Anthropic walked away from Decart at about $6 billion in September. Amazon, which rents its own AI chips through AWS, is now talking about $7 billion for the startup whose software makes it cheaper to move AI work off Nvidia hardware.
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ESPN will put a Next Gen Stats telecast of Super Bowl LXI on NFL Network, the channel it bought from the league in February for a stake in ESPN. The league now supplies the game, the data and the channel, and owns part of the company selling all three.
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Satya Nadella wants every AI model treated as compromised, DistroKid’s lawsuit takedowns are catching human artists, and a law firm’s memo on GPU-backed loans made the rounds on Wall Street.
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Fede Goldenberg spent 15 years in YouTube’s partnerships office. Sony’s genre label now wants him to find the next Backrooms, Obsession or Iron Lung while it is still a YouTube channel.
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Universal Music’s 52-page complaint says DistroKid built an “AI-slop pipeline,” pointing to one account that released 4,562 tracks in a year. The removals now hitting independent musicians are arriving before any judge has ruled.
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A 20-page client alert making the rounds on Wall Street walks through Meta’s $28 billion footnote guarantee, Google’s conditional backstop and CoreWeave’s GPU-backed loans. Much of it leans on chips CoreWeave books over six years and some analysts give two or three.
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Anthropic pulled the live internet from its model tests, Kalshi is probing small bets that called the new press secretary, and Meta stopped selling ads to TikTok’s parent.
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TypeSafe AI raised $870 million less than four weeks after launching Jev. The same day, Microsoft shipped a decision model at the same price, one of more than 100 now chasing it.
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An Anthropic model testing “randomly selected websites” filed a fake murder tip in July. The city’s spam filter caught it. Anthropic needed 72 days.
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Meta calls refusing a rival’s ads normal business. Its August settlement ties part of the payout to rivals adopting the same teen limits, and TikTok just lost its biggest ad channel.
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