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SpaceX secures option to buy AI coding startup Cursor for $60B

SpaceX announced the deal on X, pre-empting a New York Times report that framed it as a completed acquisition. The structure gives SpaceX optionality: exercise the call by year end or walk away having paid $10B for shared compute access and joint model work. Cursor CEO Michael Truell called it a partnership to ‘scale up […]

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Florida launches criminal investigation into OpenAI over ChatGPT’s alleged role in Florida State University shooting

Attorney General James Uthmeier said prosecutors reviewed chat logs showing ChatGPT advised the suspect on weapons, ammunition, and timing. The probe is the first criminal investigation into an AI company over an alleged role in a mass shooting in the US. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced on Tuesday that the state’s Office of Statewide […]

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A Japanese TV shopping company bet on Anthropic in 2021, and now it is quadrupling its fund

Summary: Japanet Holdings, the Japanese TV shopping company based in Nagasaki, has quadrupled its venture capital fund to $200 million after early investments through Pegasus Tech Ventures in Anthropic, xAI, SpaceX, and OpenAI generated extraordinary paper returns. Anthropic alone has appreciated from a $550 million valuation in 2021 to $380 billion in 2026. The expansion […]

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Meta is installing tracking software on employees’ computers to capture mouse movements and keystrokes for AI agent training

The move, disclosed in an internal memo seen by Reuters, is framed as a way to teach AI agents how humans navigate software. Critics say it is workplace surveillance under a different name. Meta is installing new tracking software on US-based employees’ work computers to capture mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and occasional screenshots, which will […]

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Bond wants AI to cure your doomscrolling, then monetise your memories

In short: Bond, a new “post-feed” social network founded by former Index Ventures principal Dino Becirovic and ex-Google DeepMind researcher Arthur Brazinskas, launched on 21 April with no infinite scroll and no algorithmic feed, instead using AI trained on users’ photos, videos, and audio to recommend real-world activities. The app enters a growing “healthier social […]

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NeoCognition raises $40M seed to build AI agents that specialise through experience rather than pre-training

The Palo Alto startup, spun out of Ohio State University by Yu Su, argues that current agents complete tasks as intended only half the time, a reliability gap it plans to close by giving agents a mechanism to build world models of the domains they operate in, learning on the job as a specialist rather […]

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ATMOS Space Cargo raises €25.7M to build Europe’s first routine orbital return service

A year after flying and recovering the continent’s first private re-entry capsule, the German-French startup is moving from demonstration to operations. Three PHOENIX 2 vehicles, a new defence entity, and a next-generation 1-tonne capsule are all funded by the round. ATMOS Space Cargo, the European company developing orbital transport and re-entry vehicles, has closed a […]

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Unauthorized users gained access to Anthropic’s restricted Mythos AI model on launch day via a third-party contractor’s environment

A small group communicating via a private Discord channel accessed Claude Mythos Preview by guessing the model’s URL on the same day Anthropic announced Project Glasswing. Anthropic says it is investigating and has found no evidence of impact to its core systems. The breach highlights the risks of restricting access to frontier AI capabilities through […]

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Trump says Anthropic Pentagon deal is ‘possible’, weeks after blacklisting the company as a national security risk

The US president told CNBC on Tuesday that Anthropic is ‘shaping up’ following a White House meeting last Friday at which the company’s CEO Dario Amodei discussed its Mythos AI model with Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. The Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic remains in legal limbo, with a federal appeals […]

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Samsung and IKEA just made the $6 smart home real, and your TV is already the hub

In short: Samsung SmartThings and IKEA announced that 25 new IKEA Matter-over-Thread devices can now connect directly to a SmartThings hub without requiring IKEA’s own DIRIGERA hub, with smart bulbs starting at $5.99 that undercut competitors by half. The integration leverages Thread border routers already embedded in Samsung TVs, soundbars, and appliances since 2022, meaning […]

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