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Anthropic reveals 16 million exchanges stolen by DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot through 24,000 fake accounts, while the Pentagon gives Anthropic a Friday deadline to drop Claude's safety guardrails for military use. Plus: Meta signs a $100B+ AMD chip deal and MatX raises $500M to take on Nvidia.
The DoD threatens Anthropic with a label usually reserved for foreign adversaries. Plus: Sonnet 4.6 drops, World Labs raises $1B, NVIDIA and Meta forge a massive infrastructure deal, and the SaaSpocalypse erases $2 trillion in software market cap.
Google DeepMind releases AlphaGenome source code to nearly 3,000 scientists worldwide, while Amazon's 'Project Dawn' layoffs leak hours early. Microsoft and Meta report earnings as $100B+ AI infrastructure investments face scrutiny.
Meta slashes 1,000+ VR jobs to double down on AI wearables, robotics startup Skild AI raises $1.4B at $14B valuation, Senate unanimously passes DEFIANCE Act targeting deepfakes, and AI chip challengers raise billions.
Meta announces America's largest corporate nuclear energy deal for AI data centers, MIT names Generative Coding a 2026 breakthrough, and Anthropic faces developer backlash over IDE restrictions.
Indonesia and Malaysia block Grok over deepfakes, AI memory sells out through 2026 with 50%+ price surges, and Anthropic's enterprise dominance gets the spotlight.
Anthropic nearly doubles its valuation to $350B in just three months, xAI closes a massive $20B round, Meta faces leadership turmoil as Yann LeCun breaks his silence on Llama 4, and CES 2026 continues with major announcements from Nvidia, AMD, and Samsung.
SoftBank completes history's largest private funding round, Meta acquires Manus for $2B+, and a look at the regulatory landscape as 2025 closes out.