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OpenAI suspected the three fired researchers of leaking internal model designs to AI safety researcher Ryan Greenblatt, including via disappearing Signal chats (Wall Street Journal)
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Spotify confirms it is rolling out a new family plan verification method requiring members to scan QR codes on plan managers' phones within seven days of notice (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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US Treasury proposes rules tightening restrictions on US investments in areas including AI and supercomputing in China, Russia, and other "countries of concern" (Associated Press)
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An interview with Ondřej Surý, a volunteer who maintains PHP and automates its patches, about his role in fixing two critical PHP security vulnerabilities (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic)
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German energy company PreussenElektra says it is working with Nvidia to assess whether the country's idle nuclear plants could be turned into data centers (Eva Brendel/Bloomberg)
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a16z rebrands a16z Crypto as a16z Frontier and expands the fund's scope to back startups developing AI, robotics, and other emerging technologies (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)
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Sources: OpenAI has cut its valuation target to $1.25T, down from the $1.4T valuation it pitched earlier this month, after facing resistance from some investors (Financial Times)
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Sources: SpaceX is in talks with at least one major cellular infrastructure firm to secure a minimum of 80K US cell sites, as it eyes a wireless carrier launch (Kelcee Griffis/Bloomberg)
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Anthropic donates the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation and says 70+ platforms have integrated it, after donating MCP to the AAIF in 2025 (Anthropic)
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Sources: OpenAI nears an up to $30B round led by investors from the UAE and Coatue at a $1.25T pre-money valuation, as an "opportunistic" bridge ahead of an IPO (Kate Rooney/CNBC)
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Canva launches Craft, its first image generation model, trained on human-designed templates, available to all users, with plans to support third-party chatbots (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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Microsoft and Alphabet join 14 other companies objecting to a plan by OKXICE, a venture of OKX and ICE, to trade blockchain-based versions of their shares (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)
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Amazon issues refunds from a 2025 settlement, crediting "President Trump's Federal Trade Commission," the first time an FTC refund has been tied to a president (Alfred Ng/Politico)
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Microsoft says its GPT-5-powered Diagnostic Orchestrator uses agents that mimic panels of experts to diagnose conditions up to 4x more accurately than doctors (Robert Hart/The Verge)
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Sources: Datadog offered to acquire Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup Upwind Security for nearly $4B; Upwind is finalizing a $300M round at a ~$3.8B valuation (The Information)