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  • OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company
  • “…Multiple people with knowledge of the matter suggested Anthropic was holding back from a wider release until it could reliably serve the model to customers…” (FT)
  • Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new product for creating quick visuals
  • Anthropic Introduces Agent-Based Code Review for Claude Code
  • Elon Musk’s xAI plans to supply computing power to coding startup Cursor…Cursor will train its AI model Composer 2.5 using tens of thousands of xAI GPUs, sources said.
  • Cursor In Talks to Raise $2 Billion at Over $50 Billion Value
  • AI chipmaker Cerebras files to go public after scrapping IPO plans last year
  • ‘Tokenmaxxing’ is making developers less productive than they think
  • Zoom teams up with World to verify humans in meetings
  • 4 Ways Your AI Coding Agent Exfiltrates Secrets
  • OpenAI’s Codex Desktop can run your computer now – and has its own browser
  • Amazon Buys Globalstar for $10.8 Billion to Build Its Efforts in Space
  • NASA restarts work to support Europe’s uncrewed trip to Mars after years of setbacks
  • With the new AI onboard, Spot is now able to autonomously look for dangerous debris or spills, read complex gauges and sight glasses
  • “…The scarcity of Apple’s littlest Mac comes at a time of high interest from AI power users and a potential product refresh..The Mac Mini made up only about 3% of Apple’s Mac unit sales in the U.S. last year, according to Consumer Intelligence Research Partners. But in the past six months or so, it has become the must-have host for private, “always-on” artificial-intelligence agents, such as OpenClaw.” (WSJ)
  • Months-old start-up Recursive Superintelligence raises $500mn for self-teaching AI (FT)
  • China’s DeepSeek is Raising Money for First Time, At $10 Billion-Plus Valuation
  • Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone

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