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Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft launches Copilot Health, which integrates medical records, biometric data from wearables, and lab test results to give personalized advice, in the US  —  A new feature within the Copilot app will offer personalized healthcare advice and make it easy to upload test results, fitness data and more
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Anthropic says Claude can now generate custom charts, diagrams, and other visualizations directly in a conversation, available to all users in beta  —  Claude will automatically generate interactive visuals based on your conversation, or you can ask it directly, too.
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen will step down after a successor is named; he became CEO in 2007 and will remain as chair of the board; ADBE drops 6%+ after hours  —  Adobe said CEO Shantanu Narayen will step down after a successor has been appointed, and he will remain as the design software company's chair.
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Google launches Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered conversational Google Maps feature that lets users ask “complex, real-world questions”, available in the US and India  —  'Where's the closest public bathroom that's not completely disgusting' is going to get asked a lot in my household.
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Emil Michael says Anthropic's Claude models would “pollute” the DOD's supply chain because they have “a different policy preference” that is baked in  —  Defense Department CTO Emil Michael on Thursday said Anthropic's Claude artificial intelligence models would …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft says EVP of Experiences and Devices, Rajesh Jha, plans to retire on July 1 after 35+ years at Microsoft and promotes four of his direct reports to EVP  —  The leaders of Windows and Office are now getting promoted and report directly to Satya Nadella.
Jessica Lyons / The Register:
A US DOJ-led international law enforcement operation disrupted SocksEscort, a residential proxy network used to exploit residential routers worldwide  —  International cops stuck down 23 servers in 7 countries  —  Cops from eight countries this week disrupted SocksEscort …
Robert Purchese / Eurogamer.net:
European video game age ratings body PEGI plans to add four new categories in June to tackle elements of addictive design in games, including loot boxes  —  Loot boxes and in-game purchases targeted.  —  Follow EA Sports FC 27  —  Video game age-ratings are about to change in Europe.
Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg:
Sunday, which is building autonomous home robots, raised a $165M Series B led by Coatue at a valuation of $1.15B, and aims to begin testing in homes this year  —  Sunday Inc. has raised $165 million to build a dream robot for any household: a friendly looking machine capable of performing tasks …
Steven Sinofsky / Hardcore Software:
Apple's MacBook Neo validates a vision that began 15 years ago with a demo of Windows on ARM, which is held back by Microsoft's commitment to x86 compatibility  —  I'm completely blown away by Mac Neo.  It made me think a lot about what we tried to accomplish with Windows 8 more than a dozen years ago.
Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk:
The US SEC and the US CFTC enter an MOU to coordinate and collaborate where their work overlaps, including by building a combined crypto oversight framework  —  The two agencies sealed their memorandum of understanding to link the parts of their work that overlap, and coordinated crypto oversight is among the top goals.
Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch:
Google Research launches Groundsource, a geo-tagged time series dataset created by using Gemini to extract 2.6M flood events from 5M historical news articles  —  Flash floods are among the deadliest weather events in the world, killing more than 5,000 people each year.  They're also among the most difficult to predict.
The Information:
xAI hires senior Cursor leaders Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg; Elon Musk said he expects xAI to catch up with rivals in coding by “the middle of this year”  —  Elon Musk's xAI is hiring two senior Cursor leaders as part of an effort to catch up with AI rivals in coding …
Colin Demarest / Axios:
Swarm Aero, which is developing large swarming drones capable of carrying missiles and cargo, raised a $35M Series A, following a $22M seed in 2023  —  Swarm Aero raised $35 million and plans to more than double its headcount by the end of the year.  —  The big picture: The California startup …
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac:
Apple updates iOS and iPadOS for older devices, including the iPhone 6s, iPad Air 2, and iPod touch (7th gen), to address the Coruna exploit disclosed last week  —  A few days ago, Google and iVerify published details on Coruna, an exploit that chained multiple vulnerabilities to target iPhones running older iOS versions.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta has paused the Persian Gulf section of its 2Africa subsea cable project as the war in the Middle East freezes activity in the region  —  Meta Platforms Inc. has paused part of a massive effort to expand internet service across Africa as the war in the Middle East freezes activity in the region.
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Allen Institute for AI CEO Ali Farhadi steps down after two and a half years to pursue research ambitions; founding member Peter Clark will serve as interim CEO  —  Tech Moves covers notable hires, promotions and personnel changes in the Pacific NW tech community.  Submissions: [email protected]
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Disney+ is rolling out Verts, its new short-form video feed, to US users on its mobile app, featuring clips from movies and TV shows on Disney+  —  Disney+ is starting to roll out Verts, its new short-form video feed, to U.S. users on its mobile app.  First announced in January …
Varsha Bansal / The Guardian:
How Amazon pushes employees to integrate AI across their workloads despite their concerns that the company's “half-baked” tools are creating more work for all  —  Corporate employees said Amazon's race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and ‘more work for everyone’.
Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg:
Michael Dell says “I don't think a company can dictate to a sovereign government what it does with its tools”, responding to a question on the Anthropic feud  —  Dell Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell said that a company doing business with the government …
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Caiwei Chen / MIT Technology Review:
A small cottage industry offering OpenClaw installation services and preconfigured hardware emerges in China as the tool becomes the country's latest tech craze  —  Feng Qingyang had always hoped to launch his own company, but he never thought this would be how—or that the day would come this fast.
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Gumloop, which helps companies deploy reliable AI agents that handle complex, multi-step tasks, raised a $50M Series B led by Benchmark  —  When Max Brodeur-Urbas co-founded Gumloop in mid-2023, his vision was to help non-technical employees automate repetitive tasks using AI.

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Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times:
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Ari Levy / CNBC:
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