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- NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani allows city agencies to use TikTok, with some restrictions, reversing a 2023 ban his predecessor enacted over data security concerns (Chris Sommerfeldt/Politico) [30d]
- Salesforce announces over 30 new features for Slack, including a meeting transcription feature and an operator mode to complete multi-step tasks on the desktop (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View) [30d]
- Sources: AT&T agreed last week to a deal worth up to $2B to upgrade the FirstNet emergency cellular network it runs for the Commerce Department (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal) [30d]
- Letters to Sen. Ed Markey: six autonomous vehicle companies say remote assistants don't directly control vehicles; Tesla says its operators are allowed to do so (Aarian Marshall/Wired) [30d]
- Sources: Microsoft is in talks with Chevron and investment fund Engine No. 1 over a $7B Texas power plant that would initially generate 2.5 GW of electricity (Bloomberg) [30d]
- Sources: threat actors stole Cisco source code by breaching its internal development environment using credentials from a recent Trivy supply chain attack (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer) [30d]
- An excerpt from the book The Infinity Machine details how DeepMind's early governance battles with Google changed Demis Hassabis from an idealist into a realist (Sebastian Mallaby/Colossus) [30d]
- Samsung launches Hearapy, a free Android app to mitigate motion sickness by playing a 100Hz sine wave tone; a 60-second session can provide two hours of relief (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge) [30d]
- Austin-based Saronic, which builds military autonomous ships, raised a $1.75B Series D led by Kleiner Perkins at a $9.25B valuation, up from $4B in Feb. 2025 (Samantha Subin/CNBC) [30d]
- Sequoia says Doug Leone is returning in a newly created role of chairman, after he announced his retirement in 2022 from his role as "senior steward" (Iain Martin/Forbes) [30d]
- Anthropic confirms it leaked parts of Claude Code's source code, saying the leak was "a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security breach" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) [30d]
- Snap shares climbed 14% on Tuesday after activist investor Irenic suggested changes to boost the stock's value 7x, such as cutting staff by 21% and ending Specs (Lola Murti/CNBC) [30d]
- Yupp, which raised a $33M seed led by a16z crypto in 2024 for a crowdsourced AI model picker, shuts down, saying it didn't reach strong product-market fit (Julie Bort/TechCrunch) [30d]
- Microsoft stock plunged 23% in Q1, a steeper drop than any of its tech peers or the Nasdaq, and its steepest quarterly drop since the 2008 financial crisis (Jordan Novet/CNBC) [30d]
- OpenAI has tapped retail investors for the first time, raising $3B+ as part of its $122B round, through a trio of banks and ETFs managed by ARK Invest (George Hammond/Financial Times) [30d]
- OpenAI closed a record-breaking $122B funding round led by SoftBank, a16z, and others at a post-money valuation of $852B (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) [30d]
- PrismML, which says its 1-bit LLM achieves radical compression without sacrificing performance, comes out of stealth with $16.25M in SAFE and seed funding (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal) [30d]
- Iranian media: Iran arrested 46 people allegedly in a network selling Starlink terminals and seized 139 terminals; there are an estimated 50K terminals in Iran (Bloomberg) [30d]
- Monzo is shuttering its US operations to focus on scaling in the UK and Europe; source: it will lay off ~50 employees and close clients' accounts in June (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg) [30d]
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