Sources: SoftBank-owned Japanese payments app PayPay delays its IPO roadshow that was scheduled to launch Monday, as markets were rattled by the strikes in Iran (Echo Wang/Reuters)

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Sources: SoftBank-owned Japanese payments app PayPay delays its IPO roadshow that was scheduled to launch Monday, as markets were rattled by the strikes in Iran  —  SoftBank's (9984.T) PayPay has delayed its highly anticipated IPO roadshow that was scheduled to launch Monday as markets …

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ByteDance shares details about its "Project Swan" headset, set to launch this year with a 4,000-PPI micro-OLED display, and unveils Pico OS 6, its new XR OS (David Heaney/UploadVR)

David Heaney / UploadVR:
ByteDance shares details about its “Project Swan” headset, set to launch this year with a 4,000-PPI micro-OLED display, and unveils Pico OS 6, its new XR OS  —  ByteDance's Pico announced the key display and compute specs of its “Project Swan” headset, coming later this year …

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A profile of Palmer Luckey and his startup Anduril, which has more than $6B in global contracts, had roughly $2B in revenue last year, and is valued at ~$31B (New York Times)

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A profile of Palmer Luckey and his startup Anduril, which has more than $6B in global contracts, had roughly $2B in revenue last year, and is valued at ~$31B  —  Within minutes of arriving at a security conference with U.S. defense and intelligence officials in December …

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Sources: Reflection AI, which is developing open foundation models, seeks to raise $2B+ at a $20B+ valuation, after raising $2B at an $8B valuation in October (Financial Times)

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Sources: Reflection AI, which is developing open foundation models, seeks to raise $2B+ at a $20B+ valuation, after raising $2B at an $8B valuation in October  —  Reflection AI's new funding talks come as Trump administration seeks US rivals to China's DeepSeek

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Anthropic's $60B+ in funding, half of which came just last month, from over 200 investors is now at risk due to the company's contract dispute with the Pentagon (Dan Primack/Axios)

Dan Primack / Axios:
Anthropic's $60B+ in funding, half of which came just last month, from over 200 investors is now at risk due to the company's contract dispute with the Pentagon  —  Anthropic has raised more than $60 billion from over 200 “venture capital” investors, half of which came just last month.

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X announces a "Paid Partnership" label that creators can apply to their posts to indicate they're ads; until now, creators relied on hashtags to label posts (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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X announces a “Paid Partnership” label that creators can apply to their posts to indicate they're ads; until now, creators relied on hashtags to label posts  —  Social network X on Monday announced the introduction of a new “Paid Partnership” label that creators can apply to their posts to indicate they're advertisements.

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The Anthropic-DOD skirmish is the first major public debate on control over frontier AI, and institutions behaved erratically, maliciously, and without clarity (Dean W. Ball/Hyperdimensional)

Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional:
The Anthropic-DOD skirmish is the first major public debate on control over frontier AI, and institutions behaved erratically, maliciously, and without clarity  —  On Anthropic and the Department of War  —  I.  —  A little more than a decade ago, I sat with my father and watched him die.

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SCOTUS declines to hear a dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material, in a case where a computer scientist was denied a copyright for AI-generated art (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

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SCOTUS declines to hear a dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material, in a case where a computer scientist was denied a copyright for AI-generated art  —  The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up the issue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence …

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A look at what rights AI companies have in US government contracts, including the "any lawful use" standard, amid the Anthropic-DOD dispute and OpenAI-DOD deal (Jessica Tillipman)

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A look at what rights AI companies have in US government contracts, including the “any lawful use” standard, amid the Anthropic-DOD dispute and OpenAI-DOD deal  —  It Depends on the Acquisition Pathway, the Contract Type, and the Contract Terms.

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Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data (Hayden Field/The Verge)

Hayden Field / The Verge:
Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data  —  On Friday evening, amidst fallout from a standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced …

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