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Ashleigh Fields / The Hill: Trump says it is “critically important” that the CFTC has exclusive authority to oversee prediction markets, as some US states attempt to regulate them — President Trump on

U.S. law enforcement agencies are monitoring growing backlash to AI and have begun classifying anti-technology sentiment as an extremism threat, with unpublished reports from the Department of Homelan

ABC News: US prosecutors charge Google engineer Michele Spagnuolo with using inside information to make $1.2M on Polymarket bets about Google's Year in Search results — Michele Spagnuolo allegedly pla

The U.S. Space Force awarded SpaceX a $2.29 billion contract to build a secure, high-speed satellite communications network to connect military sensors and weapons platforms across the globe. The Spac

Jay Peters / The Verge: Valve raises Steam Deck OLED prices due to “rising memory and storage costs”; the 512GB model is now 789, up from 549, and the 1TB model is 949, up from 649 — The 1TB OLED mode

Cognition Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence programming tools, today announced that it has raised more than 1 billion in funding. Lux Capital, General Catalyst and 8VC led the Series D round

Volvo Cars, majority owned by China's Geely Holding, received approval from the U.S. government allowing it to continue selling vehicles with Chinese 'connected technology' in the country. This exempt

In the wake of Google expanding its AI verification efforts at I/O, YouTube is now finally going to start taking AI labeling seriously. YouTube has announced that it's relocating AI disclosures on Sho

YouTube is automatically applying AI-generated content labels if it detects a video includes 'significant photorealistic AI use,' while making labels more prominent by displaying them directly below t

Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed Berkeley Humanoid Lite, a low-cost, open-source robot made of 3D-printed parts , which keeps hardware costs under $5,000 with a modular design allowing easy c

Audi's CEO Gernot Döllner outlines the company's strategy to maintain global brand strength through localized vehicle production and tailored models for specific markets like China. As of 2026, Audi w

Reuters: A Samsung union representing its consumer electronics division says it asked a South Korean court to block a pay deal vote that mainly benefits chip workers — A Samsung Electronics' (005930.K

Leslie Josephs / CNBC: American Airlines picks SpaceX's Starlink for in-flight Wi-Fi on more than 500 planes; SpaceX already has contracts with United Airlines, Southwest, and others — American Airlin

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Atlanta-based e-commerce logistics company Stord raised a 250M Series F led by Strike at a 3B valuation, up from 1.5B after a 200M Series E in May 2025 — E-commerce logistics

Shares of the cloud content management firm Box Inc. headed lower in extended trading today after it barely scraped past Wall Street’s earnings and revenue targets in its first quarter. The company re

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Charter confirms a data breach after ShinyHunters claimed to steal 40M customer records from Charter's Salesforce instance and threatened to leak the data — U.S. te

Koh Ewe / BBC: China executes a man called Xu Yao for killing Yoozoo Games founder Lin Qi in 2020; Lin reportedly sidelined Xu, who helped land the 3 Body Problem Netflix deal — Shanghai First Interme

It's possible that AI was used to write parts of Pope Leo XIV's latest encyclical about AI's impact on humanity. An analysis by Linch Zhang posted on the forum LessWrong found certain paragraphs of Ma

Artificial intelligence-native infrastructure provider for identity and fraud prevention Didit today announced it has raised 6 million in seed funding. New and continuing investors joining the round i

Reuters: Document: Samsung plans to invest 1.5B to build a semiconductor testing plant focused on legacy chips in Vietnam; the plant is slated to open in November 2027 — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS

The Porsche Cayenne Coupe Electric is the most powerful production Porsche ever built with up to 1,156 horsepower and a 0–62 mph time of around 2.5 seconds. The vehicle features direct oil cooling tec

Financial Times: Filing: Monzo reports its “refer a friend” payouts grew 40% YoY to £29.5M for the 12 months ending March 2026, as part of a broader £143M marketing spend — London-based fintech record

Building an AI app shouldn’t require a PhD in machine learning (ML) or months of wrestling with complex architectures. Yet that’s exactly what happens when you try to orchestrate multiple API calls, m

Max Buondonno / The Shortcut: Google Fitbit Air review: slim, comfortable, and stylish, robust tracking, seven-day battery life, and cheaper than Whoop, but can only be worn on the wrist — 🏆 Rating: 4

Kate Knibbs / Wired: How AI startups like Altur are using chatbots to help automate debt collection; YC incubated six debt collection and settlement startups in the past six years — There's a mad dash

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Human Archive, which trains robots using first-person video from 1,000+ camera-equipped caps worn by Indian home services workers, raised $8.2M from YC and more — In the last

The search results don't contain specific information about the Ars Technica investigation into whether Peter Thiel is the target of the Pope's Gandalf quote. Based on the available information, here'

Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph: Kelp DAO says its restaked Ether token has been restored after a five-week recovery effort following a $293M exploit by North Korea's Lazarus Group on April 18 — Coint

Stord Inc., a startup that helps consumer brands deliver their merchandise to customers, has raised 250 million in late-stage funding. The company disclosed in its announcement of the Series F round t

Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: London-based Perceptic, which says its end-to-end AI platform for drug development is being used by top pharmaceuticals, raised a $12M seed led by Accel — A trio of former Palan

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Micron hit a 1T market value for the first time on Tuesday as shares jumped 19%, driven by demand for its memory chips in the AI race — Micron topped a 1 trillion market value f

A critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-33579, scoring 9.8/10 severity) was discovered in the OpenClaw open source package, allowing attackers with minimal access to silently escalate privileges to full ad

Elon Musk claimed that US military LUCAS suicide drones initially used commercial Starlink instead of the government-specific Starshield network in violation of SpaceX's terms of service, blaming the

NASA is advancing its Artemis program to build a crewed lunar base over the next decade near the lunar south pole , and the base will sprawl over hundreds of square miles with a perimeter marked by ho

There's this alarming trend in the Suno subreddit. People aren't just prompting AI songs; they're sitting around listening almost exclusively to their own slop. And in some cases, they proudly proclai

Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: OpenAI hires ServiceNow CMO Colin Fleming as CMO for its business segment; he succeeds Kate Rouch, who stepped down earlier this year to focus on her health — OpenAI has hired

Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: OpenRouter raised 113M led by CapitalG, a source says at a 1.3B valuation, and now processes 25T tokens across 400+ models weekly, up from 5T six months ago —

Bloomberg: Pony AI reports Q1 revenue up 145% YoY to ~34.3M, above 21.7M est., and increases its 2026 robotaxi fleet target by 500 to 3,500 vehicles on fast growth — Pony AI Inc. raised its robotaxi f

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Sundar Pichai about reshaping the information ecosystem with Search changes, putting AI agents in everything, when AI will replace him as CEO, and more — Today, I'm t

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Samsung's largest union approves a pay deal that would give chip workers an average bonus of ~340K, with ~74% of members voting in favor, staving off a strike — Samsung Electro

Bloomberg: SK Hynix tops 1T in market value after shares jumped 11% on Wednesday, becoming the third Asian company to hit the mark; shares surged 900%+ in the past year — SK Hynix Inc. joined Micron T

The Information: Source: AI inference provider Baseten is in talks to raise 1B at a post-money valuation of 11B, up from 5B after its 300M Series E announced in January — AI startup Baseten has recent

Axios: Sources: Bond Capital is leading a new investment for AI startup Suno, which would value it at ~5B, up from 2.45B last fall; Suno is expected to raise 250M+ — Bond Capital is leading a new inve

Financial Times: Sources: ByteDance is offering low-priced stock options linked to growth in its Seed AI division to staff of the unit, a first, to fend off poaching from rivals — ByteDance is offerin

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Sources: Fireworks AI, which helps companies run AI models, is in talks to raise funding at a 15B valuation after being valued at 4B in October 2025 — Fireworks AI, a sta

Ian King / Bloomberg: Sources: Qualcomm reached a deal with ByteDance to supply millions of ASICs for AI data centers to support AI agents in the Doubao chatbot; QCOM jumps 5%+ — Qualcomm Inc. reached