Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block:
Tether says it has engaged a Big Four accounting firm to conduct its first full independent audit of reserves behind its USDT stablecoin  —  Quick Take  — Tether says it has engaged a Big Four accounting firm to conduct its first full independent audit of reserves.

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Mirage, formerly Captions, which develops an AI video editing and marketing suite, raised $75M from General Catalyst, after moving to a freemium model in 2025  —  Mirage, the maker of video-editing app Captions, has raised $75 million in growth financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund (CVF).

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times:
Amazon's Zoox plans to launch a paid robotaxi service in Las Vegas by late June, pending local approvals and an NHTSA exemption, ahead of a San Francisco launch  —  Driverless car group pushes forward with commercial rollout to catch up with rivals Waymo and Tesla

Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal:
The NYSE partners with Securitize to develop the Digital Trading Platform, an alternative 24/7 trading system for tokenized stocks and ETFs on a blockchain  —  Under the exchange's plan, stocks would trade as digital tokens  —  The New York Stock Exchange said Tuesday that it was joining …

Caroline Hyde / Bloomberg:
Kleiner Perkins raised $3.5B for two new funds, allocating $1B to its 22nd early-stage fund and $2.5B to a growth-stage fund, taking its AUM to $21B+  —  Kleiner Perkins, the half-century-old venture capital institution, is raising $3.5 billion to make bets on artificial intelligence startups …