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OpenAI launches a way for enterprises to build and manage AI agents: OpenAI launched Frontier, a new platform designed for enterprises to build and deploy agents while treating them like human employees. Read More

Elon Musk is getting serious about orbital data centers: We're starting to see the idea of Musk-owned orbital AI data clusters cohere into an actual plan. Read More

The Washington Post is retreating from Silicon Valley when it matters most: The Bezos-owned newspaper gutted its San Francisco bureau and coverage of tech — including journalists reporting on Amazon and Blue Origin. Read More

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Afternoon Must-Reads

Anthropic releases Opus 4.6 with new 'agent teams': The newest version of Anthropic's model is designed to broaden its capabilities and appeal, allowing for a greater variety of uses and customers. Read More

Fundamental raises $255M Series A with a new take on big data analysis: Fundamental has built a new foundation model to solve an old problem: how to draw insights from the huge quantities of structured data produced by enterprises. Read More

OpenAI launches new agentic coding model only minutes after Anthropic drops its own: The new model is build to accelerate the capabilities of Codex, the agentic coding tool OpenAI launched earlier this week. Read More

Amazon and Google are winning the AI capex race — but what's the prize?: In 2026, Amazon plans to spend $200 billion in capex. Google is just behind at $175 billion to $185 billion. It's a lot of money! Read More

Data breach at govtech giant Conduent balloons, affecting millions more Americans: The ransomware attack at Conduent allowed hackers to steal a "significant number of individuals' personal information" from the govtech giant's systems. Conduent handles personal and health data of more than 100 million people across America. Read More

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A16z VC wants founders to stop stressing over insane ARR numbers : A16z VC Jennifer Li⁠, who oversees some of the firm's fastest growing AI companies, warns founders not to believe every ARR claim made on X. Read More