1. 🤝 Anthropic Signed a $1.8Bn Deal With Akamai

According to Bloomberg, Anthropic has reportedly secured another major AI infrastructure partnership. The Claude-maker has signed a seven-year $1.8 billion deal with Akamai Technologies to help power Claude AI models using Akamai’s cloud and edge network infrastructure. (The Tech Portal)

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3. 🛴 Uber-Backed Rental Startup Lime Filed for IPO

Uber-backed electric bike and scooter rental startup Lime has been eying public markets for at least five years. And now, it’s doing something about it. The company has filed for an initial public offering, intending to list on Nasdaq under the ticker “LIME.” The company generated $886.7 million in revenue last year. (TechCrunch)

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5. 😵 AWS Data Center Outage Took Down FanDuel & Coinbase

An Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center in northern Virginia is causing big issues. Overheating at the facility led to an AWS outage which, in turn, led to operational issues affecting trading on platforms including Coinbase and FanDuel. While AWS did say its working to bring additional cooling capacity online, “full recovery is still expected to take several hours.” (CNBC)

6. 🤫 Dunkin’ Owner Inspire Brands Confidentially Filed for IPO

We might soon see one of the biggest-ever restaurant offerings hit the public market. Inspire Brands, owner of U.S. food chains Dunkin’, Buffalo Wild Wings, Arby’s, Sonic Drive-In, Jimmy John’s, and Baskin Robbins, just confidentially filed for an initial public offering. Across the six chains, Inspire has more than 33,300 restaurants worldwide and $33.4 billion in annual system-wide sales. (CNBC)

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7. 🏠 AI Now Writes 60% of Airbnb’s New Code

At least, in Q1 that is. Airbnb CEO noted that the company finds AI particularly useful for building tools for its API partners who manage their properties using different software, but that the company’s customer support AI bot now handles 40% of issues without escalating to a human agent (up from ~33% earlier this year). (TechCrunch)

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