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• Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
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| • The CFTC proposes a federal framework for crypto exchanges to offer retail customers leveraged and margined spot trading, without requiring congressional action (Jason Shubnell/The Block)
• An official says the DOD has stopped using Anthropic's tools; sources: Claude was in use as recently as last week, including in military operations against Iran (BBC)
• To comply with the EU AI Act, OpenAI plans to add text watermarking for ChatGPT and Codex users in the EU and an opt-in setting for API customers globally (OpenAI)
• In a first-of-its-kind pilot in the US, Nolla Health will use AI to diagnose and prescribe acne medications to Utah patients without direct human oversight (Annika Inampudi/Bloomberg)
• Meta, TikTok, and X challenge UK's Ofcom over the amount of info it is demanding under the Online Safety Act, saying it creates unprecedented regulatory burdens (Paul Sandle/Reuters)
• Valon, which makes software to help US mortgage companies cut red tape and costs, raised a $150M Series D from Ribbit, a16z, and others at a $2.3B valuation (Zoya Hasan/Forbes)
• Q&A with AI researchers Jacob Coxon, Daniel Kokotajlo, Alex Turner, and others on leaving AI labs, AGI's dangers, planned IPOs, AI safety, oversight, and more (New York Magazine)
• Sources: Nico Caprez, son-in-law to Jensen Huang, rapidly ascended to become an Nvidia VP, serving as its main contact for neoclouds and Huang's "consigliere" (Phoebe Liu/The Information)
• Cohere launches North 2, an update to its enterprise agent platform with cross-session memory and a redesigned harness, available across cloud and on-premises (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)
• CTS: Chinese logic and memory chipmakers have imported 343 ASML immersion DUV lithography scanners from 2012 to early 2026, many of which can make 7nm chips (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
• Namespace, which offers cloud services and infrastructure for developers, raised a $42M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners and says it has 1,000+ customers (Chris Metinko/Axios)
• Survey: only 11% of 396 businesses could forecast AI spending; Microsoft finds lower-priced models cost more than higher-priced ones on 32% of 6,800+ tasks (Wall Street Journal)
• Billionaires Index: tech billionaires account for all of the $845B in wealth gains so far in 2026; those whose fortunes came from outside tech lost $62B total (Kristine Owram/Bloomberg)
• Q&A with Sam Altman on President Trump, the midterms, AI extinction risk, Xi Jinping's state visit, self-policing vs. regulation, and Greg Brockman's donations (Vanity Fair)
• Q&A with Sam Altman on his kids, his rivalries, pronatalism, "prepping" for the apocalypse, new products, the IPO delay, Luca Guadagnino's Artificial, and more (Vanity Fair)
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• Google admits some 'complex' Android apps run poorly on Intel Googlebooks
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