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Rahul Raj / EU-Startups: Milan-based legal AI company Lexroom raised a €42.9M Series B led by Left Lane, after raising a €16M Series A in September 2025, taking total funding to €62.7M — Lexroom, a Mi

Reuters: Mistral acquires Vienna-based Emmi AI for an undisclosed sum to boost its industrial offerings in Europe; Emmi raised €15M in Austria's largest round in 2025 — Europe's leading artificial int

Krysta Escobar / CNBC: Modular data center maker Armada raised a 230M Series B co-led by Overmatch, 8090 Industries, and BlackRock at a 2B valuation, and plans a new Arizona factory — Armada, which bu

Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: Monzo reports FY 2026 revenue up 39% YoY to £1.7B, pre-tax profit up 44% to £87.3M, users up 3M to 15M+, and deposits up 55% to £25.7B, as it expands lending — Monzo Bank Ltd

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: NYC Health + Hospitals says hackers accessed its network from Nov. 2025 to Feb. 2026, exposing personal data, medical records, and fingerprints of 1.8M+ people — New York

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: On-demand manufacturing startup SendCutSend raised 110M co-led by Sequoia, Paradigm, and Stripe co-founders Patrick and John Collison, valuing it at 1B — Custom sheet

OpenAI: OpenAI introduces Guaranteed Capacity, a new offering that lets customers guarantee access to OpenAI's compute through one- to three-year commitments — Guarantee long-term access to OpenAI com

New York Times: OpenAI's win against Elon Musk leaves it free to continue its IPO plans, but it still faces many issues, like rising competition and dozens of other lawsuits — A jury's rejection of El

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: Roblox authorizes its first share buyback program, aiming to repurchase up to 3B of its stock, including 1B over the next year; RBLX is down ~45% YTD — Roblox Corp. au

Bloomberg: Sources: Chinese AI startup Moonshot told investors it would revamp its corporate structure to pave the way for a Hong Kong IPO and comply with Beijing's rules — Moonshot AI has informed it

Financial Times: Sources: Demis Hassabis was an angel investor in Anthropic; PitchBook and Dealroom: former DeepMind researchers founded 12+ companies since 2021, raising $14B+ — Demis Hassabis, the f

Bloomberg: Sources detail growing concerns inside SoftBank over Masayoshi Son's 60B+ bet on OpenAI, which some fear concentrates too much capital into a single company — With more than 60 billion comm

Nikkei Asia: Sources: Intel asks its leading PC partners, including those in the US, China, and Taiwan, to use more 18A CPUs, citing better supply than chips on older nodes — TAIPEI — Intel is urging

Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX expects to proceed with its acquisition of Cursor 30 days after its public trading debut, which is expected to occur on June 12 — SpaceX expects to proceed with its acquisit

Anna Tong / Forbes: Sources: Zyphra, which trains and runs inference for its open-weight models on AMD hardware, is raising a 500M Series B at a valuation of at least 5B — The Series B round, which ch

Arjun Neil Alim / Financial Times: Standard Chartered plans to cut nearly 8,000 back-office positions by 2030, a 15%+ reduction in support functions in hubs like Bengaluru, amid growing AI usage — Bil

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Threat actors published 600+ malicious versions to npm as part of the Shai-Hulud supply chain campaign; most of the affected packages are in the @antv ecosystem — Threa

Reuters: Trump signs an EO calling on regulators and the Fed to review policies that could support fintech growth, including expanding fintech access to payment accounts — U.S. President Donald Trump

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: A CISA contractor maintained a now-offline GitHub repo that exposed credentials to AWS GovCloud accounts and CISA systems; CISA is investigating the situation — Until

Theo Baker / New York Times: A college senior at Stanford describes how AI changed classes: cheating using AI “has become omnipresent” with students “fudging just about everything” — At Stanford Unive

Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: A deep dive into Meta's Hyperion data center campus in Louisiana, expected to reach 5 GW of compute capacity; source: Meta plans to spend $200B+ on the project — Dustin Morr

Brent D. Griffiths / Business Insider: A look at a new class of jobs created by AI companies, including AI storytellers or “evangelists”, forward deployed engineers, AI chiefs, and AI gig workers — -

Fred Lambert / Electrek: After EV maker Fisker's collapse, ~4,000 car owners formed a nonprofit to keep their cars working by reverse-engineering software and building open-source tools — When Fisker

David Morris / Bloomberg: Akamai is seeking to raise 2.6B in a convertible bond offering, and plans to use 350M of the offering to buy back its common stock from buyers of the bonds — Akamai Technolog

Todd Spangler / Variety: Amazon's Alexa+ now produces AI-generated “podcasts” on various topics in the US, featuring chats between two AI “co-hosts”, using content from media outlets — The podcast sec

Benedict Evans: An overview of macro tech trends: capex explosion, unprecedented surge in chip demand, supply chain bottlenecks, model commoditization, AI automation, and more — Twice a year, I produc

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Anthropic acquires NYC-based Stainless, which generates SDKs from APIs, and plans to wind down its hosted products, after reportedly discussing a $300M+ deal — Anthropic

Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: Anthropic last week began letting Mythos users share cybersecurity threats with others who may face similar vulnerabilities, modifying its previous stance — How

Reuters: Arkham: Iran's largest crypto exchange, Nobitex, processed 2.3B+ since 2023 via Tron and BNB Chain, including 23M+ since the Iran war started in February — Iran's Nobitex has processed at lea

Tracy Qu / Wall Street Journal: Baidu reports Q1 revenue down 1.1% YoY to ~4.7B, above ~4.5B est., and net profit down 55% YoY to ~506.6M, above ~462.5M est., amid a slow AI payoff — First-quarter net

Wall Street Journal: Blackstone announces a JV with Google to create a US company that will offer customers access to Google's TPUs, and makes an initial equity commitment of 5B — Investment firm to p

Grant Bourzikas / Cloudflare: Cloudflare tests Mythos against 50+ repositories, highlights its ability to chain bugs into a single exploit, and details a vulnerability discovery harness — For the last

Jamie John / Financial Times: Companies running bug bounty programs are tightening background checks and building AI agents to triage a flood of low-quality reports generated by AI — ‘Bug bounty’ prog

Cursor: Cursor releases Composer 2.5, saying it's better at sustained work on long-running tasks and follows complex instructions more reliably; it's built on Kimi K2.5 — Composer 2.5 is now available

Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: Decart, which offers real-time generative video and GPU optimization tech, raised 300M at a ~4B valuation, up from 3.1B after raising 153M in August 2025 — Decart'

Chris Metinko / Axios: Dust, which helps enterprises design and deploy specialized AI agents that work alongside humans, raised a 40M Series B led by Abstract and Sequoia — Dust, a human-agent collabo

Lauren Edmonds / Business Insider: Eric Schmidt faced loud boos during his University of Arizona commencement speech while discussing “rational” fears over the impact of AI and automation on jobs — -

Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: How Amazon, which took a measured tone to AI, went from an AI also-ran to a real contender, thanks to 200B in spending, custom AI chips, and savvy deals — The pieces

Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: How gambling companies like FanDuel and DraftKings, as well as Meta and a16z's founders, are pouring millions into state-level election campaigns via super PACs — With Cong

Alessandra Ram / Wired: How the AI industry's intense pressure to keep up and its financial rewards are creating “walls of resentment” between Silicon Valley workers and their spouses — Are you marrie

Jason Schreier / @jasonschreier.bsky.social: In a town hall, PlayStation studio business CEO Hermen Hulst told staff that the company's narrative single-player games will now be PlayStation exclusive

Simon Sharwood / The Register: In his weekly Linux kernel post, Linus Torvalds says “AI tools are great” but duplicate bug reports have made the security list “almost entirely unmanageable” — Multiple

Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: Internal chats: in March, xAI offered employees $420 in exchange for completed tax filings as training data for Grok, but the bonuses haven't been paid out — Elon Musk's xAI

Eli Tan / New York Times: Internal memo: Meta is reassigning 7,000 workers to four new units focused on building AI tools, two days before it is set to lay off 10% of its workforce — The company annou

Golnar Motevalli / Bloomberg: Iranian media: Iran launches “Hormuz Safe”, a Bitcoin-backed insurance service for shipping companies transiting the Strait of Hormuz; ~1,500 ships are trapped — Iran has

Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: Microsoft says it's retiring Teams' Together Mode, debuted in 2020, and plans to simplify meeting layouts and focus on video quality, stability, and performance — The com