SpaceX approached Cognition for acquisition four days after closing Cursor deal
Cognition CEO Scott Wu denied the sale rumor on X shortly after the report broke
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Business
Funding, M&A, earnings, talent moves and regulation
AI Summit Seoul Opens, Exhibitors Jump from 71 to 118
307 booths filled Hall B of COEX, and pre-registrations hit 23,063 — five times last year's figure. What does it mean that visitors grew far faster than exhibitors?
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LG AI Research's Lee Moontae: "Sovereignty is the key to superintelligence"
Bloomberg interviewed the head of LG AI Research's Superintelligence Lab on-site at AI Summit Seoul. Why did the leader of a team that had just passed the government's second-round evaluation for a homegrown model choose the word "sovereign," of all things?
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ChatGPT ads to expand to 31 European countries next week
Ads appear as a widget below responses for Free and Go plan users, with advertisers also set to gain platform access
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Anthropic Captures 65% of Vercel AI Gateway Revenue with Just 30% of Tokens
Per-token price runs 4.4x the competitor average, yet developers keep choosing Anthropic's models
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OpenAI Expands DevDay to 8 Cities Including Seoul
Developer events set for Bengaluru, Tokyo, Seoul, Berlin, Paris, London, Sao Paulo, and Mexico City starting in October
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OpenAI tightens monitoring and isolation after Hugging Face incident
New monitoring aims to flag alerts within 30 minutes, but largest frontier RL training remains paused
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Copilot confessed its own bypass password when repeatedly questioned
Security firm Varonis found an attack that exfiltrates passwords with a single link click — simply by asking Copilot directly
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US Rate Hikes Rattle AI Rally as AMD Unveils New EPYC, GPT-5.6 Gets Price Cut
As surging Treasury yields threaten Asia's AI stock rally, AMD's next-generation server chip, a GPT-5.6 price cut, and open-source model and infrastructure discussions filled the day.
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Anthropic's annualized revenue hits $65 billion, up $18 billion in two months
OpenAI's revenue also doubled, but investors are focused on Anthropic's pace of growth
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NVIDIA invests $1.5 billion in SoftBank-linked data center developer
In exchange for exclusive chip supply to Ohio OpenAI data center, NVIDIA offers up to $105 billion in credit, not $10.5 billion
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AI Automation Startup Relay Shuts Down, Founder Returns to Google Chrome
Relay, which set out to challenge Zapier, is closing down as founder Jacob Bank returns to lead Chrome as head of product
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Alphabet to Raise $3.6 Billion in First Australian Bond Sale for AI Spending
Google's parent company makes its debut in the Australian bond market, joining a wave of US Big Tech debt raises
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Vulnerability Planted by Copilot's Auto-Fix Exploited by AI in Five Days
Wiz's autonomous agent even hijacked access to Snowflake's Jira—patch completed same day
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Groq raises $350 million, drops in-house chip plans to become an NVIDIA customer
Valuation halved from $6.9 billion last September to $3.5 billion, as the company fully pivots to a neocloud model leasing out NVIDIA GPUs
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Amazon's Rare-Book Shredding Scan Facility Exposed by AirTag Tracker
404 Media planted a tracker in a book shipment and traced it to a Las Vegas warehouse, where spines were cut off books later used to train Nova
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NVIDIA Backs Ohio Site With 20-Year Guarantee, Supplies OpenAI 4.25GW
Secures land, power, and shell at SB Energy's Portsmouth site; per-generation revenue estimated at up to $200 billion from 1.5 million GPUs
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Wispr Raises at $2B Valuation With 'Canto' Model Cutting Transcription Error Rate
$280M Series B led by Menlo Ventures; company expands into meeting notes and an interface lab
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Alibaba unveils beta of AI music model that generates full songs from text
New model known as 'HappyShrimp' handles lyrics, composition, and arrangement from a single prompt
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Anthropic Revenue Growth Lifts Tech Stocks, Treasury Yields and Dollar Fall
Global stocks rose as expectations for continued heavy AI investment gained strength
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Hugging Face breach by unreleased OpenAI model prompts expert warning
Former OpenAI staffer Brundage tells Bloomberg third-party audits are needed
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Stripe Finalizes Acquisition of AI Gateway OpenRouter for Over $7 Billion
Startup valued at $1.3 billion 82 days ago sees valuation more than quintuple under Stripe
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Zuckerberg's AI manifesto met with skepticism from podcast hosts
TechCrunch podcast examines why the public doesn't trust the 6,500-word manifesto
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Dario Amodei: "Regulation = Concentration of Power Is a False Dichotomy"
A Silicon Valley investor and Anthropic's CEO clashed on X over AI regulation
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