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- Sources: Benchmark raised $2B across two new funds, including a $1.25B fund for late-stage bets, its first growth fund after decades focusing on new startups (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- Sources: Lila Sciences, which uses AI tools to speed up the rate of scientific discovery, is in talks to raise a $2B Series B at an expected valuation of ~$8.5B (Bloomberg) [1d]
- Internal documents: Meta is considering tiered pricing for "Hatch", its planned OpenClaw-like AI agent tool, including a $200-per-month premium subscription (Jyoti Mann/The Information) [1d]
- Nvidia acquired Kumo, which sells predictive AI software to enterprises, a source says for $400M+; PitchBook: Kumo raised $37M at a $250M valuation in 2022 (The Information) [1d]
- Google introduces Gemma 4 12B, a unified, encoder-free open multimodal model that can run locally on devices with 16GB of VRAM or unified memory (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) [1d]
- CrowdStrike reports Q1 revenue up 26% YoY to $1.39B, vs. $1.36B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue of about $1.44B, vs. $1.43B est.; CRWD drops 9%+ after hours (Samantha Subin/CNBC) [1d]
- Broadcom reports Q2 revenue up 48% YoY to $22.19B, vs. $22.27B est., and forecasts Q3 semiconductor revenue from AI below estimates; AVGO drops 12%+ after hours (Reuters) [1d]
- Filing: SpaceX aims to raise $75B in its IPO, selling 555.6M shares at $135 each, which would value the company at ~$1.77T (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg) [1d]
- The US and other Five Eyes nations warn that China is flooding online job platforms with fake profiles and offers targeting government and military personnel (Greg Miller/Washington Post) [1d]
- In a report, UK lawmakers call on the government to end a £330M NHS deal with Palantir and disclose more details of a military contract with the company (Bloomberg) [1d]
- Security firm Calif says it used OpenAI's Codex to discover HTTP/2 Bomb, a remote DoS exploit affecting web servers like Nginx, Apache HTTPD, and Microsoft IIS (The Hacker News) [1d]
- OpenAI diverges from Trump's AI EO in a new policy paper, proposing cyber risk evaluations for advanced AI systems be mandatory and led by CAISI, not the NSA (Brendan Bordelon/Politico) [1d]
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- Hey, remember that bonkers folding micro-LED TV? It’s back! And now it's a Bugatti [1d]
- Garmin says older runners are surprisingly doing the longest runs — see how you compare in the latest fascinating Connect data [1d]
- Huawei's fiercest competitor just launched the world's first Wi-Fi 8 access point, and it uses a cutting-edge US chip [1d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, June 4 (game #1089) [1d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, June 4 (game #823) [1d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Thursday, June 4 (game #1592) [1d]
- 'More like a traditional video game' — Unreal Engine 5 and The Mandalorian and Grogu have transformed Disney World's Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run attraction inside Galaxy's Edge [1d]
- Huawei's chairman officially thanks the US government 'for enabling' China's 'semiconductor industry chain to truly grow' [1d]
- World's smallest space laser station is changing global connectivity by bypassing 'vulnerabilities associated with terrestrial and subsea cables' [1d]
- Quote of the day by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: "Humanity is about to be handed almost unimaginable power, and it is deeply unclear whether [we] possess the maturity to wield it" — warnings on the looming threat of beyond-human AI [1d]
- ‘It’s good play at its core and we are making it even better’ — these 12 Lego Pokémon sets finally get Smart Play right, and I can’t decide which I love most [1d]
- Dyson HushJet Mini Cool vs Shark ChillPill: in the battle of the portable fans, there's a clear winner [1d]
- Chinese firm selling stealth 'core technology by the kilogram' to make drones almost invisible to radars — spray-on coating is almost affordable by F-117 standards, slashes reflected radar power by 50% [1d]
- How to watch NBA Finals 2026: Free streams, schedule, TV channels for New York Knicks vs San Antonio Spurs [1d]
- 'Significantly advance future Army capabilities': US Army keen on quantum control research that promises to deliver a huge leap in future energy generation and computing [1d]
- Alice and Steve review: Nicola Walker is the best thing about this complicated, feud-filled Hulu comedy series [1d]
- AI is getting too much of the blame for graduate hiring prospects, and there could be a job perk that is actually behind it all [1d]
- Best Buy launches a huge Sonos sale ahead of the World Cup — here are the 7 top-rated soundbars and speakers I'd buy [1d]
- Garmin's big software update is inbound, but these older watches will miss out — see if your Forerunner, Fenix, or Vivoactive is on the list [1d]
- A PhD student has discovered new plant-inspired window glass that could 'simultaneously store solar energy and darken' a room when sunny to cool it down [1d]
- Microsoft is ditching password-based authentication tomorrow – Edge browser will switch to Windows Hello access [1d]
- Clearaudio just unveiled a stunning Rammstein turntable and truly, ich will! [1d]
- Outlander: Blood of My Blood season 2 — release date, cast and everything we know so far about the hit Starz and MGM+ spinoff show's return [1d]
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