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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) …

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

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

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.

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LinkedIn: Matt O'Brien and Institutional Data Initiative …

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.

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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.

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Ira Boudway / Bloomberg:

A profile of Chess.com, which has popularized online chess among pro athletes, as CEO Erik Allebest says the site has over $100M in annual revenue and 35M MAUs — Social media is a minefield for pro sports players. But online chess offers rankings, instant analysis, wholesome interactions and few trolls.

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 …

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.

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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, @asallen, and @austincarr. Forums: r/technology

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, Seattle Business Journal, and 425 Business

X: @scale_earth and @khoslaventures. LinkedIn: AIM

Sean Michael Kerner / Network World:

The Ultra Ethernet Consortium, whose members include AMD, Cisco, HPE, and Intel, publishes its 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, Ultra Ethernet Consortium, Phoronix, Ultra Ethernet Consortium, and Ultra Ethernet Consortium. X: @techjournalist

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., New York Times, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, MarketWatch, Engadget, The Verge, San Francisco Business Times, and STAT

X: @23andme and @rolfewinkler

LinkedIn: Patrick Short and Anne Wojcicki. Forums: Hacker News

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

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 and Blockchain.News. Bluesky: @quinnypig.com

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