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The US government blacklisted Anthropic for refusing to enable surveillance. OpenAI complied. Both outcomes should alarm European policymakers.

Ex-Neuralink president Max Hodak's Science Corp will place a 520-electrode sensor on a human cortex during existing brain surgery, led by Yale's Murat Günel. Trials may begin in 2027.

YouTube will automatically hold back ads during livestreams when chat engagement spikes, and give Super Chat buyers personal ad-free windows. Gifts expand to six new markets.

AppDirect has acquired Toronto's PartnerStack, combining 138,000 B2B partners with its marketplace infrastructure in a bid to unify enterprise software distribution under one platform.

Swedish industrial tech group Hexagon is acquiring Waygate Technologies from Baker Hughes for $1.45B, combining surface metrology with internal non-destructive testing across aerospace and manufacturing.

Synera has raised $40M in a Series B to scale its agentic AI platform for engineering, already deployed at NASA, BMW, Airbus, Volvo Trucks, and Hyundai.

Amazon has agreed to acquire Globalstar in an $11.6B deal and will take over powering Emergency SOS on iPhone. Amazon Leo D2D service launches 2028.

Hexagon has agreed to acquire Waygate Technologies from Baker Hughes in a $1.45 billion all-cash deal. Waygate generates $630M in revenue.

Helical has raised $10M to build the application layer that makes bio foundation models reproducible in pharma R&D. It's already in production with Pfizer.

Five French startups are competing for 500M in government funding to build fault-tolerant quantum computers, with Alice & Bob's cat qubits emerging as a serious contender against US rivals.