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Moonshot AI wants Nvidia chips to train next Kimi model

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Musk's tunneling startup eyes $20B valuation, new funding

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The Boring Company is in discussions about to raise a fresh $4 billion in funding round that would value Elon Musk's tunneling startup at about $20 billion, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing anonymous sources. The SpaceX spinoff makes tunnel boring machines that promise to dig underground for less than the cost of traditional construction companies. In 2022, a $675 million funding round boosted Boring's value to about $5.7 billion. Notable investors at the time included Vy Capital, Sequoia Capital and Founders Fund.

Massive AI spending spree appears to pass its peak

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Corporate America has gotten hip to AI. Companies have realized recently that in order to perform everyday tasks, they don't necessarily need the most cutting-edge models that cost significantly more than less capable alternatives. "It’s like driving a Lamborghini to go to the grocery store to pick up milk," Cursor's Mike Saeks told The Wall Street Journal. The new, more cautious approach marks a departure from the recent days of "tokenmaxxing," in which firms encouraged spending based on the belief that it would improve output.

Anthropic debuts Opus 5 amid sectorwide security concerns

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Anthropic debuted a new AI model Friday as the tech world grapples with the fallout from a worrisome security breach. Claude Opus 5 "comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price," the company said in a release, noting "it remains behind Mythos 5 on cybersecurity tasks." Anthropic released both Fable 5 and Mythos 5 last month, but temporarily restricted access to them due to government security concerns. Earlier this week, OpenAI blamed "a combination" of its AI models for breaching Hugging Face's internal systems.

Tech leaders urge caution on AI model restrictions

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The leaders of more than 20 tech companies including LinkedIn parent Microsoft and Nvidia are urging Washington not to rush to impose restrictions on open-weight AI models. In a joint letter, the coalition argues that open models fuel competition, and warns that clamping down on them risks AI power getting concentrated among a handful of proprietary models. The pushback comes as U.S. officials probe potential IP theft by Chinese firm Moonshot, whose model Kimi 3 has recently made waves.

America's fastest-growing cities for jobs and talent

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Augusta, Georgia, takes the top spot on LinkedIn's list of Cities on the Rise, a data-backed ranking of the fastest-growing U.S. metros for jobs and talent. The list measures year-over-year growth in professional migration, hiring and job postings to surface the cities outside larger hubs where momentum is growing. From (No. 1) Augusta's expanding cybersecurity and defense corridor to (No. 12) Albany, New York's dominance in semiconductor research and development, the ranking uncovers emerging areas of opportunity and the local trends behind their growth.