Washington Post:
How the US government is adopting AI: NASA reports 420 AI use cases in 2025, up from 18 in 2024, HHS reports 398, Energy 325, DOJ 295, Interior 234, and DHS 205  —  The White House is accelerating AI adoption across government, embedding the technology in policing, health care, defense and science.

Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Amanda Askell, Anthropic's resident philosopher, who is learning Claude's reasoning patterns in a bid to endow it with a sense of morality  —  Anthropic has entrusted Amanda Askell to endow its chatbot, Claude, with a sense of right and wrong.  —  Amanda Askell knew from the age of 14 that she wanted to teach philosophy.

Juro Osawa / The Information:
ByteDance releases Seedance 2.0, an update to its AI video generation model that can make multi-shot scenes, available to select Jimeng and Jianying users  —  ByteDance's new AI video generation model Seedance 2.0, unveiled over the weekend, is generating a lot of buzz on social media, with some calling it a game changer.

Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg:
Franco-Italian chipmaker STMicro agrees to supply AWS with various chips, including for high-bandwidth connectivity and power management; STM jumps 5%+  —  Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud service AWS is deepening its ties with Franco-Italian chipmaker STMicroelectronics NV to secure semiconductor technologies for its data centers.

Julia Zhong / Bloomberg:
Chinese chip designer Montage raised $902M in its Hong Kong IPO, jumping 64% in its market debut, the biggest rise since Kuaishou's $6.2B Hong Kong IPO in 2021  —  Shares of Montage Technology Co. jumped 64% in their Hong Kong debut on Monday after a share sale that raised $902 million …