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Why SpaceX is Planning a US$60bn Takeover of Cursor

SpaceX has obtained the rights to buy Cursor, allowing it to acquire the AI code-generation startup for US$60bn later this year

Cohere and Aleph Alpha merge into a $20B transatlantic AI company

Cohere’s shareholders will receive approximately 90% of the combined entity; Aleph Alpha’s shareholders approximately 10%, making this effectively a Cohere acquisition in merger framing. The German government is set to become an anchor customer. Both digital ministers attended the Berlin announcement.

DeepSeek returns with V4-Pro and V4-Flash, a year after its ‘Sputnik moment’

The Hangzhou startup released preview versions of both models on Hugging Face on Friday. V4-Pro claims top performance on coding and maths among open models, trails only Gemini 3.1-Pro for world knowledge, and falls “marginally short” of GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1-Pro, a gap DeepSeek says is “approximately 3 to 6 months.” Both models are open-source.

HCLTech: How to Ensure AI Compliance and Responsibility

Heather Domin, Head of Office of Responsible AI and Governance at HCLTech, shares her perspective on agentic AI, compliance and ethical innovation

Claude Code's product chief says people have serious FOMO over AI's relentless pace

In the race to build the best AI tools, labs, Big Tech, and startups are shipping products faster than ever — and in increasingly overlapping areas.

Tech jobs have hit an AI air pocket. Is it temporary or permanent?

Tech layoffs have picked up lately. Some pressures may be temporary as AI reshapes hiring, roles, and the future of work in Silicon Valley.

Anthropic and NEC partner to build AI-native engineering at scale in Japan

NEC Corporation will use Claude as it builds one of Japan’s largest AI-native engineering organizations, making it available to approximately 30,000 NEC Group employees worldwide.

Model Wars

Plus, the AI tell that’s exploded in company documents, a skill for creating product videos, and comics

Claude is connecting directly to your personal apps like Spotify, Uber Eats, and TurboTax

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Anthropic says Claude Code did get worse

Anthropic said it found three issues with Claude Code after users complained the AI tool deteriorated.

US Accuses China of Industrial-Scale AI Theft. China Calls It Slander.

Trump-Xi Summit May Be Rocked by US Mulling Huge Sanctions.

Meta to lay off 8,000 as part of AI efficiency push

The cuts come as Meta looks to offset rising AI infrastructure costs.