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Reuters: Ubisoft reports a record operating loss of $1.40B for the year to March and says sales in 2026-27 will fall by about 8% to 9%; UBI falls 6%+ — French videogame publisher Ubisoft warned on Wed

Jack Kubinec / Fortune: Variational, which has built a protocol for decentralized derivatives trading aimed at gathering liquidity from traditional markets, raised a $50M Series A — The crypto industr

Lien Hoang / Nikkei Asia: Vietnam introduces Decree 142 to implement its AI law, requiring companies to classify AI models by risk level, label deepfakes, and disclose chatbot use — HO CHI MINH CITY —

Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: Analog Devices agrees to buy Empower Semiconductor, which makes chips used to regulate voltage, for 1.5B in cash — The deal will help Analog Devices expand it

Bloomberg: CertiK: physical attacks on crypto holders rose 75% YoY to 72 confirmed cases and 41M in known losses in 2025; Coinbase spent ~7.6M to protect Brian Armstrong — After a year of kidnappings,

Bloomberg: Chinese flash memory chipmaker YMTC says it officially initiated a pre-listing tutoring process with local brokers, marking the first formal step toward an IPO — Yangtze Memory Technologies

Jess Kinghorn / PC Gamer: Discord says voice and video calls outside of stage channels are now end-to-end encrypted by default, after launching its encryption protocol in September 2024 — “Likely one

New York Times: Elon Musk's OpenAI loss is set to speed up the AI juggernaut amid rising opposition; the case offered a rare glimpse into tech's workings, ending with a whimper — Even as protests incr

Sanuj Bhatia / Android Central: Google adds a conversational search feature to YouTube and rolls out the new Gemini Omni model in YouTube Shorts Remix and the Create app — Seriously, who is asking for

Macy Meyer / CNET: Google announces updates to Flow and Flow Music: Gemini Omni support, mobile apps, the ability to create custom tools like a video resizer or shaders, and more — Google Flow's famil

Jackson Chen / Engadget: Google debuts Gemini for Science, a set of experimental tools that help researchers generate hypotheses, conduct testing, and understand scientific literature — Three new feat

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google unveils Continue On, a new feature in Android 17 that will let users move tasks between Android devices, similar to Apple's Handoff feature — Google is setting the stag

Jessica Conditt / Engadget: Google updates Project Genie, its interactive world builder, with Street View integration, and expands access to the tool to AI Ultra subscribers globally — Ground your sno

Mark Maurer / Wall Street Journal: KPMG partners with Anthropic to embed Claude into its tax and advisory platforms; KPMG's tax and legal services unit saw revenue grow ~8% YoY to $9.3B in 2025 — The

Rahul Raj / EU-Startups: Milan-based legal AI company Lexroom raised a €42.9M Series B led by Left Lane, after raising a €16M Series A in September 2025, taking total funding to €62.7M — Lexroom, a Mi

Reuters: Mistral acquires Vienna-based Emmi AI for an undisclosed sum to boost its industrial offerings in Europe; Emmi raised €15M in Austria's largest round in 2025 — Europe's leading artificial int

Krysta Escobar / CNBC: Modular data center maker Armada raised a 230M Series B co-led by Overmatch, 8090 Industries, and BlackRock at a 2B valuation, and plans a new Arizona factory — Armada, which bu

Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: Monzo reports FY 2026 revenue up 39% YoY to £1.7B, pre-tax profit up 44% to £87.3M, users up 3M to 15M+, and deposits up 55% to £25.7B, as it expands lending — Monzo Bank Ltd

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: NYC Health + Hospitals says hackers accessed its network from Nov. 2025 to Feb. 2026, exposing personal data, medical records, and fingerprints of 1.8M+ people — New York

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: On-demand manufacturing startup SendCutSend raised 110M co-led by Sequoia, Paradigm, and Stripe co-founders Patrick and John Collison, valuing it at 1B — Custom sheet

OpenAI: OpenAI introduces Guaranteed Capacity, a new offering that lets customers guarantee access to OpenAI's compute through one- to three-year commitments — Guarantee long-term access to OpenAI com

New York Times: OpenAI's win against Elon Musk leaves it free to continue its IPO plans, but it still faces many issues, like rising competition and dozens of other lawsuits — A jury's rejection of El

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: Roblox authorizes its first share buyback program, aiming to repurchase up to 3B of its stock, including 1B over the next year; RBLX is down ~45% YTD — Roblox Corp. au

Bloomberg: Sources: Chinese AI startup Moonshot told investors it would revamp its corporate structure to pave the way for a Hong Kong IPO and comply with Beijing's rules — Moonshot AI has informed it

Financial Times: Sources: Demis Hassabis was an angel investor in Anthropic; PitchBook and Dealroom: former DeepMind researchers founded 12+ companies since 2021, raising $14B+ — Demis Hassabis, the f

Bloomberg: Sources detail growing concerns inside SoftBank over Masayoshi Son's 60B+ bet on OpenAI, which some fear concentrates too much capital into a single company — With more than 60 billion comm

Nikkei Asia: Sources: Intel asks its leading PC partners, including those in the US, China, and Taiwan, to use more 18A CPUs, citing better supply than chips on older nodes — TAIPEI — Intel is urging

Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX expects to proceed with its acquisition of Cursor 30 days after its public trading debut, which is expected to occur on June 12 — SpaceX expects to proceed with its acquisit

Anna Tong / Forbes: Sources: Zyphra, which trains and runs inference for its open-weight models on AMD hardware, is raising a 500M Series B at a valuation of at least 5B — The Series B round, which ch

Arjun Neil Alim / Financial Times: Standard Chartered plans to cut nearly 8,000 back-office positions by 2030, a 15%+ reduction in support functions in hubs like Bengaluru, amid growing AI usage — Bil

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Threat actors published 600+ malicious versions to npm as part of the Shai-Hulud supply chain campaign; most of the affected packages are in the @antv ecosystem — Threa

Reuters: Trump signs an EO calling on regulators and the Fed to review policies that could support fintech growth, including expanding fintech access to payment accounts — U.S. President Donald Trump

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: A CISA contractor maintained a now-offline GitHub repo that exposed credentials to AWS GovCloud accounts and CISA systems; CISA is investigating the situation — Until

Theo Baker / New York Times: A college senior at Stanford describes how AI changed classes: cheating using AI “has become omnipresent” with students “fudging just about everything” — At Stanford Unive

Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: A deep dive into Meta's Hyperion data center campus in Louisiana, expected to reach 5 GW of compute capacity; source: Meta plans to spend $200B+ on the project — Dustin Morr

Brent D. Griffiths / Business Insider: A look at a new class of jobs created by AI companies, including AI storytellers or “evangelists”, forward deployed engineers, AI chiefs, and AI gig workers — -

Fred Lambert / Electrek: After EV maker Fisker's collapse, ~4,000 car owners formed a nonprofit to keep their cars working by reverse-engineering software and building open-source tools — When Fisker

David Morris / Bloomberg: Akamai is seeking to raise 2.6B in a convertible bond offering, and plans to use 350M of the offering to buy back its common stock from buyers of the bonds — Akamai Technolog

Todd Spangler / Variety: Amazon's Alexa+ now produces AI-generated “podcasts” on various topics in the US, featuring chats between two AI “co-hosts”, using content from media outlets — The podcast sec

Benedict Evans: An overview of macro tech trends: capex explosion, unprecedented surge in chip demand, supply chain bottlenecks, model commoditization, AI automation, and more — Twice a year, I produc

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Anthropic acquires NYC-based Stainless, which generates SDKs from APIs, and plans to wind down its hosted products, after reportedly discussing a $300M+ deal — Anthropic

Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: Anthropic last week began letting Mythos users share cybersecurity threats with others who may face similar vulnerabilities, modifying its previous stance — How

Reuters: Arkham: Iran's largest crypto exchange, Nobitex, processed 2.3B+ since 2023 via Tron and BNB Chain, including 23M+ since the Iran war started in February — Iran's Nobitex has processed at lea

Tracy Qu / Wall Street Journal: Baidu reports Q1 revenue down 1.1% YoY to ~4.7B, above ~4.5B est., and net profit down 55% YoY to ~506.6M, above ~462.5M est., amid a slow AI payoff — First-quarter net

Wall Street Journal: Blackstone announces a JV with Google to create a US company that will offer customers access to Google's TPUs, and makes an initial equity commitment of 5B — Investment firm to p

Grant Bourzikas / Cloudflare: Cloudflare tests Mythos against 50+ repositories, highlights its ability to chain bugs into a single exploit, and details a vulnerability discovery harness — For the last