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Zenity, which develops a platform for securing AI agents, raised a $125M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners, taking its total funding to ~$185M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

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Visa plans to acquire Israeli company BioCatch, which uses AI to detect fraud and distinguish legitimate users from attackers in real time, for $2.4B in cash (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)

Visa plans to acquire Israeli company BioCatch, wh...

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Horizon3, whose AI penetration testing platform NodeZero helps find and exploit attack paths in production systems, raised a $250M Series E at a $2B valuation (Kate Park/TechCrunch)

Horizon3, whose AI penetration testing platform No...

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Michael Saylor's Strategy sold 1,638 bitcoin for ~$104.7M, reducing its holdings to 842,138, or ~4% of total supply, with a $10.9B paper loss at current prices (James Hunt/The Block)

Michael Saylor's Strategy sold 1,638 bitcoin for ~...

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June, which aims to help enterprise AI deployment by finding bottlenecks and building agents, emerges from stealth with $20M led by Marc Benioff's Time Ventures (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)

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The EU's AI Act enforcement powers take effect, letting it evaluate AI models before regional release, restrict market access, fine model providers, and more (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)

The EU's AI Act enforcement powers take effect, le...

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Source: Dario Amodei expressed concern about staff coming to Anthropic for the money rather than the mission, as Anthropic, OpenAI, and others battle for talent (Axios)

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Sources: South Korean AI chip designer DeepX raised a ~$29M Series D at a ~$2.2B valuation, and is in talks to raise ~$209M at a ~$2.4B valuation by September (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

Sources: South Korean AI chip designer DeepX raise...

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Alibaba prices Qwen3.8-Max at $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens via its API, below Kimi K3's $3/1M input tokens and $15/1M output tokens (Henry Siu/The Information)

Alibaba prices Qwen3.8-Max at $2 per 1M input toke...

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Artificial Analysis: DeepSeek's V4-Flash costs $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens, or $0.03 per test, far below Kimi K3's $0.86 and GPT-5.6 Sol's $1.86 (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)

Artificial Analysis: DeepSeek's V4-Flash costs $0....

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Ofcom Chair Ian Cheshire says he is overseeing a "wide-ranging" review aimed at refitting the regulator to new duties overseeing Big Tech and enforcing the OSA (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

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YouTuber Hank Green faces online criticism after using ChatGPT to help research a script, and says his LLM usage "is not healthy for me or good for the world" (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

YouTuber Hank Green faces online criticism after u...

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London-based AI chip startup Olix raised $312M led by Fundomo, with participation from Arm, at a $3.3B valuation, up from $1B+ after raising $220M in February (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

London-based AI chip startup Olix raised $312M led...

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A profile of Nanit, a maker of AI-equipped baby ca...

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An analysis of US police and court records finds 50+ officers were charged or accused of misusing license-plate readers like Flock's, including for stalking (Washington Post)

An analysis of US police and court records finds 5...

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A look at the growing tensions over AI data centers in London, Europe's biggest data center hub, as housing, power, and water come under increasing strain (Francesca Perry/Financial Times)

A look at the growing tensions over AI data center...

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Indeed: UK employers are creating jobs for senior staff in software engineering and IT, where AI enhances the value of experience, while cutting back elsewhere (Irina Anghel/Bloomberg)

Indeed: UK employers are creating jobs for senior ...

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Japanese startups are racing to enter defense drone production, as Tokyo seeks to cut reliance on Chinese industrial drones, which control 91% of Japan's market (Mitsuru Obe/Nikkei Asia)

Japanese startups are racing to enter defense dron...

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