Makena Kelly / Ars Technica:
Palantir Slack logs and staff interviews reveal internal debates over the company's ICE and DOD contracts during Trump's second term, its manifesto, and more  —  It took just a few months of President Donald Trump's second term for Palantir employees to question their company's commitments to civil liberties.

Chris Metinko / Axios:
Collov Labs, whose visual interface lets users feed images and camera input into a model that AI agents can reason over and act on, raised a $23M Series A  —  Collov Labs, which turns images and camera input into real-world actions through AI, raised a $23 million Series A …

Benjamin Wallace / New York Times:
A profile of Dwarkesh Patel, whose podcast has become mandatory listening in the AI community, with guests like Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg  —  Dwarkesh Patel was a bored college sophomore looking for intellectual stimulation.  Now he commands interviews with Jensen Huang …

Lucinda Shen / Axios:
Sources: Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup Genki Robotics, co-founded by Andy Rubin, raised a Series A at a ~$1B valuation; it raised a ~$50M seed in 2025  —  Genki Robotics, a humanoid robotics company co-founded by Android creator Andy Rubin, is valued at about $1 billion following its recent Series A, Axios Pro has learned.

Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal:
ASML says it plans to make at least 60 of its standard EUV machines this year, 36% more than it sold in 2025, as it races to meet demand for making AI chips  —  ASML is the only supplier of the machines needed to make cutting edge AI chips at scale  —  VELDHOVEN, the Netherlands …