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Filing: Blue Origin seeks US FCC approval to deploy nearly 52K solar-powered satellites as part of Project Sunrise, its proposed orbital AI data center system (Micah Maidenberg/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: Jeff Bezos' $100B fund would be part of the same holding company as Project Prometheus and would invest in companies that could benefit from its tech (New York Times)

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AI startups and founders have embraced "taste" as the new buzzword to make their products stand out, attempting to hitch themselves to an aura of artisanality (Kyle Chayka/New Yorker)

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A US DOJ operation disrupted four botnets that infected 3M+ devices and includes the Aisuru and Kimwolf botnets used in a 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack in November 2025 (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

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MiniMax releases M2.7, a proprietary "self-evolving" LLM that the company used to build, monitor, and optimize the model's own reinforcement learning harnesses (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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A man accused of using thousands of bot accounts to stream AI songs, making millions in royalties, pleads guilty in US district court to wire fraud conspiracy (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)

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Sources: the White House plans to unveil a federal AI framework on Friday covering preemption of state laws, child safety, communities, creators, and censorship (Axios)

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US prosecutors charge three people affiliated with Super Micro, including a co-founder, with smuggling Nvidia chips to China; SMCI drops 11.85% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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OpenAI plans to unify ChatGPT, Codex, and its browser into a desktop "superapp" to simplify the user experience and focus on engineering and business customers (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: Anthropic met behind closed doors with House Homeland Security and discussed issues like export controls, only briefly touching on its DOD fight (Maria Curi/Axios)

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Nvidia says it will sell 1M GPUs and a broad mix of other chips, including new Groq chips, to AWS by the end of 2027; financial terms were not disclosed (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

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Filing: the Pentagon says Anthropic's use of foreign workers, including from China, poses security risks and that its case is "different" from other companies' (Maria Curi/Axios)

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Verily raised $300M led by Series X Capital, giving it ~2 years of runway per a source; Alphabet remains an investor but no longer has a controlling stake (Axios)

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Sources: Kalshi is raising ~$1B led by Coatue at a $22B valuation, up from the $11B valuation announced in December, and has a revenue run rate of ~$1.5B (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)

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Amazon acquires Zurich-based autonomous robotics startup Rivr, formerly Swiss-Mile; PitchBook: the startup was valued at $110M in an August 2024 funding round (The Information)

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Signal's Moxie Marlinspike says his privacy-focused AI platform Confer will integrate its encryption tech into Meta AI to provide E2EE for chatbot interactions (Wired)

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Sources: Google has started consumer beta testing of a dedicated Gemini AI app for the Mac, as it seeks to compete with Mac apps for ChatGPT and Claude (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Bluesky raised a $100M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto in April 2025, following a $15M Series A in 2024 and an $8M seed in 2023; it now has over 43M users (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Sources: Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100B for a fund that would buy companies in industrial sectors such as chipmaking and defense and revamp them with AI (Wall Street Journal)

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Google moved some staffers working on Project Mariner, its AI agent that can navigate Chrome and complete tasks on a user's behalf, to higher-priority projects (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

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