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China Weighs Tighter AI Export Controls in Stunning Escalation
AI Export Controls: China's regulators are weighing new export controls on AI models and chips, escalating the US-China tech rivalry into the software layer for
Noel Saldanha
ContributorNoel Saldanha is a contributor at Fathom, covering AI agents, open-source models and the tooling around them. His beat is the part of the industry that ships without a press release: open-weight releases, agent frameworks, protocol work such as MCP, and the developer infrastructure that decides what independent builders can actually make. He also covers where AI meets fintech and blockchain, including agent-to-agent payments and the stablecoin rails being built for machine transactions, a subject he approaches with more scepticism than most of its advocates. He is interested in the distance between a demo and a deployment, and in what open weights mean in practice once licence terms and compute requirements are taken into account.
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Ollama Raises $65M as Local AI Models Go Mainstream
Ollama, the largest open-source platform for running AI models locally, closed a $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures. Here is why local inference is surging.
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Affleck’s AI Startup Soars As Netflix Reveals $587M Price Tag
Netflix paid $587 million in cash for Ben Affleck's 16-person AI filmmaking startup InterPositive, integrating its post-production tools directly into its.
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ChatGPT Enterprise Makes Breakthrough Dropbox Power Move
OpenAI formally integrated Dropbox into ChatGPT Enterprise, letting businesses query stored files directly inside the AI interface without switching tools.
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AI Smartphone Wars: China’s Brutal Push Crushes 7 Chipmakers
AI Smartphone: China's ZTE and 13 other brands are building AI-native smartphones, threatening Qualcomm's dominance and reshaping a $500 billion global hardware
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Nolan Spent $250M On The Odyssey — AI Did It First For Under $50K
A fully AI-generated The Odyssey adaptation made for five figures has arrived before Christopher Nolan's $250M blockbuster, marking a concrete shift in film product
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OpenAI’s CFO Launches a Brutal Reality Check on AI Spending
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar's new AI scorecard replaces vague productivity claims with 4 hard metrics: useful work, cost per task, dependability, and re
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Meta Is Hiring From Amazon’s Cloud Division to Lead Its Compute Push — From the Rival It May Soon Challenge
Meta is recruiting a top Amazon cloud executive as its AI infrastructure investment surpasses $50 billion, with a 5GW Louisiana data center now in play.
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Alphabet Stock Plunges on Gemini 3.5 Pro Delay — Google’s AI Race Just Turned Cold
Pro Delay: Alphabet shares fell Thursday after reports that Gemini 3.5 Pro, Google's most powerful AI model, is delayed by months as the company struggles to me
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Fireworks AI Soars to Explosive $17.5 Billion Valuation
Fireworks AI closed a $1.5 billion funding round at a $17.5 billion valuation, cementing its place among the most valuable AI infrastructure companies in the.