U.S. signals sanctions risk for Chinese AI models over IP claims
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Washington may scrutinize Chinese open AI models and sanction companies if intellectual prop...
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Paramount’s Warner Bros. Discovery deal is on hold after state lawsuit
A judge paused Paramount’s $111 billion Warner Bros. Discovery takeover after 12 states sued, keeping one of Hollywood’s biggest d...
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Deezer says AI tracks now top half of daily music uploads
Deezer said AI-generated songs averaged 90,000 daily uploads in June, pushing the streamer to remove some low-activity and fraudul...
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Bluecore Energy raises $10 million for barge-based nuclear power
The maritime nuclear startup says it will use the pre-seed funding to advance small modular reactors designed for ports, coastal c...
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Dell VC executive says AI will reshape SaaS pricing, not end the model
Daniel Docter of Dell Technologies Capital says AI is changing software economics, while distribution may decide which startups br...
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Judge approves Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement
Anthropic will pay authors and publishers over pirated books, while a key fair-use win for AI training remains limited to one cour...
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Black founders face a tougher seed-to-Series A test in AI, VCs say
Black Ops VC co-founders argue AI lowers startup launch costs, but Black founders still need larger seed rounds to reach Series A...
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X rolls out rebuilt Android app after nearly a year of work
X says its new Android app is available globally, with faster performance and a rebuilt technical base meant to support future fea...
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Alphabet’s reported Gemini chip project puts AI costs back in focus
The Information reported Alphabet is developing a 2028 AI server chip that could make Gemini models far more power-efficient.
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Natural raises $30 million to build payments for AI agents
Forerunner led the startup’s Series A as Natural builds infrastructure for AI agents to move, hold and collect money without human...
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Judge freezes Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion Warner deal for 14 days
A federal judge granted states a temporary hold on Paramount Skydance’s planned Warner Bros. Discovery takeover while an antitrust...
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Hugging Face says breach exposed internal data and credentials
The AI platform says attackers used a malicious dataset to reach internal systems, and it is telling users to rotate stored access...
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