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Prosus and parent group Naspers appoint Fabricio Bloisi as new CEO, replacing interim CEO Ervin Tu; Bloisi, who was the CEO of iFood, will start on July 1 (Loni Prinsloo/Bloomberg)
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A look at Maven, a new social network backed by Ev Williams, Sam Altman, and others, where users follow interests and topics instead of accounts (Matthew Hutson/Wired)
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OpenAI says ChatGPT can now directly import files from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, available to Plus, Team, and Enterprise users (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
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Fay, which connects registered dietitians with insurance providers and patients, emerges from stealth with $25M in funding from General Catalyst and Forerunner (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
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Sources: Snowflake is in talks to acquire Reka AI, which builds LLMs for businesses, for over $1B; report: Reka was valued at ~$300M in a 2023 funding round (Bloomberg)
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Ann Arbor-based Voxel51, which is developing a visual AI platform to reduce the failure rate of AI projects, raised a $30M Series B led by Bessemer (Ken Yeung/VentureBeat)
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Analyst briefing: Microsoft will launch its Cobalt 100 chips, announced in November 2023, to Azure clients as a public preview at its Build conference next week (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
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Youth advocacy group Encode Justice unveils 22 policy recommendations to ensure AI protects the "lives, rights, and livelihoods" of young people by 2030 (Cristiano Lima-Strong/Washington Post)
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Apple previews Vehicle Motion Cues, which adds animated dots to iPhone and iPad screens to reduce motion sickness for passengers using them in moving vehicles (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
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OpenAI and Reddit partner to bring Reddit content to ChatGPT and more via Reddit's Data API, bring new AI tools to Reddit, and make OpenAI a Reddit ad partner (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)
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Take-Two announces a fall 2025 release date for GTA VI, reports Q4 bookings down 3% YoY to $1.35B, and lowers its FY 2025 bookings forecast from $7B+ to $5.55B+ (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
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DOJ charges five people for allegedly duping 300+ US companies into hiring North Korea-linked remote IT workers and helping fund the country's nuclear program (Wall Street Journal)
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AI coding startup Replit, which raised $220M+ and was last valued at $1B, lays off 30 employees, or 20% of its staff, and pivots to enterprise sales (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
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X rolls out a revamped version of its Communities feature, which lets users network around topics of interest, including improved discovery tools and search (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Figma is letting staff and early investors sell up to $900M of shares in a tender at a $12.5B valuation, down ~38% from Adobe's $20B acquisition proposal (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
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TikTok is testing 60-minute videos, which would let media companies post full TV show episodes and put TikTok in even more direct competition with YouTube (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
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Sigma Computing, which offers cloud data analytics tools, raised a $200M Series D at a $1.5B valuation, up 60% from 2021, bringing its total funding to $581M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
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How GM is scrambling to save Cruise, which has become a liability after one of its automated vehicles hit and dragged a pedestrian 20 feet in October 2023 (Jessica Mathews/Fortune)
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Google updates its accessibility apps: Lookout, to use a phone to recognize objects, a text-free mode in Look To Speak, and adds Maps wheelchair data on desktop (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
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Google launches a Gemini add-on for educational institutes via Workspace, available in Gemini Education and Education Premium tiers in English for users over 18 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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