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Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says the “tides have turned” in Silicon Valley, making it more acceptable for the tech industry to support the US military's efforts  —  There's long existed a “silent majority” who wanted to pursue defense projects, Bosworth said during an interview …

Rocket Drew / The Information: Source: Amazon is developing software for humanoid robots to deliver packages and is near completion of an indoor “humanoid park” in San Francisco to test them  —  Amazon is developing software for humanoid robots that could eventually take the jobs of delivery workers …

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: MongoDB reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $549M, vs. $527.5M est., net loss down 54% to $37.6M, and increases its full-year guidance; MDB up 14%+ after hours  —  Shares of the database company MongoDB Inc. were flying high in extended trading today after it posted better-than-expected financial results …

Echo Wong / Bloomberg: Document: Xiaohongshu, a TikTok alternative known in the US as Rednote, has surged to a $26B valuation based on recent market transactions via a GSR fund  —  The startup's price tag emerged through a document from GSR Ventures Management Co. vehicle that showed shares of the fund changing hands.

Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: Filing: OpenAI seeks to block a May 13 court order requiring it to preserve all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats, arguing it poses a risk to users' privacy  —  OpenAI is now fighting a court order to preserve all ChatGPT user logs—including deleted chats and sensitive chats logged through …

Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: The US DOJ seized ~145 domains and crypto linked to BidenCash, a dark web market that made $17M+ in revenue since 2022 by selling stolen credit cards and more  —  Earlier today, law enforcement seized multiple domains of BidenCash, the infamous dark web market for stolen credit cards, personal information, and SSH access.

Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: Sources: Thrive and Capital Group visited China to study its AI scene, joining a wave of US investors rekindling interest in China after DeepSeek's advances  —  Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital and investment firm Capital Group have in recent months visited China to learn about its AI industry …

Shannon Cuthrell / IEEE Spectrum: A look at Australian startup Cortical Labs' CL1, billed as the first code-deployable biological computer, with 115 units shipping this summer at $35K each  —  World-first biocomputing platform hits the market  —  Shannon Cuthrell is a freelance journalist covering business and technology.

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: Chinese startup Butterfly Effect's Manus launches text-to-video generation tool in early access for paid users, with plans to roll it out for free to all users  —  Manus unveiled a text-to-video generation feature, entering a competitive segment populated by rivals from OpenAI …

Reuters: AI coding startups are at risk of being disrupted by Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI; source: Microsoft's GitHub Copilot grew to over $500M in revenue last year  —  Two years after the launch of ChatGPT, return on investment in generative AI has been elusive, but one area stands out: software development.

Financial Times: Sources: Toronto-based AI startup Cohere is seeking to raise $500M+ at a valuation of over $5.5B; it raised a $500M Series D at a $5.5B valuation in July 2024  —  Canadian group seeks valuation of up to $6.5bn but rivals have soared far higher in comparison

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: CEO Alex Bouaziz says Deel crossed $1B annual revenue run rate in Q1 2025 and has allocated an M&A budget of between $200M and $500M in 2025  —  Payroll startup Deel said on Tuesday it crossed $1 billion annual revenue run rate in the first quarter and has earmarked up to $500 million for acquisitions this year to bolster growth.

Sophia Fox-Sowell / StateScoop: A bipartisan group of over 260 US state legislators sign a letter opposing a federal budget bill provision that bans states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years  —  More than 260 state legislators from all 50 states have signed a letter opposing a provision in the federal budget reconciliation bill …

George Hammond / Financial Times: Court filing: Deel alleges Rippling's “competitive intelligence manager” Brett Alexander Johnson posed as a customer to access Deel's product and business info  —  HR start-ups Rippling and Deel trade allegations their leaders directed efforts to steal company secrets from one another

Vildana Hajric / Bloomberg: NYSE Arca files with the SEC to list a Bitcoin ETF linked to Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social and Truth.fi  —  NYSE Group Inc. filed regulatory paperwork on Tuesday to list the Truth Social Bitcoin ETF, using the name of President Donald Trump's social network.

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: Windsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to its AI models, including the newest Claude 4 family and the highly popular Claude 3 models  —  Windsurf, the popular vibe coding startup that's reportedly being acquired by OpenAI, said Anthropic significantly reduced its first-party access …

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Asana reports Q1 revenue of $187.3M, vs. $185.5M est., up 9% YoY vs. 26% last year, and adjusted EPS of $0.05, vs. $0.02 est.; ASAN falls 8%+ after hours  —  Shares in Asana Inc. fell more than 7% in late trading today on investor concerns about slowing revenue growth, after the work management …

Sam Sabin / Axios: Source: ~1,000 people have left the CISA during the second Trump administration, including 750+ taking a buyout, cutting CISA's workforce by nearly a third  —  Roughly 1,000 people have already left the nation's top cybersecurity agency during the second Trump administration …

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Qualcomm releases patches to fix a series of vulnerabilities in dozens of chips, including three zero-days that “may be under limited, targeted exploitation”  —  Chipmaker giant Qualcomm released patches on Monday fixing a series of vulnerabilities in dozens of chips …

Thomas Brewster / Forbes: The Trump administration announces plans to reorganize the US AI Safety Institute into the new Center for AI Standards and Innovation  —  The Trump administration has announced plans to reorganize the U.S. AI Safety Institute (AISI) into the new Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI).

Kate Payne / Associated Press: A federal judge temporarily blocks Florida from enforcing a law banning social media accounts for children under 14, saying the law is “likely unconstitutional”  —  A federal judge has barred state officials from enforcing a Florida law that would ban social media accounts for young children …

Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: A deep dive into Apple TV's privacy features shows that Apple's streaming device is more private than the vast majority of alternatives, save for dumb TVs  —  Using the Apple TV app or an Apple account means giving Apple more data, though. … Among smart TVs, streaming sticks …

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: Elad Gil, backer of Perplexity, Character.AI, Airbnb, Coinbase, and Stripe, invested in Enam Co., which aims to transform businesses with AI via PE roll-ups  —  Elad Gil started betting on AI before most of the world took notice.  By the time investors began grasping the implications of ChatGPT …

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Samsung and Perplexity in talks about an investment, preloading Perplexity's app on Samsung devices, adding its search to Samsung's browser, and more  —  The two companies are in talks to preload Perplexity's app and assistant on upcoming Samsung devices and integrate …