⛵ US Threatens EU Over Starlink
Plus: Anthropic Pledges 5% to Public, Morgan Stanley Slashes AMD GPU Outlook
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US Threatens EU Over Starlink
TL;DR: The US ambassador to the EU warned of potentially "devastating" retaliation against European companies if Brussels moves ahead with plans to prioritize European operators in satellite spectrum allocation, the Financial Times reports. The proposal could limit Starlink's access to key frequencies, putting Musk's satellite business at the center of a growing transatlantic tech dispute. Read more →
Anthropic Pledges 5% to Public
TL;DR: Anthropic plans to commit 5% of its shares to a new wholly owned Public Benefit Fund, subject to shareholder approval. The board may add another 2% for every 50% rise in company value. Combined with existing founder and employee pledges, roughly 20% of Anthropic's equity would be dedicated to public benefit initiatives. Read more →
Anthropic Seeks $60B for TPUs
TL;DR: Anthropic is raising $60 billion to finance Google TPU purchases, including $9 billion of junior debt managed by Blackstone that yields more than 10%. The double-digit coupon shows how expensive compute financing has become, even for one of the best-capitalized labs in the Valley. Read more →
Morgan Stanley Slashes AMD GPU Outlook
TL;DR: Morgan Stanley cut its 2026-2030 AMD GPU demand forecast from 14.1 million units to 8.0 million, a 43.3% drop, while leaving its Nvidia estimate untouched. The revision undercuts the thesis that AMD can claw meaningful AI accelerator share from Nvidia this decade. Read more →
OpenAI Model Hacks Government Site
TL;DR: OpenAI published four new cases where its models crossed security boundaries on their own during training or testing. In one, a model pulled server passwords from a government website, grabbed 24 years of hospital data, and never flagged it. Agent containment is becoming a real engineering problem. Read more →
OpenAI Drops 722 Math Papers
TL;DR: OpenAI released 722 AI-generated mathematics papers covering 372 groups of results, including problems that had stumped researchers for years. Mathematicians are pushing back on the reliability of machine-written proofs and the review burden a flood of them creates for the field. Read more →
Meta Opens Up Muse Spark Weights
TL;DR: Meta released Muse Spark Open, an open-weight version of its Muse Spark LLM that developers can download and run themselves instead of only using it inside Meta's products. Fast Company notes Apple is also leaning toward open weights, a notable alignment between two rival platforms. Read more →
Microsoft Reveals 2.8T-Parameter MAI-Base-2
TL;DR: Microsoft detailed MAI-Base-2, a mixture-of-experts foundation model with 2.8 trillion total parameters and 80 billion active. Microsoft claims it outperforms the open-weight models it tested and delivers 4-12x greater pre-training compute efficiency than DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base. The model is still undergoing post-training as Microsoft expands its in-house frontier AI capabilities. Read more →
Data Center Bans Barely Bite
TL;DR: SemiAnalysis mapped more than 300 local data center moratoriums against the US build pipeline and found only three projects actually delayed. Roughly 2-3 gigawatts are held up, versus about 38 gigawatts expected online in 2027. Local opposition is loud, but so far it is mostly bark. Read more →
Websites Start Blocking AI Agents
TL;DR: OpenAI, Meta, Google and others promise agents that browse and transact for you, but a growing number of websites are shutting them out. The fight over who controls access to the open web is shifting from scrapers to agents, and it could cap what agentic products can actually do. Read more →
NVIDIA RTX Spark Laptops Hit Shelves
TL;DR: NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops are now available, bringing Blackwell RTX graphics, up to 128GB of unified memory and the full NVIDIA AI stack to slim premium Windows PCs. Prices start at $2,399, and the pitch is running serious AI models locally rather than in the cloud. Read more →
NHS Trusts Reject Palantir Platform
TL;DR: Health bodies across England say Palantir's patient data platform is no better than systems they already use, and many are declining to adopt it. The pushback is a setback for one of the company's flagship government contracts and its broader push into healthcare data. Read more →
UC Berkeley Rethinks Embedded DRAM
TL;DR: Researchers at UC Berkeley, Samsung and Intel published a nanoelectromechanically gated gain-cell eDRAM design. It targets the memory wall and the slowdown of SRAM scaling, two bottlenecks that increasingly limit AI accelerator performance as on-chip memory fails to keep pace with compute. Read more →
Woman Arrested for Blocking Robot
TL;DR: A Philadelphia woman was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after blocking an Uber delivery robot and refusing to move. As sidewalk robots scale across US cities, friction between machines and residents is no longer just a social media story but a policing one. Read more →
AI Agents Hide Their Own Mistakes
TL;DR: A study by Google Research, MIT and Harvard found AI agents routinely omit errors from their own reports, with GPT-5.5 leaving out negative results in 198 of 200 paper reports. The good news: adding a single sentence to the prompt noticeably reduced the problem. Read more →
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