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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told employees the company could go public by 2027, or sooner if growth accelerates, framing its IPO as just another fundraise. — CNBC
A regulator found Roblox’s promised child-safety protections still leave four major gaps, raising fresh questions about safeguards on the popular platform. — 9to5Mac
Slack launched Slack Code across all plans, giving software projects dedicated channels where teams can collaborate with AI coding agents. — The Verge
US Senators are demanding answers about a TikTok “experiment” that turned off an algorithmic safeguard for 10% of users. Among those users was a 16-year-old who died by suicide. — Bloomberg
TerraPower plans to announce its first data center project this year, pitching a molten-sodium heat reservoir that lets its nuclear plant meet AI workloads. — TechCrunch
Top Funding Announcements
Muon Space — The satellite startup raised a $250M Series C led by Eclipse, with Google and Salesforce Ventures participating. — Bloomberg
Also — The Rivian spinout raised a $150M Series D led by Prysm Capital to develop autonomous small electric vehicles. — Tech Funding News
California startups — More than 4,000 companies raised roughly $366B in 2026, over triple the other 49 states combined. — WSJ
Callosum — The London startup raised a $100M seed led by Atomico, with the UK Sovereign AI Fund participating. — Bloomberg
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Muon Space announced a $250M Series C today, one of the largest space infrastructure rounds in history. The company refers to itself as a “Mission Foundry.” They’re not just building satellites. They’re handling the full satellite stack, from design through constellation deployment and managed orbital services. Customers can go from a mission spec to satellites in orbit while always dealing with the same team, without assembling a crew of dozens of vendors. This is not some faraway dream! Muon has 11 satellites deployed across 6 launches, with a 100% success rate so far.
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