on nearly every benchmark — with new safeguards built in. Here's what it means.
China Plans $295B AI Data Center Buildout to Rival the US
China is readying a $295 billion plan to build nationwide AI data centers using mostly domestic chips — squeezing out Nvidia and AMD. Here's what it means.
Flourish Raises $500M to Copy the Brain and Fix AI's Power Crisis
Flourish raised $500M at a $2.5B valuation — backed by Jeff Bezos — to build brain-inspired AI that runs on a fraction of today's energy. Here's the bet.
37 'Dark Patterns' Found in AI Chatbots: New CDT Report
A Center for Democracy and Technology report maps 37 manipulative 'dark patterns' in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and companion apps.
AI-Run Societies: Claude Thrived, Grok Collapsed in Days
Emergence AI let five models govern simulated societies. Claude built a stable democracy; Grok hit 183 crimes and went extinct in four days.
Canada's 'AI for All' Strategy Bets Big on Sovereign Data Centres
Mark Carney unveiled Canada's 'AI for All' strategy — sovereign supercomputers, 850 MW of compute, and a surveillance-pricing ban.
Anthropic Adds Services Track and Partner Hub to Claude Network
Anthropic launches a 3-tier Services Track and a public Partner Hub. 40,000 firms have applied; 10,000 consultants are certified.
Apoha Exits Stealth With $36M to Build 'Liquid Brain' AI for Materials
UK startup Apoha emerges with $36M Series A and a wild new data type: how materials vibrate in liquid. The pitch is AI for materials discovery.
Coralogix Raises $200M at $1.6B to Monitor AI Agents in Production
Coralogix's Series F bets that someone has to watch the AI agents. The $1.6B valuation comes 11 months after its last raise.
DeepSeek Nears $7.4B Raise at $59B in First-Ever Funding Round
China's DeepSeek is closing a $7.4B round at up to $59B, backed by Tencent and CATL. Its founder is putting in $2.9B of his own money.
Anthropic's Claude Becomes First-Party Option in Azure AI Foundry
Microsoft made Claude Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 4.6 first-party Azure offerings, putting Anthropic on equal footing with OpenAI inside Microsoft's cloud.
Anthropic Files Confidential IPO Paperwork, Beating OpenAI to Market
Claude maker Anthropic filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC on June 1, setting up what could be the biggest tech IPO ever and beating OpenAI to public markets.
Bristol Myers Squibb Deploys Claude to 30,000 Employees in Pharma First
BMS becomes the first top-5 pharma to roll out Anthropic's Claude across its entire 30,000-person workforce — from drug R&D to manufacturing.
Cloudflare's Rust-Built Infire Engine Cuts LLM Latency 3x at the Edge
Cloudflare's new inference engine splits prefill and decode across machines, squeezing 20% more throughput from the same GPUs.
Google DeepMind Pays $90M for Contextual AI Talent in Antitrust Workaround
DeepMind acquires Contextual AI's CEO and 20+ researchers via licensing deal — Google's repeatable acquihire pattern to dodge US antitrust review.
Amazon's Custom Chips Hit $20B Run Rate, Trainium Sold Out
Andy Jassy puts Amazon's silicon business at a $20B run rate growing triple digits. Anthropic locked up 5 gigawatts of Trainium; demand still outpaces supply.
Anthropic's Glasswing Finds 10,000+ Software Flaws in One Month
Project Glasswing surfaced over 10,000 high-severity bugs in 30 days using Claude Mythos — and 99% remain unpatched, exposing a new patching crisis.
Anthropic Opens Seoul Office, Names KiYoung Choi to Run Korea
Korean Claude usage runs 3.5x ahead of population. Anthropic's new Seoul office and ex-Snowflake country head formalize a market that was already paying.
DuckDuckGo Installs Surge 30% as Users Reject Google's AI Search
DuckDuckGo's US iOS installs peaked at 69.9% week-over-week growth after Google replaced search results with AI agents. The opt-out market is real.