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Carta: VC deals are stalling at seed, with the Series A deal count falling by 79% between Q1 2022 and Q1 2025; 46% of seed deals were bridge rounds in Q1 2025 (www.axios.com)
2025-5-17

London-based Granola, which provides an AI-based notetaking app, raised a $43M Series B led by NFDG at a $250M valuation, taking its total funding to $67M (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-17 AI London

Utah-based property management software firm Entrata raised $200M from Blackstone at a $4.3B valuation; Entrata raised $507M from Silver Lake and others in 2021 (www.reuters.com)
2025-5-17 Silver

Boston-based PhaseV, which is developing AI software to accelerate clinical trials and drug development, raised a $50M Series A co-led by Accel and Insight (www.axios.com)
2025-5-17 AI

Musk's xAI updates Grok chatbot after ‘white genocide' comments (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-17 chatbot

China's humanoid robots will not replace human workers, Beijing official says (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-17 China Robot

Activision winds down Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile support: Here's what it means for players (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-17 Mobile

From Silicon Valley to sovereign stacks: The global AI power shift (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-17 AI

Epic's new motion asks a US district judge to order Apple to approve Fortnite on the US App Store, calling Apple's continued refusal contempt of court (9to5mac.com)
2025-5-17 Apple

MIT says it no longer stands behind a widely circulated research paper by its student that claimed an AI tool boosted discoveries in a materials science lab (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-17 AI

EU queen Ursula preached transparency – then did backdoor deals with Big Pharma (www.rt.com)
2025-5-17 Europe

FDA Clears First Blood Test To Help Diagnose Alzheimer's Disease (science.slashdot.org)
2025-5-17 Alzheimer

Sources: Indian investment app Groww agrees to acquire wealthtech startup Fisdom in an all-cash deal, valuing Fisdom at $140M to $160M; Fisdom had raised ~$48M (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2025-5-17 India Startup

UnitedHealth's Optum is developing an AI-powered risk scoring system for Medicare patients that does not rely solely on physician-submitted diagnosis codes (www.statnews.com)
2025-5-17 AI Medicare

A look at AI companies' lobbying push, as well as the GOP's pitch, for the amendment to ban state-level AI regulation, added to the budget reconciliation bill (www.bloodinthemachine.com)
2025-5-17 AI Ban Republican Budget

Critics question Meta's Louisiana datacenter plans for three new power plants; Meta's carbon footprint is up from 2020, when it pledged 2030 net-zero emissions (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-17

Microsoft's Command Palette is a Powerful Launcher For Apps, Search (it.slashdot.org)
2025-5-17 Microsoft

Big Tech companies are firing staff who organize protests and rejecting petitions, even as a poor job market discourages worker activism, once ubiquitous in SV (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-17 Job Market

Walmart Prepares for a Future Where AI Shops for Consumers (slashdot.org)
2025-5-17 AI Walmart

Wallets of ~100 of 220 TRUMP coin dinner attendees, and ~17 of 25 VIPs, have parted with nearly all their TRUMP after being chosen based on holdings to May 12 (www.wired.com)
2025-5-17 Trump

UK Needs More Nuclear To Power AI, Says Amazon Boss (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-5-17 Amazon AI

Stord, a logistics startup serving over 500 mid-market e-commerce brands, raised an $80M Series E led by Strike Capital at a $1.5B valuation and $120M in debt (fortune.com)
2025-5-17 Startup Logistics

Linux Swap Table Code Shows The Potential For Huge Performance Gains (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-5-17 Linux

Moody's Cuts US Government Credit Rating due to Deficits & Debt, Blames “Successive US Administrations and Congress” (wolfstreet.com)
2025-5-17

Apple's New CarPlay 'Ultra' Won't Fix the Biggest Problem of Phone-Connected Cars (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-5-17 Apple

MiB: John Montgomery, Bridgeway Capital Management (ritholtz.com)
2025-5-17

US to fast-track discharge of transgender troops – AP (www.rt.com)
2025-5-17

Galaxy Digital, which has traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange since 2020, started trading on the Nasdaq on Friday under the ticker GLXY; the stock closed up 4% (www.cnbc.com)
2025-5-17 Toronto

Michael Novogratz says Galaxy Digital is in talks with the US SEC about tokenizing its own stock as well as other equities using its digital-asset platform (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-17 Asset Equity

MIT Asks arXiv To Take Down Preprint Paper On AI and Scientific Discovery (science.slashdot.org)
2025-5-17 AI

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