Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn profile review shows Thinking Machines Lab has been hiring more researchers from Meta than from any other employer; TML's headcount now stands at ~140  —  Weiyao Wang spent eight years at Meta — his first job out of college — helping build multimodal perception systems and contributing …

PYMNTS.com:
Adyen plans to acquire Talon.One, a platform for loyalty and incentives that serves more than 300 global merchants, for €750M, expected to close in H2 2026  —  Adyen plans to acquire Talon.One, a platform for loyalty and incentives that serves more than 300 global merchants …

Anthropic:
Anthropic details Project Deal, a marketplace experiment where Claude models bought, sold, and negotiated personal belongings on behalf of Anthropic employees  —  At Anthropic, we're interested in how AI models could begin to affect commercial exchange.  (You might recall Project Vend …

Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
Lawmakers and lobbyists say the Trump administration has lobbied against legislation that would regulate AI in at least six Republican-led states  —  ‘I am disappointed that states are being told to wait to address this critical issue,’ one GOP state senator said

Hema Parmar / Bloomberg:
Instacart co-founder Apoorva Mehta launches Abundance, a hedge fund that aims to have AI agents run the entire fund, with $100M in seed funding  —  Instacart co-founder Apoorva Mehta launched a hedge fund that relies on an army of artificial intelligence agents, one of the few using …