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In a letter to several US senators and White House officials, Anthropic accused operators linked to Alibaba's Qwen lab of running roughly 28.8 million unauthorized exchanges with Claude over about six weeks, using an estimated 25,000 fraudulent accounts and commercial proxies to evade Anthropic's China geo-restrictions. The campaign allegedly targeted Claude's most prized capabilities, software engineering and agentic reasoning, to distill them into rival models. Anthropic says this dwarfs the combined scale of three Chinese labs it named back in February.
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At its investor day, Qualcomm revealed the Dragonfly C1000, a server CPU built for agentic AI on its custom Oryon cores, claiming more than 250 cores, clocks beyond 5 GHz, and over 2x the performance per watt of competing server chips. Meta signed on as the launch customer in a multi-year supply agreement, with production targeted for 2028. It is Qualcomm's most aggressive swing yet at the data-center market Nvidia and AMD dominate.
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The world's second-largest memory chipmaker confirmed plans to issue 17.79 million new shares as American depositary receipts, aiming to raise up to about $29 billion as soon as July 10. If priced at the top of the range, it would be the largest ADR offering ever, eclipsing Alibaba's 2014 New York debut. Every dollar is earmarked for fabs and HBM packaging capacity to feed the AI memory boom; the stock is up more than 300% year to date.
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Anthropic updated its privacy policy to require government-issued ID and live facial scans, processed by identity vendor Persona, for a small subset of accounts flagged for potential policy violations but not banned. The change takes effect July 8 and covers Free, Pro, and Max users; Team, Enterprise, and API customers are exempt. Critics flag the biometric collection and Persona's prior security stumbles as the controversy points.
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Micron guided to roughly $50 billion in fiscal fourth-quarter revenue against a $43.2 billion consensus, and said its entire calendar-2026 high-bandwidth-memory output is already committed under price and volume agreements. Gross margin guidance climbed toward 81% as DRAM prices surge and supply stays tight into 2027. The company lifted capital spending by $5 billion, a tell that it expects AI memory demand to keep climbing.
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Founded by ex-Nvidia and Apple engineer Neil Movva and co-founder Samir Menon, Sail emerged from stealth with $80 million in combined seed and Series A led by Kleiner Perkins at a $450 million valuation, with Sequoia, Redpoint, and others joining. Its pitch inverts the usual playbook: instead of optimizing for low latency, it packs far more compute work into each unit of power for long-horizon agents, claiming 3x to 10x cost improvements. It also ships a sandbox called Sailboxes for agents that run for extended durations.
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S&P Dow Jones Indices is adding Alphabet's GOOGL shares to the 30-stock Dow Jones Industrial Average before Monday's open on June 29, dropping Verizon. The move plants another AI mega-cap alongside Nvidia, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft in the blue-chip index, and it lands the same week Alphabet's stock took a beating over a wave of researcher departures. The index manager cited Alphabet's scale and share price as a better fit for the communication-services slot.
