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Nvidia and Meta expand their Muse partnership, including Meta deploying more Vera Rubin and Vera CPUs; Nvidia will invest $3B in Meta's planned equity fundraise (Wall Street Journal)
A profile of former Google VP and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, whose startup Dazzle is building an AI assistant to help non-tech enthusiasts with mundane tasks (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
India's chip design startups near production with government support, but low volumes, high fab costs, and supply chain bottlenecks hinder commercialization (Ananta Agarwal/Nikkei Asia)
Lawmakers and Hill staffers in both parties say AI leaders are becoming a political liability as they swing between claims of prosperity and existential dangers (Maria Curi/Axios)
CapitalOS, which helps vertical software platforms offer spend management, cards, and bill payment tools to SMB customers, raised a $21.9M Series A led by LGVP (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
Ukraine says Starshield was working normally again on Saturday morning; US officials said Trump asked Elon Musk to restore the service (Wall Street Journal)
Inside Meta's law enforcement outreach team, which uses AI and human reviewers to analyze social media posts, aiming to prevent threats like school shootings (Rachel Monroe/New Yorker)
The PHP Foundation, which coordinated fixes for two critical PHP flaws, operates on a shoestring budget with one full-time staff member and 14 contractors (Toby Sterling/Reuters)
An interview with Intel's leadership, including CTO Pushkar Ranade, on AI chip demand, lessons from 10nm, whether Intel can catch up to TSMC, Terafab, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)
Sources: Anthropic and London-based PE firm Hg agree to launch a consultancy by the end of 2026 to embed AI consultants and engineers into European businesses (Financial Times)
Anthropic says it partnered with Theorem to use Claude to formally prove security properties at the assembly level across 100+ real-world open-source libraries (Anthropic)
SEC filings show how Meta restructured its stock to shield Mark Zuckerberg from California's proposed wealth tax, after he said he'd sell his Palo Alto home (New York Times)
Google, Temasek, and Bain: online spending in SE Asia to rise ~17% YoY to $368B in 2026 despite economic headwinds, as businesses harness AI to spur spending (Gabrielle Ng/Bloomberg)
The US sanctions MiraclePlus, a Chinese VC firm founded by ex-Microsoft executive Lu Qi, over alleged ties to Zhisuan, accused of stealing Google's AI secrets (Bloomberg)
Ant-backed Mynt, which runs mobile wallet app GCash, rose as much as 2.4% in Manila after raising $841M in the Philippines' largest-ever IPO, valuing it at ~$7B (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal)
Leaked documents detail ECHOTRIBBLE, a nascent US Army Cyber Command program for agentic AI to autonomously spread across networks to find and eliminate targets (Sam Biddle/The Intercept)
A profile of Alona Katz, chief of Brooklyn DA's Virtual Currency Unit, who recently led an operation that seized and disrupted over 240 crypto fraud websites (Bloomberg)
Survey of 94 economists: 54% expect AI's gains to spread across the G20 over the next decade, not just the US and China; 32 see African countries falling behind (Financial Times)
Holyvolt, which develops AI tools for making and testing new battery materials, raised $45M from Zone II, CC.VC, and others, a source says at a $245M valuation (Nick Lichtenberg/Fortune)
Montevideo, Uruguay-based Scanntech, which develops market intelligence tools using POS data, raised $180M in a Series F led by L Catterton and Partners Group (FinSMEs)