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Weekly#686

  • Google to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic as search giant spreads its AI bets
  • Amazon to invest up to another $25 billion in Anthropic as part of AI infrastructure deal…Anthropic said it’s committed to spending more than $100 billion on Amazon Web Services technologies over the next 10 years.
  • A Push to Digitize the Forest
  • Nuclear reactor company X-energy shares surge 27% as AI drives interest in its IPO
  • Alibaba’s Qwen AI is coming to cars, allowing drivers to order food and book hotels by voice
  • DeepSeek unveils new AI model tailored for Huawei chips as China pushes for tech autonomy
  • ‘We Are Xbox’: read the memo defining Microsoft’s gaming future
  • AI-Powered Dev Workflows: How SWEs Are Shipping Faster in 2026
  • John Ternus to become Apple CEO
  • AI Is Cannibalizing Human Intelligence. Here’s How to Stop It ”…they demonstrated two important qualities: perspective-taking and intellectual humility. Perspective-taking is the ability to genuinely inhabit another point of view. Not to debate it, not to tolerate it, but to actually inhabit it. Intellectual humility is the ability to recognize the edge of your own knowledge and sit with that discomfort rather than trying to rush to fill it.Both of these qualities are, at root, emotional skills. Perspective-taking requires genuine curiosity about minds other than your own. Intellectual humility requires a kind of emotional courage: the willingness to feel uncertain, even a little foolish, in the presence of something or someone that seems very sure of itself…”
  • Stanford Professor Targets $1 Billion Valuation For AI-for-Physiology Startup
  • OpenAI releases “Spud” GPT-5.5 model
  • Technology Radar Vol 34
  • Microsoft looked at buying Cursor before SpaceX deal
  • Skill Authoring Patterns from Anthropic’s Best Practices
  • Architectural Governance at AI Speed

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