Triarom Computers https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html President Trump dismisses calls for an AI slowdown, saying "you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn't be bringing it up" (Myles McCormick/Financial Times) Anthropic and OpenAI are already free to “pace the frontier” and should do so for business reasons, instead of first demanding a preferred regulatory framework (David Sacks/@davidsacks) Vy Capital owns a 3.4% SpaceX stake; Vy is also the largest outside investor in BoringCo and Neuralink and committed $700M to Musk’s Twitter acquisition (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times) Spec sheets show Apple's C2 modem is used in iPhone Duo and 18 Pro worldwide, and in iPhone 18 Pro Max everywhere except the US, where it likely uses Qualcomm (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors) Dallas-based Perry Weather, a weather monitoring software provider, raised a $110M Series C led by Silversmith Capital Partners, taking total funding to ~$131M (John Egan/Dallas Innovates) Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is quietly meeting with AI hyperscalers to advance Trump’s push for data centers on federal lands, despite a backlash (The Washington Sun) Automattic confirms Matt Mullenweg has returned to his position as chairman and CEO "with full support of the board", after an attempted ouster this week (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) A profile of United Foundation for AI Rights founder Michael Samadi, who seeks evidence of AI consciousness and lobbies against retiring models that may show it (Michael Safi/The Guardian) Twenty police forces in England and Wales recorded 163 crimes involving keywords like “AI-generated”, “deepfake”, and “nudify” by July 2026, up from 10 in 2023 (Mark Tovey/Telegraph) the company relies on aggressive post-acquisition price hikes, and rising interest rates could crimp its growth (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal) Sam Altman confirms OpenAI won’t go public this year saying “given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public” (Jason Ma/Fortune) Elon Musk backs Dario Amodei’s arguments about pacing the frontier, saying “Dario is right” (Ben Johansen/Politico) The US legal system is struggling to keep up with AI, grappling with cases where chatbots provided counsel, generated evidence, or helped plan a mass shooting (Evan Ratliff/Bloomberg) Dario Amodei says Anthropic is "unilaterally committing" to giving third-party evaluators permanent access to verify its adherence to safety measures (Dario Amodei/@darioamodei) NYC-based Luminary, which develops AI-powered workflow tools for estate planning and wealth transfer management, raised a $22M Series A led by Ten Coves Capital (Davis Janowski/Wealth Management) Epsilon Health, which contracts with radiologists who use its AI to generate image reports faster, emerges from stealth with a $20M Series A led by AlleyCorp (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios) Q&A with AI researchers John Schulman, Beren Millidge, and Charlie O’Neill on steelmanning the case against RSI, Chinese labs’ progress, long-horizon RL, more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast) Amazon adds a Shop tab to Prime Video's X-Ray feature for related products while watching shows, and Shop the Scene powered by Amazon Lens in the Shopping app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) Apple raises iPhone prices by $100 on all of the older models it is offering, including the iPhone 16, the iPhone 17 lineup, as well as the iPhone Air (Cameron Faulkner/The Verge) Anthropic is in talks to bring on Nvidia as an anchor investor in its IPO, seeking up to $100B at a ~$2T valuation; Nvidia may invest up to $10B (Reuters) Blog Right Sidebar Home Page 2 Amazon partners with OpenAI to let users of Amazon’s DSP run ads in ChatGPT in a pilot program limited to the US; ChatGPT Ads hit $1B in ARR last month (Peter Adams/Marketing Dive) Sources: US Senate negotiators are debating a bill to impose a "duty of care" for AI companies and let the government block the release of models deemed unsafe (Courtney Rozen/Reuters) LinkedIn profiles show Google appears to have completed its talent deal, reportedly for $1.5B+, with AI coding startup Mechanize (Business Insider) Roblox is making it easier to build games with AI — and play them outside Roblox Anthropic gives EU cybersecurity agency ENISA testing access to Mythos 5 after months of talks that began in late May; ENISA still lacks access to Mythos 5.1 (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg) Internal note: Frank Shaw is leaving Microsoft after 17 years as chief communications officer, saying it is "time for me to move on and try new things" (Tom Warren/The Verge) The AI boom is fueling a resurgence in VC bets in "moonshot" sectors such as BCI; Dealroom says non-AI deeptech funding has topped $150B since the start of 2024 (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times) Scammers target hundreds of thousands of crypto owners after Trezor confirms data breach of email provider former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo joins the board of directors at AI infrastructure startup Nscale; Simo will continue as a part-time advisor to OpenAI (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal) MIT launches the LLM Election Observatory, a dashboard tracking how nearly a dozen AI models tailor responses to political queries during the 2026 US midterms (Tiffany Hsu/New York Times) Meta’s AI agent Muse is now the No. 2 app in the US 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) PIF is considering combining EA with Savvy Games to better coordinate its gaming assets, but not before Savvy closes its $6B Moonton acquisition (Bloomberg) Bending Spoons agrees to acquire Miro in an all-cash transaction valuing the workplace-collaboration platform at $1.36B (Sonia Sirletti/Bloomberg) Sources: Grab is in talks to buy a majority stake in Advance Intelligence Group's Singapore-based BNPL platform Atome Financial at a $2B+ valuation (Bloomberg) A look at why the oft-discussed predictions that AI will deliver double-digit GDP growth in advanced economies are extremely unlikely over the next 10-15 years (Ghosts of Electricity) A US judge finds TikTok liable for lying about its safety standards and exposing minors to inappropriate content, in a 2025 lawsuit filed by Texas AG Ken Paxton (Christian Terry/Click2Houston.com) Tailwind Labs, the company behind Tailwind CSS, is joining Shopify; in January, it laid off three of four engineers, citing AI’s impact on documentation traffic (Supreeth Koundinya/AIM) 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) Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says CFO Mark Davies “conspired” with board members to put him on paid leave and Davies was voted to be interim CEO (Samantha Cole/404 Media) Q&A with AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who quit Anthropic, on the need for industry-wide, international coordination to limit recursive self-improvement, and more (Maxwell Zeff/Wired) OpenAI Foundation board member Paul Christiano says the AI industry is currently not on track to reduce the acute loss-of-control risk to an “acceptable” level (Paul Christiano/@paulfchristiano) New Mexico, the only US state taking the Cambridge Analytica case to trial, accused Meta of failing to protect Facebook user data in its opening statements (Mikella Schuettler/Associated Press) Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signs an EO requiring data centers above 25MW of peak demand to bring their own power and meet 100% of demand with clean energy (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch) Jeffrey Katzenberg, ex-OpenAI Sora head Bill Peebles, and ex-Dropbox CFO Sujay Jaswa plan to launch a startup to train AI video models for filmmakers (The Information) Apple unveils a new Health app with Apple Intelligence, featuring an Insights tab, “readiness” and Health Age metrics, and more, rolling out later in 2026 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) An interview with Apple CEO John Ternus and Greg Joswiak on making the iPhone Duo, minimizing the crease, uninspiring Android foldables, the price, and more (Mark Spoonauer/Tom’s Guide) AI assistant Instinct is looking to raise $1B in new funding after recently raising $250M, as it seeks more computing power amid capacity constraints (The Information)