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- Picogrid, which is building a hardware and software integration layer for military systems, raised a $45M Series A led by Bessemer (Barratt Dewey/Tectonic Defense) [45d]
- Coinbase and Kalshi introduce perpetual crypto futures, marking the first time the contracts will be available to US investors via domestic, regulated exchanges (Pritam Biswas/Reuters) [45d]
- SentinelOne's stock closes down 8% after the company announced plans to lay off 8% of its workforce and forecasted Q2 and FY revenue guidance below estimates (Samantha Subin/CNBC) [45d]
- Dell stock closed up 32.81%, its best day ever, after reporting its fastest pace of revenue growth for any period since returning to the public market in 2018 (CJ Haddad/CNBC) [45d]
- Hands-on with Gemini Spark beta rolling out to AI Ultra subs: planned a birthday party from emails and calendar, but called a live-in boyfriend a "close friend" (Reece Rogers/Wired) [45d]
- US Space Force says SpaceX won a $4.16B contract to build a space-based tracking network as part of President Trump's Golden Dome defensive shield (Sana Pashankar/Bloomberg) [45d]
- What to expect at Computex 2026: AI chips, budget PCs competing with the MacBook Neo, Nvidia entering laptop SoC market with the rumored N1X chip, and more (PCMag) [45d]
- Sources: Microsoft is working on an app that will include GitHub Copilot, Copilot chat, Copilot Cowork, and a new agentic workflow tool called Autopilot (Sebastian Herrera/Fortune) [45d]
- ElevenLabs launches Dubbing v2, which it says preserves the original speaker's emotion, tone, and pacing across 90+ languages while staying synced to content (ElevenLabs) [45d]
- Sports Illustrated rights holder Minute Media lays off 12% of staff and reverses its ~$200M deal to buy VideoVerse, an AI platform to extract sports highlights (Meir Orbach/CTech) [45d]
- After hitting their annual AI budget in months or seeing their AI bills double or triple due to "tokenmaxxing", some companies are rationing or tracking AI use (Bradley Olson/Wall Street Journal) [45d]
- Kalshi plans to offer perpetual futures contracts, saying it will be "the first company in American history to offer" them, to be "fully regulated" by the CFTC (Nathan Bomey/Axios) [45d]
- A BBC Question Time episode featured a panel with AI-generated historical figures like Churchill, intended to show AI images' "hyper-real and persuasive" nature (Holly Bishop/The Independent) [45d]
- Sources: ByteDance has partnered with chipmaker InnoStar to develop an AI inference chip modeled after Groq's LPUs, which are built to run AI models at low cost (The Information) [45d]
- AI startup Shift launches a free home cleaning service in NYC to record first-person video with a camera-equipped cap and use it to train robots (Robert Hart/The Verge) [46d]
- Xcena, whose MX1 chip performs data orchestration and KV cache management directly within memory modules, raised a $135M Series B at a $570M valuation (Kate Park/TechCrunch) [46d]
- Former Tesla data labelers say FSD relies on laborious mapping for hazards; crash data analysis shows Tesla exaggerates FSD's safety via flawed methodology (Reuters) [46d]
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