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Genesis AI, which generates synthetic data for training an AI model meant to power robots, emerges from stealth with a $105M seed co-led by Eclipse and Khosla (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

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Filing: Apple sues Di Liu, a former senior product designer for the Vision Pro, for allegedly stealing a "massive volume" of its trade secrets to take to Snap (Ethan Baron/SiliconValley.com)

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Huawei open sources its 7B and 72B Pangu AI models and some of its model reasoning tech to incentivize the use of its other products, like its Ascend AI chips (Dylan Butts/CNBC)

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Cloudflare debuts "Pay per Crawl", a marketplace that lets sites charge AI crawlers per crawl; new sites using Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

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Google warns that the DMA is hampering innovation for EU users and asks regulators for more detailed guidance and critics to provide evidence to prove its case (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

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Morgan Stanley says xAI raised $5B of equity in addition to $5B in debt; the startup raised $6B in December from a16z, BlackRock, Lightspeed, MGX, and others (Miles Kruppa/The Information)

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The Senate votes 99-1 to remove a Trump tax bill provision that would have barred states from regulating AI if they got funding from a $500M broadband program (Bloomberg)

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An interview with Claude AI product lead Scott White on Claude Code writing 90% of its own code, MCP, coding being accessible to non-technical workers, and more (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

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Q&A with Matt Mullenweg on licensing deals with AI companies, putting Tumblr's backend migration to WordPress "on hold", fediverse, content moderation, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

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Amazon says it has 1M+ robots in its warehouses, the most it's ever had and near the count of human workers, with ~75% of global deliveries assisted by robotics (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)

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After criticism, Sen. Blackburn backs off her own AI compromise for the tax bill, saying "we can't block states from making laws that protect their citizens" (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

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Investigation: three US Treasury hacks in the past five years were due to a failure to deploy basic security measures, as DOGE cuts further weaken the agency (Bloomberg)

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Levelpath, which offers AI-powered procurement software for enterprises, raised a $55M Series B led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $100M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

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US chipmaker Wolfspeed files for Chapter 11 to enact a creditor-backed plan to slash $4.6B in debt; it expects to emerge out of bankruptcy by the end of Q3 (Bloomberg)

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Circle applies for a US national trust bank license, which would let it act as a custodian for its own reserves and hold crypto for its institutional clients (Hannah Lang/Reuters)

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Rapid7 finds eight vulnerabilities, including one remotely-exploitable flaw that cannot be fixed via firmware patch, affecting 689 models of Brother printers (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

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Canada-based Clio, which makes cloud tools for law firms, agrees to acquire vLex, which offers a legal and regulatory database and an AI assistant, for $1B (Alex Riehl/BetaKit)

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Mexico City-based digital bank Klar raised a $190M Series C led by General Atlantic, including $170M in equity and $20M in debt, valuing the company at $800M+ (Bloomberg)

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The latest version of the Senate's OBBB has a provision removing the 6 GHz band's protection from spectrum auctions; Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-FI 7 utilize the 6 GHz band (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

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X hires Nikita Bier, the serial entrepreneur who was behind polling startup TBH and teen-focused social network Gas, as its new head of product (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

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