Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Anthropic plans to invest $200M in a venture with PE firms to sell AI tools to their portfolio companies, and is in talks to raise $1B for the effort  —  General Atlantic, Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman are among the firms exploring investments in the new venture, which aims to sell AI tools to portfolio companies

Blizzard revealed Anran's redesign in Overwatch, following backlash over how different her in-game model was from the Elemental Kin cinematic

Reuters:
The US NHTSA ends a 2025 probe into ~2.6M Tesla vehicles over the “Actually Smart Summon” driverless feature after finding it involved only low-speed incidents  —  The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Monday it closed a probe into nearly 2.6 million Tesla …

Elsa Ohlen / CNBC:
A look at Catches and other startups that are offering AI tools to let shoppers visualize fit and style before buying clothes, aiming to curb online returns  —  It pinches here; drags there; the draping is wrong.  These are some of the examples of the feedback a new crop …

Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters:
Samsung reports preliminary Q1 operating profit of ~$38B, up more than 8x YoY and above ~$27B est., a record, and revenue up 68% YoY to ~$88B  —  Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) on Tuesday projected a record-high first-quarter operating profit from a year earlier, beating expectations …