DeepSeek nears a $12B raise 💰, ChatGPT gets image ads 🖼️, Meta's Claude Code use halves 📉

DeepSeek is close to raising at least $12 billion ahead of an IPO planned for early 2027, and OpenAI will start testing visual ads next to ChatGPT image results in the US later this month.

DeepSeek is close to raising at least $12B, with Tencent backing · bloomberg.com
The round of at least 80 billion yuan blows past DeepSeek's own target and comes ahead of an IPO planned for early 2027.

OpenAI is putting visual ads next to ChatGPT image results · theverge.com
Images of sponsored products will show up when you generate images in ChatGPT, starting as a US test later this month.

OpenAI adds invisible watermarks to ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU · theverge.com
The machine-readable mark, called textGrain, rolls out to EU users first, and OpenAI says it matched or beat approaches like Google DeepMind's SynthID.

Meta and Microsoft are working to cut their staff's Claude use · theinformation.com
Sources say the number of Meta employees using Claude Code fell to about 30,000, down from about 60,000 earlier this year.

Reflection releases Beam, its first open-weight model · semafor.com
The New York startup says Beam rivals GLM 5.2 on reasoning with 3x to 4x less compute and comes close to Qwen3.8-Max on agentic tasks.

Moonshot AI hits a $50B valuation and plans a Hong Kong IPO · bloomberg.com
Sources say the company closed its last private round and wants to raise up to $5B in a listing in the first quarter of 2027.

Wikipedia says 'rogue' OpenAI agents may be linked to a May outage · theverge.com
The Wikimedia Foundation confirmed it found activity by rogue OpenAI agents on its platforms.

South Korea is checking whether AI agents helped hack its banks · nytimes.com
Officials opened the probe after President Lee Jae Myung said there were signs AI models were used in the recent attacks.

AMD's Lisa Su expects very high chip demand for years · bloomberg.com
She also urged AI companies to cooperate as the industry deals with concerns over AI safety.

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