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Sources: crypto exchange Kraken has fired its CFO, Stephanie Lemmerman, ahead of its long-awaited IPO; Lemmerman joined Kraken from Dapper Labs in November 2024 (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)

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Doc: the EU proposes banning crypto transactions with Russia to prevent the circumvention of sanctions through platforms like A7 and stablecoins like A7A5 (Andy Bounds/Financial Times)

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The EU grants Google unconditional antitrust approval for Google's $32B acquisition of cybersecurity startup Wiz, saying it does not raise competition concerns (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

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The UK FCA adds Blockchain.com to its registry of licensed crypto companies; Blockchain.com withdrew its application in 2022 and pivoted operations to Lithuania (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)

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Matia, which helps enterprises consolidate their data management operations, raised a $21M Series A led by Red Dot Capital, bringing its total funding to $31M+ (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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Cisco unveils its Silicon One G300 switch chip, made using TSMC's 3nm tech, to take on Broadcom and Nvidia in AI infrastructure, set to go on sale in H2 2026 (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

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India tightens its rules on social media content, especially for AI-generated and manipulated material, giving platforms three hours to comply with takedowns (Swati Gupta/Bloomberg)

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Entire, founded by ex-GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, raised a $60M seed at a $300M valuation to build open-source developer tools to better manage AI-written code (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

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Cloud computing provider Nebius agrees to acquire Tavily, which helps AI agents search for up-to-date information for tasks like coding, a source says for $275M (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

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NYC-based AI video startup Runway raised a $315M Series E led by General Atlantic, a source says at a $5.3B valuation, and says it will pre-train world models (Nat Rubio-Licht/The Deep View)

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Cadence rolls out ChipStack, an AI agent to help chipmakers like Nvidia speed up the complex chip design process by up to 10x by building a "mental model" (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

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How a16z became the dominant influence on Trump-era AI policy, including via Marc Andreessen building key relationships; an ex-official says it has "veto power" (Bloomberg)

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YouTube rolls out an AI-powered playlist-generation tool that lets Premium and Music Premium subscribers on iOS and Android use text prompts to create playlists (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Polymarket partners with Singapore-based Kaito AI to launch "attention markets", letting users bet on "mindshare" and "sentiment" metrics from social media (Alicia Park/Forbes)

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Sources: Mark Zuckerberg plans to buy a Miami mansion, likely to cost up to $200M, joining other tech billionaires as California proposes a 5% billionaire tax (Wall Street Journal)

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Health care navigation startup Solace, which matches patients with 2K+ advocates, raised $130M led by IVP at a $1B valuation, taking its total funding to $211M (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

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Bretton AI, formerly Greenlite, which uses GenAI to investigate suspicious transactions and verify internal risk policy compliance, raised a $75M Series B (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)

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Meta, TikTok, and Snap agree to undergo independent assessments to rate how effectively they protect teen users based on 24 standards developed by experts (Ian Duncan/Washington Post)

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Russian media: Russia's communications regulator Roskomnadzor plans to limit access to Telegram from Tuesday, as the government promotes its Max "super app" (Deana Kjuka/Bloomberg)

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xAI co-founder Tony Wu says he "resigned", following co-founder Igor Babuschkin's exit in August 2025; Wu was in charge of reasoning and reported to Elon Musk (Juro Osawa/The Information)

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