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Austin-based CertifID, which develops tech to prevent wire fraud in real estate transactions, raised a $47.5M Series C led by Centana Growth Partners (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

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A look at the Dor Brothers, a video production studio that has gained over 100M views across platforms by creating viral subversive videos using only AI tools (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)

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How the Chinese hacking community Honkers, consisting of patriotic self-taught tech enthusiasts, became an integral part of China's cyberespionage apparatus (Kim Zetter/Wired)

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A look at Decart, which has developed video-to-video AI model Mirage that manipulates live video in real time and can potentially shake up livestreaming (Will Knight/Wired)

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Vultron, which makes AI tools for federal contractors, raised $22M from investors including David Sacks' Craft Ventures, raising ethical questions (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

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Astronomer CEO Andy Byron resigns after a video of him cuddling with chief people officer Kristin Cabot at a Coldplay concert went viral (Eleanor Hawkins/Axios)

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Apple was exempted from the EU's Corning deal to end exclusivity terms with OEMs, after finding products designed exclusively for Apple fall outside the market (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)

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Sources: UK plans to designate Apple and Google as holding a "strategic market advantage" over rivals, subjecting them to new regulations and potential fines (Washington Examiner)

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Sources: after Trump let Nvidia resume H20 chip sales to China, Nvidia told Chinese customers it has limited stocks and doesn't plan to restart production (Qianer Liu/The Information)

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[Thread] An OpenAI researcher says the company's latest experimental reasoning LLM achieved gold medal-level performance on the 2025 International Math Olympiad (Alexander Wei/@alexwei_)

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How Shaun Maguire dragged Sequoia into culture wars; emails show senior partner Doug Leone defended Maguire in distinguishing between "Islamists" and "Muslims" (New York Times)

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How an open-source approach helped DeepSeek and other Chinese AI companies; Hugging Face: Alibaba's Qwen is now the world's largest open-source AI ecosystem (South China Morning Post)

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Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang on what happened after co-founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen left for Google, and how Cognition's deal to acquire Windsurf unfolded (Jeff Wang/@jeffwsurf)

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How AI is reshaping higher education, as institutions grapple with the pace of change and technology companies move quickly to offer custom learning products (Financial Times)

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Google researchers say Android's early-warning system detected and issued alerts for 1,200+ earthquakes since 2021, sometimes giving up to 15-60 seconds' notice (Kasha Patel/Washington Post)

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Acquihire deals like Google's Windsurf deal are a wake-up call for AI startup employees left behind, creating new uncertainty over leadership and compensation (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

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Reliance Retail launches Ajio Rush, a four-hour fashion delivery service live in six Indian cities, to take on Myntra and other fashion quick commerce startups (The Economic Times)

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Sources: at least six of China's biggest VC firms are targeting a combined $2B in new USD-denominated funds to allow overseas investment in Chinese startups (Bloomberg)

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Sources: Vy Capital, which has ~$15B of AUM and is a top backer of Elon Musk's companies, told external investors that it will not raise further outside money (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)

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The European Commission accepts Corning's offer to end exclusivity terms in its supply contracts, ending an antitrust investigation opened in November 2024 (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

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