Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:
How Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are testing AI models by having them play Pokémon Blue on Twitch to track a model's ability to reason and make decisions  —  Nintendo's original Pokémon games are becoming a popular and strangely effective way to test and benchmark new artificial-intelligence models.

The Economic Times:
Bengaluru-based digital payments startup Juspay raised $50M, in a mix of primary and secondary investments, from WestBridge Capital at a $1.2B valuation  —  Founded in 2012, Bengaluru-based Juspay powers payment systems for major global brands such as Amazon, Flipkart, Google, IndiGo, and Swiggy.

Lee Chong Ming / Business Insider:
Sam Altman says OpenAI added more than $1B in annual recurring revenue in the past month “just from our API business”  —  - OpenAI has made more than $1 billion a month from something other than ChatGPT.  — That revenue comes “just from our API business,” Sam Altman said.

Jim Secreto / Financial Times:
The US' TikTok deal is a win for ByteDance: it will keep and license the algorithm instead of selling it, and continue to run TikTok's commercial activities  —  Washington's compromise has stabilised one of Beijing's most important technology companies

Reuters:
Intel says it struggled to satisfy demand for its server chips used in AI data centers, and forecasts Q1 2026 revenue and profit below market estimates  —  Intel (INTC.O) said on Thursday it struggled to satisfy demand for its server chips used in AI data centers, and forecast quarterly revenue …