US Government Bans DeepSeek

The Department of Homeland Security ordered all civilian federal agencies to rip out DeepSeek products and stop buying anything built on them.

Anthropic put 5% of its shares, nearly $50 billion, into a fund that could pay direct cash to specific populations like a UBI experiment.

Reuters reports the ban cites DeepSeek's multiple threat vectors, including risk of sensitive data flowing back to China.

Nscale is reportedly in talks to sell Anthropic $45 billion of cloud compute for a second West Virginia data center.

Greptile raised a $50M Series B after its tool started reviewing more than 1% of all GitHub pull requests daily with under 50 employees.

Business bank Mercury crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue, its CEO revealed on a podcast.

AI chip startup Tenstorrent raised $1.5 billion, valuing the company at $6.2 billion after drawing takeover interest earlier this year.

Agility Robotics will put Nyobolt batteries in 7,000 humanoid robots, letting its Digit model recharge in just nine minutes.

A Google DeepMind Gemini agent found and formally proved new math rules for eleven unsolved Busy Beaver machines, checked by automated proofs.

US cybersecurity job postings fell 26.4% in 2026, while AI Security Engineer listings jumped 268.3% to 2,409 openings.