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Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Netflix for allegedly spying on consumers by collecting their data without consent, and designing its platform to be addictive (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Netflix for allegedly spy...

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Sources: German defense tech startup Helsing is set to raise $1.2B led by Dragoneer and Lightspeed at a valuation of about $18B, up from $14B in June 2025 (Financial Times)

Sources: German defense tech startup Helsing is se...

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curl founder Daniel Stenberg says Mythos identified five vulnerabilities in curl, but a manual review found three were false positives and one was a bug (Daniel Stenberg/daniel.haxx.se)

curl founder Daniel Stenberg says Mythos identifie...

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Agentic inference is set to be different than today's inference, and will change compute infrastructure because speed won't matter when humans aren't involved (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Agentic inference is set to be different than toda...

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Israeli startup Frame Security, which protects organizations from AI-powered social engineering attacks, emerges from stealth with $50M led by Index and others (CTech)

Israeli startup Frame Security, which protects org...

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Venmo is implementing a major privacy update to set new users' posts to "friends only" by default during onboarding; in 2021, a reporter found Joe Biden's Venmo (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Venmo is implementing a major privacy update to se...

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Cowboy Space, led by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt to build data centers in orbit, raised a $275M Series B led by Index Ventures at a $2B valuation (Bruce Einhorn/Bloomberg)

Cowboy Space, led by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bh...

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OpenAI launches the OpenAI Deployment Company with a $4B+ investment to help organizations build and deploy AI systems, and acquires AI consulting firm Tomoro (Reuters)

OpenAI launches the OpenAI Deployment Company with...

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Google's TIG reports the first confirmed instance of "prominent cybercrime threat actors" using AI to find and weaponize a zero-day in a web-based admin tool (Dustin Volz/New York Times)

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Discord launches Nitro Rewards, giving Nitro subscribers access to offers from gaming services like Xbox Game Pass and hardware like Logitech G at no extra cost (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

Discord launches Nitro Rewards, giving Nitro subsc...

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Sources: Masayoshi Son has held talks with French President Emmanuel Macron about unveiling a multibillion-dollar AI data center project in the coming weeks (Bloomberg)

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In a two-week UK High Court trial, Shein accuses Temu of "industrial scale" copyright infringement of its photos; Temu says Shein is suing to stifle competition (Sam Tobin/Reuters)

In a two-week UK High Court trial, Shein accuses T...

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SEC filing: Cerebras upsizes its IPO to 30M shares at $150-$160 each, up from 28M shares at $115-$125, aiming to raise up to $4.8B at an up to $34.4B valuation (Carmen Reinicke/Bloomberg)

SEC filing: Cerebras upsizes its IPO to 30M shares...

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Sources: Kuaishou plans to spin off its Kling AI video unit for an IPO in 2027 and is seeking a $20B valuation in pre-IPO funding talks with potential investors (The Information)

Sources: Kuaishou plans to spin off its Kling AI v...

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The European Commission says it is in ongoing discussions with OpenAI and Anthropic to access their latest AI models; OpenAI is "proactively offering" access (Inti Landauro/Reuters)

The European Commission says it is in ongoing disc...

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Microsoft's Playground Games accidentally uploads unencrypted pre-load files for Forza Horizon 6 to Steam, leaking the PC version before its release next week (Jez Corden/Windows Central)

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Circle raised $222M via the presale of its native Arc token at a $3B valuation; a16z led with a $75M investment, with participation from BlackRock and others (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)

Circle raised $222M via the presale of its native ...

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Filing: Wise plans to debut on the Nasdaq as WSE, and relist in London for its secondary listing; Wise reports year-to-March net revenue up 19% YoY to $2.5B (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)

Filing: Wise plans to debut on the Nasdaq as WSE, ...

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