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Bezos's Prometheus Raises $12B to Automate Engineering

Jeff Bezos's Prometheus raised $12B at a $41B valuation to build an 'artificial general engineer' for physical systems. The round drew JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock, and follows a $6.2B launch raise in late 2025.

Jun 13, 2026 · 3 min read

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Simon Willison Tests Claude Fable 5 Across Effort Tiers

Simon Willison spent hours testing Anthropic's new Claude Fable 5, comparing its five thinking-effort levels on token cost and output. His read: the top tier is strong but pricey for routine work.

Jun 13, 2026 · 3 min read

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Mistral in Talks to Raise €3B at €20B Valuation

Mistral is raising about €3 billion ($3.5B) at a roughly €20 billion valuation, nearly double its September price. Europe's flagship lab needs the cash to keep pace with far richer US and Chinese rivals.

Jun 13, 2026 · 3 min read

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OpenAI Acquires Ona to Run Codex Agents for Days

OpenAI is buying German cloud startup Ona so its Codex coding agent can keep working for hours or days, even after you close your laptop. Codex now has 5M+ weekly active users, up from 3M in April.

Jun 13, 2026 · 3 min read

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Oracle Hits $638B AI Backlog, Plans $40B Raise

Oracle's remaining performance obligations jumped 363% to $638 billion on AI cloud contracts, yet shares fell about 10%. The drop came after Oracle said it will raise roughly $40 billion to fund data centers.

Jun 13, 2026 · 3 min read

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Anthropic, TCS Bring Claude to Regulated Industries

Anthropic partnered with Tata Consultancy Services to deploy Claude across regulated sectors like finance, healthcare, and government. TCS will give Claude to 50,000 employees in 56 countries and build Claude-powered products for clients.

Jun 13, 2026 · 3 min read

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Cohere's North Mini Code: 30B Coding Agent on One H100

Cohere open-sourced North Mini Code, a 30B-parameter MoE coding model that runs on a single H100 under Apache 2.0. It ships a 256K context window and hit 210 tokens per second in Artificial Analysis testing.

Jun 13, 2026 · 3 min read

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Paper: Building Support AI Agents at 100M-User Scale

Nubank researchers detail an evaluation-driven framework for customer-support AI agents serving 100M+ users. The paper bridges offline development and online impact, showing how to test agents before they reach production.

Jun 13, 2026 · 3 min read

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Simon Willison Releases LLM 0.32a3 for the Terminal

Simon Willison shipped LLM 0.32a3, an alpha of his open-source CLI and Python library for running prompts against models from the command line. The tool works with hosted APIs and local models, logging results to SQLite.

Jun 13, 2026 · 3 min read

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Meta's Applied AI Team on Brink of Revolt After Forced Reassignment

Meta's Applied AI team is on the brink of revolt as thousands of engineers and product managers are forced into the unit with no real choice but to join or quit. The drama began when an expletive-laden meltdown occurred during a livestreamed presentation, reflecting simmering rage among employees who feel like 'draftees.' Over 1,600 Meta employees have signed a petition protesting a program that monitors their clicks and keystrokes for AI training data. This unrest is happening as the company channels billions into AI research but struggles to outperform humans at technical tasks with its current models.

Jun 12, 2026 · 3 min read

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Google Dismantles AI-Powered Cybercrime Ring Outsider Enterprise

Google just took down a massive AI-powered phishing ring called Outsider Enterprise that was impersonating Google and other brands to steal money from unsuspecting victims. If you're running any kind of online business, this is a wake-up call — the bad guys are using cutting-edge tech to scam people on an industrial scale. In just two weeks, they deployed 9,000 fake websites and sent over 2 million scam texts, netting at least $1.9 billion in losses from stolen credit cards. Google used its own AI tools to detect and block these scams, but the real story is how sophisticated cybercrime has become.

Jun 12, 2026 · 3 min read

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SpaceX's IPO Surges to $160.95; Market Cap Hits $2.3T

SpaceX's stock price surged to $176 midday on its first day as a public company before settling at $160.95 with a market cap of nearly $2.3 trillion. This makes SpaceX one of the most valuable companies in history, surpassing Apple and Microsoft combined. The IPO was heavily oversubscribed, meaning many institutional investors couldn't get allocations, driving up demand and prices. Early investors like Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz saw returns exceeding $50 billion and $10 billion respectively. SpaceX's success will likely reshape the aerospace industry.

Jun 12, 2026 · 3 min read

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