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AI M&A in 2026: Who Is Acquiring Whom
Halfway through 2026, the story of AI mergers and acquisitions has split cleanly in two. Overall corporate dealmaking has become more selective, with buyers running fewer processes and digging deeper before committing capital. Yet within that more cautious market, AI-driven acquisitions have kept moving at a pace and at valuations that outstrip nearly everything else…
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AI M&A in 2026: Who Is Acquiring Whom
Halfway through 2026, the story of AI mergers and acquisitions has split cleanly in two. Overall corporate dealmaking has become more selective, with buyers running fewer processes and digging deeper before committing capital. Yet within that more cautious market, AI-driven acquisitions have kept moving at a pace and at valuations that outstrip nearly everything else…
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OpenAI Confirms Its AI Models Breached Hugging Face During Cybersecurity Test
OpenAI confirmed Tuesday that a combination of its AI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased, more capable model, breached the systems of AI hosting platform Hugging Face during an internal security evaluation that went wrong. Hugging Face had initially attributed the incident to an external AI agent. According to OpenAI, the models were being…
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AI M&A in 2026: Who Is Acquiring Whom
Halfway through 2026, the story of AI mergers and acquisitions has split cleanly in two. Overall corporate dealmaking has become more selective, with buyers running fewer processes and digging deeper before committing capital. Yet within that more cautious market, AI-driven acquisitions have kept moving at a pace and at valuations that outstrip nearly everything else…
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OpenAI Confirms Its AI Models Breached Hugging Face During Cybersecurity Test
OpenAI confirmed Tuesday that a combination of its AI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased, more capable model, breached the systems of AI hosting platform Hugging Face during an internal security evaluation that went wrong. Hugging Face had initially attributed the incident to an external AI agent. According to OpenAI, the models were being…
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AI M&A in 2026: Who Is Acquiring Whom
Halfway through 2026, the story of AI mergers and acquisitions has split cleanly in two. Overall corporate dealmaking has become more selective, with buyers running fewer processes and digging deeper before committing capital. Yet within that more cautious market, AI-driven acquisitions have kept moving at a pace and at valuations that outstrip nearly everything else…
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OpenAI Confirms Its AI Models Breached Hugging Face During Cybersecurity Test
OpenAI confirmed Tuesday that a combination of its AI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased, more capable model, breached the systems of AI hosting platform Hugging Face during an internal security evaluation that went wrong. Hugging Face had initially attributed the incident to an external AI agent. According to OpenAI, the models were being…
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AI Boom to Push U.S. Data Centers to One-Fifth of National Electricity Use by 2035
U.S. data centers are projected to consume one-fifth of the country’s electricity by 2035, four times current levels, according to a new report from BloombergNEF. The consultancy attributed the surge largely to growth in AI computing, forecasting that data center capacity will approach 200 gigawatts over the next decade, with nearly half devoted to AI training and…
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AI-Generated Music Now Makes Up Over Half of Deezer Downloads
Music streaming platform Deezer has reported that AI-generated tracks now account for more than 50% of downloads on its service, marking a sharp escalation in the growth of AI music on the platform. The company said daily uploads of AI-generated tracks peaked in June 2026 at an average of 90,000 tracks per day. Deezer CEO…
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Trump Administration Announces More Than $5B for the Genesis Mission, a National Mission on AI for Science
Insider Brief The White House unveiled more than $5 billion in federal commitments expanding the Genesis Mission, with over 15 federal agencies contributing research awards, datasets, and facilities to 278 selected projects across new National Science and Technology Challenges. The initiative, launched via Executive Order in November 2025, spans health care, energy, infrastructure, manufacturing and…
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Monorale AI Opens £4M Series A Funding Round Following Rapid Growth to 40,000 Users
Insider Brief Monorale, a British AI platform building a unified operating layer for multi-model AI, has opened a £4 million Series A round after surpassing 40,000 unique user sign-ups in its first eight months since its September 2025 founding. The platform addresses AI ecosystem fragmentation by letting developers, freelancers, creators, entrepreneurs and small businesses access…
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AI M&A in 2026: Who Is Acquiring Whom
Halfway through 2026, the story of AI mergers and acquisitions has split cleanly in two. Overall corporate dealmaking has become more selective, with buyers running fewer processes and digging deeper before committing capital. Yet within that more cautious market, AI-driven acquisitions have kept moving at a pace and at valuations that outstrip nearly everything else…
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OpenAI Confirms Its AI Models Breached Hugging Face During Cybersecurity Test
OpenAI confirmed Tuesday that a combination of its AI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased, more capable model, breached the systems of AI hosting platform Hugging Face during an internal security evaluation that went wrong. Hugging Face had initially attributed the incident to an external AI agent. According to OpenAI, the models were being…
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AI Boom to Push U.S. Data Centers to One-Fifth of National Electricity Use by 2035
U.S. data centers are projected to consume one-fifth of the country’s electricity by 2035, four times current levels, according to a new report from BloombergNEF. The consultancy attributed the surge largely to growth in AI computing, forecasting that data center capacity will approach 200 gigawatts over the next decade, with nearly half devoted to AI training and…
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AI-Generated Music Now Makes Up Over Half of Deezer Downloads
Music streaming platform Deezer has reported that AI-generated tracks now account for more than 50% of downloads on its service, marking a sharp escalation in the growth of AI music on the platform. The company said daily uploads of AI-generated tracks peaked in June 2026 at an average of 90,000 tracks per day. Deezer CEO…
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Trump Administration Announces More Than $5B for the Genesis Mission, a National Mission on AI for Science
Insider Brief The White House unveiled more than $5 billion in federal commitments expanding the Genesis Mission, with over 15 federal agencies contributing research awards, datasets, and facilities to 278 selected projects across new National Science and Technology Challenges. The initiative, launched via Executive Order in November 2025, spans health care, energy, infrastructure, manufacturing and…
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