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Quartermaster, which is building an analytics platform and a SmartMast, with sensors on a ship's mast to relay real-time maritime data, raised a $43M Series A (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)

Quartermaster, which is building an analytics plat...

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How the Trump admin gutted the CFTC, ousting enforcers and appointing industry-friendly officials, as Trump family got into crypto and prediction markets (New York Times)

How the Trump admin gutted the CFTC, ousting enfor...

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Demand for security engineers is surging, with job postings up 11% YoY in Q1, driven by threats from AI-generated code and models like Mythos and GPT-5.4-Cyber (Kate Conger/New York Times)

Demand for security engineers is surging, with job...

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Sources: Uber weighs a higher bid after it approached a major Delivery Hero shareholder with a €38-per-share bid, valuing the group at €11.5B+, but was rebuffed (Financial Times)

Sources: Uber weighs a higher bid after it approac...

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The ECB summons Eurozone banks to a meeting on Tuesday to discuss risks posed by the latest AI models and hopes US banks with Mythos access will share lessons (Martin Arnold/Financial Times)

The ECB summons Eurozone banks to a meeting on Tue...

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A look at the scourge of smartphone thefts in London, as victims describe receiving texts threatening them into unlinking Apple IDs from stolen iPhones (New York Times)

A look at the scourge of smartphone thefts in Lond...

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A deep dive into Apple Watch and Health efforts; sources: iOS 27 to get a revamped AirPods control panel and default support for AirPlay rivals like Google Cast (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

A deep dive into Apple Watch and Health efforts; s...

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How the AI boom is transforming global M&A, now dominated by the AI-driven race to control the world's energy, fiber networks, and computing capacity (Financial Times)

How the AI boom is transforming global M&A, now do...

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Tether buys out SoftBank's ~26% stake in bitcoin treasury company Twenty One Capital, taking its stake to ~71%; SoftBank's stake was worth ~$679M (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Tether buys out SoftBank's ~26% stake in bitcoin t...

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Rising DRAM prices are driving "forced premiumization" in the smartphone market in India and Africa, as consumers in the sub-$200 segment risk being priced out (David Oks)

Rising DRAM prices are driving "forced premiumizat...

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Moment, which develops AI tools for automating fixed-income and equities trading tech, raised a $78M Series C led by Index Ventures, with a16z participating (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)

Moment, which develops AI tools for automating fix...

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Hands-on with a pre-release build of Google Docs Live, an AI-powered voice tool for drafting documents, rolling out this summer to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers (Nicole Nguyen/Wall Street Journal)

Hands-on with a pre-release build of Google Docs L...

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DeepSeek says it will lower V4 Pro API prices by 75% to $0.435/1M input and $0.87/1M output tokens, making permanent the discount prices set to expire on May 31 (Bloomberg)

DeepSeek says it will lower V4 Pro API prices by 7...

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Sources: Princeton Digital Group to sell its Chinese data center assets for as much as $1B, capping global buyout firms' retreat from China's data center market (Financial Times)

Sources: Princeton Digital Group to sell its Chine...

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Salesforce's promotional videos showcased Agentforce mock-ups and features that are not widely available, as CEO Marc Benioff defends forward-looking marketing (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Salesforce's promotional videos showcased Agentfor...

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Crypto companies prepare for the threat that quantum computers could hack core industry security, including breaking the critical code underpinning Bitcoin (Financial Times)

Crypto companies prepare for the threat that quant...

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For publishers, pirated audiobooks made with AI on YouTube are a growing issue: removal is cumbersome, and some are hiring tech companies to take them down (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)

For publishers, pirated audiobooks made with AI on...

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How Anthropic's ongoing discussions with the Vatican about ethics and AI led to Christopher Olah being invited to Pope Leo's unveiling of an encyclical on AI (Jack Jenkins/RNS)

How Anthropic's ongoing discussions with the Vatic...

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