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SoftBank Secures $40 Billion Loan to Fund OpenAI Investment
The unsecured 12-month bridge loan signals lenders expect OpenAI's public listing to happen within the year, giving SoftBank liquidity to settle the debt.
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AI Policy in 2026: The Year States and Feds Go to War
Federal preemption, child safety lawsuits, and the end of voluntary governance are reshaping the regulatory landscape.
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Every AI Is 'Too Dangerous to Release' Until It Isn't
From GPT-2 in 2019 to Mythos in 2026, AI labs keep warning us their models are too powerful for public release. Then they release them anyway. At some point you have to wonder if this is safety or marketing.
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Apple to Unveil Siri as 'Systemwide AI Agent' at WWDC 2026
Rebuilt Siri gains deep app integration, conversational chat interface, and web-sourced summaries to compete with Perplexity and Google Gemini.
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Anthropic Eyes $60B IPO in October
The Claude maker is in early talks with Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley. At $60 billion, it would dwarf OpenAI's expected offering later this year.
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Apple Opens Siri to Claude, Gemini, Grok in iOS 27
OpenAI's exclusive partnership ends. Users will choose their preferred chatbot through new Extensions settings. Apple is also building its own chatbot Siri based on Gemini.
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Nvidia-Backed Reflection AI Seeks $25 Billion Valuation in AI Infrastructure Race
The startup is in talks to raise $2.5 billion, underscoring the staggering capital requirements of building AI infrastructure at scale.
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Amazon Building Another AI Phone After Fire Phone Disaster
The Fire Phone lasted one year. Alexa devices lost $25 billion. Now Amazon's ZeroOne team thinks AI can change the math.
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Rocky and Grace: What Project Hail Mary Gets Right About the Limits of Intelligence
Andy Weir's blockbuster rests on a quietly radical thesis: that all intelligent civilizations hit the same ceiling, discover the same technologies, and face the same existential threats. Two writers argue about what this means for AI.
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OpenAI Plans to Nearly Double Workforce to 8,000 as Claude Code Gains Ground
Sam Altman's company aims to expand from 4,500 staff in one of tech's most aggressive hiring pushes, as rival Anthropic captures a fifth of its business through coding tools.
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Best Digital Marketing and Media Buying Agencies in Australia for 2026
A practical guide to Australia's top digital marketing and media buying agencies: performance specialists, full-service firms, and programmatic experts from Sydney to Perth.
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The case against AI therapists is now in evidence
New research quantifies what regulators should have anticipated: chatbots designed to be agreeable are harming people in psychological distress.