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1. Cognition to buy AI startup Windsurf days after Google poached CEO in $2.4 billion licensing deal

   AI startup Cognition on Monday said it's acquiring Windsurf in a deal that will include the coding company's IP and user base.

2. Musk's xAI faces European scrutiny over Grok's 'horrific' antisemitic posts

   Grok generated and spread antisemitic hate speech across X and praised Adolf Hitler.

3. Meta removes 10 million Facebook profiles in effort to combat spam

   Meta on Monday said it has removed about 10 million Facebook profiles for impersonating large content producers so far in 2025, in an effort to reduce spam.

4. Rocket Lab stock jumps nearly 11%, building on strong rally

   Since its debut on the Nasdaq in August 2021 under the ticker RKLB, its market value has swelled to more than $19 billion.

5. Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI granted up to $200 million for AI work from Defense Department

   The DoD's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office said the awards will help the agency accelerate its adoption of AI solutions.

6. Meta CEO Zuckerberg says first AI data supercluster will come online in 2026

   Mark Zuckerberg on Monday said he plans to invest "hundreds of billions of dollars" into artificial intelligence infrastructure.

7. Musk says he does not support a merger between Tesla and xAI but backs investment

   Elon Musk owns X, xAI and Tesla and is contemplating the future business relationship between them all.

8. Alibaba-backed Moonshot releases new Kimi AI model that beats ChatGPT, Claude in coding — and it costs less

   Alibaba-backed startup Moonshot released its Kimi K2 model as a low-cost, open source large language model, the two factors underlying DeepSeek's disruption.

9. Nvidia's Jensen Huang brushes off U.S. fears that China's military will use his firm's chips

   "They don't need Nvidia's chips... to build their military," Jensen Huang said in a CNN interview aired Sunday, days ahead of another trip to China.

10. Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, others in $2.4 billion AI talent deal

    Google wants its AI models to become bigger in coding. It has now hired the CEO of one of the top startups in that area.