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💰 Google to invest up to $40B to Anthropic 📱 Samsung fears first-ever smartphone loss 🚗 Tesla starts Cybercab robotaxi production 💬 X launches standalone XChat app on iOS 🤝 Anthropic finds stronger AI models negotiate better ⚖️ Judge drops Musk fraud claims against OpenAI 🎁 + 11 other news & articles you might like 🧰 + 6 trending tools 📚 + 4 trending papers & reports
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💰 Google to invest up to $40B to Anthropic
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- Alphabet is putting up to $40 billion into Anthropic, with $10 billion going in upfront at a $350 billion valuation and another $30 billion tied to performance targets, despite the two firms competing in AI models.
- Anthropic's annualized revenue has jumped past $30 billion, up from about $9 billion at the end of 2025, fueled by strong demand for its Claude family and especially its coding-focused tools for developers.
- Google Cloud will supply five more gigawatts of compute capacity over five years through its TPUs, adding to Anthropic's deals with Broadcom, CoreWeave, and Amazon, which recently pledged up to $25 billion more.
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📱 Samsung fears first-ever smartphone loss
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- Samsung's mobile chief TM Roh has warned leadership that the company could post its first-ever net loss on smartphones in 2026, even as Galaxy S26 sales hold up well against a tough market.
- The culprit is soaring prices for DRAM and NAND, with shortages hitting everything from laptops to servers and squeezing margins on phones in a way that past economic troubles and pandemic supply chaos never did.
- LPDDR5x memory used in phones is now in heavy demand for AI, as Nvidia's upcoming Vera CPU packs up to 1.5 TB, and one server's CPUs alone eat the RAM of 4,600 Galaxy S26 Ultra units.
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🚗 Tesla starts Cybercab robotaxi production
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- Tesla has begun making its Cybercab robotaxi, though Elon Musk warned on the earnings call that production will be slow through the rest of the year before picking up speed in late 2026 and beyond.
- Musk sounded unusually cautious about the robotaxi rollout, citing the need for rigorous validation, even though Tesla has reported 14 crashes to federal regulators since the Austin launch and routinely redacts details about what happened.
- The Cybercab lacks a steering wheel, pedals, and mirrors, but Tesla says it won't be subject to the 2,500-vehicle federal cap because the company is self-certifying that it meets existing safety standards, similar to Zoox.
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💬 X launches standalone XChat app on iOS
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- X released XChat as a standalone iOS app on Friday, letting users message their X contacts, share files, make audio and video calls, and join group chats after an earlier beta test with a small group of users.
- The separate app marks a shift away from Elon Musk's original "everything app" plan for X, as xAI now offers a suite of apps instead, with a dedicated payments app also being tested but not yet public.
- XChat includes disappearing messages, screenshot blocking, message editing and deletion for everyone, and claims end-to-end encryption with PIN protection, though security experts have disputed those encryption claims and found it less secure than Signal.
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🤝 Anthropic finds stronger AI models negotiate better
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- Anthropic ran an experiment showing that Claude agents built on stronger models struck better deals than weaker ones, with Opus sellers earning more and Opus buyers paying less than those represented by the smaller Haiku model.
- During "Project Deal" in December 2025, 69 Anthropic employees let Claude agents handle Slack negotiations for a week, closing 186 deals worth about $4,000 after short interviews set each agent's goals and style.
- Participants stuck with Haiku agents rated their deals' fairness almost identically to Opus users, meaning the losing side had no idea they were getting worse prices, an "uncomfortable implication" Anthropic says needs more research.
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⚖️ Judge drops Musk fraud claims against OpenAI
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- A federal judge has thrown out Elon Musk's fraud claims against OpenAI and Sam Altman, though the lawsuit will still head to trial on his separate accusations of breach of charitable trust and unjust enrichment.
- Jury selection is set to start Monday, with opening arguments following on Tuesday, kicking off a closely watched courtroom fight between Musk and the company he helped launch before his departure.
- Musk is asking for $150 billion in damages, with the money going to OpenAI's charitable arm rather than to him personally, tying the claim to the nonprofit mission behind the original organization.
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A dozen US states weigh data center curbs; Maine governor vetoes bill
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Nuclear startup X-energy raises $1B in data center-driven IPO
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Microsoft will let you pause Windows Updates indefinitely, 35 days at a time
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Exclusive: US State Dept orders global warning about alleged AI thefts by DeepSeek, other Chinese firms
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US government’s Intel stake jumps 300% to $36B after CHIPS Act grants were converted to equity under Trump
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China moves to block tech firms from taking US money without government approval
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🧰 Trending tools
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ZeroHuman.: automates your business operations by handling idea validation, product building, and daily social media video posting across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.
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Gemini Personal Intelligence: connects to your Google apps and chat history to deliver context-aware responses without needing to re-explain your personal background each time.
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Inrō AI: automates Instagram DMs with AI-driven lead qualification, sales follow-ups, and CRM, integrating with Shopify, Stripe, and 8,000+ tools.
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Clawdi: lets you run AI agents in the cloud with persistent memory, API keys, and skills that survive across framework switches.
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MiMo-V2.5 Voice: open-source 8B speech recognition model handling Mandarin, English, eight Chinese dialects, code-switching, and song lyrics transcription reliably.
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Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0: a low-latency voice model handling complex, multi-step workflows in customer support and enterprise applications with high accuracy.
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📚 Trending papers & reports
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Get Cited by AI: The 2026 AEO Playbook: 85% of AI brand mentions come from off-site sources — not your website. Pages with FAQs get cited 40% more often, and 70% of cited pages were updated in the last year. Get the free report.
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> A scientific theory of deep learning is emerging, unified under the name "learning mechanics," which describes how neural networks train using falsifiable, quantitative predictions about learning dynamics, hidden representations, and performance.
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> AI language models from very different designs all independently learn to represent numbers in similar ways, a convergent evolution in how machines understand numerical structure.
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> Human memory's quirks appear to be natural features of any meaning-based information system, as high-dimensional embedding spaces naturally reproduce forgetting curves and false memory rates matching human data, with competition, not time, driving forgetting.
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> Quantum gravity may finally be testable, as researchers found that a 1600-logical-qubit computer could exceed the physical limits where general relativity and quantum mechanics break down together.
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