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An analysis of US DOL data: the IT sector's unemployment rate rose from 3.6% in March to 3.8% in April, as the sector shed 13,000 jobs amid AI uncertainty (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

An analysis of US DOL data: the IT sector's unempl...

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Paris-based Lithosquare, which uses AI to speed the discovery of critical mineral and metal deposits, raised a $25M seed led by World Fund and Kindred Capital (Rahul Raj/EU-Startups)

Paris-based Lithosquare, which uses AI to speed th...

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Reserv, which provides software and AI-powered claims processing tech for property and casualty insurers, raised a $125M Series C led by KKR (FinTech Global)

Reserv, which provides software and AI-powered cla...

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MoonPay acquires DFlow, a platform that facilitates trading on the Solana blockchain, sources say for $100M in stock; DFlow had raised $7.5M across two rounds (Jack Kubinec/Fortune)

MoonPay acquires DFlow, a platform that facilitate...

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Sydney-based AI data center operator IREN agrees to acquire Mirantis, which offers Kubernetes management and cloud infrastructure software, for $625M in stock (Shane Snider/Data Center Knowledge)

Sydney-based AI data center operator IREN agrees t...

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Google seems to require Google Play Services for passing next-gen reCAPTCHA on Android, denying de-Googled Android phones and creating surveillance issues (Rick Findlay/Reclaim The Net)

Google seems to require Google Play Services for p...

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Execs at Palantir, whose stock is up ~16x since its AI platform's 2023 debut, often decry other AI as slop, as competition from frontier AI labs stiffens (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)

Execs at Palantir, whose stock is up ~16x since it...

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FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecoms, including VoIP providers, to verify user identities before activating service, raising privacy fears (Ken Macon/Reclaim The Net)

FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring tel...

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How SpaceMob, an online community of ~50,000, has fueled a meme-stock-like rally in satellite networking company AST, which is up ~6,000% over a 22-month period (Bloomberg)

How SpaceMob, an online community of ~50,000, has ...

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LayerZero apologizes for Kelp DAO exploit response, says single-verifier setup was deficient; Dune: in April, ~47% of LayerZero OApps had the same default setup (Zack Abrams/The Block)

LayerZero apologizes for Kelp DAO exploit response...

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Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI firms met with Hindu, Sikh, and Greek Orthodox leaders to draft principles on how to infuse models with ethics and morality (Krysta Fauria/Associated Press)

Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI firms met with Hin...

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GM agrees to pay $12.75M to resolve a California investigation into claims that it illegally sold the location and driving data of OnStar subscribers to brokers (David Shepardson/Reuters)

GM agrees to pay $12.75M to resolve a California i...

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Sources: ByteDance plans to increase its 2026 capex to more than $30B, up at least 25% from a preliminary plan, amid the AI boom and rising memory chip costs (South China Morning Post)

Sources: ByteDance plans to increase its 2026 cape...

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OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google's enterprise push with PE firms poses a new competitive threat to India's IT industry, as services become increasingly automatable (Moneycontrol)

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google's enterprise push wi...

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Sales of PC motherboards are expected to fall 25%+ YoY in 2026, as PC users delay their upgrades amid AI-driven price surges for memory, storage, and processors (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)

Sales of PC motherboards are expected to fall 25%+...

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A profile of Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao, who tends ...

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Palo Alto Networks says in its testing, three weeks of frontier AI-assisted analysis matched a full year of manual penetration testing, with broader coverage (Sam Rubin/Palo Alto Networks Blog)

Palo Alto Networks says in its testing, three week...

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Anthropic details how it improved Claude's safety training after finding agentic misalignment in older models, such as Opus 4 blackmailing engineers (Anthropic)

Anthropic details how it improved Claude's safety ...

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