Macy Meyer / CNET:
Google celebrates 20 years of Translate with a new AI pronunciation practice tool for Android users in the US and India; Translate gets 1B+ queries per month  —  Google's new AI-powered language tool can give you real-time feedback by analyzing speech and correcting your pronunciation.

Todd Gillespie / Bloomberg:
Rogo, which uses AI to help lighten junior bankers' workloads, raised a $160M Series D led by Kleiner Perkins at a $2B valuation, up from $750M in January  —  Rogo, started by young bankers around a kitchen table in 2021, just won a multibillion-dollar valuation

Financial Times:
Sources: OpenAI has, in practice, abandoned its Stargate JV in favor of large bilateral deals; execs say its guiding principle remains to “build more compute”  —  Chief executive Sam Altman's flexible approach to infrastructure projects is unsettling partners but boosting computing lead

Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal:
Hightouch, which uses AI to help marketers create and manage campaigns, raised $150M led by Goldman Sachs and Bain at a $2.75B valuation, up from $1.2B in 2025  —  The Trade Desk also invested in Hightouch, which is now valued at $2.75 billion  —  Hightouch, a platform that uses generative AI …

Jason Gale / Bloomberg:
Mayo Clinic researchers detail Redmod, an AI system that identified subtle changes in routine CT scans an average of 475 days before pancreatic cancer diagnosis  —  An artificial intelligence system can spot pancreatic cancer long before it shows up on scans, raising the prospect of catching …