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A look at Janitor AI, a romantic fantasy roleplay chatbot site run by three men that claims 2.5M DAUs and 15M total users, with 70% to 80% identifying as women (Anna Tong/Forbes)

A look at Janitor AI, a romantic fantasy roleplay ...

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Sources: Digital Asset, which builds Canton Network, a public blockchain with privacy features, is raising a ~$300M round led by a16z crypto at a ~$2B valuation (Bloomberg)

Sources: Digital Asset, which builds Canton Networ...

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Microsoft and G42's $1B geothermal-powered data center in Kenya stalls after the government couldn't provide annual payment guarantees that Microsoft requested (Bloomberg)

Microsoft and G42's $1B geothermal-powered data ce...

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A profile of Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf, a Palantir...

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Sources: Apple is working on a "slight redesign" for macOS 27 to address Liquid Glass issues, plans a feature to automatically group Safari tabs in "27" OSes (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple is working on a "slight redesign" f...

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Most of the tech on display at this year's Border Security Expo was autonomous and AI-equipped, driven by the Trump administration's focus on US border security (Elizabeth Findell/Wall Street Journal)

Most of the tech on display at this year's Border ...

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Experian says 40% of the 5,000 data breaches it serviced in 2025 were AI-powered, and predicts agentic AI will be the leading cause of data breaches in 2026 (Jennah Haque/Bloomberg)

Experian says 40% of the 5,000 data breaches it se...

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Inside Consensus Conference, one of the biggest crypto conferences, which had a decidedly corporate sheen in 2026 amid Wall Street's embrace of digital assets (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Inside Consensus Conference, one of the biggest cr...

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NetBlocks: Iran's 70+ day internet blackout is "the longest recorded national internet shutdown in a connected society", as businesses warn of layoffs, closures (Golnar Motevalli/Bloomberg)

NetBlocks: Iran's 70+ day internet blackout is "th...

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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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