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Beautiful.ai, which makes AI tools to design presentation slides, raised $45M in non-dilutive financing from GC's Customer Value Fund and says it is profitable (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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Sources: Kraken has paused its IPO plans, amid the downturn in crypto markets since October, and may revisit a listing when market conditions improve (CoinDesk)

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Advanced Navigation, which makes AI-assisted hardware to let ships and aircraft navigate even when GPS is jammed, raised a $110M Series C at a $1B+ valuation (Stuart Condie/Wall Street Journal)

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Who are Spider-Man's Brand New Day villains? We solved the mystery.

Polygon - All

Philips’ new audio gear brings back the bright, bold colors of the ’80s

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Crimson Moon is Doom meets Dark Souls in a metalhead's dream Soulslike

Polygon - All

Nekome: Nazi Hunter is like a playable Inglourious Basterds

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RunSybil, whose AI agent runs continuous autonomous penetration testing on live apps to find and document vulnerabilities, raised $40M led by Khosla Ventures (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)

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MindsEye's Hitman crossover canceled as publisher IOI breaks up with the game's developer

Polygon - All

Oh, you think the government will regulate Kalshi and Polymarket? Wanna bet?

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Google, iVerify, and Lookout researchers discover DarkSword, a hacking tool used by Russia-sponsored and other hackers to target iOS 18 via Ukrainian websites (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

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Homaio raises €3.6M to bring carbon allowance investing to retail

The Next Web

Project Hail Mary directors had a radical method to de-isolate Ryan Gosling

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Stripe and Paradigm-backed blockchain startup Tempo launch the Machine Payments Protocol, which uses Tempo's new blockchain to handle AI agents' transactions (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

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Matt Mercer explains his Critical Role Campaign 4 Daredevil subclass

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Investigation: the US FedRAMP authorized Microsoft service GCC High to handle sensitive government data in 2024, despite years of concerns about its security (ProPublica)

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Israeli startup Tenzai says its AI hacking agent beat 99% of 125K participants at six competitions, using tailored OpenAI and Anthropic models and costing $5K (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

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The hits keep coming in Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s first trailer

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Jensen Huang dismisses social media criticism of DLSS 5 at GTC 2026, asserting that claims that the generative AI tech homogenizes games are "completely wrong" (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware)

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Sources: Apple stops vibe coding apps from pushing updates, citing rules on running code; Replit thinks Apple may approve opening AI-generated apps in a browser (The Information)

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