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Blue Origin has introduced a new equity clause designed to prevent employees from leaving for rivals like SpaceX, effectively locking in staff with retention-focused compensation terms.

Source: Benzinga

Anthropic has stated that its chatbots may possess what could be a key feature of consciousness, sparking debate among researchers and commentators about the nature of AI sentience.

Source: SingularityHub

China's Moonshot AI has claimed its new Kimi K3 model is competitive with offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic, signaling intensifying global competition in frontier AI development.

Source: BBC

Meta and Anthropic are in early discussions for a potential $10 billion deal in which Meta would lease computing power to Anthropic, according to multiple reports from the New York Times, Reuters, and CNBC.

Source: The New York Times

Databricks CEO discussed the company's strategy of hosting open-source models such as Kimi on its platform, noting that demand has been so strong the company is running out of GPUs.

Source: CNBC

Innovaccer has launched a new solution aimed at the $100B infusion market, addressing the sector's reliance on manual workflows with AI-driven automation.

Source: Business Wire

Anduril's Brose told Bloomberg that the U.S. weapons sector has never been more energized, reflecting growing momentum and confidence in the defense technology industry.

Source: Bloomberg.com

Harvey has acquired Benchmark, a Y Combinator-backed asset management startup, marking its third acquisition in seven months and signaling the company's expanding strategic direction in legal AI.

Source: Harvey

Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling, a 975B-parameter open-weights multimodal mixture-of-experts model with 41B active parameters, available under the Apache 2.0 license. The model emphasizes customizability and fine-tuning, positioning it as a leading U.S. open-weights AI offering available on platforms including Databricks.

Source: Databricks

Mira Murati's AI lab has released what is described as the largest US open-weight AI model, publishing it on Hugging Face, marking a significant milestone for open-weight model availability on the platform.

Source: Tech Times

Thinking Machines Lab's Inkling model, the AI startup's debut open-weight model, is now available on Databricks, expanding the platform's model ecosystem with a customization-focused AI offering.

Source: Databricks

Loft Orbital is scaling its satellite inventory by procuring Apex Nova buses in addition to Airbus Longbow platforms, broadening its supplier base to meet growing mission demand.

Source: Payload Space

Grafana Labs was recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms, with the company positioned furthest in Completeness of Vision among all evaluated vendors.

Source: Business Wire

Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal Holdings Inc (PYPL.O), opens new tab for $60.50 per share, in a deal that would value the payments company at more than $53 billion.

Source: Reuters

OpenAI's first consumer hardware device will be a movable, screenless speaker designed as an AI companion, according to Bloomberg.

Source: Bloomberg.com

The European Central Bank has chosen Stripe, Revolut, and 34 other firms to participate in testing the digital euro, marking a significant step in Stripe's engagement with central bank digital currency infrastructure.

Source: BeInCrypto

OpenAI is now showing Kalshi's World Cup odds directly within ChatGPT, marking a new integration of real-time prediction market data into the AI assistant.

Source: The New York Times

Sierra Space has been awarded a $798 million missile defense contract in support of the Golden Dome for America initiative, marking a significant defense win for the company.

Source: PR Newswire

Kalshi launched compute forward curves, a new pricing benchmark that shows the implied future price of renting GPU capacity, live now for Nvidia B200, H200, and A100 chips.

Source: Kalshi

Anthropic has launched a free Claude for Teachers program, providing educators with access to its AI tools at no cost, signaling a push into the education sector.

Source: The Hill