Matt Kapko / CyberScoop:
Authorities from 14 countries shut down LeakBase, seize its domains, and arrest multiple people allegedly tied to the cybercrime forum, which had 142K+ members  —  The marketplace was one of the world's largest hubs for cybercrime with more than 142,000 members.

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
Epic and Google propose a settlement that would have Google share its Play Store app catalog with rivals and offer a registered app store program for Android  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Epic Games Inc. proposed a new settlement Wednesday to resolve a long-running antitrust case between the two companies.

Reuters:
Sources: some investors push Anthropic to de-escalate its DOD dispute and avoid the “supply-chain risk” designation; source: some Anthropic-DOD talks continue  —  Some Anthropic investors are racing to contain fallout from the AI research lab's dispute with the Pentagon …

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Arda, co-founded by ex-OpenAI chief research officer Bob McGrew to automate manufacturing using AI, is raising $70M at a $700M valuation  —  Bob McGrew is raising $70 million to fund a startup making software platform to help run autonomous factories

Bloomberg:
Sources: Neura Robotics, which is building cognitive, humanoid robots for logistics, is raising ~€1B in a funding round backed by Tether at a ~€4B valuation  —  German startup Neura Robotics is raising about €1 billion ($1.2 billion) in a funding round backed …