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Hive stock jumps 10% in premarket trading after announcing a $220M, three-year GPU cloud contract with Bell Canada and Cohere, as it pivots from bitcoin mining (James Van Straten/CoinDesk)
Former Gojek CEO and Indonesian education minister Nadiem Makarim is charged with taking ~$46M in rewards tied to a Chromebook procurement contract for schools (Bloomberg)
An in-depth look at Meta's AI-fueled rampage through its engineering organization, reassignments of engineers on core teams to data labeling, and more (Gergely Orosz/The Pragmatic Engineer)
Prem AI, a Swiss startup that lets hedge funds and law firms run AI models on their own infrastructure, is raising a $100M Series A, targeting a $500M valuation (Natalia Kniazhevich/Bloomberg)
Accenture says it will buy a majority stake in Dragos and fully acquire runZero and NetRise in a combined deal for the cybersecurity startups valued at $4.18B (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)
Verse Enterprises, which wants to provide energy-management software for 100 data centers by 2027, raised a $54M Series B from Nvidia and others (Summer Maxwell/Bloomberg)
Trump, who entered office opposing AI regulation, is shaping the industry through case-by-case interventions without clear rules, creating major uncertainty (Axios)
AI inference startup Baseten is raising $1.5B in a dual-tiered deal, with some investors putting in money at an $11B valuation and others at a $13B valuation (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
Report: DeepSeek's first external funding round has a non-negotiable term that investors should not poach its staff or encourage them to start own companies (CNBC)
Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC that raised $5M, launches to advocate for AI safety legislation and counter pro-industry lobbying, running ads for Alex Bores (New York Times)
Dream, co-founded by ex-NSO Group CEO Shalev Hulio with a focus on protecting critical infrastructure, raised $260M at a $3B valuation, up from $1B in 2025 (Galit Altstein/Bloomberg)
Intel stock jumps around 9% in premarket trading, after Trump said "Apple has agreed to work with Intel to design and build its Chips in America" (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
A look at 764, an online group the FBI declared domestic terrorists due to members manipulating teen girls into sharing sexual pictures and cutting themselves (Margi Murphy/Bloomberg)
As tech giants rush to build AI infrastructure, some residents living near data centers say a constant infrasonic vibration is ruining their health and homes (Adeel Hassan/New York Times)
A PwC study suggests that AI is rewarding companies that use it to enhance human skills, while leaving further behind those that use it merely to cut costs (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

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Engadget

Trump claims Apple and Intel closed deal to manufacture chips in the US
Waymo recalls over 3,800 robotaxis that might drive onto closed freeways
NASA is sending an orbiter to Mars with Eric Schmidt's Relativity Space
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Midjourney, the AI image generator, is developing a full-body ultrasonic scanner
Tim Cook says Apple price increases are 'unavoidable' due to memory crunch
The iPhone Air 2 will reportedly land next spring with a second camera
ChatGPT now has a hub for scheduled tasks
Epic Games details how it's embracing generative AI in Unreal Engine
Anthropic's design assistant now works better with its coding agent
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SanDisk's new 8TB PS5 SSD costs more than three times as much as the PS5 Pro
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Rockstar will offer free GTA 5 upgrades from older console and PC versions
Lego unveils its first working pinball machine
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The all-new Google Home speaker has finally arrived for $100
The White House app will reportedly be auto-installed on Homeland Security staff's devices

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