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• Infinity Constellation, which builds AI tools and software businesses for the professional services market, raised a $24M Series A; it previously raised $17M (Lucinda Shen/Axios) [34d]
• Apple unveils an Apple Intelligence feature that can automatically change compromised passwords, using agentic AI, and save them to the Passwords app (James Pero/Gizmodo) [34d]
• The Trump administration relaunches efforts to block state AI laws; Sen. Blackburn is leading negotiations and pushing KOSA as part of an AI preemption package (Axios) [34d]
• Meta puts $115M toward a "workforce academy", a free 5-week program to train Americans to build data centers, offering job guarantees at Meta construction sites (Wall Street Journal) [34d]
• Source: Cursor, which is prepping for an expected acquisition by SpaceX, passed $4B in annualized revenue in the last week, up from $3B in April and $2B in Feb. (Richard Nieva/Forbes) [34d]
• OpenAI confidentially files for an IPO with the SEC and says it has "not decided on timing yet" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) [34d]