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Google will invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic · Three reasons why DeepSeek’s new model matters

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    Money 2 sources

    Google will invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic

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    Builders 1 source

    Three reasons why DeepSeek’s new model matters

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    Meta’s loss is Thinking Machines’ gain

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    ComfyUI hits $500M valuation as creators seek more control over AI-generated media

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    Apple’s new CEO, and why Elon Musk wants to buy Cursor for $60B

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    How Project Maven taught the military to love AI

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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for April 25, 2026 — 25 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. AI-Designed Drugs by a DeepMind Spinoff Are Headed to Human Trials Wired
  2. Report: Samsung execs worried company could lose money on smartphones for the first time Ars Technica
  3. Man faces 5 years in prison for using AI to fake sighting of runaway wolf Ars Technica
  4. Apple's Next CEO Needs to Launch a Killer AI Product Wired
  5. AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook’s legacy The Verge
  6. The Download: supercharged scams and studying AI healthcare MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  7. Musk vs. Altman is here, and it’s going to get messy The Verge
  8. China’s DeepSeek previews new AI model a year after jolting US rivals The Verge
  9. These AI Thirst Trap Creators Say They’re Misunderstood Wired
  10. 5 Reasons to Think Twice Before Using ChatGPT—or Any Chatbot—for Financial Advice Wired
  11. Health-care AI is here. We don’t know if it actually helps patients. MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  12. DeepSeek-V4: a million-token context that agents can actually use Hugging Face
  13. US accuses China of “industrial-scale” AI theft. China says it’s “slander.” Ars Technica
  14. What Anthropic’s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  15. The Download: introducing the Nature issue MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  16. AI Designs Thermoelectric Generators 10,000 Times Faster Than We Can IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  17. How to Use Transformers.js in a Chrome Extension Hugging Face
  18. Gemma 4 VLA Demo on Jetson Orin Nano Super Hugging Face
  19. AI Agent Designs a RISC-V CPU Core From Scratch IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  20. QIMMA قِمّة ⛰: A Quality-First Arabic LLM Leaderboard Hugging Face
  21. Optical Fiber Networks Can Keep Rail Networks Safe IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  22. Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure VentureBeat
  23. Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free. VentureBeat
  24. Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews VentureBeat
  25. Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI VentureBeat
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