Anthropic Lines Up Investor Meetings for an October IPO
Anthropic is scheduling investor meetings ahead of a potential IPO as soon as October, a move that could take the Claude maker public before rival OpenAI.
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Anthropic’s Doom-Themed Claude Ad Backfires and Draws Mockery
Anthropic's new ad "There's hope in hard questions" drew mockery, including from Sam Altman, for pairing bleak imagery like a cemetery with questions about whether AI can be trusted.
SoftBank Plans $369 Million Bond Sale to Fund Its AI Push
SoftBank plans to sell about ¥60 billion of notes in Japan this month, its latest raise to fund a mounting AI bet that includes nearly $65 billion committed to OpenAI.
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China’s Moonshot Releases Kimi K3, Its Largest AI Model Yet
Chinese startup Moonshot released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model it says rivals Anthropic's Claude, as the US-China AI gap narrows.
OpenAI Launches Codex Micro, a $230 Keypad for Coders
OpenAI launched Codex Micro, a $230 mechanical keypad built with Work Louder that gives developers physical controls for its Codex coding agent, its first hardware to reach market.
NVIDIA is Uniting Japan’s Robotics Giants to Build AI for the Physical World
NVIDIA unveiled Cosmos 3 Edge and said Japan's robotics and manufacturing leaders, from FANUC to Sony, intend to join its Cosmos Coalition to build AI for the physical world.
Microsoft Coaches Its Sales Team to Take Down OpenAI and Anthropic
Microsoft is coaching its sales force to argue its AI products beat OpenAI's and Anthropic's on cost, security and completeness, turning on the partners whose models it long relied on.
Elon Musk’s xAI Quietly Polluted Black Neighborhoods to Power Its AI Supercomputer
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A Reuters analysis found xAI installed 59 unpermitted gas turbines to power its Colossus 2 data center, releasing pollution near predominantly Black Memphis-area communities.
Meta Sued Over Claims AI Drove Discriminatory Layoff Choices
Twenty-six Meta workers sued the company, alleging its AI systems used metrics like token consumption to select layoff targets, disadvantaging people on medical or family leave.
Payments Giants Back x402 Standard for AI Agent Transactions
Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Google and 36 others formed a Linux Foundation body to steward x402, an open standard letting AI agents pay for services directly over HTTP.
OpenAI Tells Developers to Stop Over-Prompting GPT-5.6
OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 prompting guide urges developers to write shorter, outcome-first prompts, saying leaner instructions raised scores 10-15% while cutting tokens and cost sharply.
DeepMind’s Hassabis Calls for a Frontier AI Testing Body
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis proposed a US-led standards body to test the most powerful AI models before release and coordinate an industry slowdown if risks mount.
Google Trains Health AI on a Trillion Minutes of Wearable Data
Google unveiled SensorFM, a health AI trained on over a trillion minutes of smartwatch data from 5 million people, that predicts 35 health measures from cardiovascular risk to depression.