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Akash Sriram / Reuters: Duolingo reports Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to 292M, vs. 288.5M est., bookings up 14% to $308.5M, and expects slower growth in Q2; DUOL drops 12%+ after hours — Duolingo (DUOL.O) po

Nicola M White / Bloomberg: Elon Musk agrees to pay $1.5M to settle SEC allegations that he cheated Twitter shareholders in 2022 by failing to disclose the 5%+ stake he had in the company — Elon Musk

Elon Musk is playing a long game most people don’t think about. The idea lines up with the Kardashev scale. Not just improving life on Earth, but increasing how much energy humanity can use and contro

Elon Musk sees a path where the cost to orbit drops below commercial air freight Ultimately Starship will be able to fly across the globe cheaper per ton than a Boeing 747 That opens up a massive rang

Kimi Antonelli won the 2026 Miami Grand Prix, extending his championship lead after surviving a close chase from McLaren's Lando Norris. Ferrari, McLaren and Red Bull brought major upgrade packages to

Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: Filing: Blackstone's data center acquisition vehicle seeks to raise as much as 1.75B in its IPO, and will target newly built data centers valued at 250M-1.5B — Blackstone D

Amazon Quick introduces Amazon S3 Tables (Apache Iceberg tables) as a new data source. With this feature, customers can directly query and visualize Apache Iceberg tables stored in an Amazon S3 table

Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: Grab reports Q1 revenue up 24% YoY to 955M, above est., and a 154M adjusted EBITDA, vs. $146.3M est., helped by resilient demand for ride hailing and delivery — Grab Holdings L

Kai-Fu Lee shares a conversation with Tom Mitchell discussing his 45-year career trajectory in artificial intelligence, including his entry into the field and factors that sustained his long-term invo

Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times: How AI tools such as Naver's Talking Buddy and SuperBrain are helping South Korea's elderly ease loneliness, detect emergencies, and slow cognitive decline — In the wor

I want to tell you the story of a young woman who you have probably never heard of. Her name is Mary Anne. She was born on a remote island in Scotland, where life was harsh and unforgiving. On May 2,

This post presents a philosophical argument questioning the logical coherence of rights categories like 'women's rights' and 'gay rights,' suggesting they are either redundant if equal rights already

If you have two minutes to watch something today, watch this Sincitium is finally here. We are pleased to present our latest piece: a concept trailer created specifically for the @runwayml Big Pitch C

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Inference cloud startup DeepInfra raised a 107M Series B co-led by 500 Global and Georges Harik; it currently supports more than 190 open models — Dedicated inference clo

Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: Instructure reported a data breach on April 30; ShinyHunters added Instructure to its victims list and claims it has 3.65TB of data from ~9K institutions — Hackers disrup

Dylan Martin / CRN: Intel taps Alex Katouzian, an ex-Qualcomm EVP, to lead Client Computing & Physical AI group, and names Pushkar Ranade as CTO, after serving on an interim basis — With the hiring of

JUST IN: Fetterman Warns of ‘Communist Takeover’ in Democratic Party 'But the Maine race isn’t an outlier. Socialist and far-left mayors already run some of America’s biggest cities...' https://www.be

Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: Katie Haun raises $1B for two funds split between early and later-stage investments, looking at startups blending financial services, AI, and alternative assets — Kati

Meta is planning to power its AI data centers with solar energy beamed from space. If it works, solar farms could produce power 24/7 without batteries or backup generators. The company behind it all i

MIT engineers have developed a 'computational violin' that uses physics-based simulation to realistically produce violin sound by modeling how the instrument and its vibrating strings interact with su

Bloomberg: Musk v. Altman: Greg Brockman testifies that his OpenAI stake is now worth ~30B; a Musk attorney asks why he hasn't donated 29B to OpenAI's nonprofit arm — OpenAI co-founder and President G

In his landmark trial against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Elon Musk testified that he was deceived into funding the company , and argued he was trying to save OpenAI's mission to develop AI safely by resto

'Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robb

Confidential artificial intelligence platform provider Opaque Systems Inc. today announced it has acquired advanced cryptographic AI technologies from the Technology Innovation Institute, the applied

The strongest witness for Elon Musk's case against OpenAI so far has been Greg Brockman's journal. Brockman himself is running as a close second. Brockman was called to the stand in a rather unusual w

Shares in Palantir Technologies Inc. sagged more than 2% in late trading today despite the big-data analytics company beating first-quarter expectations and raising full-year guidance for the second c

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Palantir reports Q1 revenue up 85% YoY to 1.63B, vs. 1.54B est., US government revenue up 84% to 687M, and US commercial revenue up 133% to 595M — Palantir Technologies (PLTR

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Panthalassa, which aims to power floating data centers using energy generated by ocean waves, raised 140M led by Peter Thiel, source says at a 1B valuation — US tech bi

This post highlights a Hugging Face Datasets entry for a San Francisco criminal court dataset available in Parquet format, shared by Jamie Quint and tagged to Clem Delangue (Hugging Face CEO). The pos

Amazon.com Inc. and Penske Logistics, the transportation solutions division of Penske Corp. Inc., today separately announced supply chain solutions aimed at easing business operations. Penske announce

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Pinterest reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to 1B, vs. 966M est., MAUs up 11% YoY to 631M, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; PINS jumps 17%+ after hours — Pinterest reporte

DigitalOcean outlines its AI-native cloud infrastructure designed to support the inference phase of AI model deployment, emphasizing tools and services that enable businesses to run and scale AI model

Reachy Mini, a wireless robotics product, has been launched or made available in Singapore. The announcement was made by Clem Delangue, co-founder of Hugging Face, indicating market expansion for this

Rivers of Blood This parasitic idea stems from the anthropologists of peace who preached the Noble Savage canard (as per Jean-Jacques Rousseau). @elonmusk is exactly right. History is paved with river

SAP SE today announced plans to acquire two startups that help organizations analyze tabular data, or information stored in rows and columns. Santa Clara, California-based Dremio Inc. raised more than

Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: SAP to acquire Dremio, an open data lakehouse provider, and Prior Labs, which it pledges to invest €1B in over four years, hoping to create a frontier AI lab — S

Singapore Airlines has just announced that it is adopting SpaceX's @Starlink. The rollout will begin in Q1 2027 and be completed by end of 2029. 'With more than 10,000 satellites launched to low Earth

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Bloomberg: Sources: Apple held exploratory talks with Intel and its executives visited a Samsung plant in Texas to explore producing core chips for its devices in the US — Apple Inc. has held explorat

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple prepares a “Create a Pass” feature for iOS 27, which lets users take a QR code and generate a custom pass around it for concerts and other venues — Apple Inc. i

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Sam Altman discussed spinning out OpenAI's robotics and consumer hardware divisions in late 2025 to give them more room to grow; the plan was rejected — Comp

Natsuki Yamamoto / Nikkei Asia: Sources: SoftBank plans to make lithium- and cobalt-free data center batteries in Japan as soon as FY 2027, as Japan tries to cut its reliance on Chinese metals — TOKYO

Financial Times: Sources: some lenders are exploring private deals to sell their data center debt, and some banks are seeking to offload their Oracle-linked loans at a discount — Global lenders explor

Starlink on Singapore Airlines! 🇸🇬 We’re enhancing our complimentary in flight Wi-Fi offering across all cabin classes on our Airbus A350-900 long-haul and ultra-long-range fleet and A380 aircraft fro

Tesla owners in the Netherlands accumulated 10 million kilometers of driving using FSD (Full Self-Driving) Supervised within one month of its availability in the country. Elon Musk highlighted this mi

Colin Angle, the maker of the Roomba and the man who helped put 50 million household robots into people's homes, is back with a new robot. But this one is designed as a companion, not a cleaner. The f