Deutsche Telekom and Perplexity are partnering to develop an AI phone
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T-MOBILE'S PARENT COMPANY IS MAKING AN AI PHONE WITH PERPLEXITY (3
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Deutsche Telekom and Perplexity are partnering to develop an AI phone
that will have Perplexity's AI integrated on a system-wide level.
Users will be able to interact with the phone's AI assistant even on
the lock screen. The phone will offer access to various AI providers.
It will have some agentic capabilities, but it is unclear yet how it
will execute tasks. The phone will be officially launched in the
second half of this year priced at under a thousand dollars and hit
the shelves at some point in 2026.

AMAZON-BACKED AI FIRM ANTHROPIC VALUED AT $61.5 BILLION AFTER LATEST
ROUND (3 MINUTE READ) [10]

Anthropic has just closed a funding round at a $61.5 billion
post-money valuation. The $3.5 billion round was led by Lightspeed
Venture Partners - other investors included Salesforce, Cisco, and
Fidelity. Anthropic plans to use the funds to advance its development
of next-generation AI. It plans to expand its compute capacity, deepen
its research in mechanistic interpretability and alignment, and
accelerate its international expansion in Asia and Europe.

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NASA'S UPCOMING TELESCOPE LAUNCH AIMS TO ADDRESS SOME EXISTENTIAL
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NASA plans to launch a telescope this week to provide insight into
how the universe began. The SPHEREx telescope has a very wide field of
view. It can detect infrared light and other wavelengths too long to
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four times over two years and create a very large data set about the
visible universe.

ROCHE ROLLS OUT NEW DNA 'SEQUENCING-BY-EXPANSION' APPROACH (3 MINUTE
READ) [12]

Sequencing-by-expansion is a new proprietary method that pulls apart
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MISCELLANEOUS

THE KILL-OR-BE-KILLED FIGHT FOR CRYPTO'S FUTURE (20 MINUTE READ) [16]


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PROVIDERS (4 MINUTE READ) [17]

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Pricing for the same model can differ substantially across providers
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DUCKDB GOES DISTRIBUTED? DEEPSEEK'S SMALLPOND TAKES ON BIG DATA (12
MINUTE READ) [20]

DeepSeek's smallpond project allows the company to scale up simply
without having to rely on complex and heavy distributed frameworks by
default 'just in case'.

ARE AIS PEOPLE? (34 MINUTE READ) [21]

There will quite likely be sentient AI systems in the future.

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