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Patreon, which helps content creators manage paid membership communities for fans, raises $60M Series D led by Glade Brook Capital (Eric Peckham/TechCrunch)
Flybits, which develops personalized recommendations for customers of financial institutions, raises $35M Series C led by Point72 Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Sources: Amazon faces a full-blown EU antitrust probe within days; Qualcomm could face a second hefty EU penalty as soon as next week for underpricing chips (Aoife White/Bloomberg)
Facebook introduces a scam ads reporting tool in the UK and donates £3M to Citizens Advice for Scams Action, a dedicated online anti-scam service (Press Association)
Near, an AI-based platform that merges online and offline behavior to build anonymized user profiles, raises $100M Series C from Great Pacific Capital (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Meredith Whittaker, who helped lead employee protests at Google over its military and AI work, and sexual harassment policies, is leaving the company (Bloomberg)
The Apollo 11 guidance computer was the first digital general-purpose, multitasking, interactive portable computer, with about 145K lines of code (Robert Lee Hotz/Wall Street Journal)
Disney's theme parks have not faced the same level of scrutiny as tech companies over their data mining because the parks are real-world walled gardens (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)
Intel says Pohoiki Beach, its neuromorphic computing system with 64 Loihi chips, has the computing power of 8M neurons and will be available to select partners (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
AI-based drug discovery company Recursion raises $121M at a $646M valuation; VCs invested about $1B in AI drug discovery startups in 2018, up from $237M in 2016 (Robert Langreth/Bloomberg)
Curve, a London-based mobile banking platform that consolidates all of a user's bank cards into a single card and app, raises $55M Series B at a $250M valuation (Steve O'Hear/TechCrunch)
Documents describe how WikiLeaks' Assange used London's Ecuadorian Embassy as a command center to orchestrate disclosures during the 2016 presidential election (CNN)
Feeling unwelcome to share opinions within Google, its conservative staffers have leaked internal info to generate pressure on Google from Republican lawmakers (Alex Kantrowitz/BuzzFeed News)
Microsoft has blocked the Windows 10 May 2019 update for the Surface Book 2 after reports that updated machines weren't always detecting the Nvidia GPU (Nick Heath/ZDNet)
Lendbuzz, a Boston-based startup that uses AI to underwrite auto loans, raises $130M in debt funding and $20M in new equity funding led by 83North (Brian Dowling/Xconomy)

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