Amazon wants Alexa for Shopping, not Muse, to be how people shop its store
Pope Leo urges a ban on lethal autonomous weapons before Geneva talks
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
GM will pay $220m to settle claims it sold drivers’ Smart Driver data
Big Tech buybacks fall 83% as AI spending eats the cash, Reuters reports
AWS grows 39% and Amazon will spend even more on AI in 2027
AI is easy to fake, Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz tells SF Standard
OpenAI tightens ChatGPT’s limits on weapons and past mass attacks
Twenty House Democrats press OpenAI over fired safety researchers
Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic back one AI training opt-out
Sam Altman meets Samsung’s presidents days after his DRAM remark
OpenAI cuts its funding round to $20bn after raising $11bn, WSJ reports
Anthropic denies breach as tampered Claude Code extension hits Cursor users
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Cognition weighs funding at up to $80bn valuation, Business Insider reports
Entourage closes €100m second fund, passing its target in two weeks
Nik Storonsky says VCs can be ‘dangerous’, so Revolut’s board has none
Anthropic spent $2.75m guarding Dario Amodei, four times his salary
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
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
