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Sources: OpenAI has pledged up to $1.5B to a new joint venture with PE firms to help deploy AI across their portfolio companies, starting with $500M in equity (Financial Times)

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Polymarket says perpetuals are coming to the platform and lets users sign up for early access; it hasn't specified whether crypto perpetual futures are included (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)

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A UK tribunal rules Microsoft must face a lawsuit alleging it overcharged UK businesses to run Windows Server on cloud services from Amazon, Google, and Alibaba (Sam Tobin/Reuters)

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X launches Custom Timelines, a Grok-powered feature letting users pin any of over 75 topics to their home tab, in early access to Premium subscribers on iOS (Nikita Bier/@nikitabier)

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Event Horizon is finally getting a sequel, and it has the perfect writer

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How GrapheneOS lead developer Daniel Micay's legal fights with his former partner James Donaldson over CopperheadOS led to the privacy-focused tool's creation (Tiffany Ng/Wired)

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The redistricting wars are almost over. Here’s the score.

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Filing: SpaceX tells investors that orbital AI data centers use "unproven technologies" and may not achieve "commercial viability" due to space-related risks (Echo Wang/Reuters)

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A look at Apple's management changes and several key executives' futures; sources say Mike Rockwell has considered leaving or taking an advisory role next year (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Top law firm Sullivan & Cromwell told a US federal bankruptcy court that a major filing it made in a high-profile case contained multiple AI hallucinations (Financial Times)

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The Los Angeles Unified School District's board votes to require screen time limits, making it the first major American school system to do so (Tyler Kingkade/NBC News)

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After users reported Claude Code appeared to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan, Anthropic says it's "running a small test on ~2% of new prosumer signups" (Ed Zitron/Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)

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Filing: Anthropic spent $1.6M and OpenAI $1M on lobbying in Q1, vs. $360K and $560K in Q1 2025, respectively; Meta topped Big Tech lobbying spending with $7.1M (Ashley Gold/Axios)

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AcuityMD, which provides AI tools that automate sales call recaps, CRM data entry, and more for medtech companies, raised an $80M Series C at a $955M valuation (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)

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SpaceX cuts a deal to maybe buy Cursor for $60 billion

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SpaceX says it's working with Cursor to build "the world's most useful models" and it has the right to acquire Cursor for $60B or pay $10B for the partnership (New York Times)

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Trump Media & Technology Group names Kevin McGurn as interim CEO, succeeding Devin Nunes; McGurn previously worked as an executive at Hulu, Vevo, and T-Mobile (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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Source: a handful of unauthorized users in a private Discord channel have been accessing Anthropic's Mythos model since the day the company announced it (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

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Netflix's Devil May Cry anime is changing Vergil's lore in season 2

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