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A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., heard arguments Tuesday in Anthropic's lawsuit against the Pentagon over its designation as a supply chain risk — a label that restricts defense contractors from using the company's Claude AI models.
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A jury unanimously dismissed all claims in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on Monday, finding two counts barred by the statute of limitations after roughly two hours of deliberation. US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers accepted the advisory verdict.
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President Trump told Fortune he regrets not asking for a larger slice of Intel after the U.S. government took a 9.9% stake in the chipmaker — a deal that has since delivered more than 300% in stock gains.
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Meta is set to begin cutting approximately 8,000 jobs — about 10% of its workforce — starting Wednesday, as the company cancels 6,000 open roles and raises its 2026 AI capital expenditure guidance to as high as $145 billion.
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Meta is beginning an approximately 8,000-person layoff round on Wednesday — about 10% of its workforce — as CEO Mark Zuckerberg accelerates AI investment and drops the apologetic tone that defined earlier rounds of cuts.
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Lululemon has publicly labeled founder Chip Wilson "misguided" in a shareholder letter, setting June 25 as its annual meeting date after settlement talks over the boardroom proxy contest collapsed last week.
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was repeatedly booed by University of Arizona graduates on Friday as his commencement address turned to AI advocacy, reflecting growing anxiety among new degree-holders entering an AI-disrupted job market.
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Cerebras Systems' shares surged nearly 70% on their first day of trading Thursday, marking the largest U.S. tech IPO since Uber's 2019 debut — but the spotlight is already shifting toward SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic, leaving much of the rest of the IPO pipeline in the shadows.
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Russia-linked Secret Blizzard has transformed its long-running Kazuar backdoor into a modular, peer-to-peer botnet with 150 configuration options, designed to evade detection through decentralized internal communications and autonomous leader election.
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The preprint server arXiv will ban all authors of a flagged manuscript from submitting for one year and permanently require peer review for their future work if inappropriate AI-generated content is found in their submissions.
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Microsoft reversed its position on a password-in-memory vulnerability in the Edge browser and announced Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery, a new Windows Update feature that lets the company remotely roll back faulty drivers without end-user action.
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General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis have collectively shed more than 20,000 U.S. salaried jobs — 19% of their combined white-collar workforces — from recent peaks, with AI-driven workforce restructuring accelerating the trend at all three companies.
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Hacker group TeamPCP is offering nearly 450 Mistral AI internal code repositories for $25,000 on a hacker forum, threatening to release the data publicly within a week if no buyer is found. The breach traces back to the Shai-Hulud software supply-chain attack.
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Amnesty International security researcher Donncha Ó Cearbhaill turned a phishing attempt on his own Signal account into an investigation, uncovering a Russian government-linked campaign that had identified more than 13,500 targets.
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The U.S. and China agreed at the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing to establish a protocol on AI safety best practices, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent saying the U.S. can engage China on the technology "because we are in the lead."
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Cerebras Systems priced its IPO at $185 per share on Wednesday, above its revised expected range, raising $5.55 billion and valuing the AI chip maker at $56.4 billion on a fully diluted basis.
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Trial testimony and discovery from Musk v. Altman reveal that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella feared as early as April 2022 that OpenAI could displace Microsoft the way Microsoft once displaced IBM, shaping a partnership now worth over $100 billion.
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Amazon is retiring its Rufus chatbot and replacing it with Alexa for Shopping, a new AI commerce tool that merges Rufus and Alexa+ and is embedded directly into Amazon's search results and app.
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