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Mistral releases Shieldstral, a 3B multimodal safety classifier that it says matches models up to 7x its size on text safety, available under Apache 2.0 (mistral.ai)
8 days ago

Sources: the White House doesn't plan to publicly release its voluntary AI framework; details will be available to the companies that are part of the process (www.axios.com)
8 days ago AI

Trump Administration Drafting Ban On Chinese Data Center Devices (yro.slashdot.org)
8 days ago Trump China Ban

Internal email: Microsoft introduces token budget limits for employees' AI use, saying “tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for” (www.404media.co)
8 days ago Microsoft AI Budget

Apple Says More Ex-Employees May Have Taken Confidential Data to OpenAI (yro.slashdot.org)
8 days ago Apple

Anthropic names Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, an ex-California Supreme Court justice and a special assistant in Obama's WH, as its first global affairs chief (www.reuters.com)
8 days ago California

Sandisk and SK Hynix announce the High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) open specification that enables up to 512GB memory modules with 0.4 TB/s to 3.0 TB/s bandwidth (www.tomshardware.com)
8 days ago

Sources: the US is preparing to set a price floor and impose tariffs on polysilicon, a material critical to chips, later this month, in a bid to counter China (www.reuters.com)
8 days ago China

The DOJ secures a $3.2M settlement from OpenAI to resolve allegations it discriminated against US workers by preferring workers with temporary employment visas (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago

Apple Launches Legal Challenge Against UK Demand To Access Encrypted User Data (it.slashdot.org)
8 days ago Apple

Oligo, which offers runtime security tools, raised $60M from Ballistic Ventures, Canon Capital, and others, bringing its total funding to $140M (siliconangle.com)
8 days ago

Sandisk and SK Hynix Publish First Open High Bandwidth Flash Standard (hardware.slashdot.org)
8 days ago

Ambrook, which offers accounting software, raised a $30M Series B led by Lachy Groom as it expands beyond farming into trucking, construction, and real estate (www.upstartsmedia.com)
8 days ago

Alpamayo 2 Super, Nvidia's frontier open reasoning model for robotaxis and AVs, is now available for commercial use under the OpenMDW-1.1 license (blogs.nvidia.com)
8 days ago Nvidia

Massive ChainDrop npm supply-chain attack infects hundreds of packages (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
8 days ago

New Jersey files an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, alleging it uses its dominance to impose low pay and poor conditions on independent delivery drivers (www.reuters.com)
8 days ago Amazon

Convex, which provides an AI-optimized application backend for developers, raised a $57M Series B led by Insight Partners, taking its total funding to $110.5M (siliconangle.com)
8 days ago AI

A World Bank report says developing economies stand to benefit more from AI boosting their workers' output than they will lose in jobs being replaced by AI (www.ft.com)
8 days ago AI World Bank

Varonis Agent IBAC keeps AI agents within their intended boundaries (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
8 days ago AI

Analysis: in 2026 so far, US police arrested at least 37 people in connection to data center protests and intervened to prevent confrontations in 12 more cases (futurism.com)
8 days ago

Obsidian Security, which helps companies secure AI agents, raised an $85M Series D at a $1.1B valuation, after raising a $90M Series C in April 2022 (www.reuters.com)
8 days ago AI

Edit, sign, convert, and organize PDFs with one Mac app for just $80 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
8 days ago

HappyRobot, which uses AI to automate freight operator communications, raised a $150M Series C at a $1.2B valuation, after a $44M Series B in September 2025 (fortune.com)
8 days ago AI

Sources: Polymarket is in early talks with prospective investors to raise ~$1B at a $20B+ valuation, up from $15B in April 2026 and $9B in October 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago

Sources: Anthropic agreed to a $10B deal for computing capacity in Norway from Nvidia-backed AI cloud startup Volta; Volta says the deal runs for six years (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago Startup AI Nvidia Norway

AI cloud startup Volta raised $300M co-led by a16z and Altimeter at a $2.4B valuation and says it landed a $10B contract with an unnamed leading AI developer (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago Startup AI

Russia-Linked 'Midnight Blizzard' Group Hijacks Hotel Wi-Fi With CaptiveCrunch (yro.slashdot.org)
8 days ago Russia

Uber is defending 4,000+ rider sexual-violence lawsuits by aggressively examining plaintiffs' drinking, clothing, and more, after promising to protect survivors (www.nytimes.com)
8 days ago Uber

Sources: the FCC is drafting a restriction on US imports of new models of Chinese data center optical transceivers, set to take effect upon publication in 2026 (www.reuters.com)
8 days ago China

Sources: China's CXMT is set to manufacture small quantities of LPDDR6 smartphone memory by the end of 2026, as it seeks to compete with SK Hynix and Samsung (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago China Samsung

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