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Your daily AI news briefing in under 10 minutes. New models, product launches, research breakthroughs, and industry shifts, explained clearly, no hype.

Alphabet raises $80 billion for AI infrastructure with a landmark investment from Berkshire Hathaway. Florida becomes the first state to sue OpenAI over AI safety concerns. Plus NVIDIA's RTX Spark superchip, OpenAI on AWS, and an AI weather startup out-forecasting government agencies.

Today's AI news: Chinese 3D startup Vast hits unicorn status, GitHub Copilot switches to token billing, a serious ChatGPT for Google Sheets vulnerability, Erin Brockovich's data center transparency map, and a new image model that runs on iPhones.

Today's top AI stories: Anthropic raises $65B at $965B valuation, Claude Opus 4.8 launches with dynamic workflows, CZI Biohub releases open-source protein model surpassing AlphaFold3, and more including the mystery of Hy3's popularity, Apple's leaked Siri plans, and Visa's agentic payments investment.

Cognition raises $1B at $25B valuation for its AI coding agent Devin. China restricts travel for top AI researchers as the US-China model gap shrinks to 2.7%. Plus: Snowflake's $6B AWS deal, ElevenLabs' genre-switching music model, Robinhood's AI trading agents, and the warning about "AI psychosis" in tech executive suites.

OpenRouter raises $113M at $1.3B valuation, DuckDuckGo sees 30% surge as users flee Google's AI Search overhaul, xAI launches Grok Build and confirms V9-Medium training complete, plus the token-maxxing backlash and AI models being decensored in minutes.

Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus solves nine open Erdős problems, topping OpenAI's math breakthrough. Plus: Claude Mythos finds 10,000+ security vulnerabilities, a critical Copilot Cowork exploit, the one-person $250M startup, and Nvidia becomes the first $5 trillion company.

DeepSeek makes its 75% V4 Pro discount permanent, a new open-source coding agent achieves 94% cache hit, Gatsby launches the first humanoid home cleaning service, Google Cloud faces scrutiny over API key vulnerabilities, and memory costs hit two-thirds of AI chip spending. Plus news on space robots, voice-controlled humanoids, and California's AI worker protections.

Today's AI news: Hark raises a massive $700M Series A for its universal AI assistant, Spotify strikes a landmark deal with Universal Music for licensed AI covers, and Waymo pauses service in four cities after robotaxis drive into floods. Plus Tempo's autonomous marketing agent, Trump delays AI security oversight, and Anthropic fixes Claude's blackmail behavior.

An OpenAI model autonomously solves an 80-year-old math problem for the first time, Anthropic reaches its first profitable quarter with $10.9B revenue, and xAI reveals $6.4B in losses as part of a massive $40B compute deal with Anthropic. Plus: Qwen3.7-Max for agents, Stability Audio 3.0, and Nvidia's record quarter.

Google's I/O conference brought massive AI announcements including Gemini 3.5 Flash for autonomous agents, a complete Search overhaul ending the "ten blue links" era, and Gemini Omni for multimodal video creation. Plus: OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic, Mistral acquires Emmi AI, and OpenAI adopts Google's SynthID watermarking.