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Bloomberg: Musk v. Altman: Microsoft executive Michael Wetter testifies that Microsoft has spent 100B+ on OpenAI, including its investments and to build infrastructure — Microsoft Corp. has spent more

AI Security Institute: Mythos Preview is the first AI model to complete both of AISI's cyber ranges, which measure models' cyberattack capabilities; GPT-5.5 solved only one of them — In February 2026,

Emma Roth / The Verge: Netflix says its ad tier now has 250M monthly active viewers, up from 94M in 2025, and is expanding to 15 new countries, as it tests an ad personalization tool — The streaming s

Sam Tabahriti / Reuters: Ofcom fines an unnamed suicide forum £950K, the largest OSA fine so far, for hosting illegal content accessible in the UK; the forum is linked to 130+ deaths — Britain's commu

OpenAI Global Affairs: OpenAI endorses the Kids Online Safety Act and Illinois SB 315, an AI safety bill to create requirements around transparency, incident reporting, and more — Welcome (back) to Th

Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: OpenAI says it would support a global AI governance body that is led by the US and includes China as a member, similar to the International Atomic Energy Agency — OpenAI w

Jared Perlo / NBC News: OpenEvidence, an AI-powered medical search tool, says it's used by two-thirds of US physicians, or ~650K doctors, and an additional 1.2M doctors internationally — OpenEvidence,

Ashlee Vance / Core Memory: Q&A with Alexandr Wang on rebuilding Meta's AI stack, launching Muse Spark, personal superintelligence, acquiring Assured Robot Intelligence, and more — Last June, Meta pri

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Q&A with Amazon SVP of Devices and Alexa Panos Panay on Alexa+, the company's focus on devices for the home, its Leo satellite broadband business, and more — Execu

Invest Like The Best on YouTube: Q&A with Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao on the “cone of uncertainty” in AI, allocating compute, returns to frontier intelligence, platform vs. application, and more — In th

Cade Metz / New York Times: Richard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence raised 650M+ from GV, Greycroft, Nvidia, AMD, and others at a 4B valuation to pursue “recursive self-improvement” — Recursive S

Sean McLain / Wall Street Journal: Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe's Mind Robotics, which is building AI-powered robots for manufacturing tasks, raised 400M, source says at a 3.4B valuation — Funding for AI-po

David Keohane / Financial Times: SoftBank reports Q4 net income up 3x to ~11.6B, above ~1.5B est., driven by a 25B gain in its OpenAI stake; by October, its OpenAI investment will hit 64.6B — Japanese

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Source: Cerebras priced its IPO at 185 per share, above the expected range of 150 to 160, raising at least 5.55B and valuing it at 56.4B fully diluted — Cerebras Systems, a maker

Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: Sources: Apollo Global, Morgan Stanley, and others are testing Grok internally as part of xAI's finance sector push, but financiers are rarely using it for work — Elon Musk'

Bloomberg: Sources: Arm and SoftBank expressed preliminary interest in acquiring Cerebras weeks before its expected IPO; Cerebras rebuffed them — Arm Holdings Plc and its majority owner SoftBank Group

Alex Heath / Sources: Sources: Google plans to announce a new Gemini model at its I/O conference next week; the model will land roughly in the class of GPT-5.5, but short of Mythos — Sources say that

Reuters: Sources: Microsoft is in discussions to acquire LLM developer Inception; SpaceX also courted Inception, which is looking for a price of over $1B — Microsoft (MSFT.O) is shopping for artificia

Bloomberg: Sources: Mistral has been developing a cybersecurity-focused AI model and held discussions about it with European banks, which don't have access to Mythos — French artificial intelligence s

Bloomberg: Tencent reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to ~28.9B, below ~29.4B est., and net income of ~$8.5B, meeting est., amid a costly AI pivot; its stock is down 23% YTD — Tencent Holdings Ltd. reported

The Information: Tencent says it plans to spend significantly more on AI infrastructure in H2 2026 as more China-designed AI chips become available “month by month” — Tencent Holdings is gearing up to

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: The FTC says Shutterstock will pay 35M to settle charges that Shutterstock misled consumers about its subscription plans and made it too difficult to cancel — Shutterstock

Shiona McCallum / BBC: The Lucy Faithfull Foundation's Project Intercept, a partnership with Google, TikTok, and Meta, sent 70M+ warning messages to users seeking CSAM in two years — More than 70 mill

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: TikTok launches TikTok GO in the US for users to book hotels, attractions, and experiences directly in the app, partnering with Booking.com, Expedia, and others — TikTok anno

Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: UK chip startup Fractile raised a $220M Series B led by Factorial Funds, Accel and Founders Fund to make specialized logic and memory chips for inference — Factori

Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: ZipRecruiter: IT and CS job postings are up 14.2% YoY in April; entry-level roles fell from 8.1% a year ago to 7.4%, while senior roles grew from 38.8% to 43.1

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Anthropic announces 12 Claude plugins for the legal sector, including a “commercial counsel” tool for reviewing vendor agreements and a bar exam study tool — Anthropic PBC is

Bloomberg: Anthropic In Talks to Raise 30 Billion at 900 Billion Valuation — Anthropic PBC is in early talks with investors to raise at least $30 billion in fresh financing, according to people famili

Tobias Burns / CNBC: CME Group and Silicon Data announce a futures market for computing capacity, with contracts based on daily GPU benchmarks for on-demand rental rates — A new futures market for sem

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Exaforce, which uses AI agents to detect and thwart cyberattacks, raised a 125M Series B at a 725M valuation, bringing its total funding to $200M — As bad actors weaponize

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Foxconn says some of its North American factories suffered a cyberattack in recent days; ransomware group Nitrogen claims it stole 8TB of data — Famous for helping build Apple

Allison Johnson / The Verge: Google announces Gemini Intelligence, bundling existing and new Gemini features, including task automation across apps and vibe-coding own Android widgets — We're one ste

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google announces Pause Point, an Android 17 feature that forces a mandatory 10-second pause before opening any app a user has labeled as a distraction — An anti-doomscrolling

Google DeepMind: Google DeepMind details a Gemini-powered mouse pointer that understands what it is pointing at, allowing users to perform tasks without using text-heavy prompts — We are developing mo

Tim Starks / CyberScoop: Google launches Intrusion Logging, an Android feature developed in partnership with Amnesty International and others, on Android 16 Pixel devices for now — Intrusion Logging m

Prakhar Khanna / ZDNET: Google says it has worked with Meta and Apple to add creator-focused video-editing tools to Android 17, expand AirDrop connectivity, and more — ZDNET key takeaways — Google par

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Google unveils a “full bleed” Android Auto design that fills unconventionally shaped screens like in the BMW Neue Klasse, plans to add YouTube video streaming — The phon

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: Google unveils Android security features, including protection from spoofed banking calls, default theft protection, and biometric protection for Mark as lost — Here

Kyle Kucharski / ZDNET: Google unveils Googlebook, its new laptop lineup featuring a unified OS merging ChromeOS and Android, with devices from Dell, HP, and others coming this fall — ZDNET's key take

Monica Hunter-Hart / Forbes: Havoc, which offers autonomous boats and software to control thousands of vessels at once, raised a 100M Series A led by Cobalt and Boardman Bay — Interest in drone boats

Qasim Nauman / New York Times: Instructure reached a deal with hackers who breached its Canvas platform to return stolen data and destroy copies, without disclosing what it gave in exchange — Instruct

Molly Taft / Wired: Internal emails: xAI added 19 gas turbines to Colossus 2 over the past two months; xAI is fighting a lawsuit alleging Clean Air Act violations at the site — Emails show that Elon M

Pritam Biswas / Reuters: Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug discovery spinoff from Google DeepMind, raised 2.1B led by Thrive, after raising 600M in its first round in March 2025 — Isomorphic Labs, a

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Meta offers to give rival AI chatbots free access to WhatsApp for a month while it discusses commitments with EU antitrust regulators to address their concerns — Meta Platforms

Ben Lang / Road to VR: Meta schedules its annual Connect event for September 23-24 and says the event will focus on “the latest in VR, wearables, metaverse, and AI” — Meta's annual Connect event is se

Business Insider: Musk v. Altman: Altman faced an intense cross-examination from Musk's attorney, who asked “are you completely trustworthy?”; Altman replied “I believe so” — - Sam Altman faced intens