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Slide, which develops data backup and disaster recovery tech for managed service providers, raised a $70M Series B led by GC, bringing its total funding to $95M (CJ Fairfield/CRN)

NBC News poll of 1,000 registered voters: just 26% had a positive view of AI, while 46% had a negative view, the third worst net negative score of all topics (Jake Angelo/Fortune)

UK's AI drive, touted since 2024 and featuring splashy NScale and CoreWeave deals, to build datacenters is riddled with phantom investments and shaky accounting (Aisha Down/The Guardian)

Luma AI debuts Uni-1, an image model that combines image understanding and generation in a single architecture, topping Nano Banana 2 on logic-based benchmarks (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)

How Circle, Stripe, Coinbase, and others are building stablecoin-based agentic payments infrastructure that makes microtransactions between AI agents economical (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)

'Nothing has actually changed': Valve recommits to a 2026 launch for the Steam Machine amid rumors of a further delay

The US and Israel are using AI to wage war on Iran with unprecedented speed and precision in attacks, even as the cost of ill-informed decisions remains high (Wall Street Journal)

As cheap, powerful GPS jammers proliferate, a look at some alternatives to GPS, including using supersensitive, quantum-based magnetic sensors (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Iran targeting commercial datacenters in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare and raises doubts over the Gulf as a global AI hub (Daniel Boffey/The Guardian)

Leading the Future, a pro-AI PAC backed by Palantir-cofounder Joe Lonsdale, hit pro-regulation Democrat Alex Bores with attack ads over Bores' work for Palantir (Nancy Scola/Politico)

Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of hardware and robotics, resigns over concerns about domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons after OpenAI's DOD contract (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)