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Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: OpenAI hires ServiceNow CMO Colin Fleming as CMO for its business segment; he succeeds Kate Rouch, who stepped down earlier this year to focus on her health — OpenAI has hired

Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: OpenRouter raised 113M led by CapitalG, a source says at a 1.3B valuation, and now processes 25T tokens across 400+ models weekly, up from 5T six months ago —

Artificial intelligence inference routing startup OpenRouter Inc. today announced it raised 113 million in new funding led by CapitalG, Alphabet Inc.’s independent growth fund, to push the envelope fo

Physical AI is no longer a concept confined to factory floors and autonomous vehicles — it is reshaping the complex, time-sensitive operations of some of the world’s busiest airports. The operators ma

Bloomberg: Pony AI reports Q1 revenue up 145% YoY to ~34.3M, above 21.7M est., and increases its 2026 robotaxi fleet target by 500 to 3,500 vehicles on fast growth — Pony AI Inc. raised its robotaxi f

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Sundar Pichai about reshaping the information ecosystem with Search changes, putting AI agents in everything, when AI will replace him as CEO, and more — Today, I'm t

Qiskit Global Summer School 2026 is an educational program offered by IBM that focuses on quantum computing and the Qiskit framework, with registration now available for interested participants. The s

I cannot believe I'm saying this, but getting the literal Pope to canonize your product's specific technical limitations as a spiritual treatise is the single greatest act of vendor lobbying I have ev

A lot of the emails I get from founders are now written in a hard-hitting journalistic style. I know they're written by AI, because no founder ever wrote this way before. And once you realize somethin

Rambus Inc. today announced a complete DDR5 9600 client memory module chipset designed to push PC memory speeds to 9,600 megatransfers per second, targeting the bandwidth and capacity demands of agent

Amid rapidly growing adoption of enterprise-level AI agents, there’s a disconnect emerging between ambition and execution. Although 85% of organizations say they want to be agentic within the next thr

The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 accelerates genomic sequencing and drug discovery by slashing processing times. This professional desktop GPU features 32GB of ultra-fast GDDR7 memory and Blackwell architectur

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Samsung's largest union approves a pay deal that would give chip workers an average bonus of ~340K, with ~74% of members voting in favor, staving off a strike — Samsung Electro

Vercel has announced that Sandbox persistence is now generally available (GA), a feature that allows developers to maintain state and data across sandbox environments. This capability enables more per

Bloomberg: SK Hynix tops 1T in market value after shares jumped 11% on Wednesday, becoming the third Asian company to hit the mark; shares surged 900%+ in the past year — SK Hynix Inc. joined Micron T

This article from Interconnects explores speculative ideas and predictions about technological developments and trends expected around May 2026, likely covering emerging AI capabilities, infrastructur

The Information: Source: AI inference provider Baseten is in talks to raise 1B at a post-money valuation of 11B, up from 5B after its 300M Series E announced in January — AI startup Baseten has recent

Axios: Sources: Bond Capital is leading a new investment for AI startup Suno, which would value it at ~5B, up from 2.45B last fall; Suno is expected to raise 250M+ — Bond Capital is leading a new inve

Financial Times: Sources: ByteDance is offering low-priced stock options linked to growth in its Seed AI division to staff of the unit, a first, to fend off poaching from rivals — ByteDance is offerin

Bloomberg: Sources: Chinese government agencies begin imposing overseas travel restrictions on individuals involved in advanced AI work, including at Alibaba and DeepSeek — China is restricting overse

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Sources: Fireworks AI, which helps companies run AI models, is in talks to raise funding at a 15B valuation after being valued at 4B in October 2025 — Fireworks AI, a sta

Ian King / Bloomberg: Sources: Qualcomm reached a deal with ByteDance to supply millions of ASICs for AI data centers to support AI agents in the Doubao chatbot; QCOM jumps 5%+ — Qualcomm Inc. reached

David Jeans / Reuters: Sources: SpaceX successfully pressured the Pentagon to raise Starlink fees for LUCAS kamikaze drones amid increasing tensions over Starlink's pricing — As U.S. kamikaze drones g

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: SpaceX filing: X's ad revenue was 1.8B in 2025, 1.7B in 2024, and 2.3B in 2023, below Twitter's 4B in 2021; X and Grok now have 6.3M active paid subscribers — Spa

Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: Spain says it is blocking Polymarket and Kalshi as a precautionary measure while it probes possible gambling law violations over the next three to four months — The g

Financial Times: Spotify co-CEO Alex Norström defends the company's expansion into AI-generated music, arguing that “controlled” products are superior to unregulated AI “slop” — Streaming app strikes

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Spotify launches a library of over 650 narrated long-form magazine articles in English for Premium users; free users can buy articles “individually for $1.99” — More than

Today, I’m talking with Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, in a conversation we recorded just after the Google I/O developer conference. This is the fifth year Sundar and I have sat down after I/O

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now available in preview, it provides instant payments to paid external services with no manual billing setup per provider, stablecoin support for cost-effective m

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria Despite the growing hy

Pieter Haeck / Politico: The Dutch government blocks the acquisition of authentication IT supplier Solvinity by US-based Kyndryl, citing “a possible risk to the public interest” — BRUSSELS — The Dutch

The pressure Daniel Stenberg on the unprecedented level of pressure the curl team are facing right now thanks to the deluge of (credible) AI-assisted security issues being reported. The rate of incomi

In this post, we explore how the Amazon Quick document and visualization creation capabilities work, what you can build with them, and how professionals across roles are using them to reclaim hours of

Quantinuum Inc., a startup that makes quantum chips based on a so-called trapped-ion qubit architecture, today filed to go public. The Honeywell International Inc. spinoff hopes to sell about 21.05 mi

After reportedly exhausting its annual AI budget just four months into 2026, Uber is now questioning whether it's actually seeing meaningful returns on its investments. In an interview with Rapid Resp

Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: US cybersecurity company Zscaler reports Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to 850.5M, above 835.4M est., and forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; ZS drops 18%+ after hours — Zscaler

Daniel Boguslaw / Wired: US law enforcement documents: the DHS, FBI, and other agencies introduce a novel domestic threat category termed “anti-tech violent extremism” amid the AI boom — As Americans

Vercel's domain management service has added new filtering and sorting capabilities, allowing users to sort domains by price and filter results based on availability. These features enhance the domain

Plate tectonics recycles oxygen into Earth's mantle through subduction, with oxygen-rich fluids from serpentinite rocks being transported deep into the planet as tectonic plates sink. The rapid format

Apple's 599 MacBook Neo launched in March 2026 at approximately half the price of the MacBook Air, directly competing with lower-cost Windows PCs and triggering significant industry reaction. PC maker

Financial operations, known as FinOps, are undergoing a quiet shift — from managing cloud costs to shaping business decisions based on AI-driven insights. The practice is now an essential tool for man

The Windows 95 classic 3D Space Cadet pinball game is being converted from its original digital format into a functional physical pinball machine. The recreation uses largely 3D-printed components inc

Bloomberg: Xiaomi reports Q1 revenue down 11% YoY to ~14.6B, its first quarterly decline in three years, and net income down 57% to 695M amid a global memory price jump — Xiaomi Corp.'s quarterly prof

Of all the companies I track, Zoom Communications Inc. might be the most interesting, as it’s evolving in ways that run counter to its traditional peers. When speaking with industry colleagues, includ

Shares of Zscaler Inc. plunged more than 19% in late trading today after the cloud security company reported beats on earnings and revenue in its third quarter. It also raised its full-year revenue an

Written by: Jamie Collier While Russian-speaking threat actors have historically dominated the phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) landscape, a rival ecosystem is rapidly growing within the Chinese-language