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Erin Brockovich takes aim at data center secrecy

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has a new mission.

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AI infrastructure capacity and cost are becoming core constraints for labs and enterprises scaling real workloads.

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Experts say ChatGPT, Gemini, and other Western AI models are turbocharging Iran's cyber operations, helping it develop malware and launch phishing attacks (Jacob Judah/Financial Times)

Jacob Judah / Financial Times: Experts say ChatGPT, Gemini, and other Western AI models are turbocharging Iran's cyber operations, helping it develop malware and launch phishing attacks — Western AI models are turbocharging Tehran's cyber operations, helping it develop malware and launch attacks

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A look at AMD CEO Lisa Su's and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's contrasting China playbooks, with Su keeping a lower profile; China accounts for ~20% of AMD's revenue (Reuters)

Reuters: A look at AMD CEO Lisa Su's and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's contrasting China playbooks, with Su keeping a lower profile; China accounts for ~20% of AMD's revenue — When AMD CEO Lisa Su arrived in China last week just days after Nvidia's CEO left, she kept a much lower profile than Jensen Huang …

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Sources: Microsoft and NVIDIA will unveil the first Windows PCs powered by NVIDIA SoCs, including devices from Surface and Dell, at Computex and Build 2026 (Ina Fried/Axios)

Ina Fried / Axios: Sources: Microsoft and Nvidia will unveil the first Windows PCs powered by Nvidia SoCs, including devices from Surface and Dell, at Computex and Build 2026 — The company best known for powering the AI boom is coming for the PC: Nvidia is expected next week to debut the first Windows computers …

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A look at the nasty fight between Anthropic-backed super PAC Public First and OpenAI-backed Leading the Future to sway midterms, especially Democratic primaries (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)

Theodore Schleifer / New York Times: A look at the nasty fight between Anthropic-backed super PAC Public First and OpenAI-backed Leading the Future to sway midterms, especially Democratic primaries — One super PAC is allied with Anthropic.

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Anthropic cuts its list of unauthorized secondary market sellers from eight to four after the initial notice caused panic and pushback from investors (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)

Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: Anthropic cuts its list of unauthorized secondary market sellers from eight to four after the initial notice caused panic and pushback from investors — Anthropic PBC updated its warning about secondary markets for its shares, cutting the number of unauthorized platforms by half …

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Sources detail AI companies' engagement with US FERC as the energy regulator readies a June proposal to speed up data center connections to regional power grids (Politico)

Politico: Sources detail AI companies' engagement with US FERC as the energy regulator readies a June proposal to speed up data center connections to regional power grids — “The hyperscalers, when they do come speak to us, they don't speak FERC,” Swett said. “Their complaints about the utilities …

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A profile of OpenAI President Greg Brockman, who is overseeing product in his new role and has become an important ambassador for AI to the Trump administration (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: A profile of OpenAI President Greg Brockman, who is overseeing product in his new role and has become an important ambassador for AI to the Trump administration — After years in the shadow of better-known co-founders, Greg Brockman is stepping into the spotlight.

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From reactive operations to autonomous infrastructure: What IT leaders must do next

As artificial intelligence agents begin to proliferate across information technology infrastructure, IT leaders are moving away from asking, “How do we monitor every alert?” to “How do we design infrastructure that can solve its own problems?” Operations teams can now deploy agents to triage alerts, correlate...

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Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion valuation, coinciding with its release of Claude Opus 4.8, a hybrid reasoning model featuring dynamic workflows for coordinating subagent swarms.
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Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion valuation alongside launching Claude Opus 4.8, which introduces a one-million token context window and dynamic workflow tools to coordinate swarms of subagents.
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Anthropic has expanded its model portfolio with Claude Opus 4.8, featuring a one-million-token context window and dynamic workflow tools to coordinate agentic subagent swarms.
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Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation, signaling substantial private capital concentration ahead of an anticipated initial public offering.
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Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, a hybrid reasoning model featuring a one-million token context window and dynamic workflow tools designed to coordinate subagent swarms and enhance consistency on long-running tasks.
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Google announced Gemini Omni and the Gemini 3.5 series of models, designed to combine frontier intelligence with actionable capabilities, alongside its Google Antigravity and Universal Cart projects at its 2026 developer conference.
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Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, a hybrid reasoning model featuring a 1M context window and a dynamic workflow tool designed to coordinate swarms of subagents for long-running professional tasks.
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Anthropic's $65 billion Series H funding at a $965 billion valuation coincides with the launch of Claude Opus 4.8, which introduces hybrid reasoning and dynamic workflow tools to coordinate subagent swarms.
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