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Alex Bores, a NY congressional candidate at the center of a proxy war over AI regulation involving millions in AI PAC spending, was defeated by Micah Lasher (Ben Kamisar/NBC News)

Alex Bores, a NY congressional candidate at the ce...

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The NSA was red-teaming Mythos 5 before losing access amid the Anthropic dispute; the tests showed Mythos identified cybersecurity flaws in classified systems (New York Times)

The NSA was red-teaming Mythos 5 before losing acc...

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Orderful, which offers AI-powered tools to automate supply chain data management, raised a $35M Series C led by KDT, bringing its total funding to $85M (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)

Orderful, which offers AI-powered tools to automat...

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xLight, a startup developing advanced lasers for EUV machines, told investors that it is in talks to raise $350M led by Boardman Bay and Bain Capital (The Information)

xLight, a startup developing advanced lasers for E...

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Micron and Sandisk led a tech selloff on Tuesday, falling more than 13%; Western Digital fell 8%, Marvell 9%, Seagate 5%, Qualcomm 8%, and Applied Materials 8% (Britney Nguyen/MarketWatch)

Micron and Sandisk led a tech selloff on Tuesday, ...

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YouTube settles a lawsuit ahead of a second California trial over social media harms to minors; Meta, TikTok, and Snap remain defendants (Hillel Aron/Courthouse News Service)

YouTube settles a lawsuit ahead of a second Califo...

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Sources: the Trump administration is pressing Meta to submit its AI models for voluntary review; Meta is the only major US AI developer without an agreement (New York Times)

Sources: the Trump administration is pressing Meta...

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Cerebras reports Q1 revenue up 94% YoY to $193.4M, net loss down 41% to $14M, and forecasts core gross margin to shrink in Q2; CBRS drops 8%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Cerebras reports Q1 revenue up 94% YoY to $193.4M,...

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Mistral debuts OCR 4, a model featuring structured document extraction with bounding boxes, block classification, and inline confidence scores, in 170 languages (Mistral AI Blog)

Mistral debuts OCR 4, a model featuring structured...

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Sources: Hadrian, which is building AI-powered factories to produce space and defense parts, is in talks to raise ~$1B at a ~$7.5B post-money valuation (Bloomberg)

Sources: Hadrian, which is building AI-powered fac...

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Sources: Miami-based cybersecurity company Varonis is exploring options including a potential sale after receiving takeover interest; VRNS jumps 6%+ (Bloomberg)

Sources: Miami-based cybersecurity company Varonis...

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The FCC says an auction of wireless mid-band spectrum raised $3.5B+, which will largely be used to fund the replacement of Chinese telecom equipment in the US (David Shepardson/Reuters)

The FCC says an auction of wireless mid-band spect...

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Walmart acquires Vibe.co, which lets businesses create and buy ads on CTVs, sources say for $1.4B cash; top executives get $180M to stay for four years (Sarah Nassauer/Wall Street Journal)

Walmart acquires Vibe.co, which lets businesses cr...

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Alibaba sues the DOD, seeking removal from a blacklist of companies supporting China's military, says the decision is a violation of constitutional due process (Bloomberg)

Alibaba sues the DOD, seeking removal from a black...

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On the first day of their trial, two members of Scattered Spider plead guilty in the UK to charges stemming from a 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

On the first day of their trial, two members of Sc...

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Anthropic launches Claude Tag, an agentic AI coworker for Slack that can learn context, give suggestions, and more, in beta for Claude Team and Enterprise tiers (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)

Anthropic launches Claude Tag, an agentic AI cowor...

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Sources: Meta is building a standalone prediction markets app called Arena, which would probably rely on video game-like points instead of money wagers (New York Times)

Sources: Meta is building a standalone prediction ...

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Sources: SpaceX, which is seeking to raise between $20B and $25B in its debut US bond sale, has drawn about $89B of demand (Bloomberg)

Sources: SpaceX, which is seeking to raise between...

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