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Signal: The buildout's own people are turning on it: a board lining up Huang's successor, Commerce stalling Trump's chip curbs, a Republican demanding a moratorium.
Its Chip Suppliers Are Buying $26BN of the IPO
Anthropic is selling 825MN Class A shares at $70-78 near a $1.4TN valuation while Google, Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, Micron, Microsoft and TSMC buy $26BN of non-voting stock alongside it - which sharpens the circular-capital question rather than settling it.
Anthropic: 825MN shares at $70-78, listing on Nasdaq as ANT CNBC: Cramer on the growth this price already assumes
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Claude Moved to AMD in Three Days
OpenAI Lost $10.9BN. Anthropic Lost $567MN. unite.ai: the margin improved to -109% while the dollar loss grew
$9BN Up Front. The Bond Market Can Wait. Semafor: the results drove a broad tech rally after last week's selloff
Britain Bets $720MN on Stacked Memory The Next Web: a $7BN valuation on memory-first inference silicon
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
Twice the Variants, Down to the Cell Type
Free for non-commercial research through the AlphaGenome API and in private preview for commercial use; Nature's news team reports researchers calling it a step change, with the caveat that these are predictions to be validated in the lab, not findings.
Nature: the model picks the cell where a variant acts unite.ai: cell-state variant effects, including unseen states
Seven Neurons, and the Agent Runs Their Code The Next Web: in the demo the trigger is the date turning 2027
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Agents Wrote It. AWS Didn't Review It. unite.ai: RPM, Debian, Docker and an embedded Rust mode
1,000 Yes/No Calls in One Pass The Decoder: five times cheaper than Flash-Lite, Google says
The FightLaw, policy and power
Board Moves to Oust Huang. Affair No. 2 Was a Direct Report.
Nvidia's board is preparing to dismiss its founder and meets as soon as Wednesday, hours after the New York Times reported an affair with healthcare VP Kimberly Powell, who reports to him; the stock fell 9% after hours.
Ars Technica: the FBI is investigating while directors hold urgent talks Tom's Hardware: the new report also alleges an attempted cover-up CBS News: a short-seller flagged these ties back in May
Trump Ordered the Chip Crackdown. Commerce Stalled.
Bessent asked in the Situation Room why the firm at the centre of the Huang affair still is not on the Entity List and Lutnick said he did not know and would look into it; Trump then ordered the curbs, and the administration denies the exchange happened.
Chosun: Hegseth, Rubio and Greer backed Bessent; Trump phoned Musk first CNBC: resignation calls in Congress and moves to tighten China exports
Blacklisted Since 2001. It Just Bought Four H200s. unite.ai: the records also show rented H200, A100 and A800 capacity
Brokers Sold China the Same Training Worlds
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Only a Human Can Say the Bag Has No Bomb CBS News: United calls agent bookings a security risk
Hundreds of Agents Pick the Targets. A Human Signs.
181GW of Gas, Built Beside the Data Centers
Three Months of Suicide Searches, Unflagged NBC San Diego: districts have until January 2027 to take AI search or lose it
$187MN of AI Ads. Nine in Ten Were GOP.
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Half His Inbox Is Slop. He's Standing Down.
Ghost Note 3,500 Laser Robots Guard the Salmon
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