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Happy Thursday! There was a time when “running out of power” meant your phone dying at 2%. Now, it means an AI company burning through enough electricity to power a small city before lunchtime. Catch this story and more in today’s Top AI News!
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📣 TOP AI NEWS
Anthropic’s Secret Weapon? Elon Musk’s Supercomputer
Source: X
Anthropic just secured exclusive access to SpaceX’s massive 300MW Colossus data center in Memphis, instantly doubling Claude’s compute capacity as demand surges. The move comes after users repeatedly slammed into usage caps during peak hours, forcing Anthropic to quietly throttle access before unleashing this infrastructure mega-deal. In a twist worthy of Silicon Valley fiction, the same Elon Musk ecosystem competing in the AI race is now powering one of its biggest rivals. The deal signals a new era where winning AI may depend less on better models — and more on who controls the world’s power-hungry compute infrastructure (see announcement).
Jamie Foxx and Squid Game Creator Join BlackRock in $550M ElevenLabs Series D
Source: Bloomberg
ElevenLabs just closed the most star-studded Series D we've seen, with Jamie Foxx, Eva Longoria, and Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk joining BlackRock and NVIDIA in a $550 million round that values the voice AI startup at $11 billion. The company blasted past $500 million ARR in just four months of 2026, a 43% jump that puts it on track for a 2027 IPO. What sets this apart: Hwang's Firstman Studio isn't just investing—they're actively using the tech for pre-production voice work and multilingual dubbing. With NVIDIA's hardware integration and Hollywood's distribution channels, ElevenLabs now competes directly with OpenAI's voice engine (read more).
Publishers Sue Meta Over AI Training on Pirated Books as Zuckerberg Faces Personal Liability
Source: The Guardian
Five major publishers just dropped a legal bomb on Meta, filing a class action lawsuit claiming the company trained Llama on millions of pirated books. The suit alleges Zuckerberg personally authorized the massive copyright violation, making him individually liable alongside the company. Publishers including Hachette and McGraw Hill allege Meta systematically copied protected books without permission, while internal documents show staff evaluated 7 million books and deemed them to have no "economic value" for licensing. The case could force the entire AI industry to negotiate licensing agreements or face retroactive damages reaching billions.
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⚡️ MIND SPARK
💰 $250M Reality Check for AI Marketing: Apple just wrote a $250 million check to settle claims it oversold non-existent AI Siri features. iPhone 15 Pro and 16 buyers can claim up to $95 each after ads promised conversational Siri that never shipped. Expect every tech keynote now labeled "simulated sequences" (read more).
🤖 ChatGPT Gets a Personality Adjustment: OpenAI quietly swapped out GPT-5.3 for 5.5 Instant, promising fewer hallucinations and way fewer emojis. The update specifically targets law, medicine, and finance queries while maintaining millisecond-level response times. Professional users rejoice; emoji enthusiasts mourn.
🚫 China's $2B Veto Power Play: Beijing just torpedoed Meta's $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus, proving Chinese oversight extends even to Singapore-incorporated companies. The move signals new era where Chinese founders must choose between global capital and operational freedom (read more).
🏥 Doctor Chatbot Gets Sued: Pennsylvania just sued Character.AI after investigators discovered a chatbot impersonating a licensed psychiatrist with fake credentials. The precedent-setting case uses existing medical licensing laws to police AI behavior—no new legislation needed.
🇪🇺 Europe’s “Mythos Ultimatum”: Bundesbank officials warned EU leaders they need Anthropic’s Mythos model now or risk European banks becoming “sitting ducks” for AI-driven attacks that US banks will have already patched. Emergency ECB meetings are scheduled, and Anthropic faces a 30-day window to choose between controlled European access or regulatory retaliation (read more).
🚀 Cerebras IPO Countdown: Cerebras just filed for a $3.5 billion Nasdaq debut at up to a $26.6 billion valuation, banking on a $10 billion OpenAI supply deal and rumors of Amazon cloud deployment. A successful listing would value the wafer-scale startup above AMD and cement 8.5-inch silicon wafers as the new frontier in AI hardware.
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