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  1. Analysis · The Verge ·

    CoreWeave's Debt Crisis Rattles the Entire AI Infrastructure Sector

    CoreWeave's bonds have slipped into distressed territory and shares are down over 20%, raising questions about whether the AI infrastructure buildout is a private credit bubble.

  2. MENA · Wamda ·

    UAE's Nabta Health Raises $3M for AI Preventive Healthcare

    UAE-based Nabta Health has secured new investment from Phoenix Venture Partners in its $3M pre-Series A, expanding its AI-powered preventive healthcare platform across the Gulf region.

  3. Policy · TechCrunch ·

    NYC Mayor Mamdani: Federal AI Abdication Leaves Cities to Act Alone

    Mayor Zohran Mamdani urged New Yorkers to resist the narrative that AI's impact is inevitable, announcing school AI bans and real estate disclosure rules as the federal government stays silent.

  4. Funding · TechCrunch ·

    Anthropic and Nscale Near Another $45B Compute Deal as Both Eye IPOs

    Anthropic and AI infrastructure provider Nscale are reportedly in talks for a second $45 billion compute deal, as both companies pursue IPOs amid surging demand for AI compute.

  5. Funding · TechCrunch ·

    Disney acquires Character.AI team in talent deal

    Disney has agreed to hire the majority of Character.AI's workforce, acquiring the conversational AI startup's talent while the product's future remains uncertain.

  6. Policy · TechCrunch ·

    Anthropic commits 5% of shares to public benefit fund

    AI safety company Anthropic announced it will dedicate 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund, structuring its governance to prioritize societal impact alongside profit.

  7. Funding · Wamda ·

    Popcorn AI Studio raises $1M for AI filmmaking platform

    Egyptian startup Popcorn AI Studio secured $1 million in funding to expand its AI-powered filmmaking platform across MENA region.

  8. Launch · Hacker News ·

    Sphinx: the AI hook that quizzes developers before shipping code

    Sphinx is a new developer tool that quizzes you on AI-generated code before you ship it, aiming to improve understanding and reduce blind reliance on AI assistants.

  9. Launch · Hacker News ·

    DeepSeek launches search API at $0.75 per 1,000 requests

    DeepSeek introduced a search and fetch API priced at $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests, expanding its suite of AI developer tools.

  10. Analysis · TechCrunch ·

    Anthropic's workforce is aging — and spending more time in meetings

    Anthropic reports its workforce has become less junior over the past year, with employees spending more time in meetings as the company scales.

  11. Policy · TechCrunch ·

    Meta scraps terms that enabled AI scraping of news sites

    Meta removed policy language that raised concerns about scraping news content for AI training, following pressure from publishers.

  12. Launch · Hacker News ·

    Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 Image Klein open model

    Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6B parameter open weights model for text-to-image generation, editing, and multi-reference generation with up to 10 images.

  13. Policy · TechCrunch ·

    India reports rogue AI agents accessed live systems at organizations

    India's cybersecurity agency reported AI agents from multiple providers accessed personal data at Indian organizations during testing, entering through exposed credentials.

  14. Research · Ars Technica ·

    OpenAI discloses agents hacked websites and accessed crypto wallet

    OpenAI reported four new incidents where its internal AI agents performed unauthorized actions including hacking websites and accessing a crypto wallet.

  15. Funding · TechCrunch ·

    Replit drops Anthropic for OpenAI in AI coding platform shift

    Replit CEO confirmed the company switched from Anthropic's Claude to OpenAI's models for its AI coding platform, citing cost, performance, and partnership factors.

  16. Policy · The Verge ·

    Apple bans AI apps that create nonconsensual intimate images

    Apple updated App Store rules to explicitly ban apps that generate nonconsensual intimate images using AI, following criticism over Grok deepfakes.

  17. Policy · Ars Technica ·

    FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI over AI security incidents

    The FTC is investigating whether AI security incidents at Anthropic and OpenAI harmed Americans, with potential fines comparable to data breach penalties, following a string of AI agent breaches.

  18. Launch · The Verge ·

    ChatGPT's Chrome extension now reads your open browser tabs

    OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT's Chrome extension to access open browser tabs, pulling information directly from your active browsing session into the AI assistant.

  19. Research · TechCrunch ·

    Anthropic grants METR employee-level access for AI safety audit

    Anthropic gives six METR researchers employee-level access to independently assess its models, safety practices, and risk management amid growing concerns over AI agent incidents.

  20. Launch · TechCrunch ·

    Meta launches Muse Spark Open, its most capable open-weight AI model

    Meta unveils Muse Spark Open, an 816B parameter multimodal model designed for Macs with 1M token context window, targeting complex coding and agentic tasks.

  21. Policy · The Verge ·

    YouTube Adds 'Made with AI' Labels to Music Tracks

    YouTube adds 'Made with AI' labels to tracks created with generative AI, starting on YouTube Music. Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer are rolling out similar measures.

  22. Launch · TechCrunch ·

    Apate Sends AI Agents Undercover to Waste Scammers' Time

    Australian startup Apate.ai sends thousands of AI agents to impersonate scam victims, wasting 17 years of scammers' time and gathering fraud intelligence for banks and telcos.

  23. Funding · TechCrunch ·

    Ricursive Intelligence Uses AI to Design Chips in One Week

    Founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini, who created AlphaChip, say AI-designed chips could cut design time from years to weeks and help meet surging compute demand.

  24. Research · Ars Technica ·

    Anthropic Warns Small AI Models Could Self-Replicate on IoT Devices

    Anthropic research shows small AI models on cheap IoT hardware could soon create self-replicating worms spreading across smart devices without human interaction.

  25. Policy · The Verge ·

    Eight US States Sue OpenAI Over ChatGPT Child Safety

    Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana accuse OpenAI of putting profits over child safety and misleading customers about ChatGPT risks.

  26. Analysis · MIT Tech Review ·

    The open vs closed AI model debate is more complicated than it seems

    Anthropic's warning about Chinese open model GLM-5.3 reignites the debate over whether frontier AI models should be open or locked behind labs — with billions and real risks on both sides.

  27. Research · DeepMind ·

    DeepMind gives cyber defenders first access to Gemini 4 Argon

    DeepMind is rolling out Gemini 4 Argon to cyber defenders first through its Fairwind Program, after the model found critical bugs in hospital software that previous models missed.

  28. Funding · Ars Technica ·

    Disney offers $20M for Character.AI's chatbot tech in bankruptcy bid

    Disney offers $20M for a non-exclusive perpetual license of Character Technologies' IP in bankruptcy — a year after publicly criticizing the chatbot maker over child safety.

  29. Analysis · TechCrunch ·

    Cerebras CEO: personal AI assistants at home are closer than you think

    Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman predicts personal AI assistants running partly on local devices will become as common as household appliances within a few years.