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Voters in nine states put a fence around the AI buildout
Ballot measures and midterm upsets turned server farms into one of the most punishing issues of the 2026 cycle, and the industry is already adapting.
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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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Inside Amazon’s AI Pressure Cooker: Employees Resort to ‘Tokenmaxxing’ to Meet Usage Metrics
Amazon employees are artificially inflating AI tool usage metrics, known as 'tokenmaxxing,' in response to internal pressure and competitive dashboards,…
Anthropic Lets Claude Agents Sleep On It. Here Is What That Means.
Anthropic's new 'dreaming' feature for Claude Managed Agents is a robotic memory curation process that sounds poetic but is really…
Musk Buries the Hatchet: SpaceX Hands Anthropic a Data Center, But at What Cost?
Anthropic’s cozy new compute deal with SpaceX, valued at over 300 megawatts, solves its immediate capacity crisis but signals a…
Google’s Dark Patterns Trap Gemini Users Into Handing Over Their Data
Google's Gemini integration uses dark patterns like forced actions and hidden menus to make privacy opt outs punitive, trapping users…
GitHub Ditches All You Can Eat Copilot Pricing. The AI Token Bubble Has Burst.
The company is effectively ending the era of flat rate unlimited coding assistance as agentic AI tools caused inference costs…
SAP Builds a Walled Garden for Enterprise AI and Throws $1.16B at Tabular Data
Prior Labs' founders pocketed over half a billion in cash as SAP builds a gated AI ecosystem that embraces Nvidia's…
The Silicon Cornfield Revolt: Why Rural America Is Fighting Big Tech’s Land Grab
Rural communities from Illinois to West Virginia are killing data center projects over water consumption and land grabs, forcing Big…
The Clippening Is Faking Sex Scenes with Actors’ Faces, and Nobody Cares
Micro drama studios are using generative AI to paste actors' faces onto explicit body doubles for fake sex scene advertisements,…
