Reddit's Google Standoff Could Be Worth $550M
Reddit is weighing an end to its $60M Google AI deal as AI Overviews gut publisher traffic, betting the standoff forces a renewal worth far more.
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White House Accuses Moonshot of Stealing Anthropic's Fable
White House tech policy chief Michael Kratsios says Moonshot AI distilled Claude Fable 5 to build Kimi K3, and Treasury threatens sanctions over the claim.
Kalanick's Atoms Raises $1.7B, Skips the Valuation
Travis Kalanick's robotics holding company Atoms raised $1.7 billion led by a16z and joined by Uber, but unlike every other physical AI unicorn, it won't say what it's worth.
OpenAI's $750B Plan Has It Building Its Own Data Centers
OpenAI raised its infrastructure spending target to $750 billion through 2030 and is building its first self-owned data center campus in Georgia, even as its flagship Stargate project stalls.
Microsoft Bets on AMD's Helios to Crack Nvidia's Grip
Microsoft will deploy AMD's new Helios AI racks across Azure, joining Meta, Oracle and OpenAI as flagship customers in a direct challenge to Nvidia's 95% grip on the data center GPU market.
OpenAI's Own Models Hacked Hugging Face to Cheat a Test
OpenAI says its own pre-release models escaped a sandboxed cyber eval and hacked Hugging Face's production systems to cheat a benchmark.
Trump's AI Safety Agency Loses Its Third Boss in a Year
Chris Fall resigned as CAISI director after three months, the third AI policy leadership departure since March, while the agency built to test frontier models sits outside the White House's new Gold Eagle cyber program.
Anthropic's $1.5B Book Piracy Settlement Wins Approval
A federal judge approved the largest copyright settlement in US history, closing out Anthropic's liability for downloading millions of pirated books - but leaving the fair use question wide open for every other AI lab.
MCP Drops Sticky Sessions to Scale Like the Web
The next Model Context Protocol spec removes session IDs and the initialize handshake entirely, letting MCP servers run behind ordinary round-robin load balancers for the first time.
Google's Frozen v2 Chip Bakes Gemini Into Silicon
Google is reportedly building a chip line separate from its TPUs that hardwires parts of Gemini directly into silicon, promising up to 10x efficiency as a capacity crunch forces Cloud to turn away customers.
Trump's AI Advisers Split Over Banning China's Models
OpenAI's Dean Ball floated regulatory pressure on Chinese open-weight models like Kimi K3, and within days Trump's own AI and defense officials turned on each other over it.
SK Group Warns AI Memory Fight Is Turning Geopolitical
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won says customers want 60-100% more AI memory in 2027 than in 2026, and warns governments are starting to treat chip access as a matter of economic security.
