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Filing: Anthropic says it had $5B+ in all-time revenue since 2023 and could lose billions after clients paused deal talks due to supply-chain risk designation (Paresh Dave/Wired)

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Google DeepMind Chief Scientist Jeff Dean and 30+ staffers from OpenAI and Google file an amicus brief in support of Anthropic in its legal fight with US DOD (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

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MacBook Pro 16" (M5 Max) review: "Super core" architecture and 40-core GPU deliver beastly performance, but still retains a five-year-old design (Brian Westover/PCMag)

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Apple Studio Display XDR review: great reference picture modes, much improved camera, and 120Hz support on newer Macs, but expensive at $3300 and only for Macs (John Higgins/The Verge)

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SoftBank's stock is down ~48% since Nov. 3, as scrutiny into the scale of its OpenAI involvement grows; on Monday, SoftBank fell 9.8% on Stargate delay reports (Financial Times)

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Anthropic debuts Code Review for Claude Code, which uses agents to check pull requests for bugs, and says a code review could average $15-$25 in token usage (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)

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Jay Graber is stepping down as Bluesky CEO, saying a "seasoned operator focused on scaling and execution" is needed; VC Toni Schneider is named interim CEO (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

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Sources: Apple delayed the release of its smart home display, planned for this month, until later this year to let the company finish work on the new Siri (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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NBC News poll of 1,000 registered voters: just 26% had a positive view of AI, while 46% had a negative view, the third worst net negative score of all topics (Jake Angelo/Fortune)

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UK's AI drive, touted since 2024 and featuring splashy NScale and CoreWeave deals, to build datacenters is riddled with phantom investments and shaky accounting (Aisha Down/The Guardian)

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OpenAI agrees to acquire Promptfoo, which fixes security issues in AI systems being built and is "trusted by 25%+ of Fortune 500", to fold into OpenAI Frontier (OpenAI)

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Source: UK cyber security company Darktrace names Ed Jennings, who previously led work management platform Quickbase, as CEO, its third chief in 18 months (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)

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Qualcomm unveils the Arduino Ventuno Q, a single-board computer for AI and robotics applications, powered by Dragonwing IQ8 processor and 16GB of RAM (Steve Dent/Engadget)

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Australia's online age restrictions take effect, requiring platforms to verify users are 18+ before they can access content including porn and R-rated games (Ahmed Yussuf/ABC)

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The DOJ reaches a settlement in its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation in a case that alleged an illegal monopoly over live events in the US (Alanna Durkin Richer/Associated Press)

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Anthropic sues to block the DOD from designating it a supply chain risk, says the designation is unlawful and violates its free speech and due process rights (Jack Queen/Reuters)

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Nexperia's Chinese subsidiary says it has begun producing its own chips using 12-inch wafers, a further step toward independence from its Dutch parent (Reuters)

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Nvidia and ABB partner to bring ABB's robot training software to Nvidia's Omniverse simulation platform and build autonomous robots, which Foxconn is trialing (Financial Times)

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Stablecoin payments startup KAST raised an $80M Series A; sources say the raise is at a $600M valuation and KAST expects a $100M annual revenue run rate in 2026 (Bloomberg)

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Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork, integrating Anthropic's Claude Cowork tech into Microsoft 365 Copilot and using Work IQ to ground its actions in work data (Charles Lamanna/Microsoft 365 Blog)

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