More than one hundred technology companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft, signed an open letter calling for closer collaboration between the private and public sectors to defend against escalating AI-related cyber threats. The letter, also signed by cybersecurity firms including CrowdStrike, Okta, and Fortinet, along with major financial institutions and internet infrastructure providers, urged…

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A federal judge in California ruled Thursday that the Trump administration’s designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk was unlawful, finding that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision constituted unlawful retaliation violating the First Amendment and was arbitrary and capricious. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin also found that Anthropic had been denied due process under…

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The question defining the next decade of AI may have less to do with which company builds the smartest model and more to do with who can finance and build the physical and digital infrastructure sitting beneath it. Capital is now flowing at unprecedented speed into data centers, semiconductors, networking, cloud capacity, and electricity systems,…

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Insider Brief Andreessen Horowitz raised $1.1 billion for a new Machine Age Fund focused on AI hardware and infrastructure, including chips, memory, networking, data centers, robotics and edge devices. A16z said rising AI demand is pushing computing density, rack power and data-center scale beyond current infrastructure limits, creating investment opportunities across memory, interconnects, cooling, electrical…

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OpenAI has announced that it will begin showing ads on ChatGPT’s Free and Go tiers in India, starting with 50 brands through partnerships with WPP and Omnicom, alongside an ad manager launching next month for marketers meeting a daily minimum budget requirement. Dave Dugan, OpenAI’s head of global ads solutions, said the feature would allow…

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Insider Brief Emerald AI raised $150 million in an oversubscribed Series A at a $1.05 billion valuation, co-led by Energize Capitaland DCVC, with 12 Fortune Global 500 companies now among its investors, including NVIDIA, Samsung Ventures, Siemens, and Salesforce Ventures. The company’s Emerald Conductor software platform dynamically orchestrates AI computational workloads and onsite energy resources,…

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Insider Brief Alice, an AI trust, safety, and security company formerly known as ActiveFence, raised a $140 million funding round led by Apax Digital Funds, with participation from MoreTech, Phoenix Financial, and existing investors including Resolute Ventures, CRV, and Norwest, bringing total funding to $280 million. The company is approaching $100 million in ARR, with…

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Google announced new app quality requirements for Android developers this week, addressing industrywide memory chip shortages tied to the AI data center boom by introducing performance thresholds around dynamic memory and bitmap usage, along with code optimization standards to reduce slowdowns and crashes. The company will provide developer tools flagging apps that exceed these thresholds,…

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Nvidia and Amazon announced an expanded partnership Wednesday that includes deploying an additional 2 million Nvidia GPUs, including Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and Rubin Ultra chips, across Amazon Web Services data centers in 2027 and 2028. The deal follows an agreement five months earlier to deploy over 1 million GPUs, with Nvidia stating that demand had…

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 Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 2,879 new readers. Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) started as a connector and eventually became the default way AI agents talk to software. The company’s next act is getting a bit more physical. The new Model…

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