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• Radical Ventures: AI neolabs, many lacking products, markets, or revenue, raised $24B in the past two quarters, nearly 5x OpenAI and Anthropic pre-ChatGPT (Louise Lucas/Financial Times)
• Chinese local governments are offering subsidies like computing vouchers, rent waivers, and dedicated funding to lure AI filmmakers as part of China's AI push (Reuters)
• Sources: AI chip startup DensityAI, founded by ex-Tesla Dojo team members, is in talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a $10B valuation (The Information)
• Experts say that air-gapping AI could prevent events like the Hugging Face hack, but would undermine the value of evaluations and slow research to a crawl (Robert Hart/The Verge)
• Massachusetts' gambling regulator says it will examine how DraftKings and other betting companies in the state are using AI, in response to a NYT investigation (New York Times)
• Report: insurers claim hospitals' AI use was responsible for ~$1B in extra expenses in 2024-25, as hospitals collect more patient data and submit larger claims (New York Times)
• Databricks acquires spreadsheet startup Row Zero to expand the capabilities of its AI coworker Genie; Row Zero raised a $10M seed led by IA Ventures last year (Chris Metinko/Axios)
• Bitget halts withdrawals after detecting unauthorized transfers from some hot and warm wallets, affecting ~$351.6M; CEO Gracy Chen says "user funds are safe" (Matthew Brockett/Bloomberg)
• Sources: Anthropic asks shareholders to approve a Palantir-style structure granting its seven co-founders 50.1% of voting power if three retain minimum stakes (The Information)
• Documents: Jeff Bezos has invested $30B in Blue Origin since 2000, including $2B in its first outside funding round, which has raised $10B at a $140B valuation (Micah Maidenberg/Wall Street Journal)
• Anthropic commits to spending $11.6B over seven years on Akamai cloud services and secures an option to take a stake of up to 5%; AKAM jumps 17%+ after hours (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)
• At a White House summit, Xi Jinping says the US and China have "the capability and responsibility to develop and manage AI for good" as "leading nations" in AI (Mallory Wilson/The Hill)
• Google updates Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, an animated AI persona that lip-syncs and shows different facial expressions, for Gemini Enterprise customers (Emma Roth/The Verge)
• Email: Microsoft is moving its communications function out of its marketing group and into the corporate, external, and legal affairs org led by Brad Smith (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
• Sources: OpenEvidence, an AI search engine for doctors, raised $250M at a $15B valuation, up from $12B in January; it could be open to selling itself (Katie Roof/Business Insider)

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• Call of Duty: Warzone is adding a button to hide all the goofy skins
• Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 vs. Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2: How these AI glasses compare
• Nintendo wins $4.5 million from lawsuit over pirated Switch games
• Nicolas Cage is anything but subtle in the Madden trailer
• Bungie shares more detail about Marathon's Symbiosis update and 2027 plans
• New York Times Cooking is coming to Meta's AI and display glasses
• We finally have a trailer for that four-hour Elon Musk documentary
• New York continues to fight prediction markets with a lawsuit against Polymarket
• Google is sending a teensy-tiny AI data center to space
• Turtle Beach Rematch review: The cutest Switch 2 controller of the bunch
• It took MapQuest until 2026 to add public transit directions
• Google Photos' new Redact tool will make it easy to hide sensitive information
• The Pixel Watch 5's blood pressure and insulin resistance trends are rolling out this week
• Copper's latest high-end induction stove brings the heat better than ever
• Pixel 11's Call For Me feature begins preliminary rollout
• Xiaomi's 18 Pro series phones have the latest Snapdragon chip and a Samsung-like privacy screen
• Razer's Kiyo V2 Pro webcam can capture 4K video at 60 fps
• How to get your cut of Apple's $250 million Siri settlement
• Qualcomm's Snapdragon Sound Elite is a new AI chip for audio wearables
• Revolut is piloting facial recognition at store checkouts in the UK

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