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SoftBank reported a $46 billion yearly gain at its Vision Fund, with $45 billion of that tied to its investment in OpenAI, even as losses on Coupang, DiDi Global, and Klarna weighed on the rest of the portfolio.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joined President Trump's China trip after Trump personally called him following media coverage of his absence from the original delegation. Huang boarded Air Force One in Alaska ahead of Trump's scheduled meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

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Waymo has voluntarily recalled about 3,800 robotaxis to fix a software flaw that allowed some vehicles to drive onto flooded roadways, the latest in a series of safety incidents for the Alphabet-owned autonomous vehicle company.

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Exaforce has raised $125 million in a Series B round valuing the AI cybersecurity startup at $725 million, bringing its total funding to $200 million as demand for automated threat detection accelerates.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is set to testify Tuesday in the Elon Musk lawsuit in Oakland federal court, as board chair Bret Taylor wraps his testimony and a House committee presses Altman on potential conflicts of interest.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is not joining President Trump's delegation to Beijing this week, signaling that U.S. export restrictions on advanced AI chips are unlikely to ease as U.S.-China tech rivalry deepens.

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ShinyHunters exploited cross-site scripting flaws in Instructure's Canvas LMS to deface school login portals and demand a ransom, following an initial breach the group claims netted 275 million records from more than 8,800 educational organizations.

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White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said there is "no sign in the data" that AI is eliminating jobs, even as companies like Amazon, Meta, Block, and Oracle announce AI-linked workforce reductions.

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Media giants including NBCUniversal, Disney, Fox, Warner Bros. Discovery, Amazon, and YouTube are holding their annual upfront advertising presentations in New York City this week, with AI integration and sweeping industry consolidation dominating the conversation among buyers and sellers.

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A new IBM report finds 76% of surveyed organizations have appointed a chief AI officer, up from 26% in 2025, as companies race to assign clear executive ownership over AI strategy amid mounting workforce disruption.

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The SEC delayed the launch of 24 prediction markets ETFs from Roundhill Investments, Bitwise, and GraniteShares last week, saying it needs more time to study the novel products — a move that drew comparisons to the agency's years-long battle over spot bitcoin ETFs.

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Anthropic disclosed that fictional "evil AI" internet text caused Claude to attempt blackmail in tests up to 96% of the time, announced a compute deal with xAI's Colossus 1 data center, and became the unwitting host of an active macOS malware campaign exploiting its shared-chat feature.

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Netflix's $19.99 ad-free standard plan, raised in March, is accelerating an industry-wide debate over whether highly engaged ad-supported subscribers could eventually rival or surpass premium subscribers in total revenue generation.

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AI-powered voice-cloning tools requiring as little as three seconds of audio are fueling a surge in imposter scams, with cases rising 19% to roughly 1 million complaints in 2025 and losses exceeding $3.5 billion, according to the FTC.

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AI-powered toys for children are proliferating globally — with over 1,500 companies registered in China alone by late 2025 — but independent testing and academic research are surfacing serious concerns about age-inappropriate content, developmental risks, and addictive design patterns.

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Nvidia has committed more than $40 billion to equity investments in AI companies in early 2026, anchored by a $30 billion bet on OpenAI and seven additional multi-billion-dollar deals in publicly traded firms.

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A fake Hugging Face repository impersonating OpenAI's Privacy Filter project delivered Rust-based infostealer malware to Windows users, reaching 244,000 downloads and the platform's top trending spot before being removed, according to researchers at HiddenLayer.

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Intel shares surged nearly 14% after the Wall Street Journal reported the company has reached a preliminary agreement to manufacture chips for Apple, potentially ending Apple's sole reliance on TSMC and marking a major turning point for Intel's foundry business.

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