Valuation Anthropic's $350B Flex They closed a legendary $10B mega-round. They are reframing Claude as a "digital coworker," pushing AI directly into the OS level. Basically, they are building Skynet, but polite. — Read more

Partnership Apple x Google Partners in crime. Apple will use Gemini infrastructure to power Siri, proving that even a $3 trillion company can't build a chatbot that doesn't hallucinate without help. — Read more

Hardware SK Hynix's $12.9B Bet The memory giant is dumping nearly $13 billion into a new production complex. If you thought HBM prices were going down, congratulations on your optimism. — Read more

Infrastructure Microsoft's Guilt Trip Expanding its footprint with a "Community-First" pledge to cover power costs and limit water usage, effectively admitting their previous strategy was "drink the Great Lakes dry." — Read more

Raise Deepgram's $130M They raised big and acquired Ofone to dominate AI-powered drive-thrus. Now your order for "no pickles" can be understood perfectly and then ignored by the robot arm anyway. — Read more

IPO Watch Cerebras Chases $22B Still in talks to raise $1 billion. They also launched "Cerebras Inference" to break the GPU bottleneck, mostly because they're tired of waiting in line for H100s like the rest of us. — Read more

Big Pharma Nvidia & Eli Lilly's $1B Lab Dumping $1 billion into a South SF lab for automated drug discovery. When the chip dealer meets the drug dealer, you know the margins are going to be insane. — Read more

Acquisition OpenAI Buys Torch Reportedly for $100M. They want to give ChatGPT a "medical memory," which sounds helpful until it starts judging your pizza orders based on your cholesterol levels. — Read more

Energy Meta Compute Zuck launched "Meta Compute" to build hundreds of gigawatts of capacity. He's not building a data center; he's building a Dyson sphere to power his avatar's legs. — Read more

Productivity AgentCraft Forget Vibe Kanban. This is Insane. Ido Salomon’s new RTS interface turns Claude Code into a Warcraft battleground. Lead a battalion of background agents to victory over your backlog with a retro-gamer UI. “More work? Okie dokie.” — Read more

Personal AI Google’s "Personal Intelligence" The beta rollout has begun. Gemini can now reason across your Gmail, Photos, and Drive to answer hyper-specific questions. It’s essentially a digital butler that knows your license plate number and your 2019 vacation history. — Read more

Research MIT’s RLM Architecture Researchers solved "Context Rot." Recursive Language Models treat files as a Python environment, giving GPT-5 a 10M+ token memory. RIP Vector Databases. — Read more

Agentic Claude Cowork Now in research preview. It’s an agentic desktop coworker that can read, edit, and create files across your folders. It's Clippy with a PhD and root access. — Read more

Architecture DeepSeek Engram A module for Transformers using lookup tables for O(1) retrieval. While American labs burn VRAM, Chinese labs are rediscovering HashMaps. — Read more

Creative Google Veo 3.1 The video king supports 4K upscaling and native vertical output. Google is ensuring the hallucinations on your TikTok feed are crystal clear. — Read more

Creative Lightricks LTX-2 Released an open-weight model capable of 20 seconds of high-fidelity video. Hollywood writers are currently looking for the "Stop" button. — Read more

Health MedGemma 1.5 Google's medical model now has vision. It analyzes X-rays to identify abnormalities autonomously, bringing us one step closer to automated malpractice suits. — Read more

Wearable OpenAI "Sweetpea" Rumors confirm a wearable audio assistant is coming. Because if the Humane Pin taught us anything, it's that people love wearing hot batteries on their chest. — Read more

Robotics 1X World Model Their "Neo" robots can now learn physical tasks by watching internet videos. Great, so they know how to do a backflip and unbox a toy, but can they fold laundry? — Read more

Wearable Amazon Bee Hands-on with the latest wearable. It records your life to suggest to-dos. It's surveillance as a service, now available for Prime delivery. — Read more

Work Slackbot Agent Salesforce upgraded Slackbot with Anthropic's Claude. Now the automated message telling you you're late for standup will be grammatically perfect and passive-aggressive. — Read more

Stats ChatGPT Health Hub 40 million people use ChatGPT for healthcare daily. We have officially replaced "An apple a day" with "A prompt a day keeps the doctor away." — Read more

R&D Anthropic Labs A new team for experimental products. Translation: A sandbox for Mike Krieger to build cool demos that will break immediately upon public release. — Read more

Defense US Military "AI SWAT" The War Department established a new unit to remove barriers to AI. Grok is involved, which is the crossover episode between "Silicon Valley" and "Dr. Strangelove" nobody asked for. — Read more

Regulation Grok Blocked Indonesia and Malaysia banned the bot over deepfakes. Musk’s "free speech absolutism" just hit a firewall named "local laws." — Read more

Irony OpenAI "Jobs" Rumors of an AI Career Agent confirm that OpenAI wants to help you find the job its models might eventually replace. — Read more

Compliance Roblox AI Mess Their age checker is labeling kids as adults. A classic case of "move fast and break compliance laws." — Read more