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Paris-based Waiv, which uses AI to enable more precise testing of cancer, raised $33M after spinning out of AI diagnostics and drug discovery platform Owkin (Martin Coulter/Sifted)

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Anthropic says Claude can now generate custom charts, diagrams, and other visualizations directly in a conversation, available to all users in beta (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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Sources: Greenoaks founder Neil Mehta is pitching an endowment-type fund to Silicon Valley billionaires to influence CA politics, aiming to raise $100M to $500M (Bloomberg)

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Amazon announces new personality styles for Alexa+, including an adult-only "Sassy" option, which it says won't get into areas like explicit sexual content (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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European video game age ratings body PEGI plans to add four new categories in June to tackle elements of addictive design in games, including loot boxes (Robert Purchese/Eurogamer.net)

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Microsoft says EVP of Experiences and Devices, Rajesh Jha, plans to retire on July 1 after 35+ years at Microsoft and promotes four of his direct reports to EVP (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Ukraine's defense minister says Ukraine is opening up access to its battlefield data for its allies to train AI models (Max Hunder/Reuters)

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BackOps, which makes automation tools for supply chain operations, raised a $26M Series A led by Theory Ventures (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)

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Bumble jumps 30%+ after reporting Q4 revenue above estimates and unveils an AI-driven app overhaul to lure back users; BMBL is down 90% since its 2021 IPO (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)

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Qdrant, which develops an open-source vector search engine for production AI systems, raised a $50M Series B led by AVP (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

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Tel Aviv-based Bold, which uses AI agents to secure enterprise devices like laptops from cyberattacks, emerges from stealth with $40M in funding (Robert Scammell/Business Insider)

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Disney+ is rolling out Verts, its new short-form video feed, to US users on its mobile app, featuring clips from movies and TV shows on Disney+ (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Oro Labs, which uses AI to streamline corporate procurement, raised a $100M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity and Brighton Park Capital (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

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Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable reaches $400M in ARR, up from $300M in January; rival Cursor hit $2B in annualized revenue in February, per a source (Bloomberg)

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Crypto accounting startup Cryptio raised a $45M Series B led by BlackFin Capital Partners and Sentinel Global and reports having 450+ clients, including Circle (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

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Microsoft launches Copilot Health, which integrates medical records, biometric data from wearables, and lab test results to give personalized advice, in the US (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)

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Google launches Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered conversational feature for iOS and Android in the US and India that lets users ask "complex, real-world questions" (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

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Microsoft and Meta each committed nearly $50B in additional data center leases in their most recent quarters, pushing major cloud companies' total to $700B+ (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

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Israeli startup Onyx Security, which helps secure and manage AI agents' operational risks, raised a $35M Series A led by Conviction, after a $5M seed in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)

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Sources: after Google's $32B deal, each of Wiz's four co-founders is set to get $2B+ in post-tax cash; Index is set to net $4B, Sequoia ~$3B, and Insight $2.7B (Sofia Chierchio/Forbes)

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