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Lime's shares closed up 4% in its Nasdaq debut on Wednesday, valuing the company at ~$1.7B, after Lime and existing stockholders raised ~$174M in its US IPO (Reuters)
Sources: Apple is working on new iPad Pros and an entry-level 14" MacBook Pro with a new design in line with the upcoming touch-screen laptops for H1 2027 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Alibaba and its US payment processor AUS agree to pay $600M to resolve DOJ allegations that they failed to prevent illegal sales of drugs and other products (Reuters)
Sources: SoftBank has reopened talks for a $10B loan backed by its OpenAI stake and is offering to guarantee repayment if OpenAI collateral proves insufficient (Echo Wang/Reuters)
Alex Karp calls US reliance on AI labs for military tech "effing insane", pans AI fees for businesses, and touts Palantir's Nvidia Nemotron deal for US agencies (Ty Roush/Forbes)
Sources: SpaceX showed investors a handset-like device prototype with AI tech from xAI, a proprietary OS, a Snapdragon chip, and a design slimmer than an iPhone (Wall Street Journal)
Sources: Microsoft has been working on a disc-to-digital feature for Xbox One and Xbox Series X that will let users digitize their physical game collections (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Venice AI, which offers access to 200+ AI models while allowing users to retain their privacy, raised a $65M Series A led by Dragonfly at a $1B valuation (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
Meta names Chief Marketing Officer Alex Schultz as its first-ever chief data officer, to manage AI analytics across the company, and names Denise Moreno as CMO (Sara Fischer/Axios)
Uber dismissed two leaders at its AI data labeling business as part of a broader leadership transition at the unit, which it says is "seeing strong momentum" (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
B2B sales workspace startup Aligned raised a $60M Series B led by PeakSpan Capital, taking its total funding to $73.8M, and says it has 1,000+ customers (Chris Metinko/Axios)
Oxmiq, which aims to combine GPUs, CPUs, and a tensor engine into a single block of IP that it can license, raised $35M led by Samsung Catalyst Fund and Fudomo (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
Abu Dhabi-based MGX raised a $49B AI-focused fund, exceeding its $45B target, and plans to deploy as much as $10B annually from the fund over the next few years (Dinesh Nair/Bloomberg)
Letter: the US says Anthropic "agreed to proactively detect and address security risks" of Fable 5 and Mythos 5; a source says Anthropic developed a "safeguard" (Financial Times)
Sony says it will close the virtual PlayStation 3 store in select markets in 2026 before closing PS3 and PS Vita stores "in all other countries" in July 2027 (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

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Engadget

Apple's Hide My Email may not be hiding anything
Report suggests SpaceX is testing a handheld AI device, Musk says it's 'utterly false'
Xbox is reportedly testing a way to digitize your disc-based games
Meta is reportedly building its own cloud business
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Visa, Mastercard and Coinbase have launched a new global stablecoin
Fufjilm launches special waterproof and black-and-white editions of its retro QuickSnap instant cameras
Messy Subnautica 2 saga ends with Unknown Worlds CEO departing again
Sony will stop making disc-based PlayStation games starting 2028
Plex vs Jellyfin vs Emby: Here's how the three media servers really compare
UN report says policymakers are struggling to keep up with pace of AI development
Getty Images is canceling its $3.7 billion Shutterstock merger due to UK restrictions
BMW's X5 finally goes electric with an impressive 435 miles of range
Meta puts rate limits on its smart glasses' Conversation Focus feature
Gemini Spark comes to Google's Gemini app for macOS
US government allows Anthropic to redeploy its Mythos and Fable AI models
Samsung teases wide-as-hell new foldable
Discord now runs natively on Meta Quest headsets
Amazon will pay $2.25 million to settle FTC identity theft case
Anthropic's new Sonnet 5 model is better at the tasks that are running up enterprise bills

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