Knowledge catalogue
Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal: Hands-on with a pre-release build of Google Docs Live, an AI-powered voice tool for drafting documents, rolling out this summer to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers — A
Financial Times: How the AI boom is transforming global M&A, now dominated by the AI-driven race to control the world's energy, fiber networks, and computing capacity — Deals hit record highs, unloved
Paige Smith / Bloomberg: Moment, which develops AI tools for automating fixed-income and equities trading tech, raised a $78M Series C led by Index Ventures, with a16z participating — Moment, the fina
Melissa Shin / Bloomberg: Plenary Americas LP, La Caisse's infrastructure arm, agrees to acquire and take private Canadian database company ISC for $872M, expected to close in Q3 — The infrastructure
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Quartermaster, which is building an analytics platform and a SmartMast, with sensors on a ship's mast to relay real-time maritime data, raised a $43M Series A — Oceans — to s
David Oks: Rising DRAM prices are driving “forced premiumization” in the smartphone market in India and Africa, as consumers in the sub-$200 segment risk being priced out — The global memory crunch an
Financial Times: Sources: Princeton Digital Group to sell its Chinese data center assets for as much as $1B, capping global buyout firms' retreat from China's data center market — Princeton Digital Gr
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Tether buys out SoftBank's ~26% stake in bitcoin treasury company Twenty One Capital, taking Tether's stake to ~71%; SoftBank's stake was worth ~$679M — Tether has bought ou
Sophia Cai / Politico: A look at a copy of the AI EO that President Trump was expected to sign on May 21; the unsigned EO emphasized that government AI reviews would be voluntary — The draft also incl
Noah Berman / The Wire China: A profile of TP-Link, whose share of the US consumer router market grew from 10% to 60%+ between 2019 and 2025, as it seeks to rebut national security concerns — When Jef
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: As the US House probes Airbnb's use of Chinese AI models, CEO Brian Chesky says the company is not sharing data with Chinese firms and uses open-source models — Airbnb Inc. C
Matthew Prince / Wall Street Journal: Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says AI won't replace builders or sellers, but it will affect middle managers, operations jobs, and other “measuring” positions — Th
Financial Times: Crypto companies prepare for the threat that quantum computers could hack core industry security, including breaking the critical code underpinning Bitcoin — Threat to code that under
Anusha Shah / Reuters: Delivery Hero says it received a takeover offer from Uber for €33 per share, a discount of 1.76% from Delivery Hero's close on Friday — German food delivery service Delivery Her
Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Dell says it has 5,000 clients for its AI Factory, a product line of servers with Nvidia chips, software, and services, including 1,000 new clients last quarter — Dell Technolog
Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg: FOIA lawsuit documents show hackers who breached SolarWinds potentially had access to all “treasury.gov” email addresses from July 6, 2020 to October 12, 2020 — New detai
Alexandra Alter / New York Times: For publishers, pirated audiobooks made with AI on YouTube are a growing issue: removal is cumbersome, and some are hiring tech companies to take them down — Illegal,
Jack Jenkins / RNS: How Anthropic's ongoing discussions with the Vatican about ethics and AI led to Christopher Olah being invited to Pope Leo's unveiling of an encyclical on AI — (RNS) — Pope Leo XIV
Debby Wu / Bloomberg: Jensen Huang urged Super Micro to tighten up compliance after Taiwan detained three people for allegedly trying to export servers with Nvidia chips to China — Nvidia Corp. Chief
New York Times: Q&A with Sundar Pichai on the future of Google Search, Google's place in the AI race, public skepticism toward AI, AI agents, AI safety, TPUs, and more — After a busy Google I/O, the c
Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Salesforce's promotional videos showcased Agentforce mock-ups and features that are not widely available, as CEO Marc Benioff defends forward-looking marketing — Patients at th
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Samsung's bonus deal is fueling employee resentment over a 100x payout gap between memory division staff and those making smartphones, TVs, and home appliances — Samsung Electr
Reuters: Sources: the ECB warned EU finance ministers that proposals to issue more euro stablecoins could reduce bank lending and make controlling interest rates harder — The European Central Bank war
Tom Hals / Reuters: Activision shareholders reach a 250M settlement over allegations that Microsoft and Activision underpaid them during Microsoft's 2023 acquisition of Activision — Shareholders of Ac
Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: AMD CEO Lisa Su projects the CPU market will grow over 35% annually through 2031, up from 3% to 4% historically, driven by AI inference and agentic AI demand — TAIPEI —
Anthropic: Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview has been used to find more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities since the launch of Project Glasswing — Last month, we launched Projec
Reuters: China's Wingtech files a lawsuit against Nexperia, saying its control over the Dutch chipmaker remained restricted, and seeks ~$1.2B for economic losses — China's Wingtech Technology (600745.
Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: Driverless car startup Bliq.ai says it has received approval for fully driverless road operations in Estonia, the first authorization of its kind in the EU — The authorisation
Ryan Lawler / Axios: Farther Finance, which is building an AI-enabled wealth management platform for financial advisors, raised a 150M Series D at a 1B+ post-money valuation — Farther Finance, which i
Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Filing: Zoom's stake in Anthropic is worth ~1.27B based on a February round which valued Anthropic at 380B; Zoom invested an additional 46M in recent months — Zoom Communicatio
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Fresha, a London-based beauty and wellness booking marketplace, raised 80M from KKR's growth equity arm at a 1B+ valuation, bringing its total raised to 285M — Beaut
Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Google files its appeal of the US federal ruling deeming it an illegal search monopolist, arguing it “prevailed in the marketplace fair and square” — It wants to throw out t
Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google rolls out a Google Wallet redesign, including “dynamic quick access” for favorites, a “View more” floating action button, and more — At I/O 2026, Google Wallet quietly an
Jay Peters / The Verge: Google's AI Overviews are failing to provide search summaries for specific command-style terms including “disregard”, “ignore”, and “skip” — With certain terms, AI Overviews a
Nikkei Asia: How the global memory chip crunch, driven by AI demand, is hurting China's car industry, squeezing automakers already hit by a price war and razor-thin margins — HONG KONG — The global me
Wall Street Journal: Internal Binance reports and sources reveal Iran moved billions through Binance to fund entities like the IRGC, with some transactions as recent as this month — Transactions on wo
Reuters: Lenovo reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to 21.6B, above 18.7B est., net profit up 479% to 521M, above 271M est., as the PC maker pushes into AI server markets — Lenovo Group (0992.HK) reported a
Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Memo: Yusuf Mehdi, a 35-year Microsoft veteran who has been its consumer chief marketing officer since 2023, will leave the company after the next fiscal year — Yusuf Mehdi, on
CJ Haddad / CNBC: Meta, Broadcom, Applied Materials, GlobalFoundries, and Synopsys launch a 125M “Semiconductor Hub” at UCLA to advance AI chip research and more — Broadcom, Meta, Applied Materials, G
Mariella Moon / Engadget: Meta releases Forum, a Reddit-like standalone app for Facebook Groups, with a feed showing Group conversations and an AI-powered “Ask” feature, on iOS — It's a new dedicated
France 24: President Emmanuel Macron says France will invest an additional €1B for quantum computing research and a further €550M in state funding for semiconductors — Bruyères-le-Châtel (France) (AFP
Katie Tarasov / CNBC: Qualcomm stock closed up 11.6% on Friday and is now up 75% in the past month, as the company increasingly becomes a key player in AI devices — Qualcomm shares surged 12% on Frida
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Reddit stock fell 5%+ on Friday after Meta launched a standalone app for online forums, called Forum; Reddit's stock is now down almost 40% this year — Reddit shares fell about
Justin Papp / CNBC: Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says he requested information from Kalshi and Polymarket on their efforts to prevent insider trading — Rep. James Comer, R
Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: Sources and documents detail Satya Nadella's effort to revamp Microsoft's senior leadership, creating a startup-style operating model to compete in the AI race — CEO
Politico: Sources: David Sacks told President Trump that federal reviews of AI models before release would slow down innovation and hurt the US in its AI race with China — But during a conversation wi
Washington Post: Sources: last-minute calls with Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, David Sacks, and others helped persuade President Trump not to sign the highly anticipated AI EO — Industry leaders warned
Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: Sources: Nintendo asked partners and suppliers to assemble ~20M Switch 2 consoles by March 2027, ~20% above the 16.5M public sales outlook issued in early May — Nintendo
Scott Patterson / Bloomberg: Sources: the SEC has delayed the release of a plan for an “innovation exemption” that would allow crypto firms to trade tokenized versions of US stocks — The Securities an
New York Times: Sources: WH approved a $9B request to acquire advanced AI chips for spy agencies; Anthropic is finalizing a classified contract for NSA to keep using its tools — The C.I.A. and N.S.A.
Peter Wells / Financial Times: The Trump administration plans to require most green card applicants to return to their home countries to apply, which could adversely impact tech workers — Move to tigh
Paul Vieira / Wall Street Journal: The US Ambassador to Canada accuses Canada of imposing trade barriers by requiring that US streamers contribute 15% of Canadian revenue to local programming — Remark
Jeremy Hsu / Ars Technica: The US NTSB suspends access to its database of civil transportation accidents after people re-created voices of pilots killed in a 2025 UPS plane crash using AI — Pilots' vo
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: US and Canadian authorities arrest 23-year-old Jacob Butler, known online as “Dort”, for allegedly operating the Kimwolf DDoS botnet, which infected ~2M devices — U.S
Tech Xplore: A study conducted in the Phoenix metro area finds that waste heat from data centers can raise air temperatures in downwind neighborhoods by as much as 4°F — Waste heat from data centers c
James Peckham / PCMag: Adobe, Canva, and CapCut announce Gemini integrations to let users access the companies' image and video editing tools within the Gemini app — Adobe, Canva, and CapCut all plan
Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal: AMD pledges to invest $10B+ in Taiwan's chip industry to make advanced chip packaging for AI, and says TSMC will ramp up production of its next-gen Venice chips — The
Bloomberg: Analysis: Samsung is set to distribute ~26.6B to its 78,000 chip employees, or a ~340K bonus to each, in early 2027 as part of a last-minute labor union deal — Samsung Electronics Co. could
Preeti Singh / Bloomberg: Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman's unnamed enterprise services JV buys Fractional AI, its first deal; sources say Fractional ends its OpenAI deal — The new artif
Todd Spangler / Variety: Apple plans to broadcast an MLS game on Saturday shot entirely on 15 iPhone 17 Pros, the first major live sports event to be captured using only smartphones — Apple has freque