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Bloomberg: California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes a new 7.25% tax on web-based software sales, targeting $1.1B in state and local tax revenue in the upcoming budget year — California Governor Gavin New

CJ Haddad / CNBC: Cerebras co-founders CEO Andrew Feldman and CTO Sean Lie own stakes worth 3.2B and 1.7B, respectively, representing about 5.5% and 3% of the company — The tech billionaires club has

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Cerebras pops 68% in Nasdaq debut, pushing the AI chipmaker's market cap to 95 billion … Cerebras Systems soared 68% in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday, closing at 311.07 after selli

Bloomberg: Cerebras shares closed up 68% at 311.07 in the company's Nasdaq debut after it raised 5.5B in the year's largest IPO, giving it a market value of 67B — Cerebras Systems Inc. shares jumped 6

Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: Figma reports Q1 revenue up 46% YoY to 333.4M, vs. 313.2M est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates, citing AI monetization; FIG jumps 8%+ after hours — Figma (FIG.N) r

Christian Davies / Financial Times: Ford stock jumped as much as 25% in two days after the launch of Ford Energy, a new subsidiary providing battery storage capacity to AI data centers — New subsidiar

Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: Gemini reports Q1 revenue up 42% YoY to 50.3M, vs. 47.9M est., announces a $100M capital injection from Winklevoss Capital Fund; GEMI jumps 22%+ after hours — Gemini Space Stati

Anthropic: In a policy paper, Anthropic urges the US and allies to enforce export controls, curb distillation attacks, and export US AI to hold the lead over China by 2028 — We're releasing a new pape

Nikkei Asia: LY Corp launches a bid with Bain Capital to buy Kakaku.com, which operates restaurant review and booking site Tabelog, for 4B, challenging EQT's 3.75B offer — TOKYO — The operator of the

Kenrick Cai / Reuters: Musk v. Altman filing: Sam Altman holds 2B+ in stakes in companies that have done business with OpenAI, including a 1.7B stake in fusion startup Helion Energy — OpenAI Chief Exe

Associated Press: Musk v. Altman: in closing arguments, Musk's attorney doubled down on claims of Altman's untrustworthiness, while OpenAI's lawyer said Musk has no evidence — Lawyers for Elon Musk an

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: OpenAI adds remote access to Codex in the ChatGPT mobile app, letting users control Codex sessions running on a connected computer directly from a phone — OpenAI has released a new

Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: Riyadh-based Stitch, which develops software for banks and financial services companies, raised a $25M Series A led by a16z, its first investment in the Gulf — Andreessen Hor

Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: Security research firm Calif says it used Mythos to help build a macOS kernel memory corruption exploit circumventing Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement tech —

Theo Wayt / The Information: Sources: 50+ researchers and engineers have left xAI since the SpaceX acquisition via layoffs, firings, and voluntary departures; many have joined Meta and TML — Call it t

George Hammond / Financial Times: Sources: Anthropic has agreed to the terms of a 30B fundraising at a 900B valuation, with Sequoia, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Altimeter co-leading the round — AI lab h

Kenza Bryan / Financial Times: Sources: climate watchdog SBTi drops proposed rules that would limit tech companies' claims that gas-fueled data centers are covered by clean energy investments — Corpor

@mingchikuo: Sources: Intel has begun testing production of “low-end/legacy iPhone, iPad, and Mac processors”; Apple thinks TSMC's resources will continue tilting toward AI — ... Apple has kicked off

Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: Sources: Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital told its stakeholders that it has invested ~$100M in Shopify, framed as a bet on how AI could lead to gains in commerce — Josh

Tom Warren / The Verge: Sources: Microsoft plans to remove most of its Claude Code licenses and push its developers toward GitHub Copilot CLI, after previously pushing Claude Code — Thousands of Micro

Forbes: Sources: xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin plans to raise up to 1B at an up to 5B valuation for a new AI research startup, with General Catalyst possibly leading — He's the latest superstar AI re

Bloomberg: The Senate Banking Committee advances the Clarity Act, which would make CFTC the primary regulator for most digital assets while SEC oversees digital securities — Bitcoin climbed past $80,0

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: UK-based Iceotope, which develops data center liquid cooling tech, raised a 26M Series B co-led by Two Seas Capital and Barclays Climate Ventures — Liquid cooling system

Bloomberg: A profile of California Rep. Ro Khanna, who spent years cheering on the tech industry and now supports a 5% billionaire wealth tax and stricter AI regulations — Ro Khanna spent years cheeri

Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: Adaption, co-founded by ex-Cohere VP of AI research Sara Hooker, unveils AutoScientist, which can automate the research loop behind model training and alignment — For yea

Luz Ding / Bloomberg: Alibaba reports Q4 revenue up 3% YoY to ~35.8B, below ~36.3B est., and net income up ~100% to ~$3.7B, in part due to investments, as it seeks to monetize AI — Alibaba Group Holdi

Bloomberg: An analysis of Tokenomist.ai data: Trump family members made ~1.55B from sales of World Liberty Financial's WLFI tokens, lifting their total fortune by ~660M — Trump family members made rou

New York Times: Analysis: a16z is the largest known donor in the current US midterm election cycle, spending $115M+ so far on pro-crypto, pro-AI, or Republican Super PACs — The biggest donor in the mi

Winnie Hsu / Bloomberg: Analysis: contract prices for NAND chips are up 600%+ since late September 2025, while those for DRAM chips are up ~400%, with analysts expecting further gains — The worsening

Bloomberg: Analysts: China's AI hardware suppliers face capacity constraints and component shortages, including optical and electronic chips, that may limit 2026 growth — China's artificial intelligen

Financial Times: Analysts say AI fervor in the US and Asia has spread to Europe, boosting stocks like STMicro and Nokia as investors seek the AI boom's pick-and-shovel stocks — Investors hunt for winn

Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: Anduril raised a 5B Series H led by Thrive and a16z at a 61B valuation, up from 30.5B in June 2025, taking its total funding to 6.82B, and may IPO in 2027 — The start-

Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business, featuring a host of automated services like bookkeeping functions, business insights, and tools for ad campaigns — Anthropic is

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Anthropic unveils Claude Agent SDK credits for paid plans, which users can allocate for programmatic use of third-party agents like OpenClaw, starting June 15 — Good news,

William Sandlund / Financial Times: China's CSI AI Index, which tracks AI supply chain companies, is up 28%+ YTD, while HK's Hang Seng Tech Index, which includes Alibaba and Tencent, is down 8% — Tenc

Owen Walker / Financial Times: China's move to block Meta's Manus acquisition challenges the “Singapore washing” model, as major Chinese tech companies build significant Singapore presences — Beijing'

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Cisco reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to 15.84B, vs. 15.56B est., forecasts Q4 revenue above est., and is cutting almost 4,000 jobs; CSCO jumps 17%+ after hours — Cisco shares soare

Kate Park / TechCrunch: Config, which is building a data layer for robotics foundation models, raised a 27M seed at a 200M+ valuation led by Samsung Venture Investment — Asia's push into physical AI i

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google says Chromebooks will get support through their “existing date commitment”, and “many” models are “eligible to transition” to the Googlebook experience — During The And

Kim Bhasin / New York Times: How eBay CEO Jamie Iannone transformed the company, refocusing on power buyers in categories with especially high resale demand like trading cards and sneakers — The onlin

Viola Zhou / Rest of World: How the “Facebook House” in Los Altos, Mark Zuckerberg's former residence, became a hub for Chinese AI talent, who are a key part of Silicon Valley's AI boom — Chinese-born

Bloomberg: How the Strait of Hormuz blockade is disrupting global chip supply chains, affecting supplies of helium, bromine, sulfur, and thinners essential to chipmaking — Asian chipmakers, including

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Instagram rolls out Instants, which lets users share ephemeral photos, as an in-app feature in Instagram and as a standalone app in select countries — Meta just launched a brand ne

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: Investor docs: Anthropic's revenue run rate is on track to hit $50B by the end of June; Ramp says more of its customers now use Anthropic than OpenAI, a first — After

Reuters: LinkedIn says it has “implemented organizational changes”; a source says LinkedIn plans to cut about 5% of its 17,500 full-time workers — LinkedIn planned to inform staff of layoffs on Wednes

Amber Tong / Bloomberg: Metis TechBio, a biotech company using AI to deliver and formulate drugs, surged as much as 185% in its Hong Kong market debut after raising ~$270M in its IPO — Shares of Metis