• Sources: the White House is preparing an executive order formally instructing federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's AI tools (Maria Curi/Axios)
• Sources: PE firm EQT is exploring a sale of Linux distribution vendor SUSE in a deal that could value it at up to $6B; SUSE was valued at ~$2.96B in 2023 (Reuters)
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• Filing: Anthropic says it had $5B+ in all-time revenue since 2023 and could lose billions after clients paused deal talks due to supply-chain risk designation (Paresh Dave/Wired)
• More than 30 staffers from OpenAI and Google, including DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean, file an amicus brief in support of Anthropic in its fight with DOD (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
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• SoftBank's stock is down ~48% since Nov. 3, as scrutiny into the scale of its OpenAI involvement grows; on Monday, SoftBank fell 9.8% on Stargate delay reports (Financial Times)
• Anthropic debuts Code Review for Claude Code, which uses agents to check pull requests for bugs, and says a code review could average $15-$25 in token usage (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
• Jay Graber is stepping down as Bluesky CEO, saying a "seasoned operator focused on scaling and execution" is needed; VC Toni Schneider is named interim CEO (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
• Sources: Apple delayed the release of its smart home display, planned for this month, until later this year to let the company finish work on the new Siri (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
• NBC News poll of 1,000 registered voters: just 26% had a positive view of AI, while 46% had a negative view, the third worst net negative score of all topics (Jake Angelo/Fortune)
• UK's AI drive, touted since 2024 and featuring splashy NScale and CoreWeave deals, to build datacenters is riddled with phantom investments and shaky accounting (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
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