Source: AI training data startup Micro1's gross annual run rate grew from $100M to $500M in the past eight months, putting net annual run rate at $150M-$200M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Walmart will start accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay in its stores. New York City now leads the nation with 394,300 tech-talent jobs, surpassing the Bay Area. DeepSeek unveiled an experimental multimodal V4 Flash model that rivals Anthropic’s Opus performance. Nevada regulators approved permits for Tesla to operate up to 5,000 robotaxis in Las Vegas, and for Waymo and Uber to each run 1,000 robotaxis.