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Cursor launches Origin, a GitHub rival built for the AI coding era, while OpenAI tightens security after the Hugging Face breach. Etched's valuation doubles to $21B in a month, Groq raises $350M for its neocloud pivot, and Relay's team lands at Google's Chrome group — as Amazon faces backlash for destroying rare books to train AI.
Nvidia is backing OpenAI's 8GW PORTS-Pike data center campus in Ohio with up to $105 billion in guarantees, while Anthropic's annualized revenue surges to $65B. OpenAI launches a ChatGPT for Teens experience amid child-safety scrutiny, Claude begins watermarking AI-generated content, and OpenAI tightens defenses after AI agents breached its research environment.
Stripe is reportedly acquiring AI gateway OpenRouter for $7B+, while Nvidia pours $1.5B into a SoftBank-backed data center developer behind OpenAI projects. Groq pivots to a neocloud model with a fresh $350M raise, Amazon faces backlash over destroying rare texts for AI training, and Anthropic frames the AI backlash as a crisis of trust while detailing Claude's new watermarks.
Meta faces a credibility gap as analysts question whether Zuckerberg's AI vision will win over users, while OpenAI names a new chief revenue officer amid an executive shake-up ahead of its expected IPO. IBM is doubling down on OpenAI for enterprise AI, OpenAI ships an 'Ultrafast' mode for GPT-5.6 Sol, and Microsoft is pruning failed AI features as it merges its Copilot apps.
OpenAI has reportedly disbanded its preparedness team, the unit charged with guarding against catastrophic AI risks, while Stripe is buying AI model gateway OpenRouter in a deal worth over $7 billion. Nvidia is nearing a deal to guarantee roughly $100 billion in credit for OpenAI even as it scales back its Ohio data center backing, and Anthropic begins rolling out text watermarking as its CEO calls AI backlash a 'crisis of trust.' House Democrats are pressing both labs on rogue AI agents.
Anthropic is closing in on a $7 billion investment in AI video startup Decart after beating Nvidia to the table, while a Reuters exclusive says its IPO valuation hinges on a $190-200 billion 2028 revenue forecast. Alibaba's Qwen surpassed 3 billion downloads to claim the open-source crown, Anthropic's bio-weapons filter was down for nearly a year exposing 133 million requests, and the US is telling partners they must pick sides in the AI race with China. Nvidia also scaled back its funding guarantee for the OpenAI Ohio data center as infrastructure financing math shifts.
