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Orkes, which helps companies scale their AI and agentic systems, raised $60M, including a $40M Series B led by AVP, bringing its total funding to ~$90M (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Techmeme

OpenAI’s new image model reasons before it draws

The Next Web

How Cash App founder Bob Lee's 2023 killing fed into a narrative pushed by tech leaders like Elon Musk about SF's decline until an acquaintance was convicted (Shawn Wen/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

The Expanse creators don't want to fall into a Star Wars rut

Polygon - All

Orbitals preview: anime co-op game features 'a lot of the same design' as It Takes Two

Polygon - All

Study Finds Gen Z Drinking Fewer Flagons Of Mead Than Medieval Generations

The Onion

What To Know About Tariff Refunds

The Onion

Trump Conducts Marathon Reading Of Arby’s Menu In Appeal To Meat Lovers

The Onion

Control Ultimate Edition is now available on iPhone and iPad

Polygon - All

Spotify celebrates its 20th anniversary with a first-ever list of its 20 most streamed artists, albums, songs, podcasts, and audiobooks (Gil Kaufman/Billboard)

Techmeme

Lyft agrees to buy London black cab app Gett, its third acquisition in the past year, as the company expands its presence beyond the US (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Petual, which automates internal audit work and generates auditor-ready workpapers, raised $20M across a pre-seed led by First Round and a seed led by a16z (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

Techmeme

Beehiiv rolls out new creator tools, including metered paywalls, letting creators host webinars for up to 10,000 people, AI analytics, and more (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

Techmeme

Anthropic reportedly hits $1 trillion implied valuation on secondary markets

The Next Web

Sam Bankman-Fried withdraws his request for a new trial, saying he doubts he would receive a fair hearing; his broader appeal remains pending (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)

Techmeme

Netflix authorises $25 billion share buyback after stock falls 10% on Q1 earnings

The Next Web

What’s That “Structured” in Structured Concurrency?

Michael Tsai

Vampire Crawlers review: Vampire Survivors deckbuilding spinoff is every bit as inventive

Polygon - All

Stolen Device Protection May Protect You From Accessing Your Own Device

Michael Tsai

NetNewsWire 7.0.4

Michael Tsai