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Grafana says hackers have accessed its GitHub environment and demanded a ransom to prevent the release of its codebase; Grafana refused to pay — Grafana has disclosed that an “unauthorized party” obtained a token that granted them the ability to access the company's GitHub environment and download its codebase.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: US authorities in recent months have issued multiple information requests to Kalshi and Polymarket, many tied to wagers on events in Iran and Venezuela — Regulators are seeking information from Kalshi and Polymarket over wagers tied to political events and military operations| John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times: |
Analysis: mass adoption of smartphones and social media may be a primary driver of declining birthrates globally, in part by reducing in-person socializing — The demographic landslide defining our era is gaining speed — and terrain. In more than two-thirds of the world's 195 countries …
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Forums: r/neoliberal and r/DarkFuturology
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's revamped Siri may launch in beta, and will have an option to auto-delete chats; Apple plans to add Suggested Genmoji to iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 — Also: A Genmoji upgrade is coming in iOS 27. — Apple's Siri app in iOS 27 will include privacy features unique to the chatbot market.| Lauren Sherman / Puck: |
Source: Shein is acquiring San Francisco-based DTC clothing retailer Everlane, which focuses on sustainability and “radical transparency”, in a $100M deal — The Millennial D.T.C. company built a global brand based on sustainability and radical transparency.
More: The Information, Bloomberg, Reuters, and Just Jared
X: @tomaxwell, @leehepner, @alisha_hg, @wongmjane, @pitdesi, @seanfrank, @anuatluru, and @trungtphan. LinkedIn: Arielle Jackson
| The Information: |
Analysis: 34 leading AI startups are generating ~$80B in annualized revenue, up 112% from six months ago, with Anthropic and OpenAI capturing 89% of the revenue — Anthropic and OpenAI are widening the revenue gap between themselves and the rest of the AI startup field.
More: Taipei Times
| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Apple's ongoing strategy to repurpose “binned” chips for cheaper devices; sources: Apple placed new A18 Pro orders for MacBook Neo amid its popularity — The company's popular, $599 Neo laptop is just one of dozens of Apple devices that use lower-performing processors
X: @wsj
| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Developers say Chinese AI labs lead US rivals in video generation, as ByteDance and Kuaishou train models on vast short-form video libraries from their own apps — Chinese artificial intelligence groups have moved ahead of US rivals in video generation, a key battleground in generative AI … | Ben Bergman / Business Insider: |
AI sales automation startup Monaco raised a $50M Series B led by Benchmark, bringing its total funding to $85M after raising a $25M Series A in February 2026 — - Monaco, which came out of stealth earlier this year, is developing AI software to automate sales.
| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
New York City-based GovWell, which uses AI to streamline government processes like permitting and licensing, raised a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners — GovWell, a platform for permitting and licensing, raised a $25 million Series A led by Insight Partners, co-founders Ben Cohen and Troy LeCaire tell Axios Pro exclusively.| Madison McLauchlan / BetaKit: |
Quebec-based telecom software startup Gaiia raised a CA$54.8M Series B led by JMI Equity, bringing its total funding to ~CA$90M from backers including YC — Québec City-based telecom software startup Gaiia has raised a $40-million USD ($54.8-million CAD) Series B round as it hopes to invest an …
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| Jack Kubinec / Fortune: |
Ciridae, which is developing AI to streamline back-office operations for real-economy businesses, raised a $20M seed led by Accel, with a16z participating — AI is swiftly rewiring the way people work, but an outsize amount of this workplace revolution has so far been confined to Fortune 500-style companies.| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Chinese chipmaker CXMT reports Q1 revenue up 719% YoY to ~$7.5B, net profit up 1,688% to $3.6B, and says Omdia ranks it No. 4 in DRAM with a 7.67% global share — TAIPEI — China's top memory chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) said net profit skyrocketed over 1,688% … | Kim Zetter / ZERO DAY: |
Experts: Stuxnet-linked Fast16 malware, designed to subvert nuclear weapons testing simulations, was likely part of a campaign to slow Iran's nuclear ambitions — Fast16 didn't predate Stuxnet but was contemporaneous with it. It also wasn't aimed at altering nuclear weapons …
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