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Meta's Oversight Board says Community Notes aren't a proper substitute for fact checking, and warns expanding them beyond the US could pose human rights risks (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)

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Tazapay, which builds cross-border payment infrastructure for fintech and web3 firms, says it closed a Series B extension, bringing its total Series B to $36M (Zoltan Vardai/Cointelegraph)

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Steno, which offers an AI-powered case transcript analysis tool for legal professionals, raised a $49M Series C led by Savano Capital Partners (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)

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Miami-based telehealth company eMed raised a $200M Series A at a $2B+ valuation to advance its agentic AI platform and more; Tom Brady participated in the round (Sneha S K/Reuters)

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Senior Trump officials say SMIC has been sending chipmaking tools to Iran for about a year; the US has sanctioned the company over alleged Chinese military ties (Reuters)

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NY-based Blossom Health, which makes an "AI copilot" to augment psychiatrists' clinical decisions and automate office tasks, raised $20M in seed and Series A (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

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Sources: SpaceX's IPO plans include investor visits to its sites, unusual lockup periods, and preferential treatment for investors in Musk's other companies (Wall Street Journal)

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Source: Elon Musk is discussing allocating as much as 30% of SpaceX's IPO to individual investors, at least three times the usual retail slice (Reuters)

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Apple Discontinues the Mac Pro With No Plans to Bring It Back

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Q&A with New Mexico AG Raúl Torrez about the New Mexico and LA social media trials, Big Tech's "Big Tobacco" moment, what it means for Congress, and more (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)

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