NYC-based Zorro, whose AI-powered software helps clients' workers navigate health insurance and benefits options, raised a $20M Series A led by Entrée Capital (Erin Brodwin/Axios)
Erin Brodwin / Axios: NYC-based Zorro, whose AI-powered software helps clients’ workers navigate health insurance and benefits options, raised a $20M Series A led by
Sources: FTC is discussing a consent decree on the Omnicom-Interpublic merger, prohibiting the combined company from boycotting platforms over political content (New York Times)
New York Times: Sources: FTC is discussing a consent decree on the Omnicom-Interpublic merger, prohibiting the combined company from boycotting platforms over political content —
OpenAI says it hit $10B in annual recurring revenue; for all of last year, OpenAI was around $5.5B in ARR (CNBC)
CNBC: OpenAI says it hit $10B in annual recurring revenue; for all of last year, OpenAI was around $5.5B in ARR — OpenAI has hit
Tech industry fears Musk-Trump rift fallout as some downplay its permanence, and sources say, try to stop Musk from appearing on an emergency All-In episode (Financial Times)
Financial Times: Tech industry fears Musk-Trump rift fallout as some downplay its permanence, and sources say, try to stop Musk from appearing on an emergency
TikTok expands Manage Topics, a feature that lets users customize how often specific topics appear in the For You feed, and adds AI-powered keyword filtering (Emma Roth/The Verge)
Emma Roth / The Verge: TikTok expands Manage Topics, a feature that lets users customize how often specific topics appear in the For You feed,
Art house streaming service and distributor Mubi raised $100M led by Sequoia at a $1B valuation; Mubi has about 20M registered users worldwide (Christopher Grimes/Financial Times)
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Anthropic appoints Netflix co-founder and Chairman Reed Hastings to its board of directors, as the company balances growth with its stated focus on safety (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Anthropic appoints Netflix co-founder and Chairman Reed Hastings to its board of directors, as the company balances growth with its stated
London-based Converge, which uses sensors and AI to optimize the use of concrete in construction projects, raised a $22M Series A led by Dutch bank ABN Amro (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios)
Katie Fehrenbacher / Axios: London-based Converge, which uses sensors and AI to optimize the use of concrete in construction projects, raised a $22M Series A
Anthropic says Rakuten deployed Opus 4 to code autonomously for seven hours on a complicated open-source project, paving the way for more proficient AI agents (Rhiannon Williams/MIT Technology Review)
Rhiannon Williams / MIT Technology Review: Anthropic says Rakuten deployed Opus 4 to code autonomously for seven hours on a complicated open-source project, paving the
For its Copilot Studio agents, Microsoft announces a "computer use" feature available in its Frontier program for select US users, WhatsApp integration, more (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: For its Copilot Studio agents, Microsoft announces a “computer use” feature available in its Frontier program for select US users, WhatsApp
