1. 🛡️ Anduril is Aiming For $60Bn Valuation

Defense-tech company Anduril is in the middle of a multi-billion-dollar funding round led by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz. The new round, less than a year after the company’s $2.5 billion Series G, could bring as much as $8 billion of capital into the company. (TechCrunch)

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3. 😵 Another Oracle Outage is Messing Up U.S. TikTok

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5. 🗣️ Claude Code Has a Voice Mode

Why code with your fingers when you can code with your voice? Anthropic is bringing Voice Mode to its AI coding assistant for developers. Now live for about 5% of users and expected to roll out broader in the coming weeks, Voice Mode is designed to streamline the coding experience by letting users interact with Claude Code through spoken commands. (TechCrunch)

6. 📰 Yahoo is Selling Engadget To Static Media

Long-running tech news website Engadget has a new owner. Yahoo sold the publication to Static Media in early February in a deal scheduled to close later this month… but it hasn’t even been publicly announced yet. Still, the Engadget staff was told a few weeks ago and has already met with the new owners. (The Verge)

7. 🍽️ MyFitnessPal Acquired Gen Z Health App Cal AI

If you can’t beat ‘em, acquire ‘em. After almost a year of deal talks, MyFitnessPal has successfully acquired its up-and-coming rival Cal AI, the AI calorie counting app startup built by two high schoolers that soared to over 15 million downloads and over $30 million in annual revenue in under two years. (TechCrunch)

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