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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=fb302c6cfd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI told investors that it projects its cash burn this year through 2029 will rise to a total of $115B, about $80B higher than it previously expected</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f66bc69455&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Will burn $8B this year & $17B next year—$10B higher than prev projected. 2028 cash burn more than quadruples from $11B to $45B [image]</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f9563bf3cb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: ASML is committing €1.3B for Mistral's €1.7B Series C funding round, becoming the top shareholder, and is expected to get a board seat</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4a60b6b512&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Nvidia opposes the GAIN AI Act, saying the proposed US law forcing AI chipmakers to sell to US buyers first is “just another variation of the AI Diffusion Rule”</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9a8c1f174a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The Winklevoss twins have become major GOP donors; a source says they've donated $32M+ since 2017, including $21M to a new pro-Trump and pro-crypto super PAC</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Alex Isenstadt / </span><span class="pub_name">Axios</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b8be74dd68&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Data shows WLFI's sharp drop was driven by shorting and dumping across exchanges, not Justin Sun's token movements; WLFI blames phishing-related compromises</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sam Reynolds / </span><span class="pub_name">CoinDesk</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2bb7926428&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at Ross Ulbricht's return to public life after receiving a pardon in January, including speaking at Bitcoin 2025 and accepting millions in donations</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2da3fb29c1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Christian Catalini, co-creator of Meta's Libra stablecoin project, reflects on Libra's failure, what Stripe's Tempo blockchain can learn from it, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Christian Catalini / </span><span class="pub_name">Forbes</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c22b6589cb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OnePlus ends its five-year partnership with camera company Hasselblad and plans to develop its own imaging engine called DetailMax Engine for upcoming phones</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dominic Preston / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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artificial intelligence
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=16210a036f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at Marc Benioff's pursuit of productivity gains through AI at Salesforce, which has undergone a series of layoffs over the past two years</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Caroline O'Donovan / </span><span class="pub_name">Washington Post</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2175fb2ddc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">An in-depth look at AWS' underperformance in the GenAI era, as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud gain ground, and how Anthropic could spark an AWS AI resurgence</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">SemiAnalysis</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2a3c9b06b8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT is shockingly good at search and demonstrates the potential of combining tool calling with chain-of-thought reasoning</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Simon Willison / </span><span class="pub_name">Simon Willison's Weblog</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7b1d4f41b7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Alibaba debuts Qwen3-Max-Preview, its largest AI model with over 1T parameters, showcasing strong benchmark performance; the model is not open source</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Carl Franzen / </span><span class="pub_name">VentureBeat</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=08b922d8ab&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI researchers argue that language models hallucinate because standard training and evaluation procedures reward guessing over admitting uncertainty</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">OpenAI</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2a2a2c668e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google DeepMind and LIGO researchers detail Deep Loop Shaping, an AI tool that they say improves the observatory's ability to track gravitational waves</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Alan Boyle / </span><span class="pub_name">GeekWire</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b062a045dd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A profile of Mercor, a Scale AI rival valued at $2B in February, which hires domain experts to train models; it had a $100M run rate in March and $6M H1 profit</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Richard Nieva / </span><span class="pub_name">Forbes</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0e004c91a7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">PitchBook: VCs have invested $5B+ in humanoid robotics startups since the beginning of 2024, as years of steady progress and GenAI triggers an investment frenzy</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Washington Post</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=94fc174b79&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Dealroom: European VC deals are set to rise 3-4% YoY in 2025 to $57B, about the same as in 2023, driven by rising startup valuations in AI, fintech, and defense</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ivan Levingston / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e963887ac2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Bengaluru-based Tessolve, which offers semiconductor engineering services and has built 11 chip testing and embedded labs globally, raised $150M from TPG Growth</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Priyamvada C / </span><span class="pub_name">Livemint</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=dd62350676&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Shift5, which develops cybersecurity tools for the military and critical infrastructure, raised a $75M Series C led by Hedosophia</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>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1123d2b84e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Mojo Vision raised a $75M Series B led by Vanedge Capital to commercialize its microLED tech for products such as AI glasses and optical interconnects</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">David Harold / </span><span class="pub_name">Jon Peddie Research</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=394054898d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Recall.ai, which offers an API and a desktop SDK for managing meeting recordings and transcripts, raised $38M in a Series B led by Bessemer at a $250M valuation</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Paul Gillin / </span><span class="pub_name">SiliconANGLE</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e38f1801e3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Austin-based Hello Patient, whose AI agents help healthcare organizations handle patient communications, raised a $22.5M Series A led by Scale Venture Partners</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Marissa Plescia / </span><span class="pub_name">MedCity News</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=58c3f1f1d5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Predoc, which uses AI to automate medical records management, raised $30M seed and Series A led by Base10 Partners, with participation from Northzone and others</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Allie Garfinkle / </span><span class="pub_name">Fortune</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=bf5be4918c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at the ramp up of Apple's retail footprint in India, as a source says Apple's revenue grew 13% YoY to $9B during India's fiscal year that ended in March</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=fb5d83b318&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Russia publishes a list of locally developed apps it says will function during mobile internet shutdowns, excluding foreign services like WhatsApp and YouTube</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=38e5dd4062&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">TikTok says it now has more than 200M MAUs in Europe, up from 175M in 2024, the latest sign of its rapid growth among teenagers</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Supantha Mukherjee / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=08ea937a5e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Cadence Design to acquire Hexagon's Stockholm-based design and engineering unit, a computer-aided engineering software provider, for €2.7B in cash and stock</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Juby Babu / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d3752f1b72&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Source: Balderton Capital, one of Revolut's earliest VC backers, has sold ~$1B in shares through multiple transactions that valued the fintech company at $45B</a></span>
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