Amazon is in talks to buy AI startup Decart in a deal that could value it at ~$7B; Anthropic had decided against acquiring Decart for ~$6B in September (Wall Street Journal)
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SpaceX agrees to acquire a low-band spectrum portfolio to help Starlink "become a major mobile carrier in the US"; AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon fall 6%+ after hours (Bloomberg)
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Anthropic’s subscriptions offer ~5x more API-equivalent value per month than OpenAI’s for agentic workloads with Claude Opus 5.5 vs. GPT-6.1 Sol (SemiAnalysis)
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Apple releases an update for iPhone 18 Pro Max devices on AT&T to address cellular failures; units that already lost service require hardware replacement (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
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Efficient Computer, which uses dataflow architectures to develop faster and more energy-efficient chips, raised a $97M Series B at a $650M valuation (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
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Microsoft unveils the $1,149+ Surface Pro 12-inch and the $1,199+ Surface Laptop 13-inch with Snapdragon X2 Plus, and a new Surface Mouse with built-in haptics (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
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Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B open-weight model it says outperforms most closed-source models, with native transparency and up to ten reference images (Qwen)
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Anthropic redesigns Claude projects, letting users describe work in one conversation and have Claude manage it across parallel threads, starting in Claude Code (Claude)
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Cornelis, spun off from Intel in 2020 to build networking tech that helps AI chips communicate more effectively, raised $205M led by IAG Capital (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
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