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True Anomaly, which makes autonomous spacecraft and software for the US Space Force, raised a $650M Series D at a $2.2B valuation, bringing total funding to $1B (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

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Snapchat launches AI Sponsored Snaps, a conversati...

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US prosecutors allege Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian citizen known as Bouquet, is a Scattered Spider member; he was arrested at a Finnish airport (Jason Meisner/Chicago Tribune)

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Sources: at least two China-based funds that back leading AI companies have used parallel fund structures to fundraise from US investors in recent months (Bloomberg)

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Sources and memos: Tencent employees used Claude Code to assist them with evaluating and fine-tuning the company's new Hy3 model to improve its performance (Juro Osawa/The Information)

Sources and memos: Tencent employees used Claude C...

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GitHub addresses two recent incidents and says it aims to improve reliability amid AI growth, focusing on "availability first, then capacity, then new features" (Vlad Fedorov/The GitHub Blog)

GitHub addresses two recent incidents and says it ...

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GitHub addresses two recent incidents and says it aims to improve reliability amid AI growth, focusing on "availability first, then capacity, then new features" (Vlad Fedorov/The GitHub Blog)

GitHub addresses two recent incidents and says it ...

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Chinese billionaire Chen Tianqiao says his startup MiroMind is adding strict "firewalls" between its Chinese and US businesses, as China blocked Manus' sale (Bloomberg)

Chinese billionaire Chen Tianqiao says his startup...

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AI researchers launch talkie, a 13B vintage language model trained on historical text with a 1930 cutoff, to see if it can replicate scientific breakthroughs (talkie)

AI researchers launch talkie, a 13B vintage langua...

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Google launches Ask YouTube, a conversational AI search "experiment" that generates pages with videos and text summaries, for Premium users in the US aged 18+ (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Google launches Ask YouTube, a conversational AI s...

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Bloomberg CTO Shawn Edwards says the company is overhauling Terminal with a new chatbot-style interface called ASKB, currently open to ~125K users in beta (Joel Khalili/Wired)

Bloomberg CTO Shawn Edwards says the company is ov...

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As Russia throttles popular apps and intermittently cuts off internet access, ordinary citizens, politicians, TV stars, and others criticize the restrictions (New York Times)

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Gartner: US states issued $3.45B in privacy-related fines to companies in 2025, a total larger than the last five years combined, driven by new privacy laws (Derek B. Johnson/CyberScoop)

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Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to €4.5B, MAUs up 12% YoY to 761M, above 759M est., Premium subscribers up 9% YoY to 293M, and a €715M operating income (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

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Australia unveils a draft News Bargaining Incentive scheme that imposes a 2.25% levy on local revenues for platforms; Meta says the government is "simply wrong" (The Guardian)

Australia unveils a draft News Bargaining Incentiv...

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Match Group invests $100M in Seattle-based Sniffies, a web-only platform for queer men with ~3M MAUs worldwide, paving the way for a possible acquisition (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

Match Group invests $100M in Seattle-based Sniffie...

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Q&A with Evan Spiegel on why distribution is the most important moat in consumer tech, investing in Specs, 2026 as a "crucible" moment for Snap, and more (Lenny Rachitsky/Lenny's Newsletter)

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Many US rural communities oppose AI data center buildout; Pew says 67% of planned data centers are in rural areas, while 87% of existing ones are in urban areas (Financial Times)

Many US rural communities oppose AI data center bu...

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