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Scale AI wins a $500M DOD contract through the Chief Digital and AI Office to help sift data and assist in decision-making, after receiving a $100M deal in 2025 (Jen Judson/Bloomberg) [69d]
Musk v. Altman: Shivon Zilis testifies her relationship with Musk didn't influence her duties as an OpenAI board member; she left in 2023 after Musk started xAI (Carly Nairn/Courthouse News Service) [69d]
Filing: Meta asks a judge to overturn the jury's verdict in the Los Angeles social media addiction trial or order a new trial, citing Section 230 protections (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters) [69d]
Snap reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $1.53B, in line with est., and says it ended its $400M Perplexity deal announced in November; SNAP drops 4%+ after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) [69d]
DoorDash reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to $4.04B, vs. $4.14B est., and forecasts Q2 marketplace gross order value above estimates; DASH jumps 11%+ after hours (Koyena Das/Reuters) [69d]
Arm reports Q4 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.5B, says AGI CPU demand will drive $2B in sales in 2027 and 2028, over 2x its prior guidance; ARM jumps 11%+ after hours (Michael Acton/Financial Times) [69d]
Google Chrome silently installs a ~4GB Gemini Nano model on desktop devices; Google says it has been offered since 2024 and users can remove it via settings (Ben Schoon/9to5Google) [69d]
Corgi, which provides insurance for startups and uses AI to generate quotes, manage claims, and more, raised a $160M Series B led by TCV at a $1.3B valuation (Richard Nieva/Forbes) [69d]
Musk v. Altman: Mira Murati testifies that Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new OpenAI model and that he made her work more difficult (Jay Peters/The Verge) [69d]
Instacart reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.02B, GTV up 13% to $10.29B, and orders up 10%, compared with a 16% growth a year earlier; CART drops 11%+ (Neil J Kanatt/Reuters) [69d]
Anthropic says it signed a deal with SpaceX to use "all of the compute capacity" at Colossus 1, giving it access to over 300 MW of new capacity within the month (Axios) [69d]