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June 4, 2025, 11:25 AM
 

June 4, 2025

10:55 AM  •
Steven Zeitchik / The Hollywood Reporter:  AMC signs a deal with Runway to use its AI tech to generate marketing images and help pre-visualize unproduced shows, the first cable player to work with Runway
10:40 AM  •
Margi Murphy / Bloomberg:  Google says hackers loosely affiliated with the Com in the US, the UK, and Western Europe breached 20+ companies in the US and Europe to steal Salesforce data
10:30 AM  •
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:  The IRS open sourced most of its Direct File tax software on GitHub last week, fulfilling a legal requirement under the SHARE IT Act, despite Intuit pressure
10:15 AM  •
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:  Mistral releases Mistral Code, a “vibe coding” client forked from open source project Continue, in private beta on JetBrains platforms and VS Code
9:45 AM  •
Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters:  Microsoft launches a free cybersecurity program for European governments to boost defenses against AI-enhanced threats, particularly state-sponsored attacks
9:30 AM  •
Sam Clark / Politico:  Microsoft says it didn't cut services to the International Criminal Court, after an AP report in May said it “cancelled” the email of ICC prosecutor Karim Khan
9:20 AM  •
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post:  A comparison of GPT-4o, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.0 Flash, Llama 4, and Copilot: Claude won overall, having the most consistent answers and no hallucinations
8:55 AM  •
Ian King / Bloomberg:  GlobalFoundries plans to spend $16B to boost domestic chip production, including $13B on its New York and Vermont plants and $3B for advanced packaging research
8:30 AM  •
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:  Reddit now lets users hide posting and commenting history on their profiles via a “Content and Activity” setting, as part of a new “Curate your profile” section
7:30 AM  •
Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters:  NYC-based Brookfield says it plans to invest ~$9.9B to build an AI data center in Strangnas, Sweden, after committing to spending €20B in France earlier in 2025
7:15 AM  •
Steven Levy / Wired:  Q&A with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on “a 50% chance” of AGI in the next five to 10 years, bad actors and technical risks, AI regulation, jobs, and more
6:55 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Photos and partial footage of an FSD-enabled Tesla sideswiping a parked SUV and hitting a woman in November 2023 show FSD's limits; the NHTSA is investigating
6:20 AM  •
Hayden Field / The Verge:  Google pauses the rollout of Google Photos' AI-powered Ask Photos feature due to issues with latency, quality, and UX, per a Google product manager's post on X
6:05 AM  •
Christopher Cruz / Rolling Stone:  An interview with Mario Kart World producer Kosuke Yabuki on accessibility, balancing the chaos, guardrails, base mechanics, and more, ahead of the June 5 debut
5:35 AM  •
Nathan Vifflin / Reuters:  Nokia, Nvidia, Safran, and 40+ organizations plan to build an EU-funded unmanned drone project to protect critical infrastructure, set to launch in three years
4:10 AM  •
Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times:  An interview with Gaia Marcus, the director of UK-based think tank Ada Lovelace Institute, on AI regulation in Europe, AI safety, bias, liability, and more
2:40 AM  •
Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:  How Morgan Stanley is using its DevGen.AI tool, built in-house on OpenAI's AI models, to translate legacy code into English specs for developers to then rewrite
2:30 AM  •
Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg:  Sources: Thrive and Capital Group visited China to study its AI scene, joining a wave of US investors rekindling interest in China after DeepSeek's advances
2:15 AM  •
Shannon Cuthrell / IEEE Spectrum:  A look at Australian startup Cortical Labs' $35,000 CL1, billed as the world's first code-deployable biological computer, with 115 units shipping this summer
1:55 AM  •
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:  Chinese startup Butterfly Effect's Manus debuts a text-to-video generation tool in early access for paid users, with plans to roll it out for free to all users
1:30 AM  •
Reuters:  AI coding startups are at risk of being disrupted by Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI; a source says Microsoft's GitHub Copilot grew to $500M+ in revenue in 2024
1:15 AM  •
Financial Times:  Sources: Toronto-based AI startup Cohere is seeking to raise $500M+ at a $5.5B+ valuation, after raising a $500M Series D at a $5.5B valuation in July 2024
12:45 AM  •
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:  Deel says it crossed a $1B annual revenue run rate in Q1 2025, has allocated an M&A budget of $200M to $500M for 2025, and is still aiming for a US IPO in 2026
12:35 AM  •
Sophia Fox-Sowell / StateScoop:  A group of 260+ US legislators from all 50 states sign a letter opposing a federal budget bill provision that bans states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years
12:25 AM  •
George Hammond / Financial Times:  Court filings: Deel alleges Rippling's “competitive intelligence manager” Brett Alexander Johnson posed as a customer to access Deel's product and business info

June 3, 2025

11:50 PM  •
Vildana Hajric / Bloomberg:  NYSE Arca files with the US SEC to list a Bitcoin ETF tied to Trump Media and Technology Group, which runs Truth Social and is majority owned by President Trump
10:30 PM  •
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:  Windsurf says Anthropic gave five days of notice before cutting nearly all its first-party capacity to all Claude 3.x models, after passing it over for Claude 4
9:45 PM  •
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE:  Asana reports Q1 revenue of $187.3M, vs. $185.5M est., up 9% YoY vs. 26% last year, and adjusted EPS of $0.05, vs. $0.02 est.; ASAN falls 8%+
8:25 PM  •
Sam Sabin / Axios:  Source: ~1,000 people have left CISA during the second Trump administration, including 750+ who took a buyout offer, cutting CISA's workforce by nearly a third
7:45 PM  •
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:  Qualcomm patches a series of vulnerabilities in dozens of chips, including three zero-days reported by Google that “may be under limited, targeted exploitation”
7:10 PM  •
Thomas Brewster / Forbes:  The Trump administration plans to reorganize the Biden administration's US AI Safety Institute, set up in 2023, into the Center for AI Standards and Innovation
6:50 PM  •
Kate Payne / Associated Press:  A US federal judge temporarily blocks Florida from enforcing a law banning social media accounts for kids under 14, saying the law is “likely unconstitutional”
6:15 PM  •
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:  OpenAI updates its coding agent Codex with internet access, which is turned off by default, and expands its availability from ChatGPT Pro to ChatGPT Plus users
6:05 PM  •
Blockworks:  Sources: Pump.fun plans to raise $1B via a token sale at a $4B valuation; Blockworks says Pump.fun has generated $700M+ in revenue since its early 2024 launch
5:15 PM  •
Théophane Hartmann / Euractiv:  TikTok bans the hashtag #SkinnyTok globally, saying it is “linked to unhealthy weight loss content”, in response to direct pressure from the French government
4:55 PM  •
Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters:  CrowdStrike reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.1B, in line with est., forecasts Q2 revenue below est., and approves an up to $1B share buyback; CRWD drops 6%+
4:45 PM  •
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:  HPE reports Q2 revenue up 6% YoY to $7.63B, above $7.46B est., Server revenue up 6% YoY to $4.1B, and says it expects a reduced impact from tariffs in 2025
4:00 PM  •
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:  Kaiko: the USD1 stablecoin launched by President Trump's World Liberty Financial hasn't broken into the mainstream, with muted inflows and little organic demand
3:15 PM  •
Emma Roth / The Verge:  Google NotebookLM now lets users share notebooks publicly; viewers can interact with a notebook's generated content, like audio overviews, briefings, and FAQs
2:32 PM  •
Sifted:  TechCrunch quietly shut down its Europe operations; one former senior reporter says new owner Regent thought “international startup coverage wasn't essential”
2:30 PM  •
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:  Researchers detail a technique Meta and Yandex use to glean some logged-in Android users' browsing histories from Chromium-based browsers via web identifiers
1:25 PM  •
Molly White / Citation Needed:  NFT marketplace Magic Eden and the TRUMP memecoin team announce the “Official $TRUMP Wallet” and open a waitlist; Trump's sons deny any involvement or knowledge
1:05 PM  •
Emma Roth / The Verge:  TikTok expands Manage Topics, which lets users customize how often content from the top 10 categories appears in For You, and adds AI-powered keyword filtering
12:45 PM  •
Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle:  Nintendo says it didn't send out Switch 2 review units because “important features and updates” will only be available via an update on the June 5 launch day
12:35 PM  •
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:  Some researchers say it looks like DeepSeek used Google Gemini to help train its R1-0528 reasoning AI model; when asked, DeepSeek-V3 says it is based on GPT-4
12:25 PM  •
Catherine Perloff / The Information:  How AppLovin, which lets advertisers use IP addresses to track users, began eroding Google's ad market share and pushed Google to reverse a 2019 privacy policy
12:20 PM  •
Jay Peters / The Verge:  Epic Games launches MetaHuman Creator, a game developer tool to quickly create realistic digital human characters, now embedded as part of Unreal Engine 5.6
11:00 AM  •
Politico:  Pornhub's parent company plans to stop serving adult content in France as soon as June 4, in protest of government measures forcing it to verify visitors' ages
10:40 AM  •
Kate Park / TechCrunch:  Tel Aviv-based Speedata, which is designing analytics processing units for big data workloads, raised a $44M Series B and aims to showcase its first APU in June
10:00 AM  •
Gina Narcisi / CRN:  Ciroos.AI, whose AI-powered site reliability engineering tool built on MCP and A2A helps businesses automate operations, emerges from stealth and raised $21M
9:30 AM  •
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:  Broadcom begins shipping its Tomahawk 6 data center switch chips, which it says can perform the work of six previous-gen chips, to improve GPU utilization rates
9:20 AM  •
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:  Adobe launches Photoshop for Android in beta for devices running Android 11 or later with 6GB+ of RAM, offering tools like layers, masks, and Generative Fill
9:05 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Huawei Pura X review: Huawei's ~$1,050, China-only clamshell and first flagship to debut with HarmonyOS offers novel ergonomics but an incomplete app ecosystem
8:55 AM  •
Nilay Patel / The Verge:  Q&A with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on Airbnb Experiences, launching new services, OpenAI, AI agents, making decisions at Airbnb, cutting PMs, Jony Ive, and more
8:40 AM  •
Steven Scheer / Reuters:  Israeli startup Zero Networks, which aims to prevent ransomware and other cyberattacks, raised $55M led by Highland Europe, taking its total funding to $100M+
8:05 AM  •
Tim Starks / CyberScoop:  Cynthia Kaiser, the FBI's former deputy assistant director leading cyber policy, intel, and engagement, left to join cybersecurity company Halcyon as an SVP
7:55 AM  •
Chester Dawson / Bloomberg:  Indeed says CEO Chris Hyams has stepped down, replaced by parent company Recruit Holdings CEO Hisayuki “Deko” Idekoba, who returns to the role after six years
7:30 AM  •
Washington Post:  Analysis: since his inauguration, President Trump posted 2,262 times on Truth Social in 132 days, 3x+ the volume of tweets in the same period of his first term
7:15 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Meta agrees to buy power from Constellation Energy's Illinois nuclear plant, signing a 20-year deal that starts in mid-2027 when a 10-year state subsidy expires
7:05 AM  •
Financial Times:  Sources: Chinese companies designing advanced chips for manufacturing in Taiwan, like Xiaomi, are set to be the hardest hit by new US export rules on EDA tools
6:45 AM  •
Karin Matussek / Bloomberg:  Germany's data protection commissioner fines Vodafone a record €45M for data privacy violations linked to “malicious behavior” by third-party sales agents
6:30 AM  •
Miguel Salazar / New York Times:  David Cope, a composer and algorithmic composition pioneer who developed a program in the 1980s to write music in the style of Bach and others, died at age 83
6:10 AM  •
Miriam Gottfried / Wall Street Journal:  Thoma Bravo raised $34.4B across three funds, including $24.3B for its main software company buyout fund and $8.1B for its midsize software company-focused fund
5:55 AM  •
Kate Park / TechCrunch:  Dublin-based cross-border payment startup NomuPay raised a $40M Series C at a $290M valuation, following a $37M Series B at a ~$200M valuation in January 2025
5:40 AM  •
Debby Wu / Bloomberg:  TSMC CEO C.C. Wei blames worsening traffic for delays in adding a second plant in Japan, and reaffirms plans to spend $100B in Arizona over the next five years
3:55 AM  •
Gregory Meyer / Financial Times:  A look at Walmart's use of automation to grow sales without job creation, as analysts say its staff count raise questions about the future of US retail labor
2:25 AM  •
Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia:  TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says TSMC expects a record profit in 2025 despite geopolitical, tariff, and FX risks, and confirms it is not building a fab in the Middle East
1:20 AM  •
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:  AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a nonprofit focused on safer AI; LawZero has raised nearly $30M from donors including Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn
12:45 AM  •
Reuters:  Sensor Tower: daily US users of PDD Holdings' Temu fell 58% in May; the US closed the “de minimis” loophole on May 2, and Temu then slashed its US ad spending

June 2, 2025

11:40 PM  •
Thomas Ptacek / Fly:  A software developer explains how AI agents help automate tedious coding tasks, and addresses concerns like hallucinations, job losses, mediocre code, and more
9:30 PM  •
Virginia Furness / Reuters:  Riga-based Aerones, which makes robots that can service wind turbines in about half the time of humans, raised $62M led by Activate Capital and S2G Investments
9:00 PM  •
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:  Google says it is ending PayPal account integration in Google Wallet for US users, effective June 13, after stopping new PayPal account linking in April 2025
8:10 PM  •
Reuters:  Microsoft, Google, CrowdStrike, and Palo Alto Networks plan to create a public glossary of state-sponsored hacking groups to ease unofficial alias confusion
8:05 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: Elon Musk is selling $5B in xAI debt at a double-digit interest rate via Morgan Stanley, with demand already over $3.5B and commitments due by June 17
7:30 PM  •
Richard Lawler / The Verge:  Microsoft announces Windows changes in response to the EU's DMA for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default browser unless opened
7:15 PM  •
New York Times:  Sources: the FTC is investigating whether roughly a dozen US advertising and advocacy groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers
6:55 PM  •
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:  Netic, which sells an AI platform that helps home services firms automate client outreach and handle calls, raised $20M from Greylock, Founders Fund, and others
6:35 PM  •
David Streitfeld / New York Times:  After Google lost two US antitrust cases in the past year, a look at critics' claims that a breakup might be better for investors, customers, and innovation
5:15 PM  •
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:  Uber names longtime executive Andrew Macdonald as president and its first COO since 2019; SVP of Delivery Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty is leaving after ~13 years
5:05 PM  •
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:  ISP Frontier Communications settles a lawsuit from record labels that demanded dropping broadband users accused of piracy; SCOTUS may hear a similar Cox case
5:00 PM  •
David Heaney / UploadVR:  Sources: Meta is prioritizing an ultralight Horizon OS headset with a compute puck for 2026 and likely won't ship a new traditional form factor Quest until 2027
4:35 PM  •
Maya Goldman / Axios:  The US FDA debuts an agencywide generative AI tool to help scientific reviewers and others streamline work and, soon, to find high-priority inspection targets
4:10 PM  •
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:  Character.AI rolls out features like AvatarFX for video generation, plus Streams and Scenes for creating and sharing videos with characters on a new social feed
4:00 PM  •
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:  Snowflake agrees to acquire Crunchy Data, a cloud-based database service that helps businesses and government agencies use PostgreSQL, a source says for ~$250M
3:30 PM  •
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:  Elon Musk's Neuralink raised a $650M Series E from ARK, Founders Fund, G42, Human Capital, Sequoia, Thrive, and others, reportedly at a ~$9B pre-money valuation
2:10 PM  •
Michael Acton / Financial Times:  Alphabet offers to spend $500M+ over 10 years to rebuild its global compliance structure, in a settlement proposal for an antitrust lawsuit from shareholders
12:30 PM  •
Financial Times:  Sources: xAI launches a $300M tender offer at a $113B valuation, validating xAI's price tag for when it acquired X in March 2025 and letting staff sell shares
11:55 AM  •
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:  X plans to roll out DMs “with encryption, vanishing messages and the ability to send any kind of file” to all users this week, if there are no scaling issues
9:30 AM  •
Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times:  A UK government trial of 20K+ civil servants using Microsoft Copilot for three months found that they saved 26 minutes per day on average, or two weeks per year
9:10 AM  •
Cory Weinberg / The Information:  Filing: neobank Chime plans to sell ~26M shares in its IPO at $24 to $26, valuing it a $10.3B to $11.1B; co-founders Chris Britt and Ryan King each own 4% to 5%
8:30 AM  •
Emily Mullin / Wired:  Paradromics says it successfully tested its Connexus brain implant, which encodes memory, in a patient during epilepsy surgery, a first for the Neuralink rival
7:50 AM  •
Karin Matussek / Bloomberg:  Germany's Federal Cartel Office warns Amazon that its marketplace retailer price controls likely violate national and EU laws, in its preliminary assessment
7:20 AM  •
Barbara Moens / Financial Times:  The EU Commission fines European takeaway groups Delivery Hero and Glovo €329M for taking part in an “online food delivery cartel”, ending its July 2024 probe
7:10 AM  •
Maureen Farrell / New York Times:  US asset management firms like Blackstone, KKR, and BlackRock are pouring hundreds of billions into AI data centers, creating “oversupply” and bubble concerns
6:45 AM  •
Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:  An interview with Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs on tech's next chapter, meeting in 1997, Steve Jobs, Apple, Powell Jobs backing LoveFrom in 2019, and more
6:35 AM  •
Nikkei Asia:  SoftBank and Intel form Saimemory, a company to develop a prototype within two years of stacked DRAM chips for AI that consume ~50% of the power of current HBM
6:25 AM  •
Le Monde:  Paris' public prosecutor says it charged 25 people, including six minors, over a spate of kidnappings and attempted abductions targeting crypto executives
6:15 AM  •
Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal:  Apple appeals the EU's iOS interoperability order under the DMA, saying the requirements create “a process that is unreasonable, costly, and stifles innovation”
6:05 AM  •
Yadarisa Shabong / Reuters:  UK neobank Monzo reports FY 2025 revenue up 48% YoY to £1.2B, pretax profit up 335% YoY to £60.5M, deposits up 48% YoY to £16.6B, and users up 25% YoY to 12.2M
5:45 AM  •
Wall Street Journal:  Sources: Meta aims to help brands fully create and target ads using AI by the end of 2026, including images and budgetary goals, expanding its current AI tools
3:55 AM  •
The Insider:  A look at Russian GRU Unit 29155's hacking department, which started as a lone operator in 2012, and its involvement in cyberattack and disinformation campaigns
2:25 AM  •
Scharon Harding / Ars Technica:  A deep dive into Apple TV's privacy features shows that Apple's streaming device is more private than the vast majority of alternatives, save for dumb TVs

June 1, 2025

11:55 PM  •
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:  Elad Gil, backer of Perplexity, Character.AI, Airbnb, Coinbase, and Stripe, invested in Enam Co., which aims to use AI to reinvent businesses via PE roll-ups
7:45 PM  •
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:  Sources: Samsung is nearing a deal to invest in Perplexity, preload Perplexity's app on Samsung devices, add Perplexity search to Samsung's browser, and more
4:50 PM  •
Justina Lee / Bloomberg:  A profile of prediction market Kalshi, which is using its federal financial license to open up sports gambling across the US, even in states where it is illegal
2:25 PM  •
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:  Sources: UMG, Warner Music, and Sony Music are in talks to license their work to AI music startups Udio and Suno and settle copyright infringement lawsuits
11:10 AM  •
Alex Harring / CNBC:  How Vancouver-based delivery app Fantuan expanded to 50+ US cities since 2019 by focusing on Asian cuisines, with an app design reminiscent of Chinese platforms
10:05 AM  •
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:  A look at Apple's AI plans for WWDC; sources say it is testing its 3B, 7B, 33B, and 150B models via an internal Playground tool, and will name macOS 26 as Tahoe
9:35 AM  •
Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post:  Researchers say tactics used to make AI more engaging, like making them more agreeable, can drive chatbots to reinforce harmful ideas, like encouraging drug use
7:05 AM  •
Stephen Katte / Cointelegraph:  DappRadar: NFT lending market volume is down 97% from a peak of ~$1B in January 2024 to ~$50M in May 2025, with borrower activity down 90% and lenders down 78%
2:00 AM  •
Samantha Subin / CNBC:  A profile of DoorDash CEO Tony Xu, who has transformed the once-scrappy delivery startup into an almost $90B industry consolidator through an acquisition spree
1:25 AM  •
Kyle Baird / DL News:  US SEC filing: Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor
1:10 AM  •
The Guardian:  Analysis of the top 100 trending TikTok videos under #mentalhealthtips: 52 contain misinformation, including misused therapeutic language and quick-fix methods

May 31, 2025

11:05 PM  •
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:  Microsoft and the CWA reach a tentative labor agreement for ~300 ZeniMax QA workers after almost two years of talks, marking Microsoft's first US union contract
8:45 PM  •
Amar Diwakar / Rest of World:  Dubai is emerging as a global hub for AI talent, attracting workers with its Golden Visa program, no taxes, attractive salaries, and ease of setting up business
6:45 PM  •
Nicholas Carr / New Cartographies:  AI's real threat to education isn't that it encourages students to cheat, but that it short-circuits the learning processes needed to use generative AI adeptly
4:45 PM  •
Jay Peters / The Verge:  Twitch plans to start testing the ability to host a vertical livestream and an open beta of “2K streaming” that will let partners and affiliates stream at 1440p
3:20 PM  •
Pew Research Center:  The share of news influencers on Bluesky almost doubled after the 2024 US election to 43%, but X remains popular, with 82% of news influencers having an account
1:05 PM  •
Christopher Grimes / Financial Times:  Art house streaming service and distributor Mubi raised $100M led by Sequoia at a $1B valuation; Mubi has ~20M registered users worldwide and 400+ employees
11:55 AM  •
NPR:  Internal docs: Meta plans to use AI to automate up to 90% of its privacy and integrity risk assessments, including sensitive areas like AI safety and youth risk
10:50 AM  •
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:  Google released Google AI Edge Gallery for Android on GitHub that lets users run some AI models from Hugging Face on their phones; an iOS app is coming soon
9:35 AM  •
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:  Roblox game Grow a Garden has spawned a market where in-game items are sold for real money on sites like eBay and Facebook, potentially violating Roblox's ToS
6:35 AM  •
Gabriel Daros / Rest of World:  Brazil is piloting dWallet, a digital wallet program that lets users manage, own, and profit from their data, the first such nationwide initiative in the world
2:30 AM  •
Reed Albergotti / Semafor:  A Replit employee details a critical security flaw in web apps created using AI-powered app builder Lovable that exposes API keys and personal info of app users
2:20 AM  •
Vishal Singh / Silicon Canals:  London-based Dojo, a payments tech provider to over 140K businesses, raised $190M from Vitruvian Partners in its first equity raise since launching in 2021
2:05 AM  •
Katherine Davis / Axios:  Vivodyne, which uses AI and robots to grow human tissues in the lab for drug discovery and development, raised a $40M Series A led by Khosla Ventures
1:25 AM  •
Courtney Albon / Defense News:  Defense tech firm Leidos acquires VA-based Kudu Dynamics, which provides AI-enabled cyber defense and offense tools to the US DOD and other customers, for $300M
12:55 AM  •
Olivia Poh / Bloomberg:  Sources: TikTok Shop cuts several hundred jobs in Indonesia, leaving Tokopedia and TikTok Shop with ~2,500 employees in the country, down from ~5,000 in 2024
12:30 AM  •
Max Knoblauch / Sherwood News:  Nvidia reported record gaming revenue of $3.76B in Q1, up 42% YoY, driven by sales of its Blackwell chips that can be used to enhance game graphics through DLSS
12:15 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Docs and sources: Builder.ai faked business with Bengaluru-based VerSe, which runs Dailyhunt, by “round-tripping” nearly $60M in total revenue from 2021 to 2024

May 30, 2025

11:55 PM  •
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune:  NYC-based Empathy, whose products are focused on loss support and legacy planning for bereaving families, raised a $72M Series C led by Adams Street Partners
11:25 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Vista Equity Partners agrees to acquire ERP software provider Acumatica from PE firm EQT, sources say in a deal that values Acumatica at ~$2B including debt
8:50 PM  •
Chris Metinko / Axios:  Boston-based cloud cost management startup CloudZero raised a $56M Series C led by BlueCrest Capital Management and Innovius Capital
8:25 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: Elon Musk is pushing lawmakers to help clear a path for driverless vehicles and has been weighing in on revisions of a bill on autonomous vehicles
7:50 PM  •
Reed Albergotti / Semafor:  Sources: Anthropic has been lobbying Congress to oppose a bill banning states from regulating AI, and pushed against the recent US AI deal with Gulf states
7:05 PM  •
Reuters:  Sources: Anthropic's annualized revenue hit ~$3B at the end of May, driven by business demand, up from $2B around the end of March and ~$1B in December 2024
6:25 PM  •
Wall Street Journal:  US v. Google: during closing arguments, a judge queried both sides on ideas to limit Google's monopoly in search and said he expects to issue a ruling in August
5:25 PM  •
Washington Post:  Sources: the White House is finalizing EOs on drones that could end Chinese drone sales in the US, update federal rules on where drones can be flown, and more
4:40 PM  •
Kate Clark / Bloomberg:  Sources: Abridge, which uses AI to transcribe medical chats, is raising $300M led by a16z at a $5.3B valuation, up from $2.75B in February when it raised $250M
3:35 PM  •
Dan Primack / Axios:  Q&A with Mary Meeker on publishing her first Trends report since 2019, its focus on the AI revolution, why OpenAI may have an insurmountable lead, and more
2:55 PM  •
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:  Automattic says it will resume contributing to the WordPress project, after announcing a pause in April
2:35 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: Trump administration plans to expand Entity List restrictions to cover subsidiaries of Chinese companies, aiming to block workarounds via new offshoots
1:30 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: TSMC is evaluating building a “gigafab” in the UAE and has discussed the possibility with MGX and officials in the Trump administration
1:10 PM  •
Ina Fried / Axios:  Microsoft hires ex-Biden administration lawyer Lisa Monaco as president of global affairs and promotes ex-Trump official C.J. Mahoney to general counsel
1:00 PM  •
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE:  Prepared, which offers AI tools to modernize emergency response systems, raised a $80M Series C led by General Catalyst, bringing its total funding to ~$135.2M
12:45 PM  •
Axios:  Sources: Atticus, a stealthy stablecoin banking startup, is in advanced talks to raise new funding led by Palmer Luckey at a valuation of between $1.5B and $2B
12:30 PM  •
Wired:  German police identify TrickBot and Conti ransomware leader “Stern” as Vitaly Nikolaevich Kovalev, believed to be in Russia and shielded from extradition
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