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Indeed: UK employers are creating jobs for senior staff in software engineering and IT, where AI enhances the value of experience, while cutting back elsewhere (Irina Anghel/Bloomberg)
Japanese startups are racing to enter defense drone production, as Tokyo seeks to cut reliance on Chinese industrial drones, which control 91% of Japan's market (Mitsuru Obe/Nikkei Asia)
As Taiwanese server makers expand in Mexico, the country has become the second-largest supplier of servers to the US, behind Taiwan, with $46.9B in YTD sales (Financial Times)
LemonEdge, a fund accounting and operations software provider for the private markets sector, raised a $21M Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments (FinTech Global)
ThreatLocker raised a $190M Series F led by Elephant as it looks to extend its zero-trust enterprise security platform to protect against AI-related risks (Kyle Alspach/CRN)
Papers and patents: Chinese military researchers distilled OpenAI and Anthropic models to train domestic AI systems and advance China's defense capabilities (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
An interview with Granola CEO Chris Pedregal on making the AI note taker invisible and work across apps, and why he rejects executives seeking employees' notes (Casey Newton/Platformer)
Stripe says thousands of solo operators on its service generate $1M+ in annual revenue, and those making $10M+ nearly tripled between 2023 and 2025, aided by AI (Te-Ping Chen/Wall Street Journal)
A look at ByteDance's efforts to become China's leading company across all aspects of AI, from frontier models and video generation to infrastructure and chips (Financial Times)
Russia's FSB charges Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activities, including by Ukraine, and issues an international arrest warrant (Reuters)
ETH Zurich spinout ZuriQ, which is developing trapped-ion quantum computing processors based on a 2D architecture, raised a $25.5M seed led by Quantonation (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
Sources: Nvidia signs leases worth up to $50B for Hut 8's planned 1GW data center in Texas, hosting hundreds of thousands of chips; Hut 8 didn't name its client (Financial Times)
Apple overtakes Nvidia to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company, two years after it lost the crown, closing at a $4.9T market cap on Monday (Kalley Huang/New York Times)
A profile of Justin Sun, who made his fortune in the early phases of crypto, advised for Trump family's WLF, then sued WLF alleging fraud and breach of contract (Jen Wieczner/New York Magazine)
Spain-based Multiverse Computing, which shrinks LLMs to reduce energy and compute costs, raised a $570M Series C at a $1.7B valuation (Amelia Isaacs/Pathfounders)
How some young adults are using AI to navigate social situations, from drafting pickup lines and texts to formulating responses in face-to-face conversations (Natalie Kaufman/Wall Street Journal)
Shein's IPO prospectus shows Q1 revenue of $9.05B, up 1% YoY, as it swings from $395M profit in Q1 2025 to $99M loss partly due to US' "de minimis" rule removal (Reuters)
Sources: Apple may have delayed AI glasses launch partly over privacy concerns that Meta's glasses created for the category, as it works to address the issues (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Crypto exchanges like tradeXYZ are giving global investors exposure to Chinese AI-linked stocks like CXMT, bypassing Beijing's control on foreign capital access (William Sandlund/Financial Times)
Sources including AI lab staff say users have been persuading chatbots to accurately answer prompts about planning mass-casualty attacks and making bio-weapons (Wall Street Journal)