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EU-Anthropic Talks Stall Over Mythos AI Cybersecurity Concerns, Spain Says
Spain's economy minister says EU talks with Anthropic over Mythos access have made limited progress ahead of a meeting of EU finance ministers.
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OpenAI filed a confidential S-1 targeting a September public listing; EU finance ministers said Anthropic talks over Mythos access have stalled while US bank regulators separately paused cyber exams over the same model; Railway's founder argued cloud infrastructure must be rebuilt from bare metal for agent workloads; Intuit cut more than 3,000 jobs to redirect spending toward AI; Hark raised $700 million at a $6 billion valuation for a universal AI interface and hardware; TechCrunch examined whether Google's post-I/O consumer agent push will find buyers; Spotify and Universal Music agreed on licensed AI covers with artist revenue sharing; and Indiana University researchers identified IDOL as a potential new Alzheimer's drug target.
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Spain's economy minister says EU talks with Anthropic over Mythos access have made limited progress ahead of a meeting of EU finance ministers.
OpenAI plans to file a confidential S-1 with the SEC targeting a September public listing, working with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
US regulators paused bank cybersecurity examinations to give lenders time to assess risks from Anthropic's Mythos AI model.
Railway founder Jake Cooper discusses rebuilding cloud infrastructure for agent workloads on bare-metal data centers with agent-safe deployment primitives.
Brett Adcock's AI lab raised $700 million at a $6 billion valuation to build a universal AI assistant and custom hardware devices.
Intuit announced more than 3,000 layoffs as the financial software company redirects headcount and spending toward AI-driven products.
TechCrunch examines whether Google's Gemini Spark and post-I/O consumer agent products will find mainstream adoption beyond early users.
Simon Willison released Datasette Agent, an open-source AI assistant that answers natural-language questions about data in SQLite databases.
Spotify and Universal Music agreed to let fans use AI to create licensed covers and remixes of songs, with artist revenue sharing.
Indiana University researchers found that removing the IDOL enzyme from neurons reduced amyloid plaques and APOE levels in mice.