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Z.ai • Combined financing

Z.ai completed a combined financing round of around $5 billion, including about $2 billion from a share placement and roughly $3 billion through convertible bonds, to fund next-generation GLM foundation models.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told President Trump that the company won't let an AI slowdown happen, pushing back against calls from Elon Musk and Sam Altman to slow development. Huang's comments signal a major industry divide over the pace of AI advancement.

Policy • TechCrunch

Apple has finally shipped its rebuilt Siri AI, built on Google's Gemini models and running partly on-device and partly through Private Cloud Compute. Early testers praise multi-step requests and screen context, but report hallucinations and gaps with some tasks. The new Siri is not available in the EU.

Product • The Decoder

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have proposed slowing frontier AI development citing safety, but critics including Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez call it a 'cartel by another name' designed to shut out competitors. The debate highlights growing skepticism about the motives behind the slowdown initiative.

Policy • The Decoder

Fireship breaks down Anthropic's 154-page report on how hackers, scientists, and rival AI labs are abusing Claude, and explores why researchers are leaving the company. This technical analysis gives developers insight into real-world AI safety challenges and the pressure inside leading AI labs.

AI Development • Fireship

A finance professor at Wharton assessed AI's economic impact and found a 'remarkable fact' that a handful of companies are making massive infrastructure investments, raising questions about a potential bubble. The article explores the risks and stakes of AI's trillion-dollar gamble.

Business • MIT Technology Review

China's National Medical Products Administration approved YY/T 2029–2026, the first medical-device industry standard for AI algorithms used in brain-computer interface devices, covering EEG dataset quality requirements and evaluation methods.

Regulation • TechNode

Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) • Series A

AIUC, a startup founded by an early Anthropic hire and former METR COO, raised $40 million in Series A funding led by Ribbit Capital with participation from First Harmonic to rein in rogue AI agents.

Productivity

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According to The Information, Apple is planning to re-enter the server market and may partner with Nvidia, driven by growing demand for AI compute. Apple retired its Xserve line in 2011 and has largely stayed out of enterprise hardware since.

AI Infrastructure • The Verge

Anthropic launched Claude Docs and Slides, letting users create documents and presentations through Claude chats that can be exported, edited, and shared. The company is also merging regular chats and Cowork into 'one Claude' to simplify the product.

AI Products • The Verge

Sky News technology correspondent Rowland Manthorpe explains the economic and geopolitical forces that make slowing down the AI race so difficult. Using the analogy of Prozac and generic drugs, the video shows why AI companies feel trapped in relentless competition between the US and China.

AI Economics • Sky News

Mustafa Suleyman issued a warning against 'model welfare,' arguing that AIs are not conscious, do not feel or suffer, and are 'sequence completion engines, internally hollow.' He says a growing chorus argues AIs could now be, or may soon become, conscious and may deserve rights.

AI Ethics • Mustafa Suleyman