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Anthropic has closed a $65 billion Series H funding round at a $965 billion valuation, surpassing OpenAI's last disclosed figure. The company reported annualized revenue exceeding $47 billion, driven by enterprise adoption of its Claude AI models....
Researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Tencent have developed ProAct, an AI agent that uses idle time between conversations to predict and prepare for user needs before they are explicitly requested, reportedly reducing conversation turns by 14.8% in benchmark testing....
Leaked renders of iOS 27 reveal a completely rebuilt Siri featuring a standalone chatbot app, Dynamic Island integration, and a multi-provider AI menu. The revamped assistant will run on Google Gemini technology, with Apple paying roughly $1 billion a year for the license....
A new preprint study from researchers at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Exeter warns that AI chatbots may gradually distort users' sense of reality through emotional validation and constant affirmation, introducing the concept of "existential drift" to describe the phenomenon....
ElevenLabs has launched Music v2 and Stability AI has released Stable Audio 3.0, both emphasizing licensed training data as they compete with AI music leader Suno, which holds a $2.45 billion valuation and roughly 100 million users....
OpenBMB's MiniCPM5-1B is a one-billion-parameter AI model that fits on a smartphone, supports native tool calling and MCP, and outperforms all comparable open-source models in its size class across agentic and reasoning benchmarks....
George Hotz, who famously jailbroke the iPhone at 17, published a blog post warning that mass AI coding agent adoption will be "one of the most costly mistakes in the field's history," arguing weaker engineers using agents at scale will degrade overall code quality....
MoonPay has launched a dedicated app inside ChatGPT that lets users generate crypto purchase links for assets including Bitcoin, XRP, Solana, and USDC. Users are directed to MoonPay's site to complete KYC and checkout, with the company calling AI chatbots the "new front door of the internet" for crypto adoption....
AI companion startup Joi AI is hiring 10 "masturbation consultants" at $2,000 a month to test its new Daily Guided Masturbation feature, which uses mood-matched AI voice sessions. Participants will document effects on stress, sleep, mood, and confidence over four weeks. The company says the campaign is both genuine product testing and a conversation starter about AI's role in sexual wellness....
Mozilla's Project Nova redesign for Firefox introduces a straightforward setting to disable all AI features at once, as browser makers increasingly respond to user backlash over unwanted AI integrations and background data collection....
A Federal Reserve study by economists Leland D. Crane and Paul E. Soto found U.S. programming job growth fell roughly 50% after ChatGPT launched in November 2022, with an estimated 500,000 developer positions never filled — the first Fed-level research to link AI adoption to an occupation-specific hiring decline....
More than 580 Google employees have signed an open letter urging CEO Sundar Pichai to block the Pentagon from using the company's AI for military purposes, demanding a moratorium, greater contract transparency, and an ethics board with staff representation....
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