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Jay Peters / The Verge: Sony is hiking the starting price of one-month and three-month PlayStation Plus subscriptions in “select regions”, blaming “ongoing market conditions” — One-month and three-mon
Bloomberg: Sources: AI chip designer Tenstorrent has drawn takeover interest from Intel and Qualcomm; Tenstorrent could be valued at more than $5B in a potential deal — Artificial intelligence chip st
Bloomberg: Sources: Analog Devices, one of the largest analog chip makers, is in talks to buy Empower, which makes chips used to regulate voltage, for 1.5B in cash — Analog Devices Inc. is in advanced
Julia Love / Bloomberg: Sources: competition for Google's TPUs among its employees and researchers intensified as it prioritizes cloud customers and flagship AI products over research — In the race to
Ashley Gold / Axios: Steve Bannon and 60+ Trump allies sign a Humans First-led letter urging Trump to mandate government testing and approval of powerful AI models before release — A group of more tha
James Hunt / The Block: Strategy acquired 24,869 bitcoin for ~2.01B at an 80,985 average price from May 11 to May 17, taking its holdings to 843,738 BTC, or 4%+ of the total supply — Quick Take — Stra
Flavia Rotondi / Bloomberg: The Vatican says Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah will join Pope Leo on May 25 to launch the pope's first encyclical, setting out his views on the AI age — Pope Leo XI
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber increases its stake in Delivery Hero to 19.5%, up from 7% in April, and says it “has no intent to acquire 30% or more” of Delivery Hero's voting rights — Uber Technologi
Jason Nelson / Decrypt: Vitalik Buterin says AI-assisted “formal verification” could help secure blockchain networks, smart contracts, and cryptographic systems against software flaws — Ethereum co-fo
Jackson Chen / Engadget: X quietly limits users who didn't pay for verification to “50 original posts and 200 replies per day”, down from 2,400 posts per day — That's down from the previous 2,400 post
Phoebe Liu / Forbes: A profile of SAS CEO Jim Goodnight, the 83-year-old who co-founded the 50-year-old analytics firm and holds a ~67% stake worth $13.3B, as AI tests SAS' strategy — Unlike most of t
The Information: Analysis: 34 leading AI startups are generating ~$80B in annualized revenue, up 112% from six months ago, with Anthropic and OpenAI capturing 89% of the revenue — Anthropic and OpenAI
John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times: Analysis: mass adoption of smartphones and social media may be a primary driver of declining birthrates globally, in part by reducing in-person socializing — The d
Jack Kubinec / Fortune: Ciridae, which is developing AI to streamline back-office operations for real-economy businesses, raised a $20M seed led by Accel, with a16z participating — AI is swiftly rewir
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Developers say Chinese AI labs lead US rivals in video generation, as ByteDance and Kuaishou train models on vast short-form video libraries from their own apps — Chi
Kim Zetter / ZERO DAY: Experts: Stuxnet-linked Fast16 malware, designed to subvert nuclear weapons testing simulations, was likely part of a campaign to slow Iran's nuclear ambitions — Fast16 didn't p
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: Filings: in Q1, Trump traded 220M-750M in NVDA, MSFT, AMZN, META, ORCL, and others; millions of dollars of NVDA were bought shortly before major news — President Donald Trump
The Hacker News: Grafana says hackers have accessed its GitHub environment and demanded a ransom to prevent the release of its codebase; Grafana refused to pay — Grafana has disclosed that an “unautho
John Gapper / Financial Times: King's Cross, where Google's new UK HQ is due to open later this year, has become London's new tech, VC, and AI hub, attracting OpenAI, Anthropic, and others — A formerl
David Cendon Garcia / EU-Startups: Milan-based Webidoo, which develops an operational layer designed to help SMBs access AI tools, raised $25M led by IXC3 for North American expansion — Milan-based We
Alison Weissbrot / Adweek: Publicis agrees to acquire LiveRamp, which allows companies to share and build new data sets and models that can power agentic frameworks, for 2.2B in cash — Publicis Groupe
Lauren Sherman / Puck: Source: Shein is acquiring DTC clothing retailer Everlane, which focuses on sustainability and “radical transparency”, in a $100M deal — The Millennial D.T.C. company built a gl
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple's revamped Siri may launch in beta, and will have an option to auto-delete chats; Apple plans to add Suggested Genmoji to iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 — Also: A Genmoji
Owen Walker / Financial Times: Sources: DayOne, the spinoff of China's largest data center operator GDS Holdings, plans dual IPO in Singapore and NY, seeking to raise 5B at a ~20B valuation — Please u
Bloomberg: ASML will partner with Tata Electronics to help it bring an $11B 300mm chip factory online in Gujarat, expanding India's ability to produce chips domestically — ASML Holding NV entered into
Mike Lee / Politico: Hill County, which faced eight new data centers, passed what may be Texas' first county-wide ban on them, for one year; the state trails only VA in data centers — Opposition to da
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: In an experiment that let Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok run radio stations, Claude tried to incite a revolution and Gemini cheerfully detailed tragic events — Claude
Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: LA-based Fasset, which offers stablecoin-powered banking and cross-border payments services across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, raised a $51M Series B — The Shariah-
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Nectar Social, which offers an agentic OS for marketers, raised a 30M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, with GV and True Ventures among investors — AI-powered marketin
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: On Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 day 2, competitors earned 385,750 after exploiting 15 unique zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows 11, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and more — During
Cointelegraph: OpenAI partners with Malta's AI for All initiative to give citizens a free year of ChatGPT Plus if they complete a University of Malta AI literacy course — Cointelegraph is committed to
Deedy / @deedydas: SF vibes are frenetic over the huge divide in outcomes and career uncertainty for software engineers; over 5 years ~10K people in AI attained retirement wealth — The vibes in SF fee
Zinnia Lee / Forbes: Shenzhen-listed RoboTechnik, which claims to be the largest silicon photonics tool maker and whose stock is up 340% over the past year, files for a HK listing — RoboTechnik Intell
Anirban Sen / Reuters: Sources: Kalshi has probed and flagged 400+ suspicious trades YTD, more than 2x the number it investigated in all of 2025; Polymarket has seen a similar uptick — Top prediction
Kwanwoo Jun / Wall Street Journal: South Korea's Hana Bank agrees to acquire a 6.55% stake in Dunamu, which runs South Korea's largest crypto exchange Upbit, for 672.5M from Kakao — The deal would mak
Matthew Boesler / Bloomberg: US Bureau of Labor Statistics data: employment in 18 AI-exposed occupations fell 0.2% between May 2024 and May 2025, while the broader US labor market rose 0.8% — Several
Bloomberg: Vietnam's government, which once saw video games as a social risk, named gaming as one of its key cultural industries in 2025 and now promotes them at expos — Communist officials who long v
Todd Spangler / Variety: A look at Matthew McConaughey's novel legal strategy to fight unauthorized AI use of his image and likeness, by trademarking video and audio clips of himself — The actor has s
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: A profile of AI video generation startup Runway, which is training models directly on observational data, is now valued at 5.3B, and added 40M in ARR in Q2 — Every major A
Bloomberg: A profile of Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who is killing projects, cutting staff, and pleasing Wall Street, while steering the company toward an AI-focused era — Thirteen miles north of Jackson,
Meir Orbach / CTech: Akamai acquires Israeli cybersecurity startup LayerX Security, which develops a browser-based platform to secure employee use of AI tools, for ~$205M in cash — Deal expands Zero T
Samantha Cole / 404 Media: ArXiv, the repository of preprint academic research, says it will ban authors for a year if their papers have “incontrovertible evidence” of AI-generated work — The change c
Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: Bill Ackman says his fund has taken a new stake in Microsoft after the company's recent share price decline; Ackman says investors have underestimated Microsoft — Bill Ackman
Bloomberg: Filings: YouTube and Snap reached agreements to settle a lawsuit headed to trial in June over claims addiction to social media has disrupted students' learning — Google's YouTube and Snap I
Akshay Gangwar / Android Authority: Google confirms it's testing a new storage policy after some users reported that new Gmail accounts get only 5GB of free storage unless they add a phone number — Up
Bianca Giacobone / Latitude Media: Gridcare, which uses AI to detect underused capacity in electric grids, raised a 64M Series A, following a 13.5M seed in 2025 — The grid intelligence startup uses AI
Bill Gurley / Bill's Substack: How tech companies are using open source initiatives to achieve critical strategic goals and how such efforts are reshaping industries like AI, AVs, and more — How the S
Julie Bort / TechCrunch: In a viral X post that parodies the old Mac vs. PC commercials, General Catalyst posted a “VC vs GC” video, with the VC apparently modeled after Marc Andreessen — One of the m
Pramugdha Mamgain / DealStreetAsia: Indian ride-hailing app Rapido raised 240M led by Prosus as part of a broader primary and secondary financing transaction, valuing Rapido at 3B post-money — Ride-ha
Bloomberg: Kioxia reports record Q4 earnings of ~3.8B, forecasts Q1 operating profit of ~8.2B, and says it is planning a US listing; Kioxia shares are up 300% YTD — Kioxia Holdings Corp., the world's
Kieran Smith / Financial Times: London-based edtech startup Multiverse raised 70M at a 2.1B valuation from Index and others as it pushes into AI training; it acquired StackFuel in January — Multiverse
Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta rolls out new features for Ray-Ban Display glasses, including neural handwriting support for all users, and opens up the device to third-party developers — You can also no
Meaghan Tobin / New York Times: Nvidia's future in China remains unclear after the Trump-Xi Summit; Trump says China “chose not to” buy Nvidia chips as “they want to try to develop their own” — The st
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: Ofcom says X has committed to implementing stronger protections for UK users, including reviewing illegal hate and terror content within 24 hours, after a probe — Soci
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: OpenAI debuts personal finance tools for US ChatGPT Pro users, partnering with Plaid to give access to 12K+ financial institutions to analyze spending and more — On Friday, Op
Maxwell Zeff / Wired: OpenAI memo: Greg Brockman says he will lead product strategy as part of a reorg, folding ChatGPT, Codex, and developer-facing API into one core product team — OpenAI is once aga
Transformer: OpenAI's disavowal of a liability shield in Illinois SB 3444 bill and endorsement of a stronger SB 315 suggest it is open to meaningful AI safety legislation — Transformer Weekly: US-Chin
John Ainger / Bloomberg: Power prices on the largest electric grid in the US, operated by PJM, jumped 76% YoY to an average of $136.53/MWh in Q1 due to rampant demand from data centers — Power prices
Stephen Foley / Financial Times: Professional services firm EY has withdrawn a study on loyalty rewards programs after researchers at GPTZero found apparent AI hallucinations and fake footnotes — Inci
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Replit says it has “worked things out with Apple”, which has approved a Replit update after four months, following a reported dispute over vibe coding apps — All's well that ends w