ADNOC signs deal with OpenAI and G42 to deploy Frontier AI agents
Instagram is offering YouTubers up to $500K, Business Insider reports
NASA asks industry to rescue Hubble before it falls from orbit
Google’s Suncatcher satellite runs AI in orbit and sends a haiku home
Judge rejects xAI’s bid to dismiss NAACP lawsuit over its gas turbines
Palantir CTO tells Stratechery he doesn’t regret working with Anthropic
Anthropic renames Claude Max plans and drops Ultra’s five-hour limit
Developers say Claude Code now refuses work on recreating existing games
Salesforce to buy Rune in its most significant national security deal
Google in talks to join Trump’s Golden Dome programme, Bloomberg reports
French MPs vote for a €0.055 tax on every gigabyte sent to users
EU tells countries to pause national social media bans for a year
Meta built a humanoid robot with China’s Fourier, The Information reports
DeepSeek open-sources Super-Agent, a coding agent that reads team chats
Baseten set to more than double its value to $30bn, Bloomberg reports
Finnish police open investigation into Google’s Muhos data centre site
UK watchdog opens an investigation into Meta’s AI terms for publishers
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Cognition weighs funding at up to $80bn valuation, Business Insider reports
Nvidia in talks to guarantee debt for Nscale’s Anthropic data centre
Anthropic spent $2.75m guarding Dario Amodei, four times his salary
Entourage closes €100m second fund, passing its target in two weeks
Nik Storonsky says VCs can be ‘dangerous’, so Revolut’s board has none
Ex-Palantir founders raise $17M for Dream’s AI building design models
Canada joins Nvidia in backing Cohere’s record C$7bn Series E
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
