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• Sources: the early Chinese backers of Manus, including HSG, ZhenFund, and Tencent, plan to buy the AI startup back from Meta at the $2B price Meta paid (The Information)
• Architect Labs, which aims to use AI to cheapen and speed up the process of designing custom chips, raised a $24M seed led by Kindred Ventures (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
• Sources: as early as next week, the EU is set to unveil its preliminary findings that AWS and Azure seem to meet the criteria for regulation under the DMA (Bloomberg)
• As David Sacks steps back and Sriram Krishnan prepares to leave, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and others are leading AI policy in the Trump administration (Maria Curi/Axios)
• Hive's stock jumps 5%+ after the company announced a $220M, three-year GPU cloud contract with Bell Canada and Cohere, as it pivots away 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, 30% to 50% of engineers on core teams reassigned 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)
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• XGIMI MemoMind One review: Smart glasses, creepy AI
• Ultrahuman's M2 Live is an updated glucose tracker for metabolic tracking
• Adobe brings its Firefly AI Assistant inside of Premiere, Photoshop and Illustrator
• 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
• Sennheiser debuts open-ear Accentum Clip earbuds with nine hours of battery life
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• Tim Cook says Apple price increases are 'unavoidable' due to memory crunch
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