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Sources: the Pentagon is in talks to lend roughly $5B to neocloud Fluidstack; Fluidstack is being advised on its loan application by Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank (Wall Street Journal)
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Sources: Microsoft plans to expand its data center capacity from 12GW today to 38GW+ by 2032, with about a third of the 38GW centered on AI-specific chips (Bloomberg)
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Adobe reports Q3 revenue up 13% YoY to $6.76B, vs. $6.7B est., AI-first annual recurring revenue up 150% YoY, and forecasts Q4 revenue slightly below estimates (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs bills restricting "addictive" social media features for under-16s and limiting minors' interactions with chatbots (Colin Lecher/CalMatters)
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Oracle reports Q1 revenue up 30% YoY to $19.35B, vs. $19.14B est., cloud infrastructure revenue up 121% to $7.4B, vs. $7.09B est.; ORCL jumps 6%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
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Sources: Altera is preparing to confidentially file for an IPO in the coming weeks; the offering could raise over $2B, with a listing as early as this year (Reuters)
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ID verification service IDScan confirms that a data breach involved the theft of driver's licenses from its systems after hackers offered 153M licenses for sale (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
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OpenAI says it will pause new $200/month ChatGPT Pro subscriptions amid "unprecedented" Astra demand; existing accounts, other plans, and API are unaffected (Tibo/@thsottiaux)
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Universal Music Group partners with ElevenLabs to launch a new AI-powered platform that will let users create song remixes, mashups, and more from its catalog (Emma Roth/The Verge)
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OpenAI unveils ChatGPT for Financial Services, a version of ChatGPT Work made with "design partners" Morgan Stanley and Evercore to research like an analyst (CNBC)
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Anthropic details distillation efforts by Chinese companies, like Moonshot and DeepSeek, sending user queries to Claude via "transfer stations" outside China (Wall Street Journal)
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Anthropic says it disrupted several potential plots this year by scientists using its models for research that could have helped develop biological weapons (Dustin Volz/New York Times)
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Anthropic publishes a threat intelligence report on how it disrupted efforts to misuse Claude for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, and more (Anthropic)
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Sources: PIF is considering combining EA with Savvy Games to better coordinate its gaming assets, but not before Savvy closes its $6B Moonton acquisition (Bloomberg)
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Interview with mathematician Tristan Buckmaster on being drawn into the OpenAI-Anthropic fight; OpenAI says it made progress on another Millennium Prize problem (Kenneth Chang/New York Times)