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Sat May 16
Databricks agrees to acquire Panther Labs, its third cybersecurity acquisition; Panther was valued at $1.4B when it raised a $120M Series B in 2021 (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)
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Bland, which uses proprietary, in-house-built voice models to process calls for 250+ enterprise clients, raised a $50M Series C led by Dell Technologies Capital (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
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Hydra Host, a marketplace for developers and enterprises to procure GPUs pooled from data center operators, raised a $100M Series A led by Kindred Ventures (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
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Sources: the Trump administration won't allow G7 countries to regain access to Mythos 5 as doing so would be "completely illogical"; UK requested a "carve-out" (James Franey/New York Post)
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Sources: Binance is set to lose permission to offer services to EU clients from the start of July as its application for a license is about to be turned down (Reuters)
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Ent Security, which wants to build a new layer of workspace security that reads the intent behind what users and AI agents do, launches with $100M in funding (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
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Limitless Labs, which is developing an AI platform to automate CNC manufacturing, raised a $20M Series A led by Dell Technologies Capital and Square Peg (Meir Orbach/CTech)
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Microsoft upgrades Surface Pro and Surface Laptop with Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 chips; Pro starts at $1,499 and Laptop at $1,599, both $100 higher than last-gen (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
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Copia, an industrial code management and recovery provider, raised $26M co-led by AE Ventures and Squadra Ventures, after previously raising $16.4M (Colin Campbell/Axios)
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Docs: audited financial figures show OpenAI spent $34B in 2025, up 172% YoY, including $19B on research and development and nearly $6B on sales and marketing (Ed Zitron/Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
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Roblox rolls out Roblox Kids accounts for ages 5 to 8 and Roblox Select accounts for ages 9 to 15, globally, after unveiling them alongside age checks in April (Jay Peters/The Verge)
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Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says the company is "proactively" reducing its full-time workforce by ~10%, or ~290 employees, in a "flattening" of its org structure (Helen Partz/Cointelegraph)
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Ripple acquires a stake in Flutterwave as part of the African payments startup's Series E, valuing Flutterwave at $3.2B (Emele Onu/Bloomberg)
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An interview with SBF about life in prison, his serialized prison memoir titled Manfred, and more, as he praises Trump, becomes a Republican, and seeks a pardon (Simon van Zuylen-Wood/New York Magazine)
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Atom Computing, one of the nine quantum computing startups backed by the US, raised a $100M Series C led by Third Point, bringing its total funding to $300M (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
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Meta says Threads now has 500M MAUs, adds a "Your Algo" tool that lets users privately control what they see in their feed, and launches Communities out of beta (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
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Alibaba's AI unit Tongyi Lab launches the Qwen Robot Suite, its first suite of AI models for robots, in pilot testing with some Alibaba Cloud enterprise clients (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
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SpaceX agrees to acquire Cursor in a merger valuing the AI coding startup at $60B, set to close in Q3 2026, or pay a $4B to $10B termination fee (Reuters)
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SoftBank announces an OpenAI-powered "patching service" that aims to protect Japan's top 3,000 companies behind crucial infrastructure against cyberattacks (Yuri Kageyama/Associated Press)
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Florida sues TikTok for allegedly violating its social media regulations for minors and state consumer protection laws by showing "X-Rated" content to minors (Alex Ebert/Bloomberg Law)
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France plans €655M in AI investments through 2030 and a Mistral-powered chatbot for state services; its security service will replace Palantir with Chapsvision (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
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India blocks Telegram until June 22 citing its use by organized "cheating rackets" to "defraud candidates" taking a national medical entrance examination (Reuters)
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Study: Mistral and other open-source AI models are among the weakest at filtering Russian disinformation; Mistral's top model ranks 47 out of 60 tested models (Andrew Jack/Financial Times)
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Kuala Lumpur-based Respond.io, which uses AI agents to manage customer conversations, raised a $62.5M Series B led by Camber, following a $7M Series A in 2022 (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
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Italy's competition regulator opens a probe into Apple under the DMA over the interoperability of iOS and iPadOS with alternative cloud services (Cristina Carlevaro/Reuters)
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Sources: DeepSeek closed a $7.4B round at a $50B valuation under an unusual structure requiring investors to put capital into an LP run by CEO Liang Wenfeng (The Information)
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Sources: audited financial figures show OpenAI spending hit $34B in 2025, including $19B on research and development and nearly $6B on sales and marketing (Financial Times)
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Sources: Microsoft is adding AWS capacity to GitHub after AI-driven growth strained infrastructure and triggered a series of reliability issues (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
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Memo: CTO Andrew Bosworth said Meta did "an atrocious job" sharing Applied AI's vision, promising employees better communication, career growth, and more perks (Wired)
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Filing: the US DOJ asks court to dismiss an NAACP suit over xAI's gas turbines, saying xAI is integral to US' military operations, including the Iran War (Molly Taft/Wired)
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Sources: Trump officials weighed Anthropic export controls weeks before forcing its models offline, after a dispute over Mythos access for a China-linked firm (Washington Post)
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Anthropic says its senior leaders met Trump admin officials on June 15, but no resolution was reached and both sides are working to resolve things quickly (Leo Schwartz/The Information)
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Taxi-hailing app Go's shares grew 21% in its Tokyo debut, after it raised ~$553M in Japan's largest IPO in 2026, giving the company a market value of ~$1.16B (Yasutaka Tamura/Bloomberg)
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A look at Roblox's biometric age-checking tool, which will help place its users into age-based accounts starting in June, amid controversy over user privacy (NBC News)
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A profile of Cursor, including its hiring process and testy relationship with Anthropic, which told Cursor that Claude Code was a research effort, per a source (Business Insider)
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Sources: several Xbox studios, including Hellblade maker Ninja Theory, are in talks with Microsoft to buy themselves back and go independent to avoid closure (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)
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Source: Qualcomm is in talks to acquire AI chip designer Tenstorrent for $8B to $10B; in 2025, Tenstorrent had discussed raising $800M at a ~$3.2B valuation (The Information)
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OpenRouter debuts Fusion, a tool that prompts multiple AI models in parallel, claiming it can "reach and surpass Fable-level performance on deep research tasks" (Brian Thomas/OpenRouter Blog)
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SpaceX's stock closed up 19.6% on June 15, its first full day of trading; Musk said it "might be able to reach" ~$1T in revenue in 2030, up from $18.7B in 2025 (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
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Meta debuts new AI features, including an "AI Mode" that uses Meta AI to search for answers pulled from public posts across Facebook, including Groups and Reels (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
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Arcade, which helps companies manage which actions AI agents are authorized to take, raised a $60M Series A led by SYN Ventures, following a $12M seed in 2025 (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal)
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A US judge dismisses xAI's lawsuit alleging OpenAI stole trade secrets, saying xAI failed to show that OpenAI induced a former xAI engineer to divulge Grok info (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
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Anthropic's origin story is rooted in OpenAI not taking safety seriously enough, so only Anthropic can control AI and everyone else, including the US government (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
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Radical Numerics, which is developing AI models that learn directly from biological data, raised a $50M seed led by Emergence Capital (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
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Source: Anthropic was given 90 minutes to comply and wasn't provided with detailed concerns before the Commerce Department imposed export controls on its models (Financial Times)
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Google says a Chinese-linked hacking group targeted US and Canadian academic, medical, and military research institutions from September 2023 to November 2025 (A.J. Vicens/Reuters)
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NewCore, which helps companies manage both human and AI agent identities in a single system, emerges from stealth with a $66M seed led by Cyberstarts (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
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Cybersecurity startup Chainguard, Cisco, Cloudflare, JPMorgan Chase, and others launch Athena, a coalition to secure open-source software using AI (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
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American Express agrees to acquire restaurant booking platform TheFork from Tripadvisor in an all-cash deal worth $700M; TRIP jumps 6%+ (Reuters)
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A US judge rejects Meta's bid to dismiss a lawsuit from Strike 3, which owns porn production companies, that alleges Meta torrented its videos for AI training (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
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