| Canada says it is talking to Meta to restore news to Facebook and Instagram as the Online News Act is put on the table as part of trade negotiations with the US (Marie Woolf/Globe and Mail) |
 Marie Woolf / Globe and Mail:
Canada says it is talking to Meta to restore news to Facebook and Instagram as the Online News Act is put on the table as part of trade negotiations with the US — Save for later — Log in or create a free account to listen to this article. — Government officials are in talks …
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| Google DeepMind researchers unveil AlphaGenome, an AI model trained on molecular data to predict 11 different genomic processes, such as gene splicing (Carl Zimmer/New York Times) |
Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
Google DeepMind researchers unveil AlphaGenome, an AI model trained on molecular data to predict 11 different genomic processes, such as gene splicing — AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely a mystery.
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| Slice, which uses AI agents to encode tax policies and legal rules across 60+ countries, raised a $25M Series A led by Insight, taking its total funding to $32M (Mary Ann Azevedo/This Week in Fintech) |
Mary Ann Azevedo / This Week in Fintech:
Slice, which uses AI agents to encode tax policies and legal rules across 60+ countries, raised a $25M Series A led by Insight, taking its total funding to $32M — Slice Global Equity, an equity compliance and management startup, announced Wednesday that it has raised $25 million in Series A funding.
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| Adaptive6, which treats cloud cost inefficiencies as security vulnerabilities to help companies cut bills, raised a $28M Series A, for $44M in total funding (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE) |
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Adaptive6, which treats cloud cost inefficiencies as security vulnerabilities to help companies cut bills, raised a $28M Series A, for $44M in total funding — Cloud cost governance and optimization startup Adaptive6 Inc. says it's ready to help large enterprises save millions of dollars …
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| Outtake, which uses autonomous AI agents to help companies detect and remove cyberthreats, raised $40M led by Iconiq, after a $16.5M Series A in April 2025 (Samantha Subin/CNBC) |
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Outtake, which uses autonomous AI agents to help companies detect and remove cyberthreats, raised $40M led by Iconiq, after a $16.5M Series A in April 2025 — Alex Dhillon spent almost five years at Palantir before leaving to build cybersecurity startup Outtake.
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| ESA astronomers say they used AI model AnomalyMatch to scan 100M image cutouts from the Hubble Legacy Archive in 2.5 days, finding ~1,400 "anomalous objects" (Robert Hart/The Verge) |
Robert Hart / The Verge:
ESA astronomers say they used AI model AnomalyMatch to scan 100M image cutouts from the Hubble Legacy Archive in 2.5 days, finding ~1,400 “anomalous objects” — The AI model took just 2.5 days to search 100 million image cutouts and flag oddities like jellyfish galaxies.
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| Tel Aviv-based Factify raised a $73M seed led by Valley Capital to develop an AI-native document standard intended to replace the legacy PDF format (Gil Press/Forbes) |
Gil Press / Forbes:
Tel Aviv-based Factify raised a $73M seed led by Valley Capital to develop an AI-native document standard intended to replace the legacy PDF format — Tel Aviv-based Factify has raised $73 million in a seed funding round to establish a new document standard for AI, the company announced Wednesday.
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| LinkedIn launches a new feature to let users display verified "vibe coding" and AI proficiency levels from third-party partners including Replit and Lovable (Karissa Bell/Engadget) |
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
LinkedIn launches a new feature to let users display verified “vibe coding” and AI proficiency levels from third-party partners including Replit and Lovable — You can connect AI coding tools from Replit, Lovabl and Relay.app directly to your profile.
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| Battery recycling and cathode production startup Redwood expands its Series E to $425M, sources say at a $6B valuation, adds Google as a new strategic investor (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch) |
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:
Battery recycling and cathode production startup Redwood expands its Series E to $425M, sources say at a $6B valuation, adds Google as a new strategic investor — Google is the latest investor to back Redwood Materials as the battery recycling and cathode production startup scales …
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| Spotify paid out $11B+ to the music industry in 2025, up 10% YoY, bringing its all-time payments to $70B, and now accounts for ~30% of recorded music revenue (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter) |
Ethan Millman / The Hollywood Reporter:
Spotify paid out $11B+ to the music industry in 2025, up 10% YoY, bringing its all-time payments to $70B, and now accounts for ~30% of recorded music revenue — Spotify head of music Charlie Hellman called payouts “the largest annual payment to music from any retailer in history.”
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