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Defense startup Anduril has closed a five billion dollar funding round, doubling its valuation to sixty-one billion dollars. Led by Thrive and Andreessen Horowitz, the raise follows two point two billion dollars in revenue last year — a signal that Silicon Valley's bet on defense technology is paying off in a very real way.
Shifting to the courtroom, a closely watched trial is putting the relationship between Sam Altman and Elon Musk under a legal microscope. The case centers on OpenAI's transition away from its nonprofit roots, and what obligations — if any — were made and broken along the way. The outcome could reshape how AI companies are held accountable.
And in Russia, a top government official has acknowledged what many already suspected — completely banning VPNs is, in their own words, simply impossible. Doing so would require breaking the country's broader internet infrastructure. It's a rare admission that digital control has hard technical limits, even for determined governments.
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