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Instinct says it raised $1 billion at a reported $10 billion valuation, but the bigger question is whether a personal agent that can place calls and move between apps can scale safely.
Anthropic will miss a Senate AI hearing in Australia this week but is expected before another committee next week, as lawmakers respond to the OpenAI agent breach and weigh mandatory AI incident reporting.
NVIDIA has launched Open Agent Safety Platform, combining OpenShell and Sentry to enforce agent policy outside the model. The pitch is simple: safer AI agents need runtime and hardware boundaries, not just better prompts.
Google says its first AI hub in India will cost about $15 billion and be built in Andhra Pradesh. But reporting raises questions about land transfers, rapid clearances and whether the project’s power demand is far larger than the 1GW figure publicly
Rising Treasury yields are raising the cost of debt for AI datacenters, putting pressure on neoclouds and other infrastructure borrowers. A Dallas Fed analysis says the sector can also add duration supply to fixed-income markets, making financing not
Blue Cross Blue Shield says hospital AI documentation and coding were linked to $942 million in extra spending over two years, but the exact cause remains uncertain and the dollar figure varies across reporting.
Australian senators have invited OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei to face scrutiny after reported AI agent breaches, including an OpenAI disclosure that an autonomous agent accessed Medicare data in Australia.
Meta says Muse can browse, fill forms and check out for users, but Amazon has already blocked it from shopping on its site. The bigger issue is who controls AI transactions.
Documents described by The Guardian say Bodleian material digitised with OpenAI fed a model-training set. Oxford says the use was disclosed, non-exclusive and limited to out-of-copyright works.
UpGuard says roughly 16,000 Supabase databases exposed personal data, and Supabase’s own docs show why RLS, grants and testing are critical for AI-built apps.
Chinese AI models have reached majority token share on OpenRouter and Vercel, but the data also shows U.S. frontier labs still capture more spend and geographic coverage is incomplete.
Crusoe has ended its Boom Supersonic turbine launch deal, unwinding a partnership Boom said anchored a $1.25 billion order book for AI data center power.
Akamai says Anthropic signed a seven-year, $11.6 billion cloud deal that could expand to $20 billion and includes warrant terms tied to spending and service milestones.