Meta Muse Lets AI Flirt While Creators Get Flagged, DeepSeek Nears $75B Valuation, Bank Chairman Wired €95M After Cloned Voice Scam + 7 More
DeepSeek is closing a funding round worth roughly $14 billion at a $75 billion valuation, backed not by venture capitalists but by industrial giants: Tencent, battery maker CATL, chipmakers GigaDevice and SMIC, and carmaker Geely. This marks a shift from cheap model builder to heavily-funded industrial-backed competitor. Meanwhile, Anthropic gave six outside reviewers from METR employee-level access to review how the company manages AI safety risks internally, with publication rights independent of company approval, though customer data and deep technical model details stayed off limits.
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