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(90% performance boost) Jensen has mentioned similar numbers on stage recently. GPT-5 is rumored to be agentic teams based. The demand for compute will continue to increase. [image]</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4cb4992df8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@lateinteraction:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c3c27b2fd7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">After ~6 years of building these types of architectures (starting with BERT, eg see Baleen), I think calling these multi-agent systems is a distraction. This is just software. Happens to be AI software. It doesn't seem so complicated once you internalize it's just a program. [image]</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8cc68fce46&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@deedydas:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8778c3b310&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Anthropic's latest data drop shows Claude is used for a lot more than software and text. 1. Sports betting strategies 2. Explaining religious texts 3. Performance enhancing substances 4. Drafting legal documents 5. Financial market trading 6. Optimize video games</a> </div> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="big_story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:top;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f8b4f7772d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">New York state passes a bill mandating safety and transparency requirements for frontier AI models; it awaits Governor Hochul's signature</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Maxwell Zeff / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span> </td> <td style="padding: 0 10px;vertical-align:top;"> <div class="narrow_image" style="position:relative;"> <img src="https://www.techmeme.com/250614/i15.jpg"> </div> </td> </tr> <!-- <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="excerpt">New York state lawmakers passed a bill on Thursday that aims to prevent frontier AI models from OpenAI … </span> <span class="cite">(Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch)</span> </td> </tr> --> </table> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:5px 10px 3px;"> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d4172e1a36&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@sengonzalezny:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ff2d446614&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">My bill, the New York AI Act (S1169A) passed the Senate! This is a landmark bill that sets clear standards for accountability & transparency from corporations developing and/or deploying AI for high-risk use cases making consequential decisions about New Yorkers lives. [image]</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f3e2586d01&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@alexbores:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=df5ee021f6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">I hear Andreessen Horowitz is calling NY Congressmembers to get them to speak out against the RAISE Act, a bill passed with an overwhelming bipartisan majority and supported by 84% of New Yorkers.</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=43b013d2bc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@jackclarksf:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f86c99d2a3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Inside baseball policy thread: Last night, NY passed the RAISE act, which would establish some transparency requirements for frontier models. We @anthropicai haven't taken a position on this bill. But I thought it'd be helpful to give some more context:</a> </div> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;background-color:#f4f4f4;" class="story sponsor"> <table class="leading_item" style="width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:middle;"> <span class="label" style="display: block;color: #686860;font-size: 12px;font-weight: bold;padding: 2px 0;">SPONSOR</span> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1056d000f7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Ship with AI: The Future of Coding is Here</a></span> <span class="excerpt" style="color: black;font-size: 16px;"> — Use natural language in Slack to trigger real PRs, docs, dashboards, infra & more. Codegen connects GitHub, Linear, Notion, and beyond.</span> </td> <td style="padding:0 20px 0 15px;vertical-align:middle;text-align:right;"> <a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ba9f5e3dbb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;"> <img class="sponsor_image" src="https://techmeme.com/simg/codegen.png"> </a> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="big_story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:top;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1c27755e01&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">America250, the nonprofit organizing the US Semiquincentennial celebration, says it received sponsorship commitments from Oracle, Amazon, Coinbase, and Palantir</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Meridith McGraw / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span> </td> <td style="padding: 0 10px;vertical-align:top;"> <div class="narrow_image" style="position:relative;"> <img src="https://www.techmeme.com/250615/i14.jpg"> </div> </td> </tr> <!-- <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="excerpt">Twenty two corporations and foundations are sponsoring the 250th Army Birthday Parade … </span> <span class="cite">(Meridith McGraw / Wall Street Journal)</span> </td> </tr> --> </table> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:5px 10px 3px;"> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1170caf7b6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@acyn:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=06ccae7588&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">“Special thanks to our sponsor: Coinbase” [video]</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=12ff9ebbb3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@emiliemc:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=17845b478a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Coinbase is proud to thank the @USArmy by celebrating 250 years of dedication, sacrifice and service.</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a270cfaae9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@noturtlesoup17:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=be125c19d1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">A solider in uniform is handing out free cans of Phorm Energy, an America250 sponsor co-owned by Dana White. A rep from the company was taking a selfie with the soldier handing the products out. [image]</a> </div> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=004d6ed4dc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Researchers find Llama 3.1 recalls large parts of popular copyrighted books, possibly weakening AI industry claims that such memorization is fringe behavior</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Timothy B. Lee / </span><span class="pub_name">Understanding AI</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e20796b4d2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at seven rebuttals to Apple's paper on limitations of Large Reasoning Models, and why none make a compelling case</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Gary Marcus / </span><span class="pub_name">Marcus on AI</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c4aaa6b7b9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Taiwan imposes export controls on Huawei, SMIC, and some of their subsidiaries, restricting their access to tech and equipment necessary for AI chip production</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Debby Wu / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0cf6daf75b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The US SEC rescinds 14 rules the agency proposed under the Biden Administration, including two relating to DeFi and digital asset custody</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Martin Young / </span><span class="pub_name">Cointelegraph</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=079a977884&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Waymo temporarily limits service in SF, Austin, and Atlanta, and stops service in LA, as US cities prepare for protests against federal immigration policies</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Aarian Marshall / </span><span class="pub_name">Wired</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=285b4be914&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at Apple's upgrades to CarPlay, iPadOS, and visionOS, why they were the underappreciated highlights of WWDC, and thoughts on Liquid Glass redesign</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mark Gurman / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=44114d050b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Amazon plans to invest ~$13B in Australia from 2025 to 2029 to develop its data center infrastructure, as demand for cloud computing and AI grows in the country</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ainslie Chandler / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=af7240c8cb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Dealogic: tech deals accounted for $421B of the $1.67T in global deals announced in the first five months of 2025, with 75% of tech M&A involving AI software</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Milana Vinn / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=426a449046&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">President Trump's 2024 financial disclosure report shows he earned ~$57M from his stake in World Liberty Financial and $1.2M from an NFT licensing deal</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=67d556fb6e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: the US DOJ is reviewing whether Google's planned $32B acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz would illegally limit competition in the market</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Josh Sisco / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> artificial intelligence </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4e1c0649de&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">How Chinese AI companies bypass US chip restrictions by transporting hard drives with AI training data to Malaysian data centers housing advanced Nvidia chips</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1fc992f105&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Harvard releases Institutional Books 1.0, a dataset for AI researchers with 242B tokens, from 394M scanned pages and 983K public domain books in 254 languages</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Matt O'Brien / </span><span class="pub_name">Associated Press</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=286667226f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">In an Oxford study, LLMs correctly identified medical conditions 94.9% of the time when given test scenarios directly, vs. 34.5% when prompted by human subjects</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Nick Mokey / </span><span class="pub_name">VentureBeat</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2aa3642ce1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Salt Lake City, which faces a staffing shortfall, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Salt Lake Tribune</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f63cceb5e9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">BT Group CEO Allison Kirkby says AI could deepen job cuts at the telco, whose plan to cut over 40,000 jobs by 2030 “did not reflect the full potential of AI”</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3c98aa29c8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at 10 AI agent startups from YC's first-ever spring Demo Day; the batch included 144 companies, 70 of which focused on agentic AI</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Samantha Stokes / </span><span class="pub_name">Business Insider</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> funding deals </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=df6493268d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Horizon3.ai, whose AI-based penetration testing platform NodeZero helps find and exploit attack paths in production systems, raised a $100M Series D led by NEA</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Chris Metinko / </span><span class="pub_name">Axios</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b3a84b0c0a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Canary, which offers hotel guest management tools, raised an $80M Series D led by Brighton Park Capital, valuing the company at about $600M</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dominic-Madori Davis / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0b1b63095a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Pactum, which helps companies automate supplier negotiations with AI and secure more favorable contractual terms, raised a $54M Series C led by Insight Partners</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Maria Deutscher / </span><span class="pub_name">SiliconANGLE</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d5028ab218&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">New York City-based Abacum, which offers AI-powered financial planning and analysis tools to companies, raised a $60B Series B led by Scale Venture Partners</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Chris Metinko / </span><span class="pub_name">Axios</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3b45725b78&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Berlin-based Knowunity, an AI-powered learning platform with 20M+ users in 15 countries, raised a €27M Series B led by XAnge, bringing its total funding to €45M</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tamara Djurickovic / </span><span class="pub_name">Tech.eu</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2519e950d2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Bedrock Ocean, which has developed an autonomous underwater vehicle to map the ocean floor using sonar and magnetic sensors, raised a $25M Series A-2</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tim De Chant / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9529c1a816&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Ellipsis Health, which developed an AI voice agent to check in on patients between doctor visits, raised a $45M Series A led by Salesforce, Khosla, and CVS</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Brian Gormley / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=297ebd456d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Berlin-based Payrails, whose platform helps enterprises accept payments, issue payouts, and more, raised a $32M Series A, taking its total funding to $52.8M+</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tamara Djurickovic / </span><span class="pub_name">Tech.eu</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6b6d5e06e1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Austin-based Autonomize AI, which develops AI agents for automating administrative workflows in healthcare and life sciences, raised a $28M Series A</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Axios</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6669211054&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">NYC-based Zorro, whose AI-powered software helps clients' workers navigate health insurance and benefits options, raised a $20M Series A led by Entrée Capital</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Erin Brodwin / </span><span class="pub_name">Axios</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=878671e553&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">AIM Intelligent Machines, which retrofits heavy construction equipment to operate autonomously, raised $50M from Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and others</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Rachyl Jones / </span><span class="pub_name">Semafor</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=424318a1fe&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">London-based Noah, which is developing API-focused stablecoin infrastructure to enable real-time cross-border payments, raised a $22M seed led by LocalGlobe</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ben Weiss / </span><span class="pub_name">Fortune</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d55c6ea144&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Filings: Bengaluru-based fintech Cred, which offers rewards for paying credit card bills and more, raised ~$72M at a $3.5B valuation, down from $6.4B in 2022</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">The Economic Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=aa0b56c678&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Miami-based Guardz, which offers a detection and response service for managed service providers protecting SMBs, raised a $56M Series B led by ClearSky</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Chris Metinko / </span><span class="pub_name">Axios</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> more news </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4fb0e4234c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">As the world moves toward digital artificiality, Airbnb's redesign and Apple's Liquid Glass UI bring back skeuomorphism and dimensionality to digital interfaces</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Austin Carr / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9be3f1e521&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The Ultra Ethernet Consortium, whose members include AMD, Cisco, HPE, and Intel, publishes its 1.0 specification for enhancing Ethernet standards for AI and HPC</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sean Michael Kerner / </span><span class="pub_name">Network World</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3d2d7501ad&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Statista: the global influencer marketing industry is projected to grow 36% between 2024 and 2025, reaching $33B, as brands tighten overall ad budgets</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div 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