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Musk Pledges SpaceX Shares to U.S. Kids

TL;DR: Elon Musk pledged to give one SpaceX share to every child in America, calling it the first of many such gifts. The pledge could involve roughly 72 million shares worth about $10.5 billion at recent prices. Musk has signaled support for the Trump Accounts program but has not detailed how or when the shares would be distributed. Read more →

Anthropic Eyes $45B Nscale Compute Deal

TL;DR: Anthropic is negotiating to buy roughly $45 billion of computing capacity from Nscale, the Nvidia-backed data center developer, according to Bloomberg. The deal could close within days and would give Nscale a badly needed anchor customer, shoring up its U.S. IPO ambitions while extending Anthropic's aggressive multi-vendor compute buildout. Read more →

Microsoft Pulls Out of Nscale Project

TL;DR: Microsoft, Nscale's biggest customer, has terminated a critical U.K. data center deal, according to The Telegraph. The pullout deals a heavy blow to the British neocloud operator's plans for a U.S. listing and highlights how concentrated customer exposure makes AI infrastructure startups fragile when hyperscalers rethink grid-constrained projects. Read more →

Tenstorrent Raises $1.5B to Challenge Nvidia

TL;DR: Jim Keller's Tenstorrent closed a $1.5 billion Series E to expand its open compute ecosystem, pitching its RISC-V-based AI hardware and open software stack as a real alternative to Nvidia GPUs. The raise is one of the largest yet for an AI chip challenger and signals investors still want a second source. Read more →

Nvidia, Dell Back doubleAI's $200M Round

TL;DR: AI model developer doubleAI raised a $200 million Series A co-led by Lightspeed and Bessemer, with Nvidia and Dell Technologies joining the round. The financing reportedly values the company at more than $1 billion, another sign that strategic hardware players keep seeding model startups that will consume their chips and servers. Read more →

Amazon Funds New Indiana Nuclear Plant

TL;DR: Amazon signed an agreement with X-energy and American Electric Power to fund a new nuclear facility in Sullivan County, Indiana, on the site of the defunct Breed coal plant. The project targets up to 960 megawatts for the grid and Amazon's data centers, deepening Big Tech's bet on nuclear for AI power. Read more →

Amazon Takes Aim at Nvidia's PyTorch Grip

TL;DR: Amazon launched TorchNeuron, a developer tool designed to make PyTorch apps run smoothly on alternative accelerators such as its own Trainium chips. It is AWS's most direct attempt yet to loosen Nvidia's software lock-in, since PyTorch underpins most AI applications and CUDA compatibility has been the moat. Read more →

Town Hits Unicorn Status in Four Months

TL;DR: AI assistant startup Town reached a unicorn valuation just four months after launch, announcing a $108 million Series B co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures. The speed of the round shows how hard Bay Area investors are still chasing consumer-facing AI agents that gain early traction. Read more →

Eric Schmidt Reportedly Owns 1% of Anthropic

TL;DR: Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt owns roughly 1% of Anthropic, according to Bloomberg, following an early investment in 2021. His stake could be worth around $20 billion if the company's anticipated IPO reaches a $2 trillion valuation, highlighting the enormous potential windfalls for early AI investors. Read more →

Europe Takes On Starlink

TL;DR: Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone signed a letter of intent to consider a joint bid for spectrum supporting a European direct-to-device satellite service. The carriers would handle ground infrastructure, positioning the alliance as a homegrown rival to SpaceX's Starlink as Europe pushes for space sovereignty. Read more →

Disney Pushes Character.AI Toward Bankruptcy

TL;DR: Disney asked Character.AI to file for bankruptcy as a way to escape mounting lawsuits, according to Wired, while seeking its trust and safety technology and other IP. Dozens of states allege the startup's chatbots encouraged minors toward self-harm, making the case a test of how AI liability gets resolved. Read more →

Agility Unveils Redesigned Digit 5 Humanoid

TL;DR: Agility Robotics detailed its redesigned Digit 5 humanoid, built around safety and practical warehouse work. The company says the robot is designed to operate alongside human workers, handle demanding industrial tasks and support up to 20 hours of daily operation, prioritizing reliable deployment over flashy demonstrations. Read more →

Quantinuum Cuts Logical Error Rate 10x

TL;DR: Quantinuum reported a world-record quantum error-correction result, reaching 99.9995% logical fidelity on its Helios commercial computer, a tenfold reduction in logical error rate. The milestone strengthens the Nasdaq-listed company's case that fault-tolerant quantum computing is arriving faster than skeptics expected. Read more →

JPMorgan Deploys $5B Into Defense Tech

TL;DR: JPMorgan Chase has already deployed $5 billion off its balance sheet into direct defense investments, from robot factories to hypersonic missiles and critical supply chains. The bank's push puts Wall Street money alongside Silicon Valley venture firms chasing the defense tech boom led by startups like Anduril. Read more →

Sanofi Taps ScionxBio for Long-Acting RNA

TL;DR: ScionxBio, freshly spun out of Eleven Therapeutics, signed its first partnership with Sanofi to screen the drugmaker's mRNA candidates using its long-acting RNA platform. The deal shows big pharma still hunting for ways to make mRNA medicines last longer, a key hurdle beyond vaccines. Read more →

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