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NYC-based Hadrius, which provides AI-native compliance tools for financial services, raised a $22M Series A led by CRV with participation from Y Combinator (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/07/14/hadrius-22m-series-a-crv

Exclusive: Financial compliance startup Hadrius raises $22M
Financial firms are creating more content to track.

Epic v. Google: in a compliance hearing, a judge orders Google to remove "anticompetitive friction" for installing third-party app stores from its Play Store (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/979852/tha

‘That is not acceptable’: Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier
Judge James Donato just ordered Google to make it easier to install rival app stores on Android.

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https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access
“The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Anthropic models will not be affected.”

Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US government has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States.

Velocity, a stablecoin treasury and settlement platform, raised a $38M Series A led by Dragonfly and FirstMark, bringing its total funding to around $50M (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/408242/dragon

Dragonfly, FirstMark lead $38 million Series A for stablecoin startup Velocity with support from Coinbase, Ripple and more
The startup enables corporate users to use stablecoins while connecting to traditional banking rails and compliance systems.

ICE plans to spend up to $20m to purchase thousands of gloves for officers and agents
that can deliver painful electric shocks by March,
according to a notice published Monday by the Department of Homeland Security.
The devices, called Glove
(Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter),
are manufactured by Compliant Technologies LLC of Lexington, Kentucky.
According to the manufacturer,
“the discomfort associated with the stimulation is usually effective in…

ICE to spend up to $20m on gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
According to manufacturer, shock ‘is usually effective in bringing individuals into compliance in less than three seconds’

Well, fuck. I’m just gonna guess here and say it’s probably illegal for a civilian to wear or even possess something like this. https://apnews.com/article/ice-electric-shock-gloves-85ff746d3e0ee5f39e7a9a3f1f576252

ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver electric shocks
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals. A notice published Monday by the Department of Homeland Security says ICE plans to spend up to $20 million to purchase thousands of “conductive distraction and de-escalation devices” for officers and agents by March. The devices are known as the G.L.O.V. E. That stands for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter…

Poetic, which aims to use AI to automate tasks like financial compliance, emerges from stealth with $50M in funding from OpenAI and others at a $500M valuation (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

LeapXpert, which lets companies and sports franchises monitor staff business chats via apps like WhatsApp for compliance, raised $180M led by Riverwood Capital (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/20…

Exclusive: LeapXpert mints $180M round, adds sports compliance customers
The communication startup monitors compliance for sports and finance organizations.

Manus says it will "soon return to operating as an independent company", implying it is close to finalizing the reversal of its acquisition by Meta (Jing Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/manus-return-independ…

Manus to Return as an Independent Company as Meta Deal Unwinds
AI startup Manus said on Tuesday that it will “soon return to operating as an independent company,” implying it is close to finalizing the reversal of its acquisition by Meta Platforms. The Chinese government in April ordered the deal be unwound. In a blog post , Manus said some users need to back up their data generated on and after Dec 29 by Aug 23, as part of regulatory compliance. “Data