Sources: Amazon is in talks to buy AI startup Decart in a deal that could value it at ~$7B; Anthropic had decided against acquiring Decart for ~$6B in September (Wall Street Journal) #Tech #AI #Business
How Musk and Benioff pledged to rename SpaceXAI and AIForce, while Nadella and Nvidia adopted "super intelligence", as Silicon Valley falls in line with Trump (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge) #Tech #AI #Business
A look at the economics of Anthropic's data center leases as analysts estimate a 245 MW site could yield ~$1.3B/mo; sources say it signed a cloud deal with IREN (Ann Davis Vaughan/The Information) #AI #CloudComputing #Economics
Yandex says a drone strike shut down a third data center, disrupting 80+ services like Yandex Cloud and YandexGPT; users report banking and taxi app outages (Tymur Dubovyk/Kyiv Post) #Tech #Cybersecurity #CloudComputing
A look at Apple's smart home strategy, centered on a HomeView display hub, with a new HomePod mini, Apple TV, and second-party accessories from LG and Schneider (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) #Tech #SmartHome #Apple
PitchBook: robotics and physical AI companies have raised ~$48B YTD, as they gather training data from people completing tasks in factories, offices, and homes (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times) #Robotics #AI #Investment
A look at Beijing-based Neolix, which operates the world's largest robovan fleet at 27K, as Shenzhen tests nighttime parcel deliveries by driverless vehicles (Bloomberg) #Technology #AutonomousVehicles #Robotics
Rein Security, which develops runtime tools to secure enterprise AI agents and stop adversarial AI agents, raised a $25M Series A, taking total funding to $35M (Meir Orbach/CTech) #AI #Cybersecurity #VentureCapital
Multiply Labs, which develops robotic systems to automate pharmaceutical manufacturing processes, raised a $75M Series B led by Patrick Soon-Shiong's NantWorks (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE) #Robotics #Healthcare #VentureCapital
Microsoft unveils Microsoft-Decision-1, a fast decision-scoring model trained on Qwen3.5-9B, and says it will soon rebase it on MAI, OpenAI, and other models (Achint Srivastava/Command Line) #AI #MachineLearning #TechNews
General Medicine, an online storefront for medical care founded by PillPack founders TJ Parker and Elliot Cohen, raised a $120M Series B led by a16z (Heather Landi/Fierce Healthcare) #HealthTech #Startup #VentureCapital
After 20+ major Japanese companies reported cyber attacks in recent weeks, Japan's NCSH chief says the country is in "a state of emergency in cyber space" (Financial Times) #CyberSecurity #Japan #TechNews
"Super Intelligence systems" are black boxes that shouldn't be trusted by companies, and strong deterministic systems are needed around their deployment (Satya Nadella/@satyanadella) #AI #Trust #TechNews
Hundreds of old games were decompiled and ported to run on browsers in recent weeks, driven by Claude Opus 5.5; titles like GTA: Vice City and Halo: CE run well (Lewis Parker/Kotaku) #Gaming #OpenSource #AI
Sources: Nvidia is in talks to acquire or invest more into US open-weights AI startup Reflection AI; the deal may be an acquihire to avoid antitrust scrutiny (Financial Times) #AI #OpenSource #Tech
