Top Stories | Sony Music became the first music company to join the AI-focused creative responsibility coalition ARIAM alongside Disney and The New York Times. — Variety Anthropic released Opus 5.5, which delivered its strongest results yet on internal safety evaluations and cut operation costs by 40% compared to Opus 5. — The New York Times Apple is prototyping a screenless fitness band that could launch after 2027. — Yahoo Finance Binance invested $100M in Circle and agreed to promote USDC for five years in exchange for monthly incentives. — CoinDesk
| Top Funding Announcements | Micro1 — The AI training-data provider raised over $100M at a $4B valuation, with two frontier labs and two xAI cofounders participating. — AI Weekly Basecamp Research — The London life sciences startup raised a $140M Series C led by S32, with Anthropic participating. — Tech.eu Bessemer Venture Partners — Raised $5.75B across new funds, earmarking $4B for growth-stage investments and $1.75B for early-stage startups. — Bloomberg Hubble Network — The satellite startup raised $200M at a $1.6B valuation to build a spacecraft network providing global Bluetooth connectivity. — Bloomberg Tech Ema — The enterprise automation startup raised a $77M Series B led by Creaegis. This brings its total funding to $140M. — TechCrunch
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