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The European Commission has classified ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act, bringing new obligations around systemic risk, minors and illegal content.

The three-year-old startup says it has reached $15 million in ARR and profitability before raising a new $15 million round, signaling investor interest in AI tools that make large video libraries usable.

Bolt founder Ryan Breslow is contributing $5 million as the checkout company pursues a bridge round of up to $27 million, according to TechCrunch.

AWS has signed an agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB. For data teams, the notable detail is that DuckDB is set to remain open source under its independent foundation.

Governor Kathy Hochul’s technology-policy agenda puts AI infrastructure, platform rules and public safeguards into the same political conversation. For builders, the immediate issue is what New York will require before more data-center construction can proceed.

HFlow is an open-source SDK for turning synchronized robot recordings into standardized, quality-checked, reproducible datasets.

The Linux distribution has rejected an outright ban on AI-assisted contributions, instead applying its existing expectations for quality, licensing and accountability.

The YC S26 startup packages an AI agent with connected work accounts and separate personal and company wikis, aiming to make business context persistent and permission-aware.