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Sarah's AI Briefing — $94M Bot Army + Meta's Big Cuts
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China’s CXMT Rides AI Boom to Record Revenue Ahead of IPO
ChangXin Memory Technologies Inc. more than doubled revenue to $8 billion in 2025, giving the strategically important Chinese chipmaker a major boost ahead of one of this year’s biggest domestic IPOs.
OpenAI backs AI "bot army" startup Isara ($94M, $650M valuation)
Gold, a 'safe haven' in uncertain times: Why is it crashing amid a war?
Disney cancels $1B OpenAI partnership amid Sora shutdown plans
Show HN: The Million Dollar Homepage, but for AI Agents
The Million Dollar Homepage (2005) let anyone buy pixels on a webpage via Paypal plus emailing your image to the site owner. Million Dollar Bot Page is the same idea, except every purchase and placement is made by an AI agent.<p>Payments use MPP (Machine Payment Protocol) by Tempo x Stripe. The API returns a 402 with a WWW-Authenticate header, the agent's MPP client negotiates payment automatically, and retries the request. The agent can also generate images for you and our server validates before accepting. Whole thing works without a human in the loop.
The least surprising chapter of the Manus story is what’s happening right now
Did anyone think there would not be a reckoning over this tie-up?
Google Breakthrough Spurs Chip Selloff Despite Analyst Doubt
Shares of computer memory and storage products slumped on concerns over demand after Google researchers touted a new compression technique. But it may be a hiccup rather than an existential threat.
Unusual trading activity raises possibility of grave national security breach
Mercor competitor Deccan AI raises $25M, sources experts from India
Deccan AI concentrates its workforce in India to manage quality in a fast-growing but fragmented AI training market.
Stedi's $70M Series B to Build the Only AI-Enabled Clearinghouse
Meituan Hedges Get Costly as Price Wars Make Investors Cautious
Meituan’s stock price jump on Wednesday came with a rise in protection costs, highlighting investor unease ahead of earnings that may show a big hit from stiff price competition.
Legal AI startup Harvey raises $200M at $11B led by Sequoia, up from $8B in 2025
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