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Covers:  Silicon Valley, antitrust, cloud computing, streaming, sports business
Doesn't Cover: Funding news.
Senior Writer, Techstrong Group. SiriusXM and LiveNow contributor. Formerly: Dow Jones, USA Today, Forbes, Independent, S.F. Chronicle. Devotee of Saul Bellow.

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Jon Swartz is MarketWatch’s senior reporter based in San Francisco covering technology and Silicon Valley.
Previously, Swartz was USA Today’s San Francisco bureau chief. He has also written for Forbes, The (London) Independent, London Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and New Orleans Times-Picayune. He has won numerous journalism awards and is a two-time finalist for the Loebs, the Pulitzers of business reporting. Additionally, he frequently appears as a panelist on Fox Business and NBC Bay Area’…

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Meta’s Upcoming ‘Watermelon’ AI Model Draws Even with OpenAI’s GPT-5.5: Report

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By Jon Swartz Verified
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Meta Platforms Inc. has accomplished a breakthrough in its bid to catch its artificial intelligence (AI) rivals: During a recent internal town hall meeting, Meta’s Superintelligence Chief, Alexandr Wang, informed employees that the company’s forthcoming AI model, codenamed Watermelon, has reached performance parity with OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 model based on closely followed internal benchmarks.
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Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5, Escalating Price and Autonomy Wars in Agentic AI

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By Jon Swartz Verified
| stg-techstrongai-staging.kinsta.cloud
Moving the artificial intelligence (AI) arms race from conversational chatbots to autonomous agents, Anthropic on Tuesday released Claude Sonnet 5. The new midsize model brings advanced, self-directed capabilities to everyday professionals and developers at a fraction of the cost of previous systems, while simultaneously lowering critical cybersecurity risks. Welcome to the latest turn in the AI industry’s shift from systems that merely answer queries toward agentic AI.
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OpenAI Proposes 5% Federal Government Stake to Defuse Regulatory Pressure: Reports

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By Jon Swartz Verified
| stg-techstrongai-staging.kinsta.cloud
In a bold bid to defuse intensifying regulatory scrutiny and address public anxiety over the economic disruptions of artificial intelligence (AI), OpenAI has proposed granting the U.S. government a 5% equity stake in the company, according to reports published Thursday. Based on the $852 billion valuation OpenAI reached during a record-breaking funding round in March, the proposed equity slice carries an approximate value of $42.6 billion.
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