Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, a16z, and others sign a letter defending open-source AI; Jensen Huang, in his first X post, says open models strengthen cybersecurity (Leo Schwartz/The Information)

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Trump says 200 additional stakeholders, including major utilities, joined a voluntary pledge to protect consumers from high energy bills from AI data centers (Josh Boak/Associated Press)

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AegisAI, which uses AI agents to detect AI-driven spear-phishing attacks, raised a $36M Series A led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $49M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: AegisAI, which uses AI agents to detect AI-driven spear-phishing attacks, raised a $36M Series A led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $49M  —  Hackers are increasingly using AI to launch attacks on a massive scale, with email emerging as a primary target. Source link

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Google says its cloud computing unit had a $514B backlog of contracted work that hasn’t been recorded as revenue yet, up from ~$460B held during Q1 (Julia Love/Bloomberg)

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Memo: the White House OSTP plans to redirect federal research funding from universities to individual scientists and AI use, reshaping ~$200B in annual spending (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)

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Substack partners with AI-detection tool Pangram, allowing users to scan text longer than 100 words for an estimate of how much was written with AI assistance (Chris Best/The Substack Post)

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Gritt, which is developing an AI system that helps build infrastructure like solar panels, emerges from stealth with a $26M Series A and $34M in total funding (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)

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Cambridge-based CuspAI raised a $450M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins and NEA, and launched a coalition for AI materials discovery for chip and other industries (Bloomberg)

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Alibaba open-sources its chip software, following similar plays from Huawei and Moore Threads, as Chinese GPU makers try to break the dominance of Nvidia's CUDA (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)

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Trump Media pitched a monthly fee of as much as $100K for the Truth API, with fast access to Trump’s posts, for banks, algorithmic traders, and others (Reuters)

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