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Broadcom to lend Anthropic $42 billion to lease chips: Report
Broadcom joins in on the trend of chipmakers financing the AI buildout that’s driving demand for their products.
Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Deepseek and Huawei partner to develop AI software
The move underlines how China’s leading tech companies are working to reduce their reliance on US chipmakers and challenge American AI dominance.
Florence Lo/Reuters
OpenAI accuses top Chinese lab of distilling models
OpenAI alleged that Chinese competitor Moonshot used wide-scale distillation amidst rising AI-race tensions between Washington and Beijing.
Dado Ruvic/Reuters
US watchdog to investigate AI labs for potential consumer harms
The probe comes one day after top tech leaders signed a self-regulatory AI accord at the White House.
Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
FTC probes OpenAI, Anthropic, and METR
The agency is expected to demand information from the companies in the coming weeks as part of an investigation it launched earlier this year.
Andrew Kelly/Reuters
America.gov holds a Minecraft-themed Easter egg
The bot seems to come to life when users ask it to “play Minecraft.”
America.gov website/Screenshot/Semafor
OpenAI’s new pricing tiers highlight compute bottleneck
Offering always-on, agentic assistant tools will cost OpenAI.
Solving for the hand: Startup wants to pay prosthetic users to teach robots
San Diego-based Psyonic wants to deploy prosthetic hands in developing nations to collect data for building advanced humanoid hands.
OpenAI unveils its Muse competitor: Dots
The consumer-facing agent tool integrates with Slack and Microsoft Teams and will eventually be available via texting.
Around 11 million US workers may face AI displacement
Voters globally have soured on AI because of existential risks the technology poses as well as concerns such as job losses and energy use.
AI leaders talk latest models, tech risks at Trump lunch
AI regulation will top the agenda when leaders from the two firms lunch with US President Donald Trump alongside the bosses of Meta and Nvidia.
Trump plans for AI czar languish ahead of CEO meeting
it’s not clear that naming a czar and putting together a task force are on the White House AI priority list right now.
SpaceX’s Starship enters orbit, deploys satellites in landmark launch
Starship is slated to replace SpaceX’s reusable workhorse, the Falcon 9, which has allowed the Elon Musk-owned company to achieve a lucrative near-monopoly on satellite launches.
Nvidia adds $150 billion to its historic stock buyback
The record buyback is CEO Jensen Huang’s bet that he can fund huge swaths of the AI buildout while still rewarding his own shareholders.
Nvidia unveils tools to keep rogue AI agents in check
The new software platform can monitor the behavior of agents and quarantine suspicious ones, the company said.
AI panic clouds more Washington meetings
But tech CEOs visiting DC this week are more likely to be fêted than reprimanded.
Firms take lead on AI safety standards as security incidents mount
Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are coordinating on their own “Standards Authority for Frontier AI,” The Information reported.
McDonald’s unveils AI-enabled drive-thru system
AI drive-thrus have tripped up other chains, including Burger King.