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Electric aircraft startup Beta Technologies seeks to raise $825M in IPO

If the company attracts investors at the top of its announced range, it will have a valuation of about $7.2 billion.

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This Thiel-backed venture allows doping in its own sports

Backed by Peter Thiel and Donald Trump Jr.’s 1789 Capital, the Enhanced Games aims to disrupt the Olympics with a competition that allows athletes to dope. Launching in Las Vegas in May 2026, the games promise $1 million bounties for … Continue reading

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Spotify spotted working on a ‘SongDNA’ feature that showcases the people behind your favorite music

Spotify is developing a new “SongDNA” feature that lets users explore music through the people behind it — from writers and producers to vocalists and engineers.

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Apple adds 650 megawatts of renewables in Europe with more coming in China

Apple is adding renewable power to offset customer charging and support its operations, including third-party manufacturing in China.

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Anthropic launches new version of scaled-down ‘Haiku’ model

Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 4.5, the newest version of its smallest model, billed as offering similar performance to Sonnet 4 “at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed.”

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Eightfold co-founders raise $35M for Viven, an AI digital twin startup for querying unavailable coworkers

Viven’s seed funding was led by Khosla Ventures and Foundation Capital.

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Meta partners up with Arm to scale AI efforts

Semiconductor firm Arm is partnering with Meta to enhance the social media company’s AI systems amid an unprecedented infrastructure buildout.

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Self-driving car companies Pony.ai and WeRide get the OK for Hong Kong listing

The Chinese AV companies are already traded on the Nasdaq.

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X plans to show more information about user profiles to help improve trust

X is working on new transparency features to help users identify who they’re interacting with, such as account creation date, location, username change history, and how each account uses the service.

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Cyber giant F5 Networks says government hackers had ‘long-term’ access to its systems, stole code and customer data

The company, which provides cybersecurity defenses to most of the Fortune 500, said the DOJ allowed it to delay notifying the public on national security grounds.

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