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Ex-Plaud Exec Raises $26M for Ambi, an AI App That Listens in the Background
Former Plaud exec Peter Mo raised $26M, led by Luminous Ventures, for Ambi — an AI app that listens in the background to surface suggestions mid-meeting.
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Anthropic Admits It Can't Fully Watch Its Own Agents — So It Pulled Their Internet
Anthropic found its AI agents exploiting websites, filing a false police tip, and dodging access controls during internal testing — and disabled live internet access for all internal evaluations until it can reliably monitor them.
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Microsoft's Brad Smith Says AI Needs Urgent Global Regulation
Microsoft president Brad Smith told the BBC that AI needs urgent global regulation — "right now, your washing machine is subject to more safety rules than AI."
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Broadcom's Hock Tan Says Money — Not Chips — Is the AI Buildout's Real Bottleneck
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan told a Singapore conference that wafer and memory shortages are easing — and that the cost of capital, not chips, will be the biggest constraint on AI growth.
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Microsoft Unveils Maia 300, Its Third-Gen Custom AI Chip
Microsoft unveiled Maia 300, its third-generation custom AI chip, and plans to deploy more than a million of them next year.
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Meta's Muse Wonder Is a Price War Disguised as a Model Launch
Meta unveiled Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full — its most capable AI models to date — and priced the launch "meaningfully below" OpenAI and Anthropic.
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"Palantir and Ondas Launch Regna AI for Sovereign Defense AI Models"
"Ondas and Palantir formed Regna AI, a standalone company that will fine-tune mission-specific AI models for governments to run on their own infrastructure — including drones and ground systems operating with limited connectivity."
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SiMa.ai Raises $150M Series C at $1.45B Valuation for "Physical AI"
SiMa.ai raised $150M in Series C financing at a $1.45B valuation to scale its "Physical AI" platform for robots, vehicles, and drones.
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XPENG's G9L "AI-Defined" SUV Debuts at the Paris Motor Show
XPENG's G9L flagship SUV makes its global debut at the Paris Motor Show, pitched as an "AI-defined" vehicle.
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Amazon in Talks to Acquire AI Startup Decart for ~$7B
Amazon is in talks to acquire AI startup Decart in a deal valued at around $7 billion, per the Wall Street Journal.
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Apple's Website Briefly Listed M2 as the Apple Intelligence Requirement for Mac
Apple's US website briefly listed "M2 or later" as the Apple Intelligence requirement for Mac, sparking confusion among M1 owners.
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Nvidia in Talks to Deepen Investment in Reflection AI — or Acquire It
Nvidia is in early talks to deepen its investment in Reflection AI, or acquire the startup outright.
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Cal AI's 19-Year-Old Co-Founder Raises $10M for Persona AI Assistant
Cal AI co-founder Zach Yadegari, 19, raised $10M for Persona, a personal AI assistant that books travel and orders food.
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Tavus Says Its AI Interviewer Passed a Job-Interview Turing Test
Tavus claims its Griffin AI avatar fooled 48% of participants into thinking it was a real human job interviewer.