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Asian shares are mixed after US midterm elections as AI-related stocks sink in Japan and South Korea

Shares were mixed in Asia on Thursday as heavy selling of AI-related stocks offset gains for some markets following the U.S. midterm elections.

Agility Robotics is taking humanoid robots public in a first for Wall Street

The Oregon startup, whose humanoid robots carry heavy materials in factories and warehouses, is expected to begin trading on Nasdaq on Thursday.

Anthropic reportedly made a licensing deal with the Associated Press.

The deal, Anthropic’s first with a publication, was struck ahead of the midterms, Adweek reports. Thanks to the deal, if you “opened Claude on Election Night and asked it for an update on the latest polling data, you would have been treated to a novel sight: up-to-the-minute information, provided by and attributed to the Associated Press,” according to the publication.

A top Anthropic product leader has been poached by OpenAI

Cat Wu left Anthropic last week after becoming one of the company's highest-profile product managers and is now joining rival OpenAI.

This tiny North Dakota town was the only place to vote in support of data centers

Among 45 data center propositions on the ballot during the midterms, only one small town voted against reining them in.

AI PACs Spent Millions Trying to Shape Congress — Here's How They Fared

AI industry PACs spent millions influencing the 2022 midterms, with mixed results. Political groups are already looking toward the next election cycle.

Qualcomm is betting big on data centers as smartphone sales sink

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Meta bought an AI coding startup.

First, xAI spent $60 billion on Cursor, and now Meta picked up Conductor for an undisclosed amount, as reported previously by Axios, as they all compete with the likes of Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex.

Uranium cubes reveal why the German nuclear project failed

"Our calculations suggest Heisenberg significantly underestimated the materials required."

Almost no one uses AI agents to book their Uber, company says

During its busiest week last quarter, Uber said only four people booked a ride using an AI agent.

Meta Isn't Naming Its AI Models After Fruit Anymore

As AI models get more powerful, Meta stops naming them after fruit. Previous models were internally known as Watermelon, Avocado, and Mango.

17 better ways Elon Musk could have wasted $446 million

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