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AI Business Roundup: Power, Price Wars and the Week's Deals
AI business roundup: power premiums, an Anthropic-OpenAI price war, AMD price hikes, robotics ramps and tighter AI rules shape the week.
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Atlas Energy Wins $613.5M AI Data Center Power Deals, With a Frontier Lab Footing the Bill
Atlas Energy signed $613.5M in AI data center power deals with an unnamed frontier lab, pre-funding generators and storage for two projects.
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Akamai Anthropic Cloud Deal: $11.6 Billion, Seven Years, 5% Stake Warrant
The Akamai Anthropic cloud deal commits $11.6 billion over seven years and carries a warrant for up to 5% of Akamai, with room to reach $20.6 billion.
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ChatGPT Ad Tracking Cookie __obi Reaches 936 Pixels Across 1,029 Sites
OpenAI's __obi ChatGPT ad tracking cookie links advertiser-site visits to ChatGPT accounts for about a year, and an analytics label may sidestep consent.
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AI Agent Card Skimming Now Costs Attackers $25 a Target
Gambit Security says an AI agent card skimming campaign hit 100+ retailers, stole 600,000 card records and cost about $25 per target.
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Ema $77M Series B Backs AI Employees Across HR, IT and Finance
Ema $77M Series B, led by Creaegis, takes total funding to $140M as the startup scales AI Employees across enterprise HR, IT and finance workflows.
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D.C. Circuit Reinstates Pentagon's Anthropic Supply Chain Risk Designation
A federal appeals court upheld the Pentagon's Anthropic supply chain risk designation 2-1, lifting an August injunction on the procurement label.
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Intel 14A Evaluations From Eight Tech Giants Are a Capacity Hedge, Not a Verdict
Eight U.S. tech giants are assessing Intel 14A as TSMC's advanced capacity sells out through 2028, but no production commitments have been signed.
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OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol and Luna Pricing Cut Rests on Caching, Not Subsidy
OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol and Luna pricing halves API rates to $2/$10 and $0.10/$0.50 per million tokens, funded by caching and inference efficiency.
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GPT-6 Cyber Preview Nears as OpenAI Prepares Its First Security Deployment Tool
OpenAI is preparing to preview GPT-6 Cyber within weeks, plus an unnamed product for automated vulnerability patching and security workflows.
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Weekly Tech Roundup: AI Agents and Silicon Set the Pace
Weekly tech roundup: Muse AI tops the App Store, Google patches a Pixel zero-day, Qualcomm splits its 2nm tier and Netflix raises subscription prices.
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McKinsey: Enterprise AI Budget Overruns Tied to Coding Agent Sprawl
McKinsey reports enterprise AI budget overruns as coding agents scale: 93% exceed budgets and 60% of agentic costs go to refining output.
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Microsoft's Copilot Super App Unites Chat, Code and Agents in One Hub
Microsoft's Copilot super app bundles Home, Code and Autopilot, shifting agentic work to usage-based billing as Autopilot enters private preview.
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Microsoft's Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch Move to Snapdragon X2 Plus
Microsoft's Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch add Snapdragon X2 Plus, 5G and brighter screens from $1,149, on sale October 13.
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China DeepSeek Moonshot Probe Tests Beijing's AI Data Rules
China DeepSeek Moonshot probe: Beijing examines whether the two labs routed user data to Anthropic's Claude, as Chinese AI stocks sold off.