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• Ando, which is building a team messaging platform for both humans and AI agents, comes out of stealth with $20M in pre-seed and seed funding (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
• Sources: Tesla ramped up Optimus production to several hundred units per week but faces hurdles with its hands, automation equipment, and supplier constraints (The Information)
• Bill Gates warns about the catastrophic risk posed by "people with ill intent using the latest AI tools", which are powerful enough to "cause a billion deaths" (Herb Scribner/Axios)
• Microsoft launches its Copilot "super app", bundling chat, coding, and agents into a single interface, and rebrands its AI assistant Scout as Autopilot (Tom Warren/The Verge)
• Project Jupiter, the New Mexico data center for which Oracle made major financial commitments, faces power and permitting hurdles, exposing Oracle's AI risks (Wall Street Journal)
• The US stood alone in dismissing AI safety concerns at the UN, leaving nations to set nonbinding rules without buy-in from the home of the biggest AI companies (Ashley Gold/Semafor)
• 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)

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• Microsoft's Copilot app adds Office, natural coding and automation
• SpaceX Starship's first orbital flight test on track after successful launch rehearsal
• Google adds creepy avatars to Gemini 3.8 live's agents
• 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

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