Bloomberg : Iranians turn to Starlink, decentralized messaging apps, and VPNs to circumvent an internet blackout; NetBlocks says connecti...
Iranians turn to Starlink, decentralized messaging apps, and VPNs to circumvent an internet blackout; NetBlocks says connectivity is at 1% of ordinary levels — Iranians are finding ways to circumvent a fresh internet blackout imposed by their government and are sharing footage of US and Israeli airstrikes with the world.
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New York-based Ease Health, which is building an AI-native OS for behavioral health providers, emerged from stealth and raised a $41M Series A led by a16z — Behavioural health providers across the US are struggling with outdated software. Most clinics use separate systems for admissions, patient records, and billing.
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Alibaba releases the open-weight Qwen3.5 Small Model Series in 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B sizes, claiming the 9B model rivals OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b on some benchmarks — Earlier today, e-commerce giant Alibaba's Qwen Team of AI researchers, focused primarily on developing and releasing to the world …
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Sources: SoftBank-owned Japanese payments app PayPay delays its IPO roadshow that was scheduled to launch Monday, as markets were rattled by the strikes in Iran — SoftBank's (9984.T) PayPay has delayed its highly anticipated IPO roadshow that was scheduled to launch Monday as markets …
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ByteDance shares details about its “Project Swan” headset, set to launch this year with a 4,000-PPI micro-OLED display, and unveils Pico OS 6, its new XR OS — ByteDance's Pico announced the key display and compute specs of its “Project Swan” headset, coming later this year …
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A profile of Palmer Luckey and his startup Anduril, which has more than $6B in global contracts, had roughly $2B in revenue last year, and is valued at ~$31B — Within minutes of arriving at a security conference with U.S. defense and intelligence officials in December …
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Sources: Reflection AI, which is developing open foundation models, seeks to raise $2B+ at a $20B+ valuation, after raising $2B at an $8B valuation in October — Reflection AI's new funding talks come as Trump administration seeks US rivals to China's DeepSeek
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Anthropic's $60B+ in funding, half of which came just last month, from over 200 investors is now at risk due to the company's contract dispute with the Pentagon — Anthropic has raised more than $60 billion from over 200 “venture capital” investors, half of which came just last month.
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X announces a “Paid Partnership” label that creators can apply to their posts to indicate they're ads; until now, creators relied on hashtags to label posts — Social network X on Monday announced the introduction of a new “Paid Partnership” label that creators can apply to their posts to indicate they're advertisements.
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The Anthropic-DOD skirmish is the first major public debate on control over frontier AI, and institutions behaved erratically, maliciously, and without clarity — On Anthropic and the Department of War — I. — A little more than a decade ago, I sat with my father and watched him die.
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