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Anduril agrees to acquire missile defense modeling company ExoAnalytic for an undisclosed sum and says the deal will grow its space unit staff from 120 to ~250 (Sana Pashankar/Bloomberg)

Sana Pashankar / Bloomberg:
Anduril agrees to acquire missile defense modeling company ExoAnalytic for an undisclosed sum and says the deal will grow its space unit staff from 120 to ~250  —  Anduril Industries Inc. is set to double the size of its space unit with the acquisition of national security company ExoAnalytic Solutions Inc. …

Chinese Gen Z day traders, who prefer tech stocks and increasingly use AI chatbots for investment advice, fuel the country's latest tech investment craze (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Chinese Gen Z day traders, who prefer tech stocks and increasingly use AI chatbots for investment advice, fuel the country's latest tech investment craze  —  This cohort has become an increasingly important driver of investment growth in the world's second-largest economy.  —  By Bloomberg Businessweek

A profile of Sachin Katti, who joined OpenAI from Intel in November 2025 as head of industrial compute, as he helps guide OpenAI's infrastructure efforts (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
A profile of Sachin Katti, who joined OpenAI from Intel in November 2025 as head of industrial compute, as he helps guide OpenAI's infrastructure efforts  —  For months, OpenAI's Sam Altman has been talking up plans to spend trillions of dollars on an unprecedented buildout of data centers stocked with advanced chips to power AI.

Indian AI lab Lossfunk's prompting method lets LLMs generate Tulu language text without prior training; the method may expand to other low-resource languages (The Economic Times)

The Economic Times:
Indian AI lab Lossfunk's prompting method lets LLMs generate Tulu language text without prior training; the method may expand to other low-resource languages  —  Lossfunk, an AI lab founded by Paras Chopra, created a prompting method that helps large language models produce Tulu text without prior training.

The AI-assisted overhaul of a Python character encoding detection library raises questions about software relicensing and derivative versions of the original (Thomas Claburn/The Register)

Thomas Claburn / The Register:
The AI-assisted overhaul of a Python character encoding detection library raises questions about software relicensing and derivative versions of the original  —  Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk  —  Earlier this week, Dan Blanchard …