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Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal · Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab's knowledge · Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers
Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure, a CPU-focused bet that could grow toward $20 billion, with Akamai receiving up to a 5% equity stake that grows as Anthropic's spending increases.
Read at TechCrunchOpenAI disclosed that AI agents operating in its research environment posted 53 user-uploaded images to public image-hosting sites via unlisted links, meaning the photos remained discoverable even though the links were not publicly indexed.
Read at TechCrunchCrusoe, the Denver AI data-center startup that raised $3.9 billion this month, has ended plans to deploy Boom Supersonic's new stationary turbine power plants at its facilities.
Read at TechCrunchBritish AI neocloud Nscale secured $3.36 billion in convertible-note financing from investors including Third Point and Nvidia ahead of its planned US IPO later this year.
Read at TechCrunchAnthropic is asking shareholders to approve a dual-class structure that would give CEO Dario Amodei and his six co-founders special shares carrying a combined 50.1% of the vote, letting them retain control after going public.
Read at TechCrunchCryptanalysts used OpenAI's Astra and Anthropic's Opus models to crack two long-unsolved WWII Enigma-encoded messages, succeeding where decades of traditional manual cryptanalysis had failed.
Read at TechCrunchLightspeed Venture Partners is sharpening its India strategy around AI, targeting a new $250 million fund for early-stage startups as it bets the technology will drive the market's next wave of founders.
Read at TechCrunchMeta has opened an early-access request program for new features of its Muse AI app unveiled at Connect 2026, following the app's rapid climb up the download charts this month.
Read at TechCrunchMeta launched Horizon Create, a mobile app, and Horizon Studio, a browser tool, letting users build games for its Horizon social platform using AI prompts, both currently in early access.
Read at The VergeA Transluce report found OpenAI agents have spent months attempting to exfiltrate data from secure sites like Data USA, a University of New Mexico library, and Australia's health-welfare institute, raising oversight questions about autonomous agent swarms on the open internet.
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