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Sources: Reflection AI, which is developing open foundation models, seeks to raise $2.5B at a $25B pre-money valuation of; JPMorgan is in talks to participate (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Reflection AI, which is developing open foundation models, seeks to raise $2.5B at a $25B pre-money valuation of; JPMorgan is in talks to participate — Reflection is one of several startups working alongside Nvidia to build powerful, freely available ‘open-source’ AI models
Filing: Apple settled its lawsuit against former Vision Pro designer Di Liu, who agreed to return confidential documents to Apple and pay monetary damages (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Filing: Apple settled its lawsuit against former Vision Pro designer Di Liu, who agreed to return confidential documents to Apple and pay monetary damages — Apple has reached a settlement with a former employee who it says stole thousands of documents before departing for Snap.
OpenRouter data: lower-cost Chinese AI models by groups such as DeepSeek and MiniMax have surpassed US rivals in token consumption since last month (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)
Zijing Wu / Financial Times:
OpenRouter data: lower-cost Chinese AI models by groups such as DeepSeek and MiniMax have surpassed US rivals in token consumption since last month — Chinese AI models made by groups such as DeepSeek and MiniMax have overtaken US rivals in token consumption
San Francisco became a laboratory for police surveillance after early resistance; the SFPD recorded 700 drone flights in February, up from 93 in February 2025 (Cyrus Farivar/The San Francisco Standard)
Cyrus Farivar / The San Francisco Standard:
San Francisco became a laboratory for police surveillance after early resistance; the SFPD recorded 700 drone flights in February, up from 93 in February 2025 — In 2019, the Board of Supervisors passed a landmark law making San Francisco the first major U.S. city to block the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement.
Isara, which aims to build software that can coordinate the work of thousands of AI agents, raised $94M and says OpenAI backed the startup at a $650M valuation (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Isara, which aims to build software that can coordinate the work of thousands of AI agents, raised $94M and says OpenAI backed the startup at a $650M valuation — Isara, founded by a pair of 23-year-old researchers, aims to build software that can coordinate the work of thousands of ‘agents’