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Austin, Texas (AP) – For 20 years on the University of Texas campus, it was a resilient law facing the Republican squeeze immigration agenda: in-state tuition prices for students who do not have statutory resident status. But in a flash, the first kind of Texas policy in the United States was suspended on Wednesday, blocked by a federal judge hours after the Justice Department sued to dismantle it. Republican Texas leaders were enthusiastic about it rather than fighting the challenge. Surprise and quick ending Immigration advocates and Democrats were surprised by what is known as the “Texas Dream Law.” Republicans…

It’s Thursday, June 5, 2025, and we’re back with your daily tech funding roundup, tracking where capital is flowing and which startups are laying the groundwork for what comes next. Today’s lineup spans defense tech, brain-computer interfaces, social commerce, AI workflow tools, insurtech, biotech, and beyond. From Anduril’s $2.5 billion raise to expand autonomous defense systems to Neuralink’s $650 million Series E round for neurotechnology, today’s funding news shows the appetite for bold bets across the tech stack. Funding Highlights Anduril leads the day with a $2.5 billion injection that catapults its valuation to $30.5 billion, reinforcing investor confidence in…

Anysphere, the maker of AI coding assistant cursors, raised $900 million at a valuation of $9.9 billion, Bloomberg reported. The round was led by returning investor Thrive Capital with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Accel and DST Global. The large round is Anysphere’s third funding. The three-year-old startup secured $100 million in capital operations at the end of last year with a $2.5 billion pre-money valuation, as first reported by TechCrunch. Often called “vibe codermators,” AI coding assistants have emerged as one of AI’s most popular applications, with Cursor leading the category. Anysphere’s annual revenue (ARR) doubles approximately every two months.…

idrees abbas | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesIt was a bad week for Doge. And it’s a really bad week for Dogecoin.Popular Meme Coin fell around 10% on Thursday as Elon Musk was once called “The People’s Crypto,” down 22% over the past week. That decline corresponds to an official departure from Musk’s Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). This was central to his efforts to fundamentally reduce the federal government.Musk and Trump recently retracted Musk’s denouncement of the president’s spending bill and Trump chose to run NASA for the nomination of Musk’s ally Jared Isakuman.But the war…

Circle, one of the world’s largest issuers of USDC, is a stubcoin pinned to US dollars, ending its first trading day as a public company at $83.23 per share. The IPO POP shows national investors’ interest in cryptocurrencies and ridiculous currencies, particularly amid the Trump administration’s supportive stance on cryptocurrencies. A massive surge in Circle’s first-day trading could encourage institutional investors to raise IPO prices on future lists. The imminent IPOs include Omada Health, which is priced Thursday, and Klarna, a fintech that is scheduled to list next week. The company’s IPO stock price set its initial market value at…

Acquiring admission to Harvard University was a long-standing goal of Ethiopian student Jonas Nuguze. Tigray’s conflictinternet and phone closures, and the Covid-19 pandemic – all of these have made it impossible to graduate from high school on time.It is unclear now whether he will arrive at the Ivy League campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He and other hospitalized students around the world are worriedly following the school feud with the Trump administration. International Student Registration. War in the Tigray region of the country Many parts of the state have been forced to close schools. Nuguse, 21, took a gap year to…

The fight between HR Tech’s startups began to ripple on Thursday, and this week, he filed an 84-page revised complaint in the lawsuit against Deel. In addition to the ripples, the complaint accuses Deel of infiltrating and infringing four other competitors. The revised complaint does not name all four other victims, except for TOKU, a cryptocurrency-based tax and payroll compliance company. Toku also claims that competitor Liquifi is also spurring corporate espionage, and Deel is involved. Rippling’s revised complaint claims that “Victim-3 is a startup accelerator that previously affiliated with Deal.” The complaint is not implied who it is. (Y…

Jared Kaplan, co-founder and chief science officer of humanity, said his company is acquiring its biggest competitor, Openai, to its AI coding assistant, with direct access to Windsurf’s human Claude AI model, primarily due to rumors and reporting. “We are really trying to enable us to work with us sustainably in the future,” Kaplan said in an on-stage interview with TechCrunch at TC Session: AI 2025. “I think it’s strange that we’re selling Claude openly,” Kaplan said. The comment comes weeks after Bloomberg reported that Openai had acquired Windsurf for $3 billion. Earlier this week, Windsurf said that humanity had…

Investors looking for both bargains and income can find them in small caps, but according to Bank of America, they must be selective. Dividends are more common than acquisitions in cohorts, with about 40% of the 2000 Russell 2000 paying dividends today, the company said in a memo on Tuesday. Small caps face greater risk from tariffs and macro uncertainties, and also greater risk from higher fees, but remain cheaper compared to large stocks, equities and Qual Strategist Jill Carry Hall. The Russell 2000 was the first to join Bear Market territory after President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff policies were…

WASHINGTON (AP) – Thirty years ago, Harvard University foreign students accounted for just 11% of the total student population. Today they account for 26%.Like other well-known US universities, Harvard has been earning that cash for years. Global cache We are recruiting the world’s best students. now, A booming international registration It left a university vulnerable to new attacks from President Donald Trump. The president began using his control over the country’s borders as a leverage in his fight to reform American higher education.Trump’s The latest salvo Harvard uses extensive federal law to prohibit foreign students from entering the country and…