Ithaca Holdings acquires Bumble for $1.3 billion after collapse
The sale of one of consumer social's best-known dating brands caps a fall from a $14.8 billion peak, a steeper drawdown than its closest competitor suffered.
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White House moves to take direct control of AI model testing
Moving senior testing officials under White House reporting lines would concentrate oversight of the most capable AI models in one office, amid coordination problems with Commerce.
Read storyReport: OpenAI and Anthropic pressured safety evaluators
The reported lobbying over what evaluators can publish raises questions about how independent frontier-model oversight really is.
Read storyAI model finds critical Chrome vulnerability in six days
A $40,000 compute run claimed Google's first full-chain bug bounty of the year for a flaw affecting roughly a billion users, showing defenders can now match attacker-grade tooling.
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Anthropic hardens Claude against model distillation attacks
Working defenses raise the cost of copying frontier models, protecting the training investment behind the industry's leading products.
Read storyX bundles Cursor, its AI assistant, and Premium into one plan
Bundling a coding editor, an assistant, and a social tier at $8 a month pressures standalone developer tools, and changed Cursor pricing rules for third-party models are already fr
Read storyCursor folds into the X subscription with shared usage
Paid plans moving to one usage pool across coding tools signal AI developer products consolidating under a single subscription.
Read storyTrump administration moves AI testing officials into White House
Pulling Commerce Department AI evaluation staff under direct White House reporting lines would concentrate federal oversight of frontier model safety.
Read storyAndreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst move to supply startup compute
Top venture firms racing to provide chips and data centers shows access to compute has become as decisive for startups as capital itself.
Read storyMeta launches Muse Wonder frontier models for agents
Early builders are already shipping real projects on the model, and the debut puts Meta squarely among the frontier labs.
Read storyMicrosoft adds Anthropic models to Copilot
The dominant productivity suite paying a rival lab for better task automation signals exclusive model deals are loosening across enterprise software.
Read storyMicrosoft bets its cloud on its own AI chips
Running Microsoft's services on in-house silicon at massive scale could reshape demand for merchant GPUs.
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