Apple confirms its AI features reach China in December, with Qwen
Big Tech has now committed more than $3 trillion to the AI build-out
Anthropic is SpaceX’s biggest customer, bringing in a third of revenue
OpenAI rewrites its AI rulebook around five core values
Mistral releases open weights for its 1 trillion-parameter Large 4 model
Databricks and SAP expand their deal to put AI on SAP data
S&P turns negative on Meta as AI spending eats into its cash
Amazon can now borrow up to $80B against the AI hardware it buys
Cognizant puts 25,000 staff behind OpenAI, days after a Gemini push
New York bans AI chatbots from pretending to be human with children
TBC launches Mischief, an AI video model shaped by brain cells
Proton to re-interview staff on AI, with jobs at stake, 404 Media reports
Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Holdings agrees to buy ADT for $7.6bn in cash
Ford says its new EV drivetrain is 30% more efficient than BYD’s
Anthropic spent $2.75m guarding Dario Amodei, four times his salary
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Ex-Palantir founders raise $17M for Dream’s AI building design models
Canada joins Nvidia in backing Cohere’s record C$7bn Series E
FuriosaAI raises $620m at a $2.9bn valuation for its Nvidia rival chips
Serval raises $150m at $3bn valuation to replace ServiceNow with AI agents
Solink raises over $100M to turn security cameras into business data
Collective raises $100M to run the finances of one-person businesses
Slack’s founder got one hour with Benioff before the $27.7bn sale
Microsoft nominates Stripe’s Collison to its board and trims Nadella’s pay
Anthropic set Claude on 25 open-source projects and it found 493 flaws
