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Forage, a payments processor that helps retailers and food-delivery companies accept EBT cards, raised a $40M Series B led by Mouro Capital at a $225M valuation (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)

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Wordsmith, whose AI tools help in-house lawyers draft contracts, handle legal questions, and more, raised a $70M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M (Melia Russell/Business Insider)

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Lassie, whose AI agent helps dental practices automate admin work, raised a $35M Series A led by a16z, a source says, at a ~$250M valuation (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)

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Meta is spinning off Supernatural into an independent company, Supernatural Health, after earlier saying the VR fitness game would stop getting new content (Victoria Song/The Verge)

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Digital i: YouTube overtakes Netflix in average daily viewing globally, rising from 87.2 minutes in 2024 to 99.1 in 2025, while Netflix fell from 100.5 to 93.4 (Michael Savage/The Guardian)

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Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft aims to become "one of the top four labs in the world", and "the pivotal moment was renegotiating our contract with OpenAI" (The Verge)

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Anthropic unveils a Services Track for its Claude Partner Network, a ranking based on what companies built with Claude, and releases a Claude Partner Hub portal (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

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Meta launches Meta Business Agent globally on WhatsApp and Instagram DMs, after a two-year pilot of the customer support AI bot in India, Mexico, and others (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Google sold $35B in stock in its equity raise this week, up from its planned $30B and taking its total funding to $85B; a source says it contacted 75 investors (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)

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Apple plans to open an Apple Developer Center in Berlin in 2026, its first center in Europe and fifth globally, offering in-person developer access and sessions (David Phelan/Forbes)

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Boston-based software monitoring startup Coralogix raised a $200M Series F at a $1.6B post-money valuation, up from $1B+ after a $115M Series E in June 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Analysis: 10 Trump officials, including special envoy Steve Witkoff, reported holding stakes in SpaceX or xAI collectively worth $9.9M+, ahead of SpaceX's IPO (Bloomberg)

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The EU's Cloud and AI Development Act aims to triple data center capacity in five to seven years; the Chips Act 2.0 recommends allowing direct EU investments (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)

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The EU Commission unveils its tech sovereignty package, including the EU's Cloud and AI Development Act, in a bid to reduce its reliance on US tech companies (Mathieu Pollet/Politico)

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Baidu CFO Henry He says the company plans to spin off and list its chip unit Kunlunxin in Hong Kong and Shanghai in 2026, making it more like a "neutral player" (Tracy Qu/Wall Street Journal)

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ESA and YouGov: 212.3M people in the US between the ages of 5 and 90 play video games every week, up 3% from 2025; the average age of players has risen to 37 (Jennifer Maas/Variety)

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Supercell, King, and Sybo say the EU's Digital Fairness Act, which requires pop-ups to show virtual currencies' real-world values, could make games "unplayable" (Richard Milne/Financial Times)

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Europol and international law enforcement agencies dismantle nine organized crime groups and arrest 29 in an illegal streaming crackdown, removing 27,000+ URLs (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

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AI market research platform AlphaSense raised $350M from Vitruvian, Accenture, and others at a $7.5B valuation, up from $4B in 2024, ahead of a possible IPO (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal)

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Apoha, which is developing a "Liquid State Intelligence" data layer to measure molecules in the real world, emerges from stealth with $36M led by Singular (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)

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How OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI startups are pursuing recursive self-improvement, in a bid to build AI that can improve itself with little to no human input (Financial Times)

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The US data center build-out is falling behind schedule; JP Morgan says 60%+ of data center capacity planned for completion in 2027 isn't yet under construction (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)

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How Revolut founder Nikolay Storonsky's Elon Musk-style pay packages pushed his fortune to ~$20.4B, making him the UK's richest person, ahead of a planned IPO (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)

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Doc: Apple agreed in May to submit the financials of its India business to the country's antitrust body as part of an investigation over alleged market abuses (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)

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Israeli startup ZutaCore, which builds direct-to-chip liquid data center cooling systems, raised a $100M Series C from Mitsubishi and more at a $600M valuation (Meir Orbach/CTech)

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AI music startup Suno raised $400M led by Bond at a $5.4B valuation, up from $2.45B after raising $250M in November 2025, and passed 2M subscribers in February (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

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How startups Westmag, which raised an $11M, a16z-led seed in August 2025, and Atlas are seeking to make actuators, the foundation of hardware, outside of China (Kylie Robison/Core Memory)

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Google unveils five AI data center water commitments, including becoming water positive by 2030, local infrastructure investment, and transparency about usage (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

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Layup Parts, which aims to digitize the composite manufacturing supply chain for aerospace, defense, and motorsports, raised a $42M Series A led by Marlinspike (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)

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Alibaba releases Qwen3.7-Plus, a multimodal proprietary model with a 1M-token context window, costing $2 per 1M tokens, 60% less than text-only Qwen3.7-Max (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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GitLab is laying off 350 staff, or 14% of its workforce, as it pivots to become an AI-focused enterprise software development platform, and exits 22 countries (Dean Seal/Wall Street Journal)

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