Reco, whose tech helps enterprises secure and govern AI agents across SaaS environments, raised a $55M Series B extension, taking its total funding to $140M (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
US authorities arrest a California man suspected of smuggling $300M+ worth of restricted Nvidia AI chips to China via Malaysia and Singapore from 2023 to 2024 (Michael Shepard/Bloomberg)
A profile of Larry Ellison, including his octopus fixation, influence across Oracle, data centers, TikTok, politics, and support for David's media ambitions (Vanity Fair)
Meta may never need ads to monetize Muse, instead focusing on building trust in the near term and possibly monetizing it through merchant transaction fees later (MBI Deep Dives)
Anthropic says Claude for Government is now generally available to federal and state agencies, with Claude Code CLI and Claude for Microsoft 365 in early access (Claude)
Goldman Sachs: investors have provided ~$500B in financing to AI-linked groups in 2026 so far, as hyperscaler debt issuance spreads to the euro, CAD, and others (Financial Times)
Hands-on with Dots, OpenAI's work-focused agentic product: highly capable and intuitive, with natural-feeling conversations represented as a chat inside ChatGPT (Casey Newton/Platformer)