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Jensen Huang pulls out of ElevenLabs Summit amid Nvidia controversy: The Nvidia CEO also pulled out of an Anthropic event earlier. Read More

Anthropic releases new Mythos and Fable models amid RSI concerns: Anthropic says the new models "show improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision," as well as in communicating more clearly with users. Read More

AI hardware startup Nominal triples valuation to $3B in 8 months: Nominal, a startup that offers an AI platform for hardware engineering and claims Anduril as a major customer, has raised another big round of financing that triples its valuation. Read More

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France blames Iran for mass-hacks targeting freezers in grocery stores and blood banks: France's foreign minister blamed Iran for launching at least two waves of cyberattacks targeting industrial refrigerated and freezer units across France and wider Europe. Read More

Musk says Tesla will refund some Cybertruck deposits, defends decision to end production: Elon Musk defended the company's decision to stop making the Cybertruck, which will go out of production in around eight months. Read More

Meta releases Muse Ember, a new lightweight model for agent execution: At 10 cents per million input tokens, Ember is significantly cheaper than frontier competitors like Haiku and Luna. Read More

Jensen Huang’s affair with alleged Chinese spy puts Nvidia’s China ambitions under scrutiny: Jensen Huang’s alleged affair with a suspected Chinese spy threatens to complicate Nvidia’s lobbying efforts to loosen U.S. chip export restrictions and maintain access to China’s lucrative AI market. Read More

Anthropic joins AI’s natural gas frenzy, buys $3.4B worth of turbines: Anthropic bought billions of dollars' worth of natural gas turbines in a deal that could give it buyer's remorse. Read More

Last but Not Least

Uber launches parking service following SpotHero acquisition, with an eye on robotaxis: Uber Parking is the latest example of the company offering products beyond its core ride-hailing service. Read More