The World Bank urged developing economies to quickly adapt existing AI tools for local government and business needs, positioning adoption as a lever against persistently weak growth. — Bloomberg

Anthropic reportedly agreed to buy $10B in Norwegian computing capacity from Nvidia-backed cloud startup Volta over six years, a blockbuster commitment to a months-old infrastructure provider. — Bloomberg

Apple sought a preliminary injunction in its trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, arguing it will be “irreparably harmed” if the court does not intervene while the case proceeds. — 9to5Mac

The Trump administration finalized a voluntary framework letting the federal government test AI companies' powerful new "frontier" models for security vulnerabilities for up to 30 days before public release. — CBS News

AI infrastructure company Runware launched Sonic Inference Pod, its own modular data center, testing whether portable compute can offer a faster, more flexible way to deploy AI inference capacity. — TechCrunch

Obsidian Security — The AI agent security startup raised an $85M Series D at a $1.1B valuation to expand its platform, though the lead investor was not disclosed. — Reuters

HappyRobot — The AI platform automating freight operator communications raised a $150M Series C at a $1.2B valuation to expand its logistics automation business. — Fortune

Polymarket — The prediction-market platform is reportedly in early talks to raise roughly $1B at a $20B-plus valuation, though no stage, lead investor, or use of funds was disclosed. — Bloomberg

Volta — The AI cloud startup raised $300M at a $2.4B valuation, co-led by a16z and Altimeter, to build infrastructure supporting a $10B contract with an unnamed AI developer. — Bloomberg

Valar Atomics — The nuclear energy startup raised a $1B round at a $6B valuation led by Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire to advance its technology after signing a development deal with Nvidia. — TechCrunch

@PaulGraham said “The danger of selling to big companies, if you're a startup, is that they don't say no outright. They have months of meetings with you first. Since you hate meetings, that seems to you a sign of commitment. But it's not. They love having meetings! It's almost all they do,”

"Humanity is at peak knowledge, and peak ignorance with what AI will unleash. This makes it hard to know how to practically act: whether with confidence of knowledge or humility of ignorance," commented @BryanJohnson

Influencer @Husk’s latest “messing with AI” clip — in which he tries to convince a chatbot that he’s been swallowed by a whale (aka Pinocchio-maxxing) — has gone mega-viral across multiple platforms.

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