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SambaNova, which says its SN50 AI chip runs 5x faster than its rivals and will be deployed by SoftBank, raised a $350M Series E led by Vista Equity and Cambium (Bloomberg)

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Beverly Hills-based Subject, whose streaming-style, on-demand platform provides digital curriculum and learning insights for grades 6-12, raised $28M (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)

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DOJ files reveal how Jeffrey Epstein ingratiated himself with top Microsoft executives, aiding his return to society after his release from prison in 2009 (New York Times)

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Slang AI, which develops voice-based software for the hospitality industry that answers inbound calls, manages reservations, and more, raised a $36M Series B (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)

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Profound, which tracks how AI models recommend brands across millions of prompts, raised a $96M Series C at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $155M (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

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An Evercore ISI economist criticizes Citrini's AI report, calling its assumptions "extreme and improbable", but says it's a thought-provoking exercise (Robin Wigglesworth/Financial Times)

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Letter AI, whose sales software provides personalized, deal-specific guidance, raised a $40M Series B, four months after a $10.6M Series A (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider)

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Kraken launches what it claims are the first regulated perpetual futures contracts based on tokenized stocks, available to non-US users and trading 24/7 (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)

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Nimble, whose AI agents structure real-time web data into tables that can be queried like a database, raised a $47M Series B, bringing its total funding to $75M (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)

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CrowdStrike says the average breakout time for attackers moving from intrusion to other network systems fell to 29 minutes in 2025, a 65% YoY increase in speed (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)

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Sources: Meta aims to enter the stablecoin space in H2, with plans to integrate a vendor to administer stablecoin-backed payments and implement a new wallet (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)

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Anthropic launches Claude Cowork agent tools for investment banking, HR, design, and more, including a specialized financial plugin developed alongside FactSet (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

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Google says AI music generation platform ProducerAI is joining Labs and will be powered by a Lyria 3 preview version; ProducerAI was developed alongside artists (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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Stefano Ermon's Inception releases Mercury 2, a diffusion AI model designed to field questions from users significantly faster and more cheaply than its rivals (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

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Shein founder Xu Yangtian made a rare public appearance in Guangdong, pledging to invest ~$1.45B into the province's supply chains in the next three years (William Langley/Financial Times)

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ADT agrees to acquire Origin Wireless for $170M to integrate advanced AI motion classification into its popular home security suite starting in 2027 (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

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MatX, an AI chip startup founded by two alumni of Google's chip business, raised $500M+ led by Jane Street and Situational Awareness to compete with Nvidia (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

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Stripe hits a $159B valuation after an employee share sale to investors like Thrive, Coatue, and a16z, a 70% jump from its $92B valuation in February 2025 (Akila Quinio/Financial Times)

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Basis, which builds AI agents to help accounting firms with tasks like tax returns, raised $100M led by Accel at a $1.15B valuation, for $138M in total funding (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

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Roku reported an $88.4M profit in 2025, after a $498M loss in 2022, a $709.6M loss in 2023, and a $129.4M loss in 2024, boosted by new ad deals and cost cutting (Mark Maurer/Wall Street Journal)

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