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London-based Jack & Jill, which offers Jack, an AI agent for job seekers, and Jill, an agent for companies, raised a $40M Series A, after raising $20M in 2025 (Chris Metinko/Axios)
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Cornelis, spun off from Intel in 2020 to build networking tech that helps AI chips communicate more effectively, raised $205M led by IAG Capital (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
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Source: defense tech startup Shield AI is in talks to raise new funds at a valuation of at least $20B; Shield raised $2B at a valuation of $12.7B in March (The Information)
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Nuance Labs, which builds low-latency AI avatars that can have face-to-face conversations, raised a $50M Series A led by Lightspeed, with Nvidia participating (Shubhangi Goel/Business Insider)
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Sources: Trump met privately with Sam Altman backstage at the GOP midterm convention, where they discussed AI and its growing power, at Altman's request (MS NOW)
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Anthropic debuts Claude for Financial Advisors, with connectors to investment analytics and wealth-management tools from BlackRock, Addepar, Schwab, and others (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)
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Sources: OpenAI bought Glass Imaging, which is developing AI-powered smartphone camera tech, in a deal valuing it at $300M+; it was valued at ~$100M last year (Wall Street Journal)
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House Speaker Johnson says there's "potentially" a role for Congress in creating AI guardrail legislation and that he plans to hold a meeting with AI executives (Erik Wasson/Bloomberg)
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Nvidia announces the RTX Pro 5500 Blackwell Workstation Edition, offering comparable specs to the RTX 5090 but with 84GB of GDDR7 memory, vs. RTX 5090's 32GB (Zhiye Liu/Tom's Hardware)
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iOS 27 review: a marked improvement over iOS 26 in design, performance, and more; Siri AI is very impressive, but it sometimes misunderstands or hallucinates (Dan Moren/Six Colors)
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Valve says the Steam Frame is priced at $1,059 for the 256GB model and $1,299 for the 1TB version; both come with a copy of Half-Life: Alyx but no power supply (Adam Vjestica/The Shortcut)
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Steam Frame review: comfortable to wear, supports multiple ways to play games, but it doesn't feel like a finished product and has an up to 2-hour battery life (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
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Apple rolls out iOS 27, watchOS 27, iPadOS 27, visionOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate, all with Siri AI (Tom Warren/The Verge)
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Internal OpenAI docs detail contractors evaluating anonymized prompts and chats to improve the models; model training is turned on by default for consumer plans (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
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Stockholm-based Tandem Health, which makes an AI copilot that generates medical notes during consultations, raised a $100M Series B led by Scaleup Europe Fund (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)