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Meta-Anthropic Eye $10B Compute Lease
Meta is in talks to rent computing power from its data centers to Anthropic in a deal worth approximately $10 billion over two years, a move that would underscore how scarce compute has become for AI
Meta in Talks to Rent $10B AI Compute to Anthropic
Meta is in talks to rent computing power from its data centers to Anthropic in a deal potentially worth $10 billion over two years, a potential new business for Meta and a marker of how scarce AI comp
Meta in $10B Compute Talks With Anthropic
Meta is in talks with Anthropic to rent compute from its data centers in a deal potentially worth roughly $10 billion over two years, a move that could establish a new AI infrastructure business for M
What is China’s Moonshot AI and why is it roiling markets?
Chinese AI startup Moonshot released its Kimi K3 model on July 17, a benchmark-competitive rival to OpenAI and Anthropic that triggered a selloff in AI and semiconductor stocks globally.
Netflix Paid $587M for Ben Affleck's AI Startup
Netflix disclosed in an SEC filing that it paid approximately $587 million in cash to acquire Ben Affleck's AI startup InterPositive, confirming the price for a March deal aimed at building filmmaker-
48 Hours Left for Stripe x Startup Battlefield Applications
Australian founders have 48 hours to apply for the inaugural Stripe x Startup Battlefield in Sydney on August 19, where eight startups will pitch live for $15,000 in Stripe credits and a guaranteed sp
Databricks Hits $188B Valuation in Coatue-Led Round
Databricks landed a $188 billion valuation in a Coatue-led round set to close this summer, extending a year-and-a-half fundraising sprint that has tripled the company's worth since late 2024.
Zoom Name Hack Fights AI Recording Apps
A WSJ piece highlights how AI transcription apps have made always-on recording ubiquitous, prompting guerrilla pushback like a VC renaming himself on Zoom to refuse being recorded.
Apple Sues OpenAI Over Trade Secrets Ahead of IPO
Apple sued OpenAI last Friday over alleged trade secret theft, naming OpenAI's chief hardware officer and claiming more than 400 former Apple employees now work there — a legal headache that lands jus
Apple Sues OpenAI as New Siri AI Beta Launches
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI that experts say amounts to standard industry behavior, and The Vergecast questions whether the suit is defensive against a rising competitor or opportunistic
China's Moonshot AI claims Kimi K3 can rival OpenAI and Anthropic
Chinese AI start-up Moonshot unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter model it says rivals OpenAI's GPT and Anthropic's Claude, set to open-source on July 27.
Moonshot's 2.8T Kimi K3 challenges US frontier labs
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter open-weights model that it claims rivals Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5, with full weights due July 27 — a launch that rattled US tech stocks and sharpened
Patreon hard-blocks AI scrapers via Cloudflare
Patreon has partnered with Cloudflare to actively block AI training bots from scraping creator content, escalating beyond robots.txt requests that scrapers were ignoring — weekly attempts dropped from
Disrupt 2026 Panel: Pre-Seed Without a Product
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will host a "Winning Pre-Seed Without a Product" panel at its Builders Stage, bringing together three VCs to address how founders can secure early funding as AI compresses MVP
Zoox Recalls Robotaxi Software Over Fire Scene Incident
Zoox has issued a software recall for its 105-vehicle robotaxi fleet after one of its driverless vehicles braked hard and stalled when it encountered heavy smoke at an uncordoned active fire scene on
General Compute Gets $400M Loan Using AI Chips as Collateral
AI inference cloud startup General Compute has secured a $400 million loan from tech investment firm Upper90, in what appears to be the first deal to use inference-specific chips as collateral.
San Francisco Orders Apple, Google to Remove 13 Nudify Apps
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu has ordered Apple and Google to remove 13 AI "nudify" apps from their stores, accusing the companies of profiting from nonconsensual deepfake pornography and dem
Google Renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, Adds Code Tools
Google is rebranding its AI research tool NotebookLM as Gemini Notebook and rolling out in-notebook code execution for interactive data analysis across multiple data sources.
Xi Calls for Global AI Cooperation, Slams US Tech Curbs
Xi Jinping called for greater international cooperation on AI governance while publicly criticizing US restrictions on technology sharing.
1Password Lets Claude Log In Without Seeing Passwords
1Password launched an integration letting Anthropic's Claude AI log into websites using stored credentials, but the passwords themselves never reach Claude's systems, and a new Agentic Mode locks down
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