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Memo: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma overhauls the group's leadership, including bringing over executives from Microsoft's CoreAI engineering unit where she worked before (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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Sao Paulo-based Enter, which uses AI to handle litigation for companies like Airbnb, raised $100M led by Founders Fund at a $1.2B valuation (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)

Sao Paulo-based Enter, which uses AI to handle lit...

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Aylo says it will restore Pornhub access in the UK, but only for users who have verified their age via iOS 26.4's device-level age verification system (Liv McMahon/BBC)

Aylo says it will restore Pornhub access in the UK...

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Intel stock jumps 12%+, hitting a new all-time high, on a report that Apple has had early-stage talks with Intel about enlisting Intel's chipmaking services (Lola Murti/CNBC)

Intel stock jumps 12%+, hitting a new all-time hig...

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Anthropic unveils 10 new AI agents for the financial sector, including for drafting pitch decks, reviewing financial statements, and escalating compliance cases (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Anthropic unveils 10 new AI agents for the financi...

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The FTC will ban data broker Kochava and its subsidiary CDS from selling Americans' location data as part of a settlement over charges brought in 2022 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

The FTC will ban data broker Kochava and its subsi...

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ElevenLabs raised $550M+ in its Series D, up from a previously announced $500M, adding BlackRock, Nvidia, and others as investors; its ARR passed $500M in Q1 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)

ElevenLabs raised $550M+ in its Series D, up from ...

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Seattle-based CopilotKit, whose popular AG-UI protocol lets developers deploy app-native AI agents, raised a $27M Series A led by Glilot, NFX, and SignalFire (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)

Seattle-based CopilotKit, whose popular AG-UI prot...

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Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage, alongside novelist Scott Turow, file a class-action copyright lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)

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Dutch quantum processor company QuantWare raised a $178M Series B from Intel, In-Q-Tel, and others to build KiloFab, a dedicated quantum manufacturing facility (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

Dutch quantum processor company QuantWare raised a...

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Sources: China targets 70%+ of silicon wafers used by its chipmakers to be made domestically by 2026; chipmakers see an unspoken mandate to use local 12" wafers (Nikkei Asia)

Sources: China targets 70%+ of silicon wafers used...

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RadixArk, led by former xAI employee Ying Sheng, raised a $100M seed at a $400M valuation to make AI inference more efficient via its open-source SGLang engine (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)

RadixArk, led by former xAI employee Ying Sheng, r...

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a16z crypto raised $2.2B for its fifth fund, down from its record $4.5B Fund 4 in May 2022, taking its total capital raised across five funds to ~$9.8B (Yogita Khatri/The Block)

a16z crypto raised $2.2B for its fifth fund, down ...

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The US Commerce Department's CAISI says Google, Microsoft, and xAI join OpenAI and Anthropic in granting early access to evaluate models prior to public release (Bloomberg)

The US Commerce Department's CAISI says Google, Mi...

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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announces the company is cutting ~700 jobs, or ~14% of its global workforce, to reduce costs, saying "AI is changing how we work" (Reuters)

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announces the company...

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Shopify reports Q1 revenue up 34% YoY to $3.2B, above est., GMV up 34% YoY to $100B, and forecasts weaker Q2 revenue growth; SHOP falls 11%+ pre-market (Ignacio Gonzalez/Bloomberg)

Shopify reports Q1 revenue up 34% YoY to $3.2B, ab...

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Zyg, an AI startup by ironSource's founders to automate business functions, raised $60M led by Accel at a $500M valuation, two months after exiting stealth (Marissa Newman/Bloomberg)

Zyg, an AI startup by ironSource's founders to aut...

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Meta says it will expand Instagram teen account safeguards to 27 EU countries, and plans to roll them out on Facebook in the US, ahead of the UK and EU in June (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Meta says it will expand Instagram teen account sa...

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