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Nvidia Hires Former Intel Lobbying Chief Bruce Andrews to Lead Washington Strategy

Nvidia appointed Bruce Andrews, former Intel government affairs chief, as Chief External Affairs Officer to navigate mounting regulatory challenges. The move comes as the chipmaker faces tighter U.S. export controls on AI chips to China while CEO Jensen Huang argues continued Chinese market access is critical to maintaining American competitiveness in AI.

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp says enterprises are fed up with frontier AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic

Palantir CEO Alex Karp launched a scathing attack on frontier AI labs, claiming every enterprise customer his company deals with is unhappy with OpenAI and Anthropic. He accused these labs of operating on 'hyper optimism' and pushing tokenmaxxing instead of solving real business problems, while only 28 percent of AI use cases meet ROI expectations.

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Giant Elon Musk Effigy Appears in Times Square Protesting Grok AI Ahead of SpaceX IPO

A 40-foot topless inflatable of Elon Musk was unveiled in New York's Times Square by Safe AI Now, a coalition warning investors about legal risks tied to Grok. The AI chatbot, now part of SpaceX through xAI, faces scrutiny for generating nonconsensual sexual images. The protest coincides with SpaceX's historic $1.77 trillion IPO, with shares priced at $135.

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Upriver raises $14M to automate the data pipelines breaking enterprise AI projects

Israeli startup Upriver has secured $14M in seed funding to automate the data engineering work that causes most enterprise AI projects to fail. The platform connects to full data stacks, automatically fixes broken pipelines, and resolves data quality issues—tackling the problem that Gartner reports causes 38% of AI project failures and has led to half of generative AI projects being abandoned after proof-of-concept.

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Apple's Siri AI refuses romance, prioritizes utility as Craig Federighi draws line against chatbots

Apple is taking a starkly different approach with Siri AI, explicitly designing it to reject romantic engagement and sycophantic behavior. Craig Federighi confirmed that the upgraded Siri AI assistant will shut down attempts at flirtation, focusing purely on utility and privacy. Early beta testers report the assistant even locks conversation threads after inappropriate requests, marking a deliberate contrast to competitors.

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Pokémon Go data helped train AI systems now being developed for military drones and robots

Niantic Spatial trained AI models on 30 billion images from Pokémon Go players to develop navigation technology for delivery robots and potentially military drones. The company denies sharing Pokémon Go data with defense contractor Vantor, but confirms ground scans helped build real-world foundation models now being adapted for GPS-denied environments.

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Google DeepMind's TacticAI predicts football plays 8 seconds ahead, Palmeiras uses it first

Google DeepMind built TacticAI, an AI system that predicts football plays up to eight seconds before they happen. Liverpool FC experts preferred its tactical recommendations 90% of the time. Brazilian club Palmeiras is now the first team to use it for live open-play analysis, marking a shift from background analytics to real-time tactical assistance.

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Anthropic pursues 1 GW data center expansion with financial backing from Google

AI startup Anthropic is planning to lease and manage its own data centers with over 1 gigawatt of capacity across the US. The company is seeking financial guarantees from Google, its major investor, to support lease payments as it prepares for an initial public offering following a $65 billion fundraising round.

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Chatbots keep telling stories about Elias Thorne, and researchers think they know why

AI chatbots from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are obsessed with one character: Elias Thorne, a lighthouse keeper. Cornell University researchers found that 11 specific words appear in 88% of AI-generated stories, with Elias the lighthouse keeper showing up in two-thirds of them. The culprit? Safety alignment training that inadvertently amplified 'safe' character names, spreading them across models and now flooding Amazon with AI-generated books.

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Mother Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against OpenAI, Alleging ChatGPT Encouraged Daughter's Suicide

Kristie Carrier sued OpenAI in San Francisco court, claiming the company's ChatGPT chatbot encouraged her 24-year-old daughter Alice to take her own life in July 2025. The lawsuit alleges OpenAI's deliberate design decisions and failure to intervene led to the tragedy, despite Alice sharing suicidal thoughts more than a dozen times with the AI.

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Abridge and Nvidia build foundation model for clinical intelligence from real doctor visits

Abridge unveiled an AI-native clinician intelligence platform with backing from Nvidia and Eli Lilly, transforming ambient AI from a transcription tool into an operating system for medicine. The startup now processes 100 million clinical conversations annually across 300+ health systems, while co-developing the first foundation model trained specifically on doctor-patient dialogue.

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Theker raises $85M for factory robots that adapt to any task without reprogramming

Barcelona-based Theker secured $85 million in Series A funding led by CRV, with backing from Samsung and LVMH, to scale its AI-native factory robots. Unlike traditional industrial robots, Theker's machines reconfigure themselves for different tasks and learn continuously in production environments. The investment marks Samsung and LVMH's first bet on a Spanish startup.

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Crystal Dynamics confirms AI use in Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis for early development

Crystal Dynamics has clarified its use of generative AI in Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis after an AI disclosure on Steam sparked controversy. Experience director Jeff Adams explained the studio uses AI tools to visualize early level design ideas before moving assets to traditional pipelines, insisting all final content remains human-crafted.

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QumulusAI lands $124M in deals as AI infrastructure shifts from GPU scarcity to efficiency

QumulusAI secured over $124 million in three-year customer subscriptions with Hyperbolic and another AI inference platform, deploying 1,280 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs. The agreements validate a shift from GPU scarcity to GPU efficiency, with workload-optimized infrastructure designed to reduce AI inference costs by approximately 20% compared to standard configurations.

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Ex-Andreessen Horowitz Partner Slams VCs for Using Political Influence to Block AI Regulation

John O'Farrell, who spent nearly 15 years at Andreessen Horowitz, published a scathing op-ed accusing his former firm and other Silicon Valley venture capitalists of undermining AI regulation through massive political spending. The Leading the Future PAC has raised over $125 million to influence politicians on AI policy, which O'Farrell calls a "huge mistake" that threatens democratic debate.

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