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Stark, which has a deal to supply "kamikaze" drones to the German military, raised €500M from Founders Fund, Sequoia, others; it faced criticism over Thiel ties (Financial Times)

Stark, which has a deal to supply "kamikaze" drone...

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LastPass notifies customers that their personal information and customer support case records were stolen during a hack at Canadian market research company Klue (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

LastPass notifies customers that their personal in...

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Beehiiv adds Cloudflare AI Crawl Control to writers' dashboards, allowing them to decide whether AI crawlers can scrape their work (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Beehiiv adds Cloudflare AI Crawl Control to writer...

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Market intelligence company Klue confirms it has suffered a breach, for which cybercrime group Icarus takes credit; Jamf, HackerOne, and others are affected (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Market intelligence company Klue confirms it has s...

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Walmart acquires Paris-based Vibe.co, which lets businesses create and run targeted ads on streaming services; Vibe.co's co-founders will join Walmart Connect (Brian Steinberg/Variety)

Walmart acquires Paris-based Vibe.co, which lets b...

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SCOTUS ends a suit alleging Cisco aided China's Falun Gong persecution, further limiting a law used to hold corporations liable for overseas human rights abuses (Jan Wolfe/Reuters)

SCOTUS ends a suit alleging Cisco aided China's Fa...

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The Ethereum Foundation cuts ~20% of its workforce, or 54 staff, as part of a broad restructuring amid leadership turnover and growing Ethereum fragmentation (Margaux Nijkerk/CoinDesk)

The Ethereum Foundation cuts ~20% of its workforce...

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Sources: Abu Dhabi's MGX has raised close to $50B from regional sovereign wealth funds, global pension funds, and others to accelerate spending on AI deals (Dinesh Nair/Bloomberg)

Sources: Abu Dhabi's MGX has raised close to $50B ...

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Menlo raised $3B for funds dedicated to backing AI startups, its largest haul to date; sources say Menlo's Anthropic stake is currently worth nearly $14B (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)

Menlo raised $3B for funds dedicated to backing AI...

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Meta's Starfire glasses with Kylie Jenner include a tiny gemstone on the lens, a metal nose pad to prevent absorbing makeup, and an AI version of Kylie's voice (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)

Meta's Starfire glasses with Kylie Jenner include ...

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Meta says Meta Glasses are its first AI glasses to launch with Meta AI powered by Muse Spark from day one, and come in 26 styles across a range of colors (Meta Newsroom)

Meta says Meta Glasses are its first AI glasses to...

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Meta Fury, Meta Adventurer, and Meta Glasses by Kylie all sport EssilorLuxottica branding; Meta executives say dropping Ray-Ban helps keep the price down (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Meta Fury, Meta Adventurer, and Meta Glasses by Ky...

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Meta unveils Meta Adventurer and Fury glasses, eac...

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New York-based crypto analytics startup Allium raised a $40M Series B led by Amplify Partners, with participation from Kleiner Perkins and others (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

New York-based crypto analytics startup Allium rai...

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The Netherlands joins the US-led Pax Silica initiative alongside South Korea and Japan to coordinate AI supply chains; Taiwan endorses it as a non-signatory (Toby Sterling/Reuters)

The Netherlands joins the US-led Pax Silica initia...

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ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.5 in Beijing, saying the AI video model can generate 30-second clips from up to 50 reference materials, up from 12 for Seedance 2.0 (Juro Osawa/The Information)

ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.5 in Beijing, saying ...

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Google plans a 12-week incubator, picking 10 to 20 AI startups from its "Xoogler" alumni and providing up to $350K in cloud credits and $100K in direct funding (Guinevere Grant/Bloomberg)

Google plans a 12-week incubator, picking 10 to 20...

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How Sam Altman's 80+ personal investments, many from his time at YC, benefit from ties to OpenAI; 10+ companies have discussed business deals with OpenAI (Wall Street Journal)

How Sam Altman's 80+ personal investments, many fr...

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