Anaconda Acquires AI-Security Startup Enkrypt AI to Fortify Enterprise Agent Security

coreweave.com 0m ago 22 CoreWeave books 360 MW in Indonesia in first Asia-Pacific push CoreWeave announced its first Asia-Pacific expansion: three owned-and-operated Indonesian data centers totaling 360 MW of contracted IT power, expected online in 2028. The push extends the company's 49-site, 3.5 GW-contracted global footprint and is pitched at Southeast Asian governments and enterprises that need AI compute close to their data for locality and latency reasons. ByteDance's Zhang tells staff: no distillation to catch rivals The Information reports ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming told employees at a July all-hands that the company will not distill from rivals to accelerate its own models, formalizing a stance the Seed team has held since inception. The rule commits ByteDance to self-collected, self-cleaned training data — a costly path given Doubao and Seedance's SOTA ambitions — and sharpens the contrast with peers repeatedly accused of distilling OpenAI and Anthropic outputs. Note: article body unfetched; downstream will re-verify. Google in $1.5B+ talks to poach Mechanize's coding-agent team Business Insider reports Google is negotiating a deal potentially worth $1.5 billion or more with Mechanize, the Tamay Besiroglu / Ege Erdil / Matthew Barnett startup building RL environments for coding agents. Structure mirrors the Windsurf and Character.AI playbook — hire the team and license the tech rather than acquire. Note: article body unfetched; downstream will re-verify. Anthropic confirms in-house team building custom Claude chips Business Insider reports Anthropic has moved past its earlier 'exploring' phase to formally build an in-house silicon team, co-designing hardware and models and pursuing a 'multi-chip approach' rather than a single custom ASIC. The confirmation follows July reports of preliminary Samsung 2nm talks and the hire of ex-OpenAI chip engineer Clive Chan, and lands as Anthropic already leans on AWS Trainium, Google TPUs and Nvidia GPUs. Note: article body unfetched; downstream will re-verify. vincentschmalbach.com 0m ago 27 TIME serves AI bots a different site, with ads baked in Vincent Schmalbach documents that TIME.com serves ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and OAI-SearchBot a 13KB markdown page (vs a 303KB HTML page for humans and Googlebot) with sponsored FAQ blocks from Ally Bank and Project Management Institute baked in. Mobian tags each response with a UUID and counts impressions in tokens; GPTBot and ChatGPT-User are blocked outright. TIME's COO says agent inventory is now a growing revenue line as bot traffic exceeds humans most days. Shopify Q2 beats, Sidekick AI merchant use up 4x year over year Shopify posted Q2 revenue of $3.6B, up 34% YoY, GMV of $115.6B (up 32%), with 18% free-cash-flow margins; SHOP jumped 30%+ pre-market. On the AI side, weekly active merchants using Sidekick roughly quadrupled year over year, with merchants using it to build custom apps, automate workflows and modify storefronts. thewaltdisneycompany.com 1h ago 18 Disney and TikTok will pipe fan-made IP videos into Disney+ Verts Disney and TikTok announced a first-of-its-kind global content-sharing deal that lets opted-in creators remix scenes from Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, FX and more, with curated videos flowing into Disney+'s vertical 'Verts' feed. Pilots in the US in coming months, other markets to follow. A tiered Disney Creator Ambassador Program adds rewards and career development for top creators. Uber pledges $10B to put 120K robotaxis in 15+ cities this year On its Q2 call, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company will spend more than $10 billion 'over the coming years' to deploy 120,000 driverless vehicles, targeting 15+ cities in 2026 (including San Francisco, LA, London, Dubai and Munich). Q2 revenue rose 12% to $14.2B, but Q3 EPS guidance trailed estimates. Uber also disclosed that its Waymo exclusivity in Atlanta and Austin will end by early 2028. Google Assistant dies Sept 4, Gemini replaces it on Android Google says it will begin removing Google Assistant from Android and Wear OS on September 4, 2026, with the process taking a few weeks to reach all users. Access will also end on paired headphones and Android Auto, though cars with Google Built-in keep Assistant running past the cutoff. Once removed, users can no longer switch back — Gemini becomes the sole assistant experience on Android. SAP, Capgemini emerge as Europe's unexpected AI winners Reuters analysis finds Europe's largest legacy tech groups — SAP, Capgemini, Sopra Steria and OVHcloud — reporting stronger AI-driven demand in Q2 as enterprises move from experimentation to deployment. SAP's cloud backlog rose 26% at constant currencies to €22.9B, Capgemini raised its annual growth target after bookings climbed 9.2%, and Sopra Steria upgraded its outlook after organic growth accelerated to 5.3%. The pattern challenges the assumption that AI would disproportionately favor newer, US-native cloud incumbents. ftm.eu 3h ago 20 Palantir paid 1.4% global tax in 2025, shifted €12M from EU A Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability (CICTAR) report for the European Federation of Public Service Unions found Palantir paid an effective global tax rate of just 1.4% in 2025 — $22.7M on $1.66B pre-tax profit — by routing European revenues through the US via stock-based compensation and licensing arrangements. Country-level effective rates for 2024 included the UK at 8.2% (£2.1M), Germany 31% (€641K), Spain 26.2% (€147K) and France 33% (€1.6M). Palantir holds government contracts across France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and the UK. Moove raises $250M at $2.1B for Waymo robotaxi 'Nests' Autonomous-vehicle fleet operator Moove raised $250M in a Series C led by Mubadala at a $2.1B valuation, with Woven Capital, Ion Pacific, BlueCrest and Sona Capital joining existing backers BlackRock, MUFG, Uber and Franklin Templeton. The money funds Moove's robotics-first depot 'Nests' — where third-party AV fleets (including Waymo cars now live or announced in Phoenix, Miami and London) get charged, serviced, maintained and orchestrated. Moove's last announced round was $100M at ~$750M in early 2024. TfL licenses Wayve robotaxis, Uber's London trial cleared Transport for London granted Private Hire Vehicle licenses to a fleet of Wayve's autonomous all-electric Ford Mustang Mach-Es, completing the 'triple-lock' requirement (operator, driver and vehicle each licensed) needed for London robotaxi trips. Over 100,000 Londoners have registered on Uber's interest list; trial rides begin later this summer under the UK's AV Trialling Code with a TfL-licensed human driver onboard to oversee each ride. Waymo is separately planning its own London robotaxi rollout in 2026. Wired: boomers gift grandkids AI-generated slop picture books Wired's Miles Klee reports that parents across the US are receiving AI-generated children's books from grandparents who used tools like StoryWonderBook and Childbook.ai to spin up personalized picture books from photos and details of their grandchildren. Parents told Wired the books are low-quality, bore their kids, and raise privacy concerns about the child data fed into the services. Four tracked AI experts shared the piece on Bluesky within 48 hours. Reddit mods fight AI astroturfing that hijacks ChatGPT answers The Verge's Mia Sato reports Reddit moderators are battling a wave of AI-powered astroturfing ad campaigns that exploit the platform's trusted reputation to seed skincare and other product recommendations into ChatGPT and Gemini answers. Reddit's own AI now catches roughly 25,000 spam posts and comments a day, but a new discipline — generative engine optimization — has emerged specifically to plant marketing copy Reddit's user-facing bots and OpenAI/Google's LLMs will surface as organic community opinion. understandingai.org 5h ago 19 Top mathematicians at ICM 2026 grapple with AI as research partner Understanding AI surveyed more than 20 mathematicians at the I