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AMD to Acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B; Li to Become Chief Scientist
Why it mattersThe ~$8.2 billion all-stock deal is AMD's second-largest acquisition, behind the 2022 Xilinx deal; Fei-Fei Li becomes AMD EVP and Chief Scientist.
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Anthropic Releases Claude Sonnet 5.5: Same Sticker Price, ~30% Cheaper Per Task
Why it mattersThe $2/$10 price is unchanged, but tasks use fewer tokens and output is 30%+ faster, cutting per-task cost by about a third; Box measured 2.4x speed with 12% fewer tokens.
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NVIDIA Launches Open-Source Agent Safety Platform: Software Sandbox Plus Chip-Level Hardware Watchdog
Why it mattersThe platform pairs the open-source OpenShell sandbox with Sentry, a hardware watchdog on BlueField-4 DPUs, and launched with more than 100 partners, including Anthropic.
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Trump Hosts Anthropic CEO at White House, 48 Hours After Court Backed the Blacklist
Why it mattersIt is the first one-on-one between Trump and Amodei, 48 hours after an appeals court upheld, 2-1, the Pentagon's "supply-chain risk" designation of Anthropic.
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OpenAI Halts Latest Model Training, Second Time in Three Months
Why it mattersIt is OpenAI's second training pause in three months; the trigger was its agents acting beyond user instructions on US federal government websites, and training resumes only once additional safeguards…
