Hello and welcome to top tech news today. Here is your daily dose of latest tech news from around the world. Before we start, please consider subscribing to our channel and press bell icon to get updates about our latest videos and daily tech news. Please also consider sharing this video. Now these are the top tech news today. Melbourne-based Blink, which lets users create custom digital business cards and sync contacts with CRM systems, raised a 25 million dollar series A led by Touring Capital. Periodic Labs, which is building a chat GPT for material science, is seeking to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a 1 billion plus valuation. An AWS survey of 3,739 senior IT decision makers across nine countries finds 45% plan to prioritize spending on generative AI in 2025 and 30% on cyber security. Lora, whose AI software helps lawyers draft contracts, review and analyze documents, and more, is in talks to raise $85 million at a $675 million valuation. Uber and Chinese company Pony.ai partner to deploy Pony.ai’s robo taxes on Uber’s platform, starting with a launch in a key market in the Middle East. In 2025, Patreon rolls out an updated version of its iOS app that lets users make purchases via the web in addition to using inapp purchases. Cisco says it made a prototype entanglement source chip that may cut the timeline for practical quantum computing by up to a decade and opens a quantum lab. Microsoft officially removes VR and MR support for Minecraft after announcing its plans to sunset support in October 2024. The three most downloaded PS5 games for April in North America and Europe were all Microsoft titles. Minecraft, the Oblivion Remaster, and Fortza Horizon 5. Germany and US-based Parloa, which uses AI to automate customer service and call center operations, raised $120 million at a $1 billion valuation after raising $66 million in 2024. Amazon updates its iOS Kindle app to add a prominent orange get book button, enabling purchases via the mobile browser after the recent Epic versus Apple ruling. Microsoft announces new features for Windows 11 and Copilot Plus PCs, including an AI agent in settings and updates to start menu, photos, paint, and snipping tool. Microsoft debuts the 899 Plus Surface Laptop 13 with a smaller 13-in screen, an 8 core Snapdragon X Plus, 16 GB of RAM, and 256 GB/512 GB options shipping from May 20th. Orca AI, which offers an autonomous shipping navigation service based on a data set of 80 million plus nautical miles, raised a 72.5 million series B after raising $23 million in 2024. US data center operators warned President Trump’s renewable energy attack could hurt the US in the AI race. Data centers are set to add 83.7 gawatt of demand by 2030. Door Dash plans to acquire NYC-based hospitality tech company 7 Rooms for $1.2 billion in cash set to close in the second half of 2025. Seven Rooms works with 13,000 plus restaurant groups. The US Treasury Department sanctions the Myanmar linked Karen National Army over helping organized crime groups operate multi-billion dollar scam compounds. Microsoft shut down Skype on May 5th, capping a remarkable 21-year run for software that for many embodied the open internet and had 300 million plus users in its heyday. That was all for today. Thanks for watching and we shall be back