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Google Search queries hit an 'all time high' in the first quarter of 2026, according to a statement from CEO Sundar Pichai published as part of Alphabet's earnings on Wednesday. 'Our AI investments an

Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: Hightouch, which uses AI to help marketers create and manage campaigns, raised 150M led by Goldman Sachs and Bain at a 2.75B valuation, up from 1.2B in 2025 — The

Regulated industries across Latin America and beyond are navigating a trust-centered AI inflection point — one defined less by raw capability and more by whether AI can be explained, audited and trust

Roku's Howdy, launched in August 2025, is the company's first paid, ad-free streaming service priced at $2.99 per month . The service surpassed 1 million subscribers in eight months since launch, acco

This post presents a creative thought experiment where ChatGPT imagines how the r/ChatGPT subreddit community would react and what discussions would occur on the hypothetical day artificial general in

A Reddit user used ChatGPT to transform a childhood photograph into the style of a 1990s Scholastic Book Order catalog cover, likely demonstrating the AI's image generation or editing capabilities to

Sam Altman clarifies a previous statement by attributing it to what he calls a 'goblin moment,' likely referring to an impulsive or unfiltered remark he regrets. The post appears to be an informal apo

Bloomberg: Indonesia sentences eFishery founder Gibran Huzaifah to nine years in prison, concluding a 300M scandal that destroyed one of Southeast Asia's top startups — Indonesia handed eFishery found

Databricks has implemented catalog federation capabilities that enable Unity Catalog to interoperate with Google BigQuery, allowing users to access and manage BigQuery datasets through the Unity Catal

It took us two years to grow from 10 mm to 100 mm in Annual Recurring Revenue and 15 months to reach 200 mm. Nine months later, we crossed 300 mm. Vanta’s growth rate increased each of the past four q

Natasha Voase / Bloomberg: Knight Frank: Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI companies have leased 1M+ square feet of London office space since the start of 2025, or ~7% of available listings — Artificial

This post references a humorous anecdote about Demis Hassabis, co-founder of DeepMind, claiming he created a game called 'Evil Genius' involving AI and world conquest. The claim appears to be inaccura

If you want to know whether the AI bubble is bursting, there's only one publicly traded company that will tell you: Oracle. That's right, the database company. Oracle has burned its boats and pivoted

Jason Gale / Bloomberg: Mayo Clinic researchers detail an AI system called Redmod that identified pancreatic cancer on routine CT scans an average of 475 days before clinical diagnosis — An artificial

Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: Meta raises its 2026 capex to between 125B and 145B, exceeding analysts' estimates, after previously forecasting 115B to 135B; META drops 6%+ after hours — Meta Shares Plung

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta reports Reality Labs Q1 revenue of 402M, vs. 488.8M est., and a 4.03B operating loss, vs. 4.82B est.; Reality Labs has $80B+ in losses since late 2020 — As Meta pumps incr

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta says Q1 family daily active people fell 20M QoQ to 3.56B, vs. 3.62B est., due to internet disruptions in Iran and WhatsApp access restrictions in Russia — Meta shares fell

Meta Platforms Inc. ‘s shares fell more than 6% in after-hours trading today after the social networking company reported strong beats in revenue and earnings in its fiscal 2026 first quarter but rais

Emma Roth / The Verge: Microsoft reports Q3 Xbox hardware revenue fell 33% YoY and Xbox content and services revenue, which includes Game Pass, dropped 5% YoY — Xbox hardware revenue took a 33 percent

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Microsoft's Q3 Intelligent Cloud revenue was 34.68B vs. 34.27B est., with Azure and other cloud services surging 40% YoY; Microsoft 365 Copilot has 20M+ seats — Microsoft issued h

Motorola announced its 2026 Razr lineup featuring familiar designs with price increases across all models. The lineup received battery upgrades, with the base Razr gaining a 4,800mAh cell, the Razr+ r

Chris Welch / Bloomberg: Motorola unveils its 2026 foldables lineup, including its first book-style model, which costs 1,900; prices for clamshell models have gone up by up to 200 — The company's clam

Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk says he was a “fool” for backing OpenAI, accusing Altman and Brockman of manipulating him into donating tens of millions of dollars — Bi

Federal Judge Lewis A. Kaplan rejected Sam Bankman-Fried's motion for a new trial on April 28, 2026, determining that his arguments lacked legal merit and relied on evidence that was neither new nor c

Sofia Chierchio / Forbes: New York-based Actively, which offers AI sales agents for account management, raised a 45M Series B co-led by TCV and First Harmonic at a 250M valuation — Actively AI has rai

Ookla says @Starlink has been a game-changer for inflight Wi-Fi speeds. Their new report ranks which airline has the fastest Wi-Fi: 'Starlink stood out for its speed. Of over 50 airlines evaluated, th

I need to verify this information before creating a knowledge base entry, as it's a specific claim about OpenAI's Codex system prompt. OpenAI implemented explicit guardrails in its Codex tool to preve

Former Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Parag Agrawal has raised 100 million to fund his new startup Parallel Web Systems Inc., which is focused on enabling artificial intelligence agents to search the we

Pretty sure it’ll be like this good morning from day three of the Elon Musk vs. OpenAI trial from inside the Federal Courthouse in downtown Oakland! follow me and @CadeMetz for coverage here and for m

A study by researchers at the University of Connecticut School of Business and Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business found that racial diversity on college campuses results in higher earnings for gradua

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Pursuit, which uses AI to scan public data to help companies find and win government contracts, raised a $22M seed led by OpenGov co-founder Mike Rosengarten — Mike

Ian King / Bloomberg: Qualcomm reports Q2 revenue down 3% YoY to $10.6B and says a top hyperscaler is on track to begin using its chips later this year; QCOM jumps 12%+ after hours — Qualcomm Inc. ral

Shares in Qualcomm Inc. rose more than 15% in late trading today after the chipmaker reported earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal 2026 second quarter and announced a fresh 20 billion share buybac

Raptor 3 is engineering art Raptor 3 is engineering black magic SpaceX’s Raptor is the FIRST full-flow staged combustion engine to ever fly - only the 3rd ever built (after the Soviet RD-270 and the 2

Research paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2531743123#abstract Original video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jli0jPiKxQs I break down stories like this every day in my free newslette

This Databricks blog post discusses modern approaches to SQL-based Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes designed for contemporary data platforms, likely covering how SQL ETL tools and practices ar

Rogo Technologies Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to make financial professionals more productive, today announced that it has raised 160 million in funding. Kleiner Perkins led the Seri

Todd Gillespie / Bloomberg: Rogo, which uses AI to help lighten junior bankers' workloads, raised a 160M Series D led by Kleiner Perkins at a 2B valuation, up from $750M in January — Rogo, started by

Salesforce Inc. today launched Agentforce Operations, an artificial intelligence system designed to extend specialized AI agents into the back office to automate manual work. Workflow automation tools

Bloomberg: Samsung's Lee family dynasty reached a combined ~45.5B net worth in March, up from ~20.1B in 2025, amid the AI boom; they are now Asia's third-richest family — When Lee Kun-hee, the patriar

Seven California-based lawsuits allege that OpenAI could have prevented Canada’s deadliest school shooting by not reporting a flagged ChatGPT account to law‑enforcement. Safety‑team experts had identi

Scientists just built a robot smaller than the width of a human hair (!) It has no motor, no computer and no battery It's a 3D-printed, flexible chain of microscopic segments that, after being hit wit

Clare Duffy / CNN: Seven families of victims in the Tumbler Ridge shooting in Canada sue OpenAI, accusing it of failing to warn authorities about the suspect's ChatGPT activity — Seven families of vic

Shares of Extreme Networks Inc. jumped more than 28% today after it posted better-than-expected third-quarter results and raised its guidance. The network equipment maker closed the three months ended

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket successfully executed a side booster separation event, a critical phase of the launch sequence where the two outer boosters detach from the central core. This maneuver is

Financial Times: Source: China's leverage against Meta in the Manus deal could include that 10%+ of its revenue is from Chinese ads and Goertek in Meta AI glasses' supply chain — National Development