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AI companies are spending hundreds of millions on the midterms, and they want one thing

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AI companies and their backers are pouring vast sums into the 2026 US midterms through super PACs. The spending runs into the hundreds of millions across the sector, CNBC reports, and their central demand is remarkably consistent. They want a single national framework for AI, not a patchwork of state laws. The industry argues that 50 […]

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OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 to everyone after the US government signed off

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OpenAI has made GPT-5.6 publicly available after receiving approval from the Trump administration. The release ends weeks in which the model was restricted to a small group of government-vetted partners, CNBC reports. The model family comes in three tiers. Sol is the flagship, Terra a lower-cost enterprise option, and Luna the fastest and cheapest. OpenAI says […]

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AMD’s CTO: agentic AI doesn’t just need GPUs, it needs a lot more CPUs

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On stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris, the interviewer put it bluntly to Mark Papermaster. He should have bought AMD shares six months ago, he joked, back when they traded near $200. They now sit above $500. AMD is no longer the plucky underdog chasing Intel on CPUs and Nvidia on GPUs. Its market […]

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A Waymo called the cops on two teens drinking and shooting toy guns

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Two 15-year-olds in San Mateo learned this week that a driverless taxi can still tell on you. The pair were drinking alcohol and shooting Orbeez, soft water-filled pellets, out of a moving Waymo on Monday afternoon. The car’s remote monitors spotted it, called 911, and pulled the vehicle over to wait for police, the Associated […]

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A startup just 3D-printed kidney and liver tissue in space, a first

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Auxilium Biotechnologies has bioprinted kidney and liver tissue aboard the International Space Station. It says that is the first time anyone has made either in space. The samples flew home last month on a SpaceX cargo capsule, and the company announced the results on Thursday. It was not a one-off. In the same mission, Auxilium’s […]

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The John Deere repair win isn’t about tractors. It’s about software lock-in

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John Deere owners can finally fix their own machines. The US Federal Trade Commission and five states have reached a settlement with the tractor giant that forces it to share the software and tools needed for repairs, the Associated Press reported. It is the largest right-to-repair win in the US so far. The fight was […]

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Ollama raises $65M as its open-model runner hits nearly 9M developers

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Ollama has raised a $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures. Benchmark, 8VC, Y Combinator and others joined. The round takes the company’s total funding to $88M, three years after it launched, and Ollama set out the plan in a blog post on Thursday. Founder and chief executive Jeff Morgan gave the details to TechCrunch, […]

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Suspected Chinese spies are raiding university mailboxes via a Roundcube flaw

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A suspected Chinese espionage group has been breaking into university mail servers across the United States and Canada. It has stolen credentials from staff in physics, engineering, and national security research. Security firm Proofpoint disclosed the campaign this week, tracking the crew as UNK_MassTraction and dating it to at least May. The Register reported further […]

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Databento raises $97M to take on Bloomberg’s terminal

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Databento has raised $97M in Series B funding to build what it calls the market data platform for modern finance. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates, with DRW, Redpoint Ventures, and Tribe Capital joining. The company announced the raise on Thursday. Demand ran well past the target. The round was oversubscribed, drawing more […]

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Microsoft’s Brad Smith: the US is regulating AI with rules nobody can read

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Microsoft president Brad Smith says the US is now regulating AI without a clear set of rules. The uncertainty, he warns, is a problem for the whole industry. He made the case to Fortune on the sidelines of the AI for Good Global Summit. “What we really have right now is regulation without transparent or […]

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