Sources: Anduril has had early discussions to raise ~$1.5B at a $12.5B+ valuation, and told investors it roughly doubled revenue to about $500M last year (Cory Weinberg/The Information)

Cory Weinberg / The Information:
Sources: Anduril has had early discussions to raise ~$1.5B at a $12.5B+ valuation, and told investors it roughly doubled revenue to about $500M last year  —  Military defense startup Anduril has had early discussions to raise what would be one of the largest venture capital rounds of the year so far …

The FBI has arrested a man on criminal charges for allegedly producing and distributing AI-generated images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct (Samantha Cole/404 Media)

Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
The FBI has arrested a man on criminal charges for allegedly producing and distributing AI-generated images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct  —  He allegedly used Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image generative AI model, to create “thousands of realistic images of prepubescent minors,” prosecutors said.

Scarlett Johansson says she declined to voice ChatGPT, and when she heard Sky she was “shocked” that Sam Altman would pursue a voice so “eerily similar” to hers (Kat Tenbarge/NBC News)

Kat Tenbarge / NBC News:
Scarlett Johansson says she declined to voice ChatGPT, and when she heard Sky she was “shocked” that Sam Altman would pursue a voice so “eerily similar” to hers  —  The “Her” actor released a statement following OpenAI pulling its “Sky” voice from ChatGPT, which many people said sounded like her.

LG denies reports it canceled its partnership with Meta, three months after the companies agreed to develop XR devices, says it’s “controlling its pace” (David Heaney/UploadVR)

David Heaney / UploadVR:
LG denies reports it canceled its partnership with Meta, three months after the companies agreed to develop XR devices, says it’s “controlling its pace”  —  LG denied reports from Korean news outlets claiming it canceled its partnership with Meta, but said it is “controlling its pace”.

Meta approved AI-manipulated Facebook ads during India’s election that spread disinfo and incited religious violence; civil groups submitted them as a test (Hannah Ellis-Petersen/The Guardian)

Hannah Ellis-Petersen / The Guardian:
Meta approved AI-manipulated Facebook ads during India’s election that spread disinfo and incited religious violence; civil groups submitted them as a test  —  Exclusive: Ads containing AI-manipulated images were submitted to Facebook by civil and corporate accountability groups

Zoom reports Q1 revenue up 3.2% YoY to $1.14B, vs. $1.13B est., enterprise revenue up 5.3% YoY to $665.7M, and a Q2 sales forecast in line with estimates (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Zoom reports Q1 revenue up 3.2% YoY to $1.14B, vs. $1.13B est., enterprise revenue up 5.3% YoY to $665.7M, and a Q2 sales forecast in line with estimates  —  Revenue will be about $1.15 billion in the period ending in July, the company said Monday in a statement.  Profit, excluding some items, will be about $1.21 per share.

DOJ announces the arrest of a Taiwanese national at JFK Airport who allegedly owned Incognito Market, a dark web site used by 200K+ to buy $100M+ worth of drugs (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
DOJ announces the arrest of a Taiwanese national at JFK Airport who allegedly owned Incognito Market, a dark web site used by 200K+ to buy $100M+ worth of drugs  —  The owner and operator of Incognito Market, a dark web marketplace for selling illegal narcotics online, was arrested at the John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on May 18.

Impressions of Windows 11 AI features Recall, Live Captions, and Cocreator, and a chat with Satya Nadella on how the Copilot+ PC push will outperform MacBooks (Joanna Stern/Wall Street Journal)

Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal:
Impressions of Windows 11 AI features Recall, Live Captions, and Cocreator, and a chat with Satya Nadella on how the Copilot+ PC push will outperform MacBooks  —  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told our columnist new efficient, powerful chips equip Windows Copilot+ laptops to compete with Apple’s MacBooks

Documents: cops in Austin and San Francisco, where police are banned from facial recognition, asked other towns to run photos of suspects through their systems (Douglas MacMillan/Washington Post)

Douglas MacMillan / Washington Post:
Documents: cops in Austin and San Francisco, where police are banned from facial recognition, asked other towns to run photos of suspects through their systems  —  Citing concerns about accuracy and racial bias, the cities banned the technology.  So some police officers sought help from other law enforcement agencies.