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From Techmeme: Google now offers two research agents: Deep Research, replacing its December preview release, and Deep Research Max, both available via Gemini API paid tiers (The Keyword)

From Techmeme: Reliable Robotics, which is developing autonomous aircraft systems for cargo flights, raised $160M led by Nimble Partners, pushing its valuation to ~$1B (Cailley LaPara/Bloomberg)

From Techmeme: Adobe announces a $25B stock repurchase program through April 30, 2030; Adobe shares have fallen around 30% so far this year (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)

From Techmeme: The US DOJ says a former ransomware negotiator pleaded guilty to helping cybercriminals extort companies in cyberattacks in five different incidents (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

From Techmeme: Roblox reaches settlements totaling $35.8M with the AGs of West Virginia, Alabama, and Nevada over child-safety protections (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

From Techmeme: An interview with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman on OpenAI's restructuring, cutting Sora, "personal AGI", Anthropic's "fear-based marketing" for Mythos, and more (Core Memory)

From Techmeme: Sources: following Manus probe, Chinese authorities ordered at least one other prominent AI startup, MiroMind, not to send talent and research out of China (Washington Post)

From Techmeme: NeoCognition, which wants to build AI agents that self-learn like humans, emerges from stealth with a $40M seed co-led by Cambium Capital and Walden Catalyst (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

From Techmeme: ChatGPT Images 2.0 is available globally to ChatGPT and Codex users, with a more powerful version for paying subscribers; its knowledge cutoff is December 2025 (Reece Rogers/Wired)

From Techmeme: OpenAI says ChatGPT Images 2.0 comes in Instant and Thinking variants and can generate images of up to 2K resolution and in multiple aspect ratios (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

From Techmeme: OpenAI says that ChatGPT Images 2.0 has a stronger understanding of non-Latin text rendering in languages like Japanese, Korean, Hindi, and Bengali (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

From Techmeme: Draft IPO prospectus: SpaceX debt grew from $14B in 2024 to $23B in 2025, tied to a $4.5B lease deal with Valor Equity for AI equipment such as chips for xAI (The Information)

From Techmeme: OpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.0 with new "thinking capabilities", allowing it to search the web to help it create multiple images from a single prompt (Emma Roth/The Verge)

From Techmeme: How opposition to data centers, over concerns like power demands, pollution, and water needs, has become a voting issue for many people in the 2026 US midterms (NPR)

From Techmeme: New York Attorney General Letitia James sues Coinbase and Gemini, claiming their prediction markets violate state laws against illegal gambling (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

From Techmeme: Filings: crypto PACs amassed a ~$180M war chest for the 2026 midterms, including Fairshake's $166M, giving them the ability to outspend some GOP super PACs (Bloomberg)