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Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Nova Intelligence, which is building agentic AI for SAP ahead of a 2030 migration, raised a 31.5M Series A led by Chemistry, taking its total funding to 40M+ — An estimated
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Nvidia and data center operator IREN announce a deal to deploy up to 5 GW of AI infrastructure; Nvidia can invest $2.1B into IREN; IREN jumps 9%+ after hours — IREN shares surg
Andy Greenberg / Wired: Researchers: 5,000+ web apps built using AI coding tools like Lovable, Base44, and Replit have little to no authentication, and ~40% exposed sensitive data — Companies like Lov
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: AirPods with cameras reached an advanced testing stage; the cameras will feed data to Siri to help answer questions, rather than take photos or video — Apple Inc. has
Anissa Gardizy / The Information: Sources: OpenAI and Broadcom discuss terms for Broadcom to finance initial custom chip production for ~$18B, conditioned on Microsoft buying ~40% of the chips — When
Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Ramp told investors it is raising 750M co-led by Iconiq Capital and GIC at a valuation of 40B+ before the investment, up from $32B in November 2025 — The fin
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: Spotify launches Save to Spotify, a command-line tool that allows AI agents to upload AI-generated audio summaries and personal podcasts to a user's account — A new comma
Anna Tong / Forbes: Tessera Labs, which uses AI agents to automate enterprise IT migrations and ERP transformations, raised a 60M Series A led by a16z at a 320M valuation — Kabir Nagrecha is tackling
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: While Anthropic will use the Colossus 1 data center, which has a really bad environmental record, xAI retains the larger Colossus 2 for its own AI training —
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: A US appeals court strikes down a 2023 FCC rule banning broadband access discrimination based on income, race, and more; Chair Brendan Carr welcomes the ruling — An appeals
Anthropic: Anthropic researchers detail “model spec midtraining”, which adds a stage between pretraining and fine-tuning to improve generalization from alignment training — Sara Price2, Samuel Marks2,
Axios: Anthropic says it signed a deal with SpaceX to use “all of the compute capacity” at Colossus 1, giving it access to over 300 MW of new capacity within the month — Anthropic said Wednesday it ha
Michael Acton / Financial Times: Arm reports Q4 revenue up 20% YoY to 1.5B, says AGI CPU demand will drive 2B in sales in 2027 and 2028, over 2x its prior guidance; ARM jumps 11%+ after hours — SoftBa
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Bengaluru-based Pronto, an on-demand home-help service, raised a 20M Series B extension from Lachy Groom at a 200M valuation, up from $100M in March — Lachy Groom, one of S
Farah Stockman / New York Times: Bristol Myers Squibb's Massachusetts facility boosted drug production volume for clinical and commercial use by ~40% with AI, a bright spot in US manufacturing — A Bri
Richard Nieva / Forbes: Corgi, which provides insurance for startups and uses AI to generate quotes, manage claims, and more, raised a 160M Series B led by TCV at a 1.3B valuation — Named after the co
Koyena Das / Reuters: DoorDash reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to 4.04B, vs. 4.14B est., and forecasts Q2 marketplace gross order value above estimates; DASH jumps 11%+ after hours — DoorDash (DASH.O) o
Christopher Kuo / Wall Street Journal: FanDuel CEO Amy Howe departs after five years, succeeded by President Christian Genetski, as parent company Flutter reports MAUs fell 3% YoY to 14.4M in Q1 2026
Diana Novak Jones / Reuters: Filing: Meta asks a judge to overturn the jury's verdict in the Los Angeles social media addiction trial or order a new trial, citing Section 230 protections — Meta Platfo
Anthropic: Following its SpaceX deal, Anthropic doubles Claude Code's five-hour rate limits for paid plans and removes peak hours limit reduction for Pro and Max plans — We've agreed to a partnership
Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: Germany-based eleQtron, which develops trapped-ion quantum computing processors using proprietary tech, raised a €57M Series A led by Schwarz Digits — With new funding, e
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google Chrome silently installs a ~4GB Gemini Nano model on desktop devices; Google says it has been offered since 2024 and users can remove it via settings — The ongoing marc
Max Zeff / @zeffmax: Google has quietly shut down Project Mariner, its Chrome-browsing AI agent for completing tasks on users' behalf, after highlighting it onstage at I/O 2025 — NEW: Google quietly s
Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: Google releases Multi-Token Prediction drafters for its Gemma 4 models, which use a form of speculative decoding to guess future tokens for faster inference — Google launc
Neil J Kanatt / Reuters: Instacart reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to 1.02B, GTV up 13% to 10.29B, and orders up 10%, compared with a 16% growth a year earlier; CART drops 8.18% — Instacart (CART.O) on
Jay Peters / The Verge: Musk v. Altman: Mira Murati testifies that Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new OpenAI model and that he made her work more difficult — OpenAI's former C
Carly Nairn / Courthouse News Service: Musk v. Altman: Shivon Zilis testifies her relationship with Musk didn't influence her duties as an OpenAI board member; she left in 2023 after Musk started xAI
Jen Judson / Bloomberg: Scale AI wins a 500M DOD contract through the Chief Digital and AI Office to help sift data and assist in decision-making, after receiving a 100M deal in 2025 — The Pentagon aw
Scott Calvert / Wall Street Journal: Security camera companies are embracing AI to give customers detailed descriptions of surveillance footage that are often spot on but can also be wildly wrong — AI
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Snap reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to 1.53B, in line with est., and says it ended its 400M Perplexity deal announced in November; SNAP drops 4%+ after hours — Snap shares dropp
The Information: Source: Alphabet is in talks with Blackstone, KKR, and EQT to give their portfolio companies AI model access, after OpenAI's and Anthropic's JVs with PE firms — Private equity firms B
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Sources: Blue Origin outlines a new employee stock plan to quell staff unrest and make its incentives more competitive with SpaceX — Rocket maker hopes to quell em
Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft is considering delaying or dropping its 2030 goal of matching its hourly power use with renewable energy purchases, amid the data center boom — Microsoft Corp. may shelve
Lingling Wei / Wall Street Journal: Sources: the US and China are considering recurring talks on the security risks posed by AI models, with Scott Bessent leading the American side — Washington and Be
xAI: SpaceX signs an agreement with Anthropic to provide access to Colossus 1, and says Anthropic expressed interest in partnering for orbital compute capacity — SpaceXAI has signed an agreement with
Dana Goldstein / New York Times: Study: US schools with strict cellphone bans in class have not seen higher test scores on average so far, but students reported a greater sense of well-being — Cellpho
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: A US court sentences a Latvian national to 8.5 years for acting as a negotiator for Russia's Karakurt ransomware group — A Latvian national extradited to the United S
Reuters: AMD reports Q1 revenue up 38% YoY to 10.25B, vs. 9.89B est., Data Center revenue up 57% to $5.8B, forecasts Q2 revenue above est.; AMD jumps 7%+ after hours — Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) f
Michael Acton / Financial Times: Apple reaches a $250M settlement in a CA federal court to resolve a false advertising class action lawsuit over the launch of a “personalized” Siri in 2024 — iPhone bu
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Astrocade, which lets users create video games using natural language prompts, raised $56M, including a Series A and a Series B, and says it has ~5M MAUs — I've been playing
Reuters: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announces the company is cutting ~700 jobs, or ~14% of its global workforce, to reduce costs, saying “AI is changing how we work” — Coinbase (COIN.O) said on Tues
The Korea Herald: Coupang reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to 8.5B and a net loss of 266M following a 2025 Korean customer data breach, its largest loss since Q4 2021 — US-listed e-commerce giant Coupang
Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: CRM software company Freshworks said it plans to cut 11% of its workforce, or ~500 jobs, as it deals with AI's impact; FRSH has dropped ~26% in 2026 — Freshworks (FRSH.O) sai
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Crypto exchange Bullish agrees to acquire Equiniti, a UK-based financial services outsourcing business, from Siris Capital in a 4.2B deal, set to close in 2027 — Bullish agr
Hugh Langley / Business Insider: Doc and sources: Google is testing an agent in the Gemini app, internally named Remy, that can integrate with Google services to take actions on a user's behalf — - Go
Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: EA reports Q4 net bookings up 3.6% YoY to 1.86B, vs. 2B est., weighed down by a post-launch drop-off in engagement for Battlefield 6 — Videogame publisher Electronic Arts (EA
Semiconductor Industry Association: Global chip sales hit 298.5B in Q1 2026, up 25% from Q4 2025, and March sales were up 79.2% YoY to 99.5B, driven by strong sales in Asia and the Americas — Worldwid
Patrick Seitz / Investor's Business Daily: GlobalFoundries reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.63B, in line with est., and forecasts Q2 revenue and adjusted earnings above estimates; GFS closes up 9.28
Counterpoint Research: In Q1, the iPhone 17 was the world's best-selling smartphone, with 6% of global sales; the iPhone 17 Pro Max and 17 Pro were 2nd and 3rd, and Galaxy A07 was 4th — Harshit Rastog
New York Times: Investigation: an inheritance dispute over an ex-LG chair's estate prompts a criminal complaint over how the dynastic South Korean chaebol family divides assets — On a Thursday afterno
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Kaspersky says Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, has been backdoored in a monthlong compromise that has pushed malicious updates — Daemon Tools, a wi
@mingchikuo: Kuo: OpenAI appears to be fast-tracking its AI agent phone with two NPUs and a custom MediaTek Dimensity 9600 SoC, targeting mass production as early as H1 2027 — 【Industry Check Update】O
Alice Speri / The Guardian: Letter: UK-based Google DeepMind workers voted to unionize with the Communication Workers Union and Unite in April, representing 1K+ staff, amid the US DOD deal — Exclusive
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Match Group reports Q1 revenue up 4% YoY to 864M, vs. 855M est., as Tinder's new user registrations grew for the first time since 2024, up 1% — Match Group Inc. reported fi
Emma Roth / The Verge: Meta is using AI on Facebook and Instagram to detect under-13 users by analyzing bone structure, height, and visual cues, but says it's “not facial recognition” — ‘We want to be
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Meta says it will expand Instagram teen account safeguards to 27 EU countries, and plans to roll them out on Facebook in the US, ahead of the UK and EU in June — Meta Platforms
Lola Murti / CNBC: Micron closes up 11% after announcing its highest-capacity SSD has started to ship, lifting its market cap past 700B for the first time; Sandisk closes up 12% — Micron's historic ra
Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index: a survey of 20K AI users finds 65% fear falling behind, but only 13% report being rewarded for workplace AI experimentation — [Editor's Note:
Chris Metinko / Axios: Nace.AI, which lets companies build specialized AI models tailored to their business' mission and language, raised a 21.5M seed led by Walden Catalyst — Nace.AI, which lets busi
Paula Doenecke / Bloomberg: Nscale agrees to spend €695M on infrastructure in Portugal in an expansion of its Microsoft partnership, supplying 66K+ Nvidia Rubin GPUs from late 2027 — Nscale Global Hol