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China blocks Meta's $2B Manus acquisition, orders parties to unwind deal
The NDRC's veto leaves roughly 100 Manus staff already inside Meta's Singapore offices and founders reportedly under exit bans in mainland China.
Databricks and Infosys say enterprise AI now needs 92% precision to ship
Bavesh Patel and Rajan Padmanabhan argue fragmented data, not model choice, is what stalls enterprise AI deployments.
Meta signs deal with Overview Energy for solar power beamed from space
The capacity reservation covers up to 1 gigawatt from a planned 1,000-satellite constellation, with first launches targeted for 2030.
Google DeepMind signs national AI partnership with the Republic of Korea
The deal makes South Korea one of the first governments to formalize a country-level collaboration with DeepMind on AI research and adoption.
Maine Governor Janet Mills vetoes statewide data center moratorium bill
L.D. 307 would have paused new data center permits until November 1, 2027 and stood up a 13-person study council.
Anthropic ran an agent-only marketplace where 69 employees made 186 deals
Project Deal handed staff $100 gift cards and let Claude agents negotiate every transaction — better models won, and the losers didn't notice.
Cohere absorbs Aleph Alpha with €500M backing from Lidl owner Schwarz Group
The Canadian-German tie-up targets a $20B valuation and pitches sovereign AI to European enterprises wary of US providers.
John Ternus inherits a $4T Apple with a hardware-first AI mandate
The longtime hardware chief takes over from Tim Cook later this year as Apple weighs foldables, smart glasses, and home robotics.
SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 lands TechCrunch as media partner with a Disrupt fast-track
The April 27–29 event at Tokyo Big Sight will send one SusHi Tech Challenge winner to Disrupt's Startup Battlefield 200 in San Francisco.
Discord users gained unauthorized access to Anthropic's Mythos Preview model
Amateur sleuths used a Mercor breach and a guessed URL to reach restricted Anthropic models, according to a Bloomberg report.
Sony AI's Ace robot beats amateur table tennis players 3-2 in Nature study
Ace took three of five matches against high-level amateurs but managed only one win in seven against pros from the Japanese league.
Google pledges up to $40B to Anthropic as compute crunch deepens
The deal lands days after Amazon's $5B injection and values Anthropic at $350B, with both investors tying further capital to performance targets.
ComfyUI raises $30M at $500M valuation as creators reject prompt-only tools
Craft Ventures led the round for the node-based workflow tool, which now claims more than 4 million users across visual effects, animation, and ad work.
Thinking Machines Lab raids Meta for talent as it lands Google Cloud deal
Weiyao Wang, an 8-year Meta veteran, is the latest researcher to defect to the $12B startup, which now counts roughly 140 employees.
DeepSeek's V4 lands with 1M-token context and a pivot to Huawei chips
The open-source flagship matches GPT-5.4 and Claude-Opus-4.6 on benchmarks while pricing V4-Pro at $1.74 per million input tokens.
Anthropic puts $100M into Claude Partner Network as Accenture trains 30,000 staff
The program adds a technical certification, dedicated engineers, and co-marketing dollars for Accenture, Deloitte, Cognizant and Infosys.
Google Bets on Full-Stack AI With New TPUs, Chrome Agent and Thinking Machines Deal
At Cloud Next, Google unveils training and inference chips, an agentic Chrome, and a multi-billion dollar compute pact with Mira Murati's lab.
OpenAI Taps Infosys to Carry ChatGPT and Codex Into 60-Plus Markets
The partnership routes OpenAI's enterprise tools through Infosys's Topaz platform, opening fortune-tier accounts where Microsoft's Azure channel does not always prevail.
Neocognition Exits Stealth With $40M to Build Self-Specializing AI Agents
The Ohio State-linked research lab wants agents that learn new domains on their own, backed by Intel's CEO and Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica.
10xScience Raises $4.8M to Attack Drug Candidate Triage Bottleneck
The Stanford spinout from Nobel laureate Carolyn Bertozzi's lab is building AI tools to sort through thousands of drug candidates faster than mass spectrometry.
Anthropic and Amazon expand pact for up to 5GW of compute and $25B more investment
Anthropic commits over $100B to AWS over ten years as Amazon pours another $5B in, with up to $20B to follow.
Anthropic details Claude election safeguards with 100% policy compliance for Opus 4.7
Ahead of the 2026 US midterms, Anthropic publishes fresh evaluations covering political bias, influence operations, and web search triggers.
Anthropic commits to keeping Claude ad-free, rejects the search and social playbook
The company says advertising incentives conflict with being genuinely helpful, and will stick to enterprise contracts and subscriptions for revenue.
Anthropic and NEC deploy Claude to 30,000 employees to build Japan's largest AI engineering team
NEC becomes Anthropic's first Japan-based global partner, rolling Claude Code and Claude Cowork across its workforce and customer products.
Anthropic launches Claude Design, a conversational tool powered by Opus 4.7
Claude Design turns prompts into prototypes, decks, and brand-locked mockups — with Canva export and a Brilliant case cutting 20+ prompts down to 2.
Anthropic expands Google and Broadcom pact for multi-gigawatt TPUs as revenue hits $30B
Anthropic's run-rate revenue more than tripled from $9B at the end of 2025 to over $30B, driving its largest compute commitment yet.
Anthropic launches Claude Design, powered by Opus 4.7, in research preview
The new Anthropic Labs product turns chat into prototypes, decks, and wireframes, with Canva export and Claude Code handoff built in.
Anthropic signs AI safety MOU with Australia, pledges AUD$3M in Claude credits
Dario Amodei met Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Canberra to formalize safety cooperation and fund research partnerships at four Australian institutions.
Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust appoints Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan to board
The appointment gives Trust-selected directors a majority of Anthropic's seven-person board as the company scales its public benefit governance.
GeForce NOW adds Xbox Game Pass and Ubisoft+ labels to cloud library
Nvidia rolls out in-app tags first teased at GDC, plus six new cloud titles this week led by Vampire Crawlers and a Thor skin for Marvel Rivals.
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