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Crunchyroll is investigating a breach after hackers claimed they accessed a support agent's account and stole the personal information of ~6.8M users (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
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Drone delivery startup Zipline raised an additional $200M, including from Paradigm, bringing Zipline's Series H, originally announced in January, to $800M (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
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Kalshi announces new guardrails to preemptively block politicians, athletes, and others from trading in their relevant markets (Nathan Bomey/Axios)
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Meta hires the team behind Dreamer, which lets users create AI agents, including Hugo Barra, former Stripe CTO David Singleton, and designer Nicholas Jitkoff (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
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The US plans to create a voluntary consortium of countries to invest $4T to secure supply chains for chips, energy, and minerals; the US will contribute $250M (New York Times)
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Doc: Kalshi and Polymarket CEOs are investing in a VC fund, led by two early Kalshi employees, that is raising up to $35M to back prediction market startups (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
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Q&A with Jensen Huang, who says "we've achieved AGI", on running Nvidia, AI scaling laws, OpenClaw, future of coding, data centers in space, China, and more (Lex Fridman)
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Polymarket unveils insider trading rules: no bets on stolen confidential info, illegal tips, or events whose outcomes the user can influence as an insider (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
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Apple announces WWDC 2026 for June 8-12, which will be an online event free for developers, with an in-person event at Apple Park on June 8 (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
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Sources: Apple is preparing to introduce ads in its Maps app, allowing retailers and brands to bid for ad slots against search queries (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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Norwegian startup Lace, which is building a form of lithography that uses a helium atom beam instead of light to create chip designs, raised a $40M Series A (Reuters)
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Doctronic, which became the first company to use AI to write prescription refills through a pilot launched in Utah, raised $40M led by Abstract and Lightspeed (Brian Gormley/Wall Street Journal)
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Gimlet Labs, which says it is the first "multi-silicon inference cloud" for running AI workloads across diverse types of hardware, raised an $80M Series A (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
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Interviews with Sundar Pichai and other Google executives on being blindsided by ChatGPT's launch, Gemini, Pichai's vision of useful AI everywhere, and more (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)
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Source: OpenAI is in talks to buy 5 GW of electricity by 2030 from Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion; Altman has stepped down as Helion's board chair (Ina Fried/Axios)