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Live Updates: Elon Musk Faces Contentious Questions at OpenAI Trial (New York Times)

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The US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously endorses a bipartisan child safety bill requiring AI companies like OpenAI and Meta to implement age verification (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)

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Cybersecurity analysis: GPT-5.5 reaches a similar level of performance as Mythos Preview and is the second model to solve a multi-step cyberattack simulation (AI Security Institute)

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Serverless inference platform Featherless.ai raised a $20M Series A co-led by AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures; the startup supports over 30,000 open models (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)

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X says it has begun a "phased rollout" of its rebuilt ad platform, which it says will have more modern "retrieval and ranking systems" powered by AI (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings agrees to acquire Ohio gas plant operator Long Ridge Energy & Power for $1.5B including debt, to power its AI data center expansion (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)

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Meta introduces Meta Ads AI connectors in open beta, letting advertisers use their preferred third-party AI tools to create, manage, and analyze campaigns (Krystal Scanlon/Digiday)

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JuliaHub, which aims to use agentic coding tools to design complex products such as cars and airplanes, raised a $65M Series B led by Dorilton Capital (Ina Fried/Axios)

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Cloudflare says AI agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, start paid subscriptions, register domains, and deploy apps on behalf of users (Cloudflare)

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Sources: the NSA has been testing Anthropic's Mythos model to find vulnerabilities in Microsoft products and widely used software from other companies (Jake Bleiberg/Bloomberg)

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Norway-founded humanoid robotics startup 1X opens a new 58,000-square-foot factory in Hayward, California, where it aims to build 100K robots by the end of 2027 (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

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Sources: US officials are preparing a wide-ranging AI policy memo that outlines rules for national security agencies, including avoiding relying on one vendor (Bloomberg)

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Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron earnings show increased DRAM prices, not shipments, indicating a focus on revenue over helping clients get the products they need (Tim Culpan/Culpium)

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Spotify rolls out a Verified by Spotify badge to identify human artists; criteria include artist presence on and off platform and consistent listener activity (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Netflix rolls out a vertical video feed in its own Clips tab in Australia, Canada, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Africa, the UK, and the US (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Sources: the EU is drafting a revised Chips Act II, set for late May, that would grant it power to invest directly in large, cross-border manufacturing projects (Bloomberg)

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Casa, which uses lidar scanners and AI to catalog homes and manage proactive maintenance alongside human workers, raised $27M, including a $20M Series A (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)

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Sources: London-based DAZN agrees to acquire ViewLift, which builds tech for streaming services for 15 professional US sports teams and others, for ~$100M (Isabella Simonetti/Wall Street Journal)

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Polymarket partners with Chainalysis to deploy a detection model to "surface patterns consistent with insider knowledge in prediction markets" and other tools (Bloomberg)

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Iran's internet blackout, which costs an estimated $80M per day in economic damage, is dividing its military and civilian government, which opposes the measure (Patrick Sykes/Bloomberg)

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