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Trishla Ostwal / Adweek:
Friend, which launched a $129 AI-powered, always-listening necklace, plasters NYC subway with ads in $1M+ campaign that includes over 1,000 platform posters  —  The OOH ads blanketing all five boroughs deliberately court controversy  —  The founder of Friend is betting on making enemies.
Brian Merchant / Blood in the Machine:
A look at some California tech regulation bills, including one banning AI use in firing or disciplining workers, that await Gov. Newsom's signature or his veto  —  A guide to the AI and tech bills that have passed the California legislature, and await the governor's signature — or veto.
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
An interview with California state Senator Scott Wiener on his new AI safety bill SB 53, the bill's scope, his focus on AI safety bills, AI PACs, and more
Eric Newcomer / Newcomer:
Leaked a16z decks: $25B in net returns since its 2009 founding, including $11.2B in 2021, and 56 unicorn investments in the past 10 years, the most of any firm  —  The firm has held its $900 million 2012 Fund III at 9.4x net TVPI.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Andreessen Horowitz is perhaps …
Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters:
Fermi, a data center real estate investment trust co-founded by former Energy Secretary Rick Perry, aims to raise $550M in a US IPO at a $13.16B valuation  —  Fermi, co-founded by former U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, is targeting a valuation of up to $13.16 billion in its U.S. initial public offering …
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Why YouTube is key to Google's success in AI, with YouTube's AI enhancements making video content more monetizable than text-based content in Search  —  Action is happening up-and-down the LLM stack: Nvidia is making deals with Intel, OpenAI is making deals with Oracle, and Nvidia and OpenAI are making deals with each other.
Bloomberg:
Google agrees to guarantee $1.4B of AI computing startup Fluidstack's $3B, 10-year agreement with Cipher Mining and gets the right to buy a 5.4% stake in Cipher  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google has agreed to anchor a $3 billion data center contract with Cipher Mining Inc. in the latest tie up between …
New York Times:
International Federation of Robotics: Chinese factories installed ~300K new robots in 2024, more than the rest of the world combined; US factories installed 34K  —  China has embarked on a campaign to use more robots in its factories, transforming its manufacturing industries and becoming the dominant maker.
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Oracle, whose expenses are rising as it begins to fulfill massive cloud infrastructure deals, turned cash flow negative this year for the first time since 1992  —  Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg's journalists around the world.

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The Wrap:
The FCC votes to repeal the national broadcast ownership cap and replace it with a case-by-case review, approving the measure by a 2-1 margin

Josh Gerstein / Politico:
A US federal judge pauses an order requiring Trump to disclose details of his businesses' financial performance to the BBC in his $10B defamation suit

Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
Lionsgate reports Q1 revenue up 48% YoY to $776.6M, vs. $693.1M est., net loss of $28.8M, vs. $109M a year earlier, adjusted OIBDA of $79.3M, vs. $65.5M est.

More News

Reuters:
Swiss microfluidic chip-cooling tech startup Corintis raised a $24M Series A, a source says at a $400M valuation, and announces adding Lip-Bu Tan to its board
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:
Q&A with reinforcement learning pioneer Richard Sutton on why LLMs are not the path to achieving human intelligence, world models, continual learning, and more
Alex Heath / Sources:
Andrew Bosworth says Meta is working on humanoid robots, internally called “Metabot”, as its next “AR size bet”, envisions licensing software to robot makers
More: TechCrunch, PCMag, PhoneArena, Engadget, and CNET on YouTube
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Earlier Picks

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
How developers are using Apple's local AI models in iOS 26: Lil Artist story generation, MoneyCoach's spending insights, F1 race summaries in Lights Out, more
More: MacDailyNews.  X: @jpfar, @mattcassinelli, @mattcassinelli, and @mgorbach.  Bluesky: @carnage4life.  Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to.  Forums: r/apple
Alexandra Alper / Reuters:
Sources: the US Commerce Department is considering imposing tariffs on foreign electronic devices based on the number of chips they contain
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Trump says Microsoft should fire its global affairs head Lisa Monaco over her work in the Biden administration, calling her a “menace to US National Security”
Kate Whannel / BBC:
The UK unveils plans for a digital ID, which will be required to work in the country, to combat illegal immigration; the ID will be stored on people's phones
Bloomberg:
Meta plans to launch paid, ad-free versions of Instagram and Facebook in the UK, each costing £2.99 per month on the web, and £3.99 on iOS and Android
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