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Google researchers say Android's early-warning system detected and issued alerts for 1,200+ earthquakes since 2021, sometimes giving up to 15-60 seconds' notice (Kasha Patel/Washington Post)

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Levelpath, which provides AI-powered enterprise procurement services, raised a $55M Series B led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $100M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Levelpath, which provides AI-powered enterprise procurement services, raised a $55M Series B led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $100M  —  Levelpath, a procurement software startup founded by the duo behind Scout RFP, has raised $55 million in Series B funding led …

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US chipmaker Wolfspeed files for Chapter 11 to enact a creditor-backed plan to slash $4.6B in debt; it expects to emerge out of bankruptcy by the end of Q3 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
US chipmaker Wolfspeed files for Chapter 11 to enact a creditor-backed plan to slash $4.6B in debt; it expects to emerge out of bankruptcy by the end of Q3  —  The North Carolina-based company filed petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11, according to a statement released on Monday.

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Circle applies for a US national trust bank license, which would let it act as a custodian for its own reserves and hold crypto for its institutional clients (Hannah Lang/Reuters)

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Circle applies for a US national trust bank license, which would let it act as a custodian for its own reserves and hold crypto for its institutional clients  —  Stablecoin firm Circle (CRCL.N) is applying to create a national trust bank in the U.S., a major move after its blockbuster IPO valued …

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Rapid7 finds eight vulnerabilities, including one remotely-exploitable flaw that cannot be fixed via firmware patch, affecting 689 models of Brother printers (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Rapid7 finds eight vulnerabilities, including one remotely-exploitable flaw that cannot be fixed via firmware patch, affecting 689 models of Brother printers  —  PSA: Remember to change the manufacturer's default passwords on your devices. … Serious security flaws have been found in hundreds …

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Canada-based Clio, which makes cloud tools for law firms, agrees to acquire vLex, which offers a legal and regulatory database and an AI assistant, for $1B (Alex Riehl/BetaKit)

Alex Riehl / BetaKit:
Canada-based Clio, which makes cloud tools for law firms, agrees to acquire vLex, which offers a legal and regulatory database and an AI assistant, for $1B  —  Burnaby, BC-based Clio has signed a definitive agreement for its most significant acquisition to date: Miami-based …

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Mexico City-based digital bank Klar raised a $190M Series C led by General Atlantic, including $170M in equity and $20M in debt, valuing the company at $800M+ (Bloomberg)

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Mexico City-based digital bank Klar raised a $190M Series C led by General Atlantic, including $170M in equity and $20M in debt, valuing the company at $800M+  —  Mexican fintech Klar said it has raised $190 million through a Series C funding round, led by US private equity firm General Atlantic …

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The latest version of the Senate's OBBB has a provision removing the 6 GHz band's protection from spectrum auctions; Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-FI 7 utilize the 6 GHz band (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
The latest version of the Senate's OBBB has a provision removing the 6 GHz band's protection from spectrum auctions; Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-FI 7 utilize the 6 GHz band  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has a plan for spectrum auctions that could take frequencies away from Wi-Fi and reallocate them for the exclusive use of wireless carriers.

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X hires Nikita Bier, the serial entrepreneur who was behind polling startup TBH and teen-focused social network Gas, as its new head of product (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

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X hires Nikita Bier, the serial entrepreneur who was behind polling startup TBH and teen-focused social network Gas, as its new head of product  —  Elon Musk's X has hired entrepreneur Nikita Bier as the platform's new head of product, giving Bier a senior role atop one of the most widely used social apps in the world.

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Sources: Mike Rockwell and Craig Federighi have led efforts to assess external models to power Siri; after testing, Anthropic's tech seemed most promising (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Mike Rockwell and Craig Federighi have led efforts to assess external models to power Siri; after testing, Anthropic's tech seemed most promising  —  Apple Inc. is considering using artificial intelligence technology from Anthropic PBC or OpenAI to power a new version of Siri …

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A US judge denies Apple's motion to dismiss the DOJ antitrust lawsuit, filed in March 2024, accusing Apple of unlawfully dominating the US smartphone market (Jody Godoy/Reuters)

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A US judge denies Apple's motion to dismiss the DOJ antitrust lawsuit, filed in March 2024, accusing Apple of unlawfully dominating the US smartphone market  —  Apple (AAPL.O) must face the U.S. Department of Justice's lawsuit accusing the iPhone maker of unlawfully dominating the U.S. smartphone market, a judge ruled on Monday.

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The US takes down a North Korean operation that, from 2021 to 2024, impersonated 80+ people to get remote jobs at 100+ US firms, using "laptop farms" in the US (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
The US takes down a North Korean operation that, from 2021 to 2024, impersonated 80+ people to get remote jobs at 100+ US firms, using “laptop farms” in the US  —  The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Monday that it had taken several enforcement actions against North Korea's operations …

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A look at the rise of $5B+ unicorns, which make up 13% of ~1,600 unicorns but hold $3.5T of $6T total valuation; 17 startups joined the $5B+ club in H1 2025 (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)

Gené Teare / Crunchbase News:
A look at the rise of $5B+ unicorns, which make up 13% of ~1,600 unicorns but hold $3.5T of $6T total valuation; 17 startups joined the $5B+ club in H1 2025  —  Editor's note: This article is part of a series looking at how the venture and startup landscape has evolved over the past 10 years.

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Google announces 30+ Gemini AI tools for educators, like "Gems" which help students on specific subjects, included with Google Workspace for Education accounts (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google announces 30+ Gemini AI tools for educators, like “Gems” which help students on specific subjects, included with Google Workspace for Education accounts  —  Google on Monday announced a series of updates intended to bring its Gemini AI and other AI-powered tools deeper into the classroom.

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In a memo, Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta Superintelligence Labs and 11 new hires; Nat Friedman will partner with Alexandr Wang to lead the new group (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

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In a memo, Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta Superintelligence Labs and 11 new hires; Nat Friedman will partner with Alexandr Wang to lead the new group  —  Zuckerberg wrote Monday to employees that Meta's AI efforts will fall under a new group called Meta Superintelligence Labs …

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Experts raise concerns that Malta's expedited MiCA licensing process may lack sufficient enforcement and oversight; OKX received a MiCA license in four days (CoinDesk)

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Experts raise concerns that Malta's expedited MiCA licensing process may lack sufficient enforcement and oversight; OKX received a MiCA license in four days  —  Malta, a scenic Mediterranean island with a population of just over half a million, is quickly becoming the preferred European base …

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Campfire, which offers AI-powered ERP and accounting services, raised a $35M Series A led by Accel (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
Campfire, which offers AI-powered ERP and accounting services, raised a $35M Series A led by Accel  —  AI-powered accounting startup Campfire announced Monday that it has raised a $35 million Series A led by Accel, with participation from Foundation Capital, Y Combinator, Capital49, and angel investors including Mercury's CFO Dan Kang.

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SEC filing: Oracle signed multiple large cloud agreements, including one that is expected to contribute $30B+ in annual revenue starting in FY28; ORCL jumps 5%+ (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

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SEC filing: Oracle signed multiple large cloud agreements, including one that is expected to contribute $30B+ in annual revenue starting in FY28; ORCL jumps 5%+  —  Oracle shares jumped more than 5% after a recent filing showed a cloud deal that would add over $30 billion annually.

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Cursor launches a web app and Slack integration for managing AI coding agents from mobile and desktop (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Cursor launches a web app and Slack integration for managing AI coding agents from mobile and desktop  —  The company behind Cursor, the viral AI coding editor, launched a web app on Monday that allows users to manage a network of coding agents directly from their browser.

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Microsoft says its new AI tool diagnoses diseases with 80% accuracy vs. doctors' 20%; Mustafa Suleyman calls it a "step toward medical superintelligence" (Will Knight/Wired)

Will Knight / Wired:
Microsoft says its new AI tool diagnoses diseases with 80% accuracy vs. doctors' 20%; Mustafa Suleyman calls it a “step toward medical superintelligence”  —  The tech giant poached several top Google researchers to help build a powerful AI tool that can diagnose patients and potentially cut health care costs.

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Apple will delay rolling out some iOS 26 features in the EU later this year, including "visited places", citing the difficulty of complying with the DMA (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)

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Apple will delay rolling out some iOS 26 features in the EU later this year, including “visited places”, citing the difficulty of complying with the DMA  —  A service which tracks and records where users have been won't be rolled out in the EU  —  Apple said it will delay offering …

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Europol says it has dismantled a crypto investment fraud ring in Spain that laundered €460M using a global network of accomplices, and five people were arrested (Sudip Kar-Gupta/Reuters)

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Europol says it has dismantled a crypto investment fraud ring in Spain that laundered €460M using a global network of accomplices, and five people were arrested  —  A cryptocurrency investment fraud ring that investigators said laundered 460 million euros ($540 million) …

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Tinder is mandating new users in California verify their profiles using facial recognition technology starting June 30 in a bid to reduce impersonation (Kerry Flynn/Axios)

Kerry Flynn / Axios:
Tinder is mandating new users in California verify their profiles using facial recognition technology starting June 30 in a bid to reduce impersonation  —  Tinder is mandating new users in California verify their profiles using facial recognition technology starting Monday, executives exclusively tell Axios.

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Spotify updates its Discover Weekly playlist after ten years, adding new genre filters for Premium users, and says users streamed 100B+ tracks via the playlist (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Spotify updates its Discover Weekly playlist after ten years, adding new genre filters for Premium users, and says users streamed 100B+ tracks via the playlist  —  Spotify's Discover Weekly playlist, which shares new listening recommendations every Monday, is getting an update.

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Source: Nintendo pulled its products from Amazon's US site after noticing third-party merchants were selling games in the US at prices below Nintendo's rates (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

Matt Day / Bloomberg:
Source: Nintendo pulled its products from Amazon's US site after noticing third-party merchants were selling games in the US at prices below Nintendo's rates  —  The Japanese company stopped selling on Amazon after noticing that third-party merchants were offering games for sale in the US …

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Bank of Korea temporarily halts preparations for the second phase of its pilot initiative testing program for a central bank digital currency, scheduled for Q4 (Soo-Hyang Choi/Bloomberg)

Soo-Hyang Choi / Bloomberg:
Bank of Korea temporarily halts preparations for the second phase of its pilot initiative testing program for a central bank digital currency, scheduled for Q4  —  South Korea's central bank has halted its digital currency pilot program, signaling diminishing enthusiasm for state-led digital currencies …

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