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How Namma Yatri, an open-source ride-hailing app, forced Uber, Ola, and Rapido to adopt its no-commission, subscription model for auto-rickshaw drivers in India (Indulekha Aravind/Rest of World)

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Advocacy groups push California's AG to ensure that OpenAI's becoming a for-profit adheres to the law; OpenAI formed an advisory commission in response (Paresh Dave/Wired)

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The US DOD transfers its AI-based Open Price Exploration for National Security program to nonprofit Critical Minerals Forum to boost Western supply deals (Ernest Scheyder/Reuters)

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Veza, which helps company administrators manage employee access to applications and data, raised a $108M Series D led by NEA at a valuation of just over $800M (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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Eric Schmidt-backed nonprofit FutureHouse, which aims to build an "AI scientist", launches a platform and API with four AI-based tools to assist scientific work (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Singapore-based cross-border B2B payment service Thunes raised a $150M Series D co-led by Apis Partners and Vitruvian Partners to accelerate its US expansion (PYMNTS.com)

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Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom says AI companies are trying too hard to "juice engagement" through follow-up questions, instead of providing useful insights (Charles Rollet/TechCrunch)

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TPG agrees to acquire Sabre's hospitality solutions unit, which provides SaaS to hotel brands, for $1.1B in cash, as Sabre focuses on its core airline business (Sean O'Neill/Skift)

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US v. Google: Google says its controls for publishers to opt out of AI training only cover work by Google DeepMind, not training by its other units for search (Davey Alba/Bloomberg)

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Google is going to let kids use its Gemini AI

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Sam Altman and Elon Musk are racing to build an ‘everything app’

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Thunderbolts*’ post-credits scenes are the first real win for Marvel teasers in years

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Sources: Decagon, which is building customer service-focused AI agents, is in talks to raise $100M in new funding led by a16z and Accel at a $1.5B valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

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Here are the best AirPods deals you can get right now

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At the adtech remedy hearing, Google says it's open to giving competitors access to real-time bidding data from its ad exchange AdX, but it rejects a breakup (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)

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Source: Anthropic offers to buy back shares from current and former employees, the first transaction of its kind for Anthropic, valuing the startup at $61.5B (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

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Inside Sam Altman’s eye-scanning crypto party

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Trump’s proposed budget deals another big blow to science, clean energy, and the environment

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A hacking group called DragonForce takes credit for ransomware attacks targeting British retailers M&S, Harrods, and Co-Op over the past two weeks (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)

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Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive

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