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The US Justice Department has charged 14 people and raided more than 40 suspected laptop farms in Texas over North Korean remote IT workers at US firms.

An Azure executive told team leaders to find at least 20% in cost cuts to help pay for AI data centres, The Information reports.

Anthropic has opened a Singapore office and signed a government MOU on AI safety and model evaluation. No figure, no headcount, and the numbers are its own ...

Bumble has agreed to be taken private by Ithaca Holdings for $6.05 a share in cash, valuing the dating app at about $1.3bn.

Guillaume Princen told Bloomberg TV in Dublin that open models carry more risk by definition. Dario Amodei's stated position is narrower than that.

Bloomberg Intelligence says streamed games will be a $38B market by 2035 and consoles will go niche. The case needs a GPU glut that has not come.

Google DeepMind and Google Cloud will give up to 200 European researchers access to AlphaFold 3 and other science models, plus $3m in compute credits.

Nvidia has committed $250M to British AI safety research over five years. It is compute access through its own cloud partners, and nothing is agreed yet.

Anthropic wants the full DC Circuit to revisit a 2-1 ruling on its designation as a supply-chain risk. In Europe the fight could not take this shape.

ASML says it cannot meet demand in 2027 or 2028, and customers are asking about 2029 and 2030. It said so in the same week as the chip selloff.