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A US federal judge orders the USAGM to immediately disburse RFE/RL's May funding of ~$12M, following a similar order last month for its April funding (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
https://www.rferl.org/a/rfe-rl-order-lamberth-court-funding-/33429…

US Court Orders Agency Overseeing RFE/RL To Pay May Funding
A US district judge on May 30 granted Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL)’s third request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) in its lawsuit against the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) and ordered the agency to immediately disburse RFE/RL's May funding.

'Devastating.' NIH cancels future funding plans for HIV vaccine consortia (Jon Cohen/Science)
https://www.science.org/content/article/devasting-nih-cancels-future-funding-plans-hiv-vaccine-consortia
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p7#a250531p7

Bobby Brainworm cancels research on Bird flu vaccine.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05/28/hhs-moderna-bird-flu-vaccine-funding/

Vivodyne, which uses AI and robots to grow human tissues in the lab for drug discovery and development, raised a $40M Series A, taking its total funding to $78M (Katherine Davis/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/biotech-deals/2025/05…

Vivodyne raises $40M for human tissue drug testing
It's seeing heightened demand following the FDA's plans to phase out animal testing requirements.

Neuralink raises $600 million in funding, valuing brain-computer interface company at $9 billion https://www.ainvest.com/news/neuralink-raises-600-million-funding-valuing-brain-computer-interface-company-9-billio…

Neuralink raises $600 million in funding, valuing brain-computer interface company at $9 billion
Neuralink raises $600 million in funding, valuing brain-computer interface company at $9 billion

When Brooke Nichols plugged in the data, she couldn’t comprehend what she was seeing.
The mathematician and professor of infectious diseases at Boston University had created a model to predict the human cost of the Department of Government Efficiency’s (Doge) USAid funding cuts.
As Elon Musk, the head of Doge, arrived at the White House on Friday afternoon
to be congratulated by President Trump for his work slashing the federal budget,
the number of deaths on Nichols’…

Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300,000 deaths — most of them children
Elon Musk’s tenure running Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has, according to the academic Brooke Nichols, caused thousands of ‘preventable deaths’

A cut-and-paste mechanism to introduce fundamental group and construct new four-manifolds
Valentina Bais, Rafael Torres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23167 ht…

A cut-and-paste mechanism to introduce fundamental group and construct new four-manifolds
We introduce a simple cut-and-paste mechanism to construct both orientable and nonorientable four-manifolds from a given initial one. This mechanism alters the fundamental group while preserving other essential topological invariants. It avoids codimension two cut-and-paste fundamental group computations and fast tracks the search for fixed-point free involutions. The mechanism proves useful to unveil novel exotic irreducible smooth structures on closed four-manifolds with finite cyclic fundame…

PBS and one of its local affiliates sue the Trump administration, saying his executive order to cut federal funding violated PBS' First Amendment rights (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/30/pbs-funding-sue-trump

PBS sues Trump administration over funding cuts
The filing argues the president's executive order violates PBS' First Amendment rights.

Sources: Abridge, which uses AI to transcribe medical chats, is raising $300M led by a16z at a $5.3B valuation, up from $2.75B in February when it raised $250M (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: Atticus, a stealthy stablecoin banking startup, is in advanced talks to raise new funding led by Palmer Luckey at a valuation of between $1.5B and $2B (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2025/05/30/andurils-palmer-…

Scoop: Anduril's Palmer Luckey to invest in stealthy stablecoin startup
The new funding would value Atticus at between $1.5 billion and $2 billion.