US-based MaxLinear, which makes chips for broadband systems, will buy Taiwan's Silicon Motion, which makes NAND flash controllers for SSD devices, for $3.8B (Bloomberg)

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Curebase, which provides software and hardware for clinical trials, raises a $40M Series B (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)

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Stripe launches Financial Connections to let customers pull their users' banking data directly, debuting first in the US, costing 10 cents to $1.50 per API call (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

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France becomes first major European nation to grant regulatory approval for crypto giant Binance, after the company was rebuffed by UK, Italy, and others (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

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Gov. Newsom signs an EO seeking to make a "transparent regulatory and business environment" for Web3 companies, directing state agencies to recommend next steps (Benjamin Pimentel/Protocol)

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Sources: Sonos to launch a voice assistant for music playback in the US on June 1, with support for Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, Deezer, and Sonos Radio (Chris Welch/The Verge)

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Intuit will pay $141M in restitution to ~4.4M US customers who were charged for using the TurboTax Free Edition, in a settlement with all 50 states and DC (Greg Iacurci/CNBC)

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