Techmeme
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How AI-native law firms use "management services organisation" structures to access capital historically barred from US law firms, including PE and VC funds (Stephen Foley/Financial Times)
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Sources: Zuckerberg urged execs to explore Polymarket and Kalshi partnerships, as the Arena prediction app targets 100M monthly active "predictors" aged 18-34 (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
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AWS hikes prices for Nvidia GPUs in its EC2 Capacity Blocks service, which let businesses rent AI compute in advance, by 20%; Trainium chip pricing is unchanged (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
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Oracle's stock fell 19% this week, the steepest weekly drop since a 20% plunge in August 2001, amid concerns about its debt load and AI investments (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
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The FTC fast-tracks approval for SpaceX to acquire Mesh, which raised a $50M Series A in February to make high-efficiency optical transceivers for data centers (Bloomberg)
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OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol and Terra were capable of identifying vulnerabilities but were unable to execute autonomous, end-to-end attacks against hardened targets (OpenAI)
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Sources: Paul Meade, Apple's top executive in charge of Vision Pro and smart glasses efforts, is leaving for OpenAI to work on the company's AI-powered devices (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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Uber expands the list of criminal convictions that disqualify US drivers and expands the background-check timeline, possibly removing ~0.5% of active US drivers (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
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Sources: Russian hackers were behind a 2025 ransomware attack on Jaguar Land Rover that used "mind-blowing" encryption and cost UK's economy an estimated $2.5B (New York Times)
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OpenAI appoints ex-Uber India head Prabhjeet Singh as its first managing director for India, to scale its presence in its second-largest market after the US (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
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GPT-5.6 Sol matches Mythos Preview on ExploitBench, adds Ultra mode with subagents for complex workflows, and max reasoning for deep problem-solving (OpenAI)
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OpenAI hopes to make GPT-5.6 generally available in the coming weeks and says "this kind of government access process" should not become the long-term default (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
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OpenAI releases three versions of GPT-5.6, called Sol, Terra, and Luna, as a limited preview to ~20 companies, with participants disclosed to the US government (Axios)
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President Trump threatens to impose a 100% tariff on any country that imposes a digital services tax on US companies (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
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Sources: Revolut told new hires they'll have to work in office at least three days a week from next year, retreating from its long-held remote-first approach (Financial Times)