• Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller — TechCrunch - 18:47
• Neocloud Together AI raises $800M, leaps to $8.3B valuation — TechCrunch - 18:29
• Lime begins life as a public company after years of uncertainty — TechCrunch - 18:24
• Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content — TechCrunch - 17:48
• Even Honda is pivoting to data centers — TechCrunch - 17:13
• Autonomous vehicle hype is back, and Humble Robotics is bringing it to freight — TechCrunch - 16:48
• NASA inspector general suggests Boeing's Starliner will now be a decade late — Ars Technica - 16:11
• A space history mystery: What happened to the Viking arm used 50 years ago? — Ars Technica - 15:20
• Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off — TechCrunch - 14:25
• Gemini Spark, Google’s agentic assistant, is now available on Mac — TechCrunch - 14:20

AI policy uncertainty in the US and strategic employee tenders by AI startups are shaping the industry, with Trump lifting restrictions on Anthropic's models while **Wayve secures talent with an $85M offer** at a high valuation.

• Trump drops restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable models — TechCrunch -
• Wayve launches $85M employee tender offer at $8.5B valuation — TechCrunch -

A pivotal moment in internet history marks Vinton Cerf's retirement from Google, as the 'Father of the Internet' steps down from his role as chief internet evangelist.

• The ‘Father of the Internet’ is finally retiring — TechCrunch -