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Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is designed "to sell more Cloudflare services" and lacks the cross-platform democratization of WordPress (Matt Mullenweg)

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Sources: Chinese companies move to cement their role in humanoid robot supply chains as Tesla and others turn to China for components the US sees as strategic (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)

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Arcee AI releases Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 399B-parameter MoE AI model under an Apache 2.0 license, allowing full customization and commercial use (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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Anthropic researchers find that an AI model's representations of emotion can influence its behavior "in ways that matter," such as driving it to act unethically (Nat Rubio-Licht/The Deep View)

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Noon, an AI-native product design tool, emerges from stealth with $44M in funding from Chemistry, First Round Capital, Scribble Ventures, and others (Vaibhavi Khanwalkar/The Economic Times)

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Microsoft partners with SoftBank and Sakura Internet to build AI data infrastructure in Japan, investing $10B over four years and training 1M AI engineers (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)

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Alcatraz, which develops AI-powered facial-recognition security systems for building access, raised a $50M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M+ (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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Sources: Supabase is in talks to raise ~$500M at a ~$10B valuation, roughly doubling its October 2025 valuation; GIC is expected to lead the funding round (Katie Roof/The Information)

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Sony Interactive Entertainment acquires Cinemersive Labs, a UK startup developing tools to convert 2D photos and videos into 3D volumetric photographs (Ian Carlos Campbell/Engadget)

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