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Manus raises over $500M to rebuild its agent alone

The Chinese agent developer lands a Boyu Capital-led round at a reported $4B valuation after…

Agentic AI Foundation takes on four projects and reaches ten total

OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face and Alibaba each handed over a component of the agent stack.

TypeSafe banks $870M at a $7.5B valuation weeks after Jev launch

TypeSafe, maker of the non-text Jev model, has raised $870M at a $7.5B valuation led…

Anthropic rewrites its usage rules to ban abusive chats and election meddling

Anthropic's updated usage policy outlaws election interference, weapons software, surveillance and prolonged verbal abuse of…

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Beijing Bricks Meta’s Manus Deal: The End of ‘Singapore Washing’ for AI Founders

The collapse of Meta's Manus acquisition marks a decisive end to the 'Singapore washing' strategy Chinese founders used to escape…

Anthropic Nearly Yanked Claude Code from Pro Users. The Backlash Was Instant.

Anthropic's quiet attempt to remove Claude Code from the Pro plan reveals a company struggling to reconcile explosive demand with…

The Middle East AI Cloud Dream Is Melting Down Under Drone Fire

Iranian drone strikes on AWS and Oracle data centers, combined with a direct threat from the Revolutionary Guard, have forced…

Beijing Torpedoes Zuckerberg’s $2B Manus Grab, Proving China Ties Are Toxic for AI Deals

China's national security veto of Meta's Manus buyout reveals that the 'Singapore washing' escape hatch for Chinese AI founders is…

Anthropic’s Sneaky Claude Code Test Exposes the Cracks in AI’s Subscription Model

Anthropic's stealth test to cut Claude Code from the Pro plan reveals a deeper crisis: AI companies selling subscriptions for…

Google Commits Up to $40 Billion to Anthropic in Cloud Compute Deal

Anthropic's rapid growth, driven by products like Claude Code and controversies at OpenAI, has pushed demand beyond its compute capacity,…

Google Splits Its Next Gen TPU: One Chip for Training, One for Agents

Google bifurcated its eighth generation TPU into a training specific chip and an inference focused chip, claiming twice the performance…

GitHub Overhauls Copilot Pricing: Usage Based Billing Goes Live in June

GitHub's new AI credit system will charge Copilot users per token rather than per request, responding to surging inference costs…