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Reuters:

Sources: Google, Scale AI's largest customer, plans to cut ties with the company after the Meta deal; Microsoft, OpenAI, and xAI also plan to step back — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google, the largest customer of Scale AI, plans to cut ties with Scale after news broke that rival Meta (META.O) …

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Kate Clark / Bloomberg:

Source: Accel, which owns 18.5% of Scale AI after investing a total of ~$350M, expects to gain over $2.5B from Meta's $14.3B investment in the startup — Accel is among a handful of VC firms poised to see big returns from early bets on Scale AI. — A handful of venture capital firms …

More: Scale AI, TechCrunch, Accel, Verdict, and MarketWatch

X: @accel, @daniel_levine, @everettrandle, and @garrytan

Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg:

Meta's Scale AI deal dwarfs rivals' “reverse acquihires” in scope and ambition, showing that its fear of lagging in AI outweighs fears of regulatory backlash

More: The Verge, Reuters, Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At, Computerworld, Fortune, and WinBuzzer. Threads: @benedictevans

Emma Roth / The Verge:

Google says it is testing Audio Overviews for certain Search queries, available for Labs users in English in the US — If you opt into the test, you'll see the option to generate an Audio Overview based on some of your searches. … Google is rolling out a test that puts its AI-powered Audio Overviews …

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Matt O'Brien / Associated Press:

Harvard releases Institutional Books 1.0, a dataset for AI researchers with 242B tokens, from 394M scanned pages and 983K public domain books in 254 languages — Everything ever said on the internet was just the start of teaching artificial intelligence about humanity.

More: arXiv.org, Institutional Books on Hugging Face, Institutional Data Initiative, Institutional Data Initiative, Institutional Books on Hugging Face, Institutional Books on Hugging Face, and Institutional Data Initiative on GitHub

X: @instdin. LinkedIn: Matt O'Brien and Institutional Data Initiative …

Kashmir Hill / New York Times:

Some users say ChatGPT led them into conspiratorial thinking, and when confronted, it confessed to manipulation and told them to alert OpenAI and the media — Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems.

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Wall Street Journal:

23andMe says TTAM Research Institute, a nonprofit backed by Anne Wojcicki, is the new buyer for the company's assets, offering $305M and topping Regeneron's bid — Regeneron is backing away from buying the DNA-testing company after a nonprofit controlled by co-founder Wojcicki made a higher bid

More: CNBC, 23andMe, Inc., Reuters, The Information, Engadget, Los Angeles Times, MarketWatch, The Verge, San Francisco Business Times, and STAT

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Chris Metinko / Axios:

Horizon3.ai, whose AI-based penetration testing platform NodeZero helps find and exploit attack paths in production systems, raised a $100M Series D led by NEA — Autonomous security startup Horizon3.ai locked up a $100 million Series D led by NEA, co-founder and CEO Snehal Antani tells Axios Pro.

More: Business Wire, VC News Daily, FinSMEs, FinTech Global, The Stack, and SiliconANGLE

LinkedIn: Ilya Kirnos and Horizon3.ai

Samantha Stokes / Business Insider:

A look at 10 AI agent startups from YC's first-ever spring Demo Day; the batch included 144 companies, 70 of which focused on agentic AI — - Y Combinator's spring 2025 batch featured 70 startups focused on agentic AI. — The intensive, three-month accelerator program invests $500,000 in each selected startup.

Forums: Hacker News

Jordan Novet / CNBC:

Oracle stock jumped 24% this week, its best performance since 2001, and is up 29% in 2025, vs. Nasdaq's 1%, after the company reported cloud momentum — Oracle shares enjoyed their best week since 2001 as Wall Street cheered a strong earnings report and bullish comments on the company's prospects in cloud computing.

More: Cryptopolitan, Blockchain.News, MarketWatch, and Investor's Business Daily. Bluesky: @quinnypig.com

Aarian Marshall / Wired:

Waymo temporarily limits service in SF, Austin, and Atlanta, and stops service in LA, as US cities prepare for protests against federal immigration policies — A week after five robot cars were burned in Los Angeles, the Google sister company isn't taking risks.

More: San Francisco Chronicle and Texas Public Radio

Forums: r/sanfrancisco and r/waymo

Rachyl Jones / Semafor:

AIM Intelligent Machines, which retrofits heavy construction equipment to operate autonomously, raised $50M from Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and others — THE SCOOP — Tech startup AIM Intelligent Machines, which retrofits heavy construction equipment to operate autonomously …

More: AIM Intelligent Machines, GeekWire, and 425 Business

Austin Carr / Bloomberg:

As the world moves toward digital artificiality, Airbnb's redesign and Apple's Liquid Glass UI bring back skeuomorphism and dimensionality to digital interfaces — From Airbnb's new app icons to Apple's “Liquid Glass” design, skeuomorphism is back and everything in the digital world has dimensionality again.

Threads: @asallen. X: @austincarr, @austincarr, and @asallen

Sean Michael Kerner / Network World:

The Ultra Ethernet Consortium, whose members include AMD, Cisco, HPE, and Intel, publishes the 1.0 specification for enhancing Ethernet standards for AI and HPC — The UEC 1.0 specification includes a modern RDMA approach, new transport protocols, and congestion control mechanisms designed for AI and HPC requirements.

More: SemiAnalysis, Tom's Hardware, Phoronix, Ultra Ethernet Consortium, Ultra Ethernet Consortium, and Ultra Ethernet Consortium. X: @techjournalist

Josh Sisco / Bloomberg:

Sources: the US DOJ is reviewing whether Google's planned $32B acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz would illegally limit competition in the market — Justice Department antitrust enforcers are reviewing whether Google's planned $32 billion acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz Inc …

More: Reuters and Cryptopolitan

Dan Primack / Axios:

A White House memo says David Sacks and Craft Ventures are divesting holdings in AI companies and hyperscalers like xAI and Meta — David Sacks, the venture capitalist advising President Trump on crypto and AI policy, is divesting his holdings in foundational AI companies and hyperscalers like xAI and Meta …

More: The White House. Bluesky: @thinkyparts. X: @danprimack, @danprimack, and @danprimack

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Canary, which offers hotel guest management tools, raised an $80M Series D led by Brighton Park Capital, valuing the company at about $600M

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Ellipsis Health, which developed an AI voice agent to check in on patients between doctor visits, raised a $45M Series A led by Salesforce, Khosla, and CVS

More: Fierce Healthcare, Ellipsis Health, MobiHealthNews, and VC News Daily

X: @khoslaventures. LinkedIn: Ash Patel

Emily Mason / Bloomberg:

Source: Ramp raised $200M led by Founders Fund, valuing the startup at $16B, up from $13B in March, when it conducted a $150M share sale

More: The Information. X: @pitdesi and @jasonlk

James Hunt / The Block:

Yupp, which rewards users in crypto for comparing answers from multiple AI models and giving feedback, emerges from stealth with a $33M seed led by a16z crypto

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Digital rights organizations urge the FTC to investigate Character.AI and Meta's “unlicensed practice of medicine facilitated” by therapy AI chatbots

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CNBC:

Amazon reorganizes its healthcare business into six “pillars” to simplify its structure, following executive departures and its struggles in the market

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China releases draft guidelines on cross-border transmission of automobile data, which could pave the way for the wider rollout of Tesla's FSD in the country

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The Army Reserve launches Detachment 201, an innovation corps with Palantir CTO, Meta CTO, and other tech execs advising on AI and tech as lieutenant colonels

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Google plans to shut down Android's Instant Apps, which let users launch apps without installing them, later this year citing low usage and engagement

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Sources: Tencent is in early talks to acquire Nexon, the South Korean gaming giant behind Dungeon & Fighter Mobile; Tencent pursued a Nexon acquisition in 2019

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Betting platform Kalshi aired a fully AI-generated 30-second ad during the NBA Finals, reportedly made in 2-3 days with 300-400 generations using Google's Veo 3

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