Dutch AI inference chipmaker Axelera AI raises $250M
John Reynolds / tech - A Dutch chipmaker which designs and manufactures chips for AI inference use has raised more than $250m, with backing from new investor BlackRock.Innovation Industries, the European VC fund, is the lea...
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Anthropic launches new push for enterprise agents with plugins for finance, engineering, and design
Russell Brandom / techcrunch - It's a major opportunity to grow Anthropic’s enterprise client base — and a significant threat to SaaS products currently performing those functions.
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Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls, AI Kill Switches
BeauHD / slashdot - Firefox 148 introduces granular AI controls and a global "AI kill switch" that allows users to disable or selectively manage the browser's AI features. Phoronix reports: Among the AI features that can be toggled individually are around translations, image…
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Anthropic accuses Chinese firms of distillation attacks
Tom Chivers / semafor - Distillation involves training less capable models on more advanced ones’ output.
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Tewke raises £1.5M to expand its AI-driven home energy platform
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - London-based Tewke, a company focused on energy optimisation and home automation, has raised £1.5 million in its second funding round. Investors in the round include JamJar Investments, Cur8 Capital, Energy Mix Ventures, Project Ventures, and angel invest…
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Brainomix Extends Series C Funding to $25.4M
FinSMEs / finsmes - Brainomix, an Oxford, UK-based company developing AI-powered imaging tools in stroke and lung fibrosis, raised $6.5M in Series Series C extension funding. The round was led by Parkwalk and Hostplus via the IP Group Hostplus Innovation Fund, with participa…
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AMD and Meta strike $100 billion AI deal that includes 10% stock deal — 6 gigawatt agreement includes up to 160 million AMD shares
tomshardware - AMD and Meta have announced an AI chips deal thought to be worth more than $100 billion.
- Analysts warn: circular financing and heavy dilution risks for AMD (3)
- Chips-for-equity: warrants could give Meta up to 10% (4)
- Meta diversifies from Nvidia; AMD emerges as key rival (2)
- Meta-AMD deal: 6GW MI450 deployment, shipments starting H2 2026 (7)
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Analysts warn: circular financing and heavy dilution risks for AMD
Chips-for-equity: warrants could give Meta up to 10%
Meta diversifies from Nvidia; AMD emerges as key rival
Meta-AMD deal: 6GW MI450 deployment, shipments starting H2 2026
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SambaNova steps up its challenge to Nvidia with new chip, $350M funding and a powerful ally in Intel
Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Chipmaker SambaNova Systems Inc. unveiled its most advanced artificial intelligence processor today as it closed on a bumper $350 million late-stage round of funding from Vista Equity Partners, Cambium Capital and others. Alongside the funding, SambaNova …
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Canva acquires Cavalry and Mango AI to dominate motion design
Emre Çıtak / dataconomy - Canva announced the acquisition of Cavalry and Mango AI on Monday to strengthen its animation and marketing capabilities. UK-based Cavalry develops 2D motion animation tools for advertising, marketing, gaming, and generative art. Mango AI was building rei…
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Munich-based VoiceLine raises €10 million to scale its voice AI platform for enterprise frontline teams
Rahul Raj / eu-startups - VoiceLine, a Munich-based voice AI platform for enterprise frontline teams, today announced that it has closed a €10 million Series A funding round to scale its team and platform, as well as expand internationally. The round was led by Alstin Capital and …
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Stocks fall on US tariff uncertainty
J.D. Capelouto / semafor - “Uncertainty is back,” one banker told the Financial Times.
- Cryptocurrency tumbles as macro shocks and tariff fears bite (3)
- Tariff uncertainty from Washington sends global markets reeling (8)
- Wall Street rattled by viral AI doomsday essay and selloff (12)
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Cryptocurrency tumbles as macro shocks and tariff fears bite
Tariff uncertainty from Washington sends global markets reeling
Wall Street rattled by viral AI doomsday essay and selloff
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OpenAI Calls In the Consultants For Its Enterprise Push
BeauHD / slashdot - OpenAI has formed a multi-year "Frontier Alliance" with four consulting heavyweights to accelerate enterprise adoption of its no-code AI agent platform, OpenAI Frontier. TechCrunch reports: The alliance includes multi-year partnerships between OpenAI and …
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Amazon to Sink $12 Billion Into Data Centers as Wall Street (and Everyone Else) Turns Against AI Spending
AJ Dellinger / gizmodo - Surely they can just spend their way out.
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Spotify rolls out AI-powered Prompted Playlists to the U.K. and other markets
Lauren Forristal / techcrunch - Spotify continues to test its AI-powered “Prompted Playlists” feature, now rolling out the tool to Premium subscribers in the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and Sweden.
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IBM Shares Crater 13% After Anthropic Says Claude Code Can Tackle COBOL Modernization
msmash / slashdot - IBM shares plunged nearly 13% on Monday after Anthropic published a blog post arguing that its Claude Code tool could automate much of the complex analysis work involved in modernizing COBOL, the decades-old programming language that still underpins an es…
- Anthropic's Claude Code technical claims (2)
- Developer reaction: COBOL community responds (1)
- Market panic: IBM shares tumble (6)
- Sector ripple: consulting and crypto wobble (2)
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Anthropic's Claude Code technical claims
Developer reaction: COBOL community responds
Market panic: IBM shares tumble
Sector ripple: consulting and crypto wobble
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Sam Altman is tired of ‘unfair’ critiques about AI’s energy use. Climate experts say his defensive stance is misguided
Kristin Toussaint / fastcompany - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has defended the resource-intensive use of AI by comparing it to all the energy—and food—that humans require, sparking a wave of backlash across social media. That comparison, experts in climate and tech spaces say, is misguided, dow…
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Google Bans AI Subscribers Over OpenClaw, Skips Refunds
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Google has permanently banned paid AI Pro and Ultra subscribers for routing Gemini through OpenClaw via Antigravity OAuth, offering no appeals and no refunds.The post Google Bans AI Subscribers Over OpenClaw, Skips Refunds appeared first on WinBuzzer.
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Anthropic accuses three Chinese AI labs of abusing Claude to improve their own models
Jackson Chen / engadget - Anthropic is issuing a call to action against AI "distillation attacks," after accusing three AI companies of misusing its Claude chatbot. On its website, Anthropic claimed that DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax have been conducting "industrial-scale campaig…
- Allegations arrive amid export-control debate and industry lobbying pressure (3)
- Anthropic details ‘distillation’ attacks: 24,000 fake accounts, 16 million queries (11)
- Online critics ridicule Anthropic, accuse hypocrisy and industry posturing (5)
- OTHER: Chinese firms' growth and unrelated community reactions (1)
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Allegations arrive amid export-control debate and industry lobbying pressure
Anthropic details ‘distillation’ attacks: 24,000 fake accounts, 16 million queries
Online critics ridicule Anthropic, accuse hypocrisy and industry posturing
OTHER: Chinese firms' growth and unrelated community reactions
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Microsoft just handed the Xbox keys to an AI exec. The internet is already freaking out
Chris Morris / fastcompany - Friday’s news of a major shakeup at Microsoft’s Xbox division caught the gaming world by surprise. Phil Spencer, who has run Xbox for almost 12 years, announced his retirement, effective immediately—just months after Microsoft insisted he was “not retirin…
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Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
Simon Willison / simonwillison - Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AIReally interesting case-study from Andreas Kling on advanced, sophisticated use of coding agents for ambitious coding projects with critical code. After a few years hoping Swift's platform support outside of the Appl…
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