Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
AI academic research hub alphaXiv, which lets users comment on, annotate, and discuss arXiv papers, raised a $7M seed co-led by Menlo Ventures and Haystack  —  Artificial intelligence research hub alphaXiv said today it has raised $7 million in seed funding to accelerate its mission …

Reuters:
Google opens an AI infrastructure hardware engineering hub in Taipei, its biggest outside of the US, to develop and test tech to be deployed in its data centers  —  Alphabet's Google on Thursday opened in Taiwan its biggest artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure hardware engineering centre outside …

Miles J. Herszenhorn / Bloomberg:
A US judge sentences William Lonergan Hill, a co-founder of crypto mixer Samourai Wallet, to four years in prison for laundering $200M+ in illegal transactions  —  One of the rare cryptocurrency prosecutions under the Trump administration led to a four-year prison term for a bitcoin wallet operator accused …

Kate Park / TechCrunch:
Function Health, a health tracking tech company, raised a $298M Series B led by Redpoint Ventures at a $2.5B valuation, bringing its total funding to $350M  —  From electronic health records and blood tests to the stream of data from wearable devices, the amount of health information people generate is accelerating rapidly.

George Steer / Financial Times:
Gloo, which develops AI tools for Christian churches and counts Pat Gelsinger as executive chair, closed up 1% in its Nasdaq debut after raising $73M in its IPO  —  Shares in company backed by former Intel chief Pat Gelsinger waver after scaled-back IPO  —  Shares in a company developing …