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Good morning! A once-billion-dollar chatbot startup is in bankruptcy court, Anthropic is warning that small AI models could soon spread like worms, and a Quebec author is denying that AI wrote his award-winning novel. Here is what moved in AI.
Character.AI Files for Bankruptcy, and Disney Is the First Bidder
A chatbot startup once valued at $1 billion is in bankruptcy court, and Disney has put $20 million on the table. Here is what Disney would actually get and what happens to the app. See what Disney is bidding on →
A prize-winning novel was pulled from the Goncourt race over AI claims, and the author is pushing back. The evidence behind the claims is more contested than the headlines suggest. See what is and is not proven →
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Anthropic Warns Small AI Models Could Spread Like Worms
Researchers bought a stack of $55 TV boxes to test whether an AI model could copy itself from device to device. The results explain the “months away” warning, and the caveats matter. See how the test worked →
TD Pushes Agentic AI Into Mortgage Funding and Discharges
TD says an earlier AI tool cut one mortgage step from 15 hours to under three minutes. Now it is moving into funding and discharges, with employees still reviewing the output. See what TD has and has not shown →
Suki Raises $90M to Take Healthcare AI Beyond Note-Taking
The medical scribe startup just raised a Series E and says documentation was only the entry point. Here is who backed it and the growth numbers it is reporting. See who invested →
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📢 The Signal Behind the Noise
Today’s stories share a question about how much to trust AI claims. Character.AI shows how fast an AI valuation can unwind, the Quebec case shows how shaky AI detection can be as proof, and Anthropic’s worm research is a warning built on deliberately simplified tests. TD and Suki, meanwhile, are both reporting strong numbers that come from the companies themselves, so read the measurements as claims until someone outside the company confirms them.
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