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And we exclusively report that Anthropic has added former Microsoft and General Motors executive Chris Liddell to its board of directors, as the AI startup considers an IPO.

As chief financial officer at GM, Liddell led the carmaker's successful $23 billion IPO in 2010.

He also served in President Trump's first administration.

Anthropic yesterday said it had closed a $30 billion funding round that valued the company at $380 billion.

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Here's your midday brief for Thursday, January 29th.

I'm Pierre Bien-Aimé for The Wall Street Journal.

The White House border czar dispatched to reset the Trump administration's mission in Minneapolis says he's working on a plan to reduce the immigration enforcement presence there.

Here's your midday brief for Monday, January 26th.

I'm Pierre Bien-Aimé for The Wall Street Journal.

President Trump announced that he's sending White House borders are Tom Homan to Minnesota and that Homan will report directly to him.

Here's your midday brief for Friday, January 23rd.

I'm Pierre Bien-Aimé for The Wall Street Journal.

Intel's stock was down more than 15% this morning after the company reported a worse-than-expected loss in the fourth quarter of $333 million and predicted more losses in the current quarter.

The chipmaker says that it didn't realize how heavy demand would be from AI data centers and that it's now scrambling to increase production of its latest chips.

We exclusively report that the Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into allegations that Deal, a human resources company, recruited a spy inside its rival, Rippling.

An Ireland-based Rippling employee alleged in an affidavit last year that Deal's CEO recruited him and gave him instructions for what information to take from Rippling.

Deal says it's not aware of a criminal investigation, but is willing to cooperate with authorities.