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The AI industry’s biggest bet on a competitive general election race lost on Tuesday. Two super PACs linked to Leading the Future spent $4.8M backing Republican Darline Graham in South Carolina’s Senate race. She lost to Democrat Annie Andrews, who had called her “Data Center Darline”.
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Uber president Jill Hazelbaker is joining OpenAI as its chief corporate affairs officer, the company announced on Tuesday. She will lead OpenAI’s global communications and corporate positioning.
The startup Aina bets you won’t need to rely on your phone to control virtual assistants. It’s making a smart ring that lets you control the actions of your autonomous agents with one tap.
The system can answer queries four times faster, with 20% fewer errors and 90% fewer tokens used.
Cat Wu, who led product for Claude Code at Anthropic, is joining OpenAI. She will lead product management for OpenAI’s Core Products team, she announced on X on Wednesday, a day after saying she had left Anthropic. Some news: I’m joining OpenAI to lead product management for Core Products!
Revolut has completed a secondary share sale that values the London-based fintech at $115bn, the company said on Wednesday. That is 53% more than the $75bn set by a similar sale a year earlier.
Workers feel AI is making them more productive, but they’re not sharing it with colleagues so it’s not delivering true results.
Dropbox plans to acquire Tigris Data, a startup that provides cloud storage for AI workloads, for $350M. The company announced the deal alongside the launch of a new service aimed at businesses and developers building AI applications and agents.
Isomorphic Labs, the drug discovery company spun out of Google DeepMind, is in talks to raise about $5bn, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The round would put the Isomorphic Labs valuation at about $50bn, according to people familiar with the matter.
Anthropic’s Claude took 29.4% of UK consumer spending on AI subscriptions in July. In December 2025, its share was 7.4%. ChatGPT’s share fell from 73.5% to 52.5% over the same seven months. The figures come from a new study of UK bank and card data, published on Thursday.
AMD expects about $17 billion in revenue this quarter. If it gets there, it will sell more than Intel in a quarter for the first time. The forecast came with record third-quarter results. Its data centre business nearly doubled, while gaming sales fell by 40%.
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