Marie Woolf / Globe and Mail:
Canada says it is talking to Meta to restore news to Facebook and Instagram as the Online News Act is put on the table as part of trade negotiations with the US  —  Save for later  —  Log in or create a free account to listen to this article.  —  Government officials are in talks …

Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
Google DeepMind researchers unveil AlphaGenome, an AI model trained on molecular data to predict 11 different genomic processes, such as gene splicing  —  AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint.  But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely a mystery.

Mary Ann Azevedo / This Week in Fintech:
Slice, which uses AI agents to encode tax policies and legal rules across 60+ countries, raised a $25M Series A led by Insight, taking its total funding to $32M  —  Slice Global Equity, an equity compliance and management startup, announced Wednesday that it has raised $25 million in Series A funding.

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Adaptive6, which treats cloud cost inefficiencies as security vulnerabilities to help companies cut bills, raised a $28M Series A, for $44M in total funding  —  Cloud cost governance and optimization startup Adaptive6 Inc. says it's ready to help large enterprises save millions of dollars …

Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Outtake, which uses autonomous AI agents to help companies detect and remove cyberthreats, raised $40M led by Iconiq, after a $16.5M Series A in April 2025  —  Alex Dhillon spent almost five years at Palantir before leaving to build cybersecurity startup Outtake.