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Sources: Germany's Neura Robotics, which builds AI-powered humanoid robots, raised $1.4B from Tether, Qualcomm, Amazon, Nvidia, and others at a ~$7B valuation (Financial Times)

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WMG acquires AI attribution startup Sureel, as it seeks to track when its songs and recordings are used in the training of AI models or in AI-generated works (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)

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Tesla has just 59 vehicles in its robotaxi fleet and is limited to three Texas cities after almost a year, nowhere close to Elon Musk's big promises (Kara Carlson/Bloomberg)

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New York-based Jedify, whose platform connects to enterprises' knowledge sources via APIs to build a "context graph" for AI agents, raised a $24M Series A (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)

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Dario Amodei has just one direct report, his COS Avital Balwit; Anthropic's executive team reports to Daniela Amodei, who handles much of day-to-day operations (Bloomberg)

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Pi, whose "security brain" AI agent helps companies assess vulnerabilities to prioritize and patch, raised $35M at a $100M valuation; sources: xAI is a customer (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

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Aryon Security, whose platform lets companies set security strategy, which it translates into enforceable policies that can't be ignored, raised a $29M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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LinkedIn debuts its first creator marketplace, in North America, allowing some marketers to search for creators by topic and view "creators cards" with metrics (Krystal Scanlon/Digiday)

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Maneva, whose AI agents connect to existing camera infrastructure in factories to flag safety risks and measure worker productivity, raised a $27M Series A (Colin Campbell/Axios)

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A German court rules that Google is directly liable for what AI Overviews say after AI Overviews falsely tied two publishers to shady business practices (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)

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Sources: Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and the Kuwait Investment Authority have each placed share orders worth $1B to $5B for SpaceX's IPO (Dinesh Nair/Bloomberg)

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Sources: the CFTC will propose new prediction market rules, banning bets it finds aren't in the public interest or that seem highly susceptible to manipulation (Dylan Tokar/Wall Street Journal)

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Cyera, an Israeli startup focused on protecting companies' data from AI-based threats, raised $600M at a $12B valuation, bringing its total funding to $2.3B (Niko Gallogly/New York Times)

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Poetic, which aims to use AI to automate tasks like financial compliance, emerges from stealth with $50M in funding from OpenAI and others at a $500M valuation (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)

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Hands-on with Siri AI: successfully executed multistep prompts, understood context well, has strong guardrails, and seems a bit more dispassionate than Gemini (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

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CrowdStrike: Chinese entities accounted for 58%+ of state-sponsored cyberattacks aimed at tech companies, especially AI assets, over the 12 months to March 31 (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

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Sources: Chinese companies like Moonshot are reconsidering "red-chip structures", which make it easier to list overseas, after China blocked the Meta-Manus deal (Financial Times)

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Morgan Stanley forecasts global AI-tied debt issuance will more than double to nearly $570B in 2026, as hyperscalers seek alternative funding for AI capex needs (Kanishka Ajmera/Reuters)

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A look at Unitree's growth strategy, which mimics those used by BYD and DJI, and leverages its quadruped robot dominance to create and lead the humanoid market (SemiAnalysis)

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Las Vegas-based TensorWave, which offers AMD-powered cloud infrastructure, raised a $350M Series B led by AMD and Magnetar at a $1.55B post-money valuation (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)

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