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How Binance staffers found $1B was sent to sanctioned Iranian entities via the exchange, which dismantled their probe and suspended them after Trump pardoned CZ (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
How Binance staffers found $1B was sent to sanctioned Iranian entities via the exchange, which dismantled their probe and suspended them after Trump pardoned CZ  —  Weeks after Trump pardoned Binance's founder, the company dismantled probe and suspended the investigators; Binance denied inquiry ended or staff fired for the concerns

Tesla sues California's DMV to reverse a ruling that found Tesla violated the law by falsely promoting its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Tesla sues California's DMV to reverse a ruling that found Tesla violated the law by falsely promoting its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems  —  Tesla is suing California's Department of Motor Vehicles to reverse a ruling that found the automaker violated the law by falsely promoting its cars' self-driving capabilities.

A Trump administration official says DeepSeek's new model, expected next week, was trained on Nvidia Blackwell chips, in a potential US export control violation (Reuters)

Reuters:
A Trump administration official says DeepSeek's new model, expected next week, was trained on Nvidia Blackwell chips, in a potential US export control violation  —  Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's latest AI model, set to be released as soon as next week, was trained on Nvidia's (NVDA.O) …

Sources: Anthropic has lined up $5B to $6B for an employee share sale at a valuation of about $350B; outside investors will be buying up the insider shares (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Sources: Anthropic has lined up $5B to $6B for an employee share sale at a valuation of about $350B; outside investors will be buying up the insider shares  —  Anthropic is offering some current and former employees the ability to sell shares in the company at a valuation of about $350 billion …

A DOD official says xAI has agreed to let the military use Grok in classified systems and agreed to the "all lawful use" standard, which Anthropic has refused (Axios)

Axios:
A DOD official says xAI has agreed to let the military use Grok in classified systems and agreed to the “all lawful use” standard, which Anthropic has refused  —  But the Pentagon is threatening Anthropic in a dispute over safeguards and may soon need a replacement.