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NYC-based Prosper AI, whose health care AI tool is designed to answer patient phone calls, raised a $30M Series A led by a16z, for $35M in total funding (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)

NYC-based Prosper AI, whose health care AI tool is...

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Electric bike rental company Lime is seeking to raise up to $180.9M in its US IPO, offering 6.7M shares at $24 to $26 each, giving it an up to $1.7B valuation (Jordan Fitzgerald/Bloomberg)

Electric bike rental company Lime is seeking to ra...

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Chevron signs a 20-year deal with Microsoft to provide natural-gas power for a proposed West Texas data center, which could be one of the biggest in the US (Kevin Crowley/Bloomberg)

Chevron signs a 20-year deal with Microsoft to pro...

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Netherlands-based Nearfield Instruments, which makes atomic force microscopes to measure chip features, raised $380M led by Fidelity at a $1.6B valuation (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

Netherlands-based Nearfield Instruments, which mak...

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JD.com founder Richard Liu says robots will replace the company's 700K delivery workers "sooner or later", and it will help retrain them in robot maintenance (Financial Times)

JD.com founder Richard Liu says robots will replac...

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Analysis: Taiwanese car display chip maker Himax, which makes driver integrated circuits for Ferrari, VW, and others, nets its founders a $1B combined net worth (Bloomberg)

Analysis: Taiwanese car display chip maker Himax, ...

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SK Hynix passes Samsung to become South Korea's most valuable company, closing up 5.6% for a ~$1.4T market cap; South Korea's Kospi index is up 117% YTD (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal)

SK Hynix passes Samsung to become South Korea's mo...

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Getty signs a licensing deal with OpenAI, letting its image library appear in ChatGPT's search and discovery features; GETY jumps 150%+ pre-market (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

Getty signs a licensing deal with OpenAI, letting ...

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Bain says it is using AI coding tools to recreate pieces of target companies' software, making hundreds of rough prototypes in recent years as due diligence (Ryan McMorrow/Financial Times)

Bain says it is using AI coding tools to recreate ...

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S&P and IBM: 22% of global cyberattacks in 2024 hit Japan, the most targeted country, as it scrambles to improve its substandard systems against AI threats (Catherine Thorbecke/Bloomberg)

S&P and IBM: 22% of global cyberattacks in 2024 hi...

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Satya Nadella says the public wouldn't tolerate a few AI labs "doing all of the learning for the world", as Microsoft moves to provide low-cost models and tools (Wall Street Journal)

Satya Nadella says the public wouldn't tolerate a ...

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A look at JD Vance's "AI doctrine", which combines pro-innovation VC principles, worker protections, and concerns about power concentration in dominant AI labs (Vivian Salama/The Atlantic)

A look at JD Vance's "AI doctrine", which combines...

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A profile of Sarah Polcz, the UC Davis law profess...

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Analysis: Anthropic may have talked itself into an export ban, as its 2026 official statements and posts used AI risk-related terms 8x more often than OpenAI (Clara Murray/Financial Times)

Analysis: Anthropic may have talked itself into an...

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PitchBook: defense tech companies making drones, battlefield AI, and more have raised $12.3B across 175 deals YTD, up from a $9.95B total from 158 deals in 2025 (Financial Times)

PitchBook: defense tech companies making drones, b...

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Tencent starts testing the new Xiaowei AI assistant powered by WeLM and DeepSeek models in its WeChat app in China, in an effort to catch up in the AI race (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)

Tencent starts testing the new Xiaowei AI assistan...

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Source: Morgan Stanley is pitching data center developers to use leveraged loans rather than bonds, and estimates ~$15B will be issued this year in such loans (The Information)

Source: Morgan Stanley is pitching data center dev...

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WiseTech shares fell 11% after Australian police probed co-founder Richard White over sex exploitation claims; WiseTech shares are down ~67% in the past year (Sydney Morning Herald)

WiseTech shares fell 11% after Australian police p...

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