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| Top Stories | An Anthropic “whistleblower” named Jacob Coxon quit the company and shared a viral X post warning about the dangers of rapid AI development. — WIRED NYU mathematics professor Tristan Buckmaster alleges that OpenAI started working on the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem after learning of his own research, and may have trained its models using his work (along with colleague and Anthropic staffer Levent Alpöge). – TechCrunch Google will purchase 1 million carbon credits from an Indian startup named Mitti Labs, which pays rice farmers to adopt practices that reduce methane emissions and water use. — TechCrunch ID verification giant IDScan confirmed a breach exposing more than 150 million driver’s licenses and other government-issued identity documents, including people’s full names. — TechCrunch OpenAI is ending its $1-a-year pilot program with the US federal government and moving agencies to usage-based pricing at 50% off standard rates. — Bloomberg
| Top Funding Announcements | SMach Industries — The unmanned military vehicle and weapons startup raised a $600M Series C extension led by Khosla Ventures. — Dealroom TAR — The startup raised a $120M Series A led by Spark Capital to build off-grid power systems for energy-hungry data centers. — Bloomberg Arlequin AI — The Paris startup raised a €28M Series A co-led by redalpine and OTB. — Tech.eu Boring Co. — Elon Musk’s tunneling startup raised $3B from the United Arab Emirates and affiliated entities at a $23B valuation to finance its underground transportation projects. — Bloomberg Listen Labs — The AI research startup abandoned a signed $1.5B Series C term sheet led by Menlo Ventures to pursue talks with Salesforce. — TechCrunch
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