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Canary, which offers hotel guest management tools, raised an $80M Series D led by Brighton Park Capital, valuing the company at about $600M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

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President Trump's 2024 financial disclosure report shows he earned ~$57M from his stake in World Liberty Financial and $1.2M from an NFT licensing deal (New York Times)

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Ellipsis Health, which developed an AI voice agent to check in on patients between doctor visits, raised a $45M Series A led by Salesforce, Khosla, and CVS (Brian Gormley/Wall Street Journal)

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Meta AI Users Are Inadvertently Sharing Their Private Chats With the World

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Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s AI hiring spree

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Source: Ramp raised $200M led by Founders Fund, valuing the startup at $16B, up from $13B in March, when it conducted a $150M share sale (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)

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The NYT Goes ‘Reefer Madness’ on ChatGPT

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How to find and get Flour Sand in Dune: Awakening

Polygon - All

Where to find trial locations in Dune Awakening

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Sources: Google, Scale AI's largest customer, plans to cut ties with the company after the Meta deal; Microsoft, OpenAI, and xAI also plan to step back (Reuters)

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Anne Wojcicki is taking back control of 23andMe

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Oracle stock jumped 24% this week, its best performance since 2001, and is up 29% in 2025, vs. Nasdaq's 1%, after the company reported cloud momentum (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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Elden Ring Nightreign players are going feral for the Revenant

Polygon - All

Fortnite adds Hank Hill and other cartoon dad skins for Father’s Day

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Snow White, Cleaner, Echo Valley, and every movie new to streaming this weekend

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A White House memo says David Sacks and Craft Ventures are divesting holdings in AI companies and hyperscalers like xAI and Meta (Dan Primack/Axios)

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WWDC 2025 Links

Michael Tsai

Xcode 26 Announced

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Swift Marketing and Speed

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Generated Transcripts in Pocket Casts

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