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Palantir Slack logs and staff interviews reveal internal debates over the company's ICE and DOD contracts during Trump's second term, its manifesto, and more (Makena Kelly/Ars Technica)
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Collov Labs, whose visual interface lets users feed images and camera input into a model that AI agents can reason over and act on, raised a $23M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)
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A profile of Dwarkesh Patel, whose podcast has become mandatory listening in the AI community, with guests like Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg (Benjamin Wallace/New York Times)
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Sources: Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup Genki Robotics, co-founded by Andy Rubin, raised a Series A at a ~$1B valuation; it raised a ~$50M seed in 2025 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
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ASML says it plans to make at least 60 of its standard EUV machines this year, 36% more than it sold in 2025, as it races to meet demand for making AI chips (Kim Mackrael/Wall Street Journal)
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Inside Andon Market, billed as the first retail boutique run by an AI agent; the Andon Labs experiment uses a Claude Sonnet 4.6-based agent to run the boutique (Heather Knight/New York Times)
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An interview with Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and EVP Matt Booty on the "Return of Xbox" memo, making Xbox Series X and S the "first-class experience again", and more (Stephen Totilo/Game File)
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Epoch AI: Google controls ~25% of global AI compute, with ~3.8M TPUs and 1.3M GPUs; Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says demand and revenue justify the spend (Stephen Morris/Financial Times)
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Survey of 1,050 Australian teens: ~60% said they retained access to social media accounts after ban; two-thirds say platforms took no action to remove accounts (Sasha Rogelberg/Fortune)
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A look at growing and increasingly public personal security measures for tech executives as public sentiment turns darkly negative on AI (Eli Rosenberg/The Information)
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A look at Strider, an intelligence firm that claims to use agentic AI and public records to let the US Air Force, NATO, and others identify foreign state actors (Jamie Tarabay/Bloomberg)
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Trump hosted a gala luncheon for leading $TRUMP holders, where he spoke about his pro-crypto policies, but didn't mention the memecoin's declining value (Wall Street Journal)
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A look at Tin Can's $100 retro-style, Wi-Fi-enabled landline phone, and how some schools are seeding the device to students in an attempt to curb smartphone use (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
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A look at "Stanford inside Stanford", where VCs pursue 18- and 19-year-old students, offering mentorship and funding in a bid to convert promise into profit (Theo Baker/The Atlantic)
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How the Vatican is moving faster than most legacy institutions to shape AI rules and guardrails, with an AI framework, banning use of AI to write homilies, more (Russell Contreras/Axios)