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🔐 Oh no: Data broker LexisNexis Risk Solutions, which helps its corporate customers detect possible risk and fraud, disclosed a data breach that affected more than 340,000 people. The 2024 breach allowed hackers to obtain consumers' sensitive personal data.

🤝 Telegram AI: Telegram has struck a one-year deal with xAI to distribute xAI's Grok LLM on Telegram and integrate it into the apps on the platform. Telegram is getting $300 million in cash and equity from xAI for the deal and will earn 50% of all Grok subscriptions bought through the platform.

🕹️ Do you have games on your phone? It seems that Apple is going all in on mobile gaming. The company is reportedly acquiring its first gaming studio, RAC7, which already makes a hit Apple Arcade game, Sneaky Sasquatch. Apple is also reported to be developing a dedicated gaming app for iOS 19.

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☢️ AI goes nuclear: AI companies want to tap nuclear energy for their data centers, but the nuclear industry is not known for moving fast. Could AI help the nuclear industry move more quickly so it can power AI data centers faster? Startup Atomic Canyon thinks so.

💰 Funding for finance software: Rillet is a startup that uses AI to automate accounting reports. The company just raised a $25 million Series A round led by Sequoia and has signed up nearly 200 customers, including Windsurf and Decagon, since it launched last year.

🎙️ Tides, they are a-changing: It's no secret that tech's influence on Washington, D.C., has changed, especially since January. But what does that mean for startups? Equity talked to Daniel Weiner, director of the Brennan Center for Justice's Elections and Government program, to find out.

🚘 Motor city: Tesla's Cybertruck hasn't lived up to Elon Musk's sales expectations. The company now has a significant stockpile of unsold inventory. One place the company is storing said inventory is in a shopping center parking lot in Detroit — which violates city code.

🔧 Right to repair: Apple is expanding its Self Service Repair program to include multiple iPad models. This program lets users order repair manuals and genuine parts from Apple to fix their devices on their own, and it now supports 65 Apple products.

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👀 Chip conundrums: Many migrant workers from the Philippines are flocking to Taiwan to work in the country's semiconductor industry. But the brokers who help them land jobs are also controlling their lives and making many of these workers feel trapped.

😵‍💫 Is this good? YouTube Tools is a website that claims it can develop a profile for a person, including guesses at where someone lives, their politics, and what languages they speak. It does this by stringing together their YouTube comments, which I'm sure would only be used for positive purposes.

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📈 That other thing: By the time you read this newsletter, you might have already taken a peek at Nvidia's quarterly earnings. While a lot of chatter has focused on how chip export restrictions will affect Nvidia, make sure you take a look at how many GB200 NVL72 machines it shipped this quarter, too.