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A look at a global scramble to protect submarine cables vulnerable to potential sabotage, as companies develop monitoring tech like distributed acoustic sensing (Mike Cherney/Wall Street Journal)

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TSMC says its most advanced chip packaging tech, CoWoS, is growing at an 80% CAGR as it ramps up capacity; Nvidia has reportedly reserved most of the capacity (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)

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Sources: Arm CEO Rene Haas is in line for an additional role at SoftBank Group to advance Project Izanagi, the Japanese group's AI chip strategy (Financial Times)

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UAE's leading AI company G42 says its data center campus and overseas plans are on track despite regional tensions and Iranian attacks on UAE infrastructure (Bloomberg)

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Memo: UK NHS data chief Ming Tang says Palantir-built Federated Data Platform is delivering "outstanding results", as she pushes deeper rollout of Palantir tech (Chris Smyth/Financial Times)

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A look at Neo, a VC firm that made early bets on startups including Kalshi and Cursor, pushing the value of its first two funds far above industry averages (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)

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Poke, an AI agent that lets users automate tasks via text message, raised $10M, on top of a $15M seed in 2025, at a $300M post-money valuation (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Nava, which develops cloud infrastructure for AI workloads by combining data centers, GPUs, and software tools, raised a $22M Series A led by Greenoaks Capital (Samreen Ahmad/Tech in Asia)

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An analysis of the 200 most-recent tweets on X by 18 big publishers indicates links seem to hurt engagement, after debate arose over X's value for sharing news (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)

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John Deere agreed to pay $99M into a fund to settle a 2022 right-to-repair class action lawsuit, and make digital repair tools available to farmers for 10 years (Reuters)

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Sources: Anthropic completes an employee tender offer at a $350B valuation, falling short of the $6B investors wanted, as employees held shares ahead of the IPO (Bloomberg)

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Memo: xAI is reorganizing its engineering team, as SpaceX SVP Michael Nicolls says xAI is "clearly behind"; source: Nicolls has taken the title of xAI president (Grace Kay/Business Insider)

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Gemini gets notebooks to help you organize projects

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Dyson made a handheld version of its iconic fans

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Google introduces "notebooks" in the Gemini app for deeper NotebookLM integration and a space to organize chats and files, after adding sources in December 2025 (Abner Li/9to5Google)

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Yuga Labs settles its 2022 lawsuit against artist Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Cahen over their alleged copycatting of its BAYC NFTs; the terms were not disclosed (CoinDesk)

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A DC appeals court denies Anthropic's bid to pause the DOD's supply chain risk designation, after a California judge granted a preliminary injunction in March (Jack Queen/Reuters)

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The OpenAI Foundation says it is working to finalize over $100M in grants this month, across six institutions, to support and accelerate Alzheimer's research (Jacob Trefethen/OpenAI Foundation)

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CFO Sarah Friar says OpenAI will "for sure" reserve shares for retail investors in its IPO, after "strong demand" from individuals in its latest funding round (CNBC)

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