Anthropic's bio-weapon filter sat disabled for 11 months
50,000 external contractors ran 133 million conversations without the filter; internal review found no confirmed misuse
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Business
Funding, M&A, earnings, talent moves and regulation
OpenAI disbands catastrophic-risk team, scatters its work across departments
Preparedness team eliminated; bio and cyber risk evaluation moved to existing departments amid internal safety concerns
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One in five US employees now assigns work to AI instead of a colleague
Epoch AI/Ipsos survey finds 57% of software development work uses AI, with many accepting outputs unedited
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Musk: Orbital Compute, the Only Way to Scale AI
Elon Musk says orbital data centers are the only way to scale AI by 2029, as power shortages and permitting delays stall ground-based buildouts
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NVIDIA halves guarantee for OpenAI data center
Under investor pressure, guarantee cut from $25B to under $12B; Anthropic counters bubble talk with 2.4x quarterly revenue jump
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SpaceX Officially Completes Acquisition of Coding Startup Cursor
The deal, announced in April at up to $60 billion, has closed, with Cursor emphasizing access to GPU infrastructure
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Cursor CEO's "must become multi-product company" remark resurfaces
a16z revives Cursor founder's 2025 strategy comments, sparking renewed attention
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AI Safety Evaluator METR Raises $71 Million in Six Months
Funds go toward autonomous capability research and AI incident investigation, as group reaffirms it takes no money from frontier AI companies
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OpenAI, Anthropic slash prices as Chinese AI closes the gap
GPT-5.6 Luna cut 80%, Claude Opus 5 launches at half the price of top-tier model
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Natural Gas Prices Could Triple, Shaking Big Tech's Data Center Bets
Energy research firm Noreva warns of gas price surge as AI power demand explodes
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Together AI to Deploy 10,000 B300 GPUs for India's Largest AI Factory
Partnership with Larsen & Toubro to build infrastructure for open-source inference, fine-tuning, and training
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AI Compute Price-Performance Doubles Every 21 Months
Epoch AI analysis of actual 2023–2025 purchase data shows 49% annual improvement — GB300 is 37x more efficient than P100
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Databricks CEO Says "AGI Is Already Here" as Valuation Hits $190 Billion
On the same day CEO Ali Ghodsi declared the arrival of AGI, the company closed a $5 billion funding round valuing it at $190 billion
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Anthropic in Talks to Acquire Decart for $6 Billion
The $6 billion figure Bloomberg reported on the 13th is 50% higher than Decart's valuation just three months earlier. The reason a three-year-old, 100-person Israeli company became Anthropic's most expensive acquisition target ever lies not in video, but in the power bill.
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OpenAI Replaces CRO After 9 Months, Hires Wiz Alum
Dennis Dresser steps down, Dali Rajic hired as company reshuffles revenue organization amid a month of executive departures
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Microsoft merges Copilot apps, drops Mico character
Consumer and business Copilot apps combined into one; unpopular features like group chat, podcasts, and deep research cut
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Google DeepMind: Hassabis Steps Back From Frontline, Following Jeff Dean
Chief scientist departs to start a company, CEO moves to chairman role, as Google reshuffles the heart of its AI operation
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Apple negotiates with publishers for Siri's news feature
WSJ reports Apple proposed a usage-based payment model, paying each time content is used, with a budget in the hundreds of millions of dollars
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Databricks Hits $7B Run-Rate Revenue, Raises $5B Not $500M
Q2 run-rate revenue tops $7B with growth above 80%, new funding round values company at $190B
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Anthropic's Priciest Model Isn't Getting Enterprise Buy-In
Fable 5 captured just 6% of token share in its first month as businesses balk at the price-to-performance ratio
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Europe's AI Sovereignty Debate Comes Down to "US-Made with a European Zip Code"
Chubby shares conversation video with founders of PandaOS and Superintelligence examining the reality of European AI independence
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Hassabis Discussed Creating AGI Safety Body Before Stepping Down
WSJ reports Google DeepMind CEO discussed an independent safety body modeled on the IAEA with Trump officials
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OpenAI Completes Another $7 Billion Employee Stock Buyback, Valuation Hits $852 Billion
Second tender offer eases liquidity pressure amid delayed IPO, larger than October sale
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Gemini's share plunges from 12% to 1.9% as Anthropic triples
Three separate data sources — Pangram, OpenRouter, and Similarweb — all point to declining use of Google Gemini
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