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A Chelsea workspace called Series HQ charges up to $9,000 a month for private pods, and its tenants say the real draw is the people.
Read more: Tiny startups pay $9,000 a month to share a workspaceOnly Listicles, a UK firm, now sells placement in 'best of' lists to help businesses show up when people ask AI tools for advice. It admits there is no guarantee.
Read more: A UK firm will pay to get your business named in 'best of' listsDHS has ordered civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek, a Chinese AI tool, including products built on it. Businesses that sell to government should check their software.
Read more: U.S. bans Chinese AI tool DeepSeek from federal civilian agenciesApple explained why it is blocking tools that track people across websites on iPhones, and advertisers expect less reach and higher prices.
Read more: Apple speaks out on privacy rules that shook online advertisingAn economist warns that an AI market crash may not start with the big tech companies, and that debt, chips and public anger are weak spots worth watching.
Read more: An AI market crash could start somewhere investors aren't lookingCisco's Jeetu Patel says an AI agent found $9,000 a year in subscriptions and cut about $1,000 of it. His warning about access matters just as much.
Read more: Cisco's president used AI helpers to review $9,000 in subscriptionsInception says its new Mercury 3 model answers 4x to 8x faster than similar AI models. The claim is unproven, but speed could change how useful AI feels.
Read more: Inception's Mercury 3 AI model claims 4x to 8x faster answersElice, a Korean data-center company, fell more than 30% on its first day of trading, and AirTrunk reportedly delayed its own IPO. Here is why it matters.
Read more: Korean data-center firm Elice drops over 30% on its first trading dayThe head of Palo Alto Networks is advising his daughter as she raises a new AI-focused venture fund, a tough job for a first-time manager.
Read more: Palo Alto Networks CEO advises daughter on new AI venture fundMicrosoft launched tools to watch the AI agents companies use, saying even top AI models cannot be fully trusted with sensitive data and tools.
Read more: Microsoft: treat AI agents like insider threats, not trusted toolsThe FTC will let Publicis buy LiveRamp for $2.2 billion, but only if LiveRamp's data tools stay open to all clients on equal terms.
Read more: FTC clears Publicis' $2.2B LiveRamp deal with equal-access rulesGoogle Cloud published a guide to building interactive apps that run inside Gemini Enterprise chat, so users can click and adjust instead of typing every change.
Read more: Google shows how to build interactive MCP Apps inside Gemini EnterpriseA report puts Anthropic, maker of the Claude AI assistant, at a $965bn valuation. The figure is unconfirmed, but it shows AI agents are going mainstream at work.
Read more: Anthropic, maker of Claude AI, reported at $965bn valuation
