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Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal:
Indian IT giant Infosys partners with Anthropic to develop AI services for telecom, with plans to expand to finance, manufacturing, and software development  —  Infosys shares rose 2.8% in India  —  Infosys has agreed to work with Anthropic to develop and deliver artificial-intelligence services …

Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times:
Top AI researchers argue that AI is now more useful for mathematics thanks to the latest “reasoning” models, as math becomes a key way to test AI progress  —  OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic seek to use advanced maths to show how capable AI models really are

Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal:
Micron, which has undertaken a $200B US expansion, says it can currently meet about 50% to 66% of demand for some key customers, as AI drives memory chip demand  —  For decades, memory chips were low-margin commodity products.  Now the industry can't make enough to satisfy data centers' hunger.

Financial Times:
Sources: US healthcare manufacturer Danaher is nearing a deal to buy medtech company Masimo for ~$10B; Masimo is in an IP dispute with Apple over Apple Watch  —  Technology company known for pulse oximeters is in a long-running intellectual property dispute with Apple