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Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google Chrome silently installs a ~4GB Gemini Nano model on desktop devices; Google says it has been offered since 2024 and users can remove it via settings — The ongoing marc

Max Zeff / @zeffmax: Google has quietly shut down Project Mariner, its Chrome-browsing AI agent for completing tasks on users' behalf, after highlighting it onstage at I/O 2025 — NEW: Google quietly s

Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: Google releases Multi-Token Prediction drafters for its Gemma 4 models, which use a form of speculative decoding to guess future tokens for faster inference — Google launc

Neil J Kanatt / Reuters: Instacart reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to 1.02B, GTV up 13% to 10.29B, and orders up 10%, compared with a 16% growth a year earlier; CART drops 8.18% — Instacart (CART.O) on

Jay Peters / The Verge: Musk v. Altman: Mira Murati testifies that Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new OpenAI model and that he made her work more difficult — OpenAI's former C

Carly Nairn / Courthouse News Service: Musk v. Altman: Shivon Zilis testifies her relationship with Musk didn't influence her duties as an OpenAI board member; she left in 2023 after Musk started xAI

Jen Judson / Bloomberg: Scale AI wins a 500M DOD contract through the Chief Digital and AI Office to help sift data and assist in decision-making, after receiving a 100M deal in 2025 — The Pentagon aw

Scott Calvert / Wall Street Journal: Security camera companies are embracing AI to give customers detailed descriptions of surveillance footage that are often spot on but can also be wildly wrong — AI

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Snap reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to 1.53B, in line with est., and says it ended its 400M Perplexity deal announced in November; SNAP drops 4%+ after hours — Snap shares dropp

The Information: Source: Alphabet is in talks with Blackstone, KKR, and EQT to give their portfolio companies AI model access, after OpenAI's and Anthropic's JVs with PE firms — Private equity firms B

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Sources: Blue Origin outlines a new employee stock plan to quell staff unrest and make its incentives more competitive with SpaceX — Rocket maker hopes to quell em

Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft is considering delaying or dropping its 2030 goal of matching its hourly power use with renewable energy purchases, amid the data center boom — Microsoft Corp. may shelve

Lingling Wei / Wall Street Journal: Sources: the US and China are considering recurring talks on the security risks posed by AI models, with Scott Bessent leading the American side — Washington and Be

xAI: SpaceX signs an agreement with Anthropic to provide access to Colossus 1, and says Anthropic expressed interest in partnering for orbital compute capacity — SpaceXAI has signed an agreement with

Dana Goldstein / New York Times: Study: US schools with strict cellphone bans in class have not seen higher test scores on average so far, but students reported a greater sense of well-being — Cellpho

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: A US court sentences a Latvian national to 8.5 years for acting as a negotiator for Russia's Karakurt ransomware group — A Latvian national extradited to the United S

Reuters: AMD reports Q1 revenue up 38% YoY to 10.25B, vs. 9.89B est., Data Center revenue up 57% to $5.8B, forecasts Q2 revenue above est.; AMD jumps 7%+ after hours — Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) f

Michael Acton / Financial Times: Apple reaches a $250M settlement in a CA federal court to resolve a false advertising class action lawsuit over the launch of a “personalized” Siri in 2024 — iPhone bu

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Astrocade, which lets users create video games using natural language prompts, raised $56M, including a Series A and a Series B, and says it has ~5M MAUs — I've been playing

Reuters: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announces the company is cutting ~700 jobs, or ~14% of its global workforce, to reduce costs, saying “AI is changing how we work” — Coinbase (COIN.O) said on Tues

The Korea Herald: Coupang reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to 8.5B and a net loss of 266M following a 2025 Korean customer data breach, its largest loss since Q4 2021 — US-listed e-commerce giant Coupang

Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: CRM software company Freshworks said it plans to cut 11% of its workforce, or ~500 jobs, as it deals with AI's impact; FRSH has dropped ~26% in 2026 — Freshworks (FRSH.O) sai

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Crypto exchange Bullish agrees to acquire Equiniti, a UK-based financial services outsourcing business, from Siris Capital in a 4.2B deal, set to close in 2027 — Bullish agr

Hugh Langley / Business Insider: Doc and sources: Google is testing an agent in the Gemini app, internally named Remy, that can integrate with Google services to take actions on a user's behalf — - Go

Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: EA reports Q4 net bookings up 3.6% YoY to 1.86B, vs. 2B est., weighed down by a post-launch drop-off in engagement for Battlefield 6 — Videogame publisher Electronic Arts (EA

Semiconductor Industry Association: Global chip sales hit 298.5B in Q1 2026, up 25% from Q4 2025, and March sales were up 79.2% YoY to 99.5B, driven by strong sales in Asia and the Americas — Worldwid

Patrick Seitz / Investor's Business Daily: GlobalFoundries reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.63B, in line with est., and forecasts Q2 revenue and adjusted earnings above estimates; GFS closes up 9.28

Counterpoint Research: In Q1, the iPhone 17 was the world's best-selling smartphone, with 6% of global sales; the iPhone 17 Pro Max and 17 Pro were 2nd and 3rd, and Galaxy A07 was 4th — Harshit Rastog

New York Times: Investigation: an inheritance dispute over an ex-LG chair's estate prompts a criminal complaint over how the dynastic South Korean chaebol family divides assets — On a Thursday afterno

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Kaspersky says Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, has been backdoored in a monthlong compromise that has pushed malicious updates — Daemon Tools, a wi

@mingchikuo: Kuo: OpenAI appears to be fast-tracking its AI agent phone with two NPUs and a custom MediaTek Dimensity 9600 SoC, targeting mass production as early as H1 2027 — 【Industry Check Update】O

Alice Speri / The Guardian: Letter: UK-based Google DeepMind workers voted to unionize with the Communication Workers Union and Unite in April, representing 1K+ staff, amid the US DOD deal — Exclusive

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Match Group reports Q1 revenue up 4% YoY to 864M, vs. 855M est., as Tinder's new user registrations grew for the first time since 2024, up 1% — Match Group Inc. reported fi

Emma Roth / The Verge: Meta is using AI on Facebook and Instagram to detect under-13 users by analyzing bone structure, height, and visual cues, but says it's “not facial recognition” — ‘We want to be

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Meta says it will expand Instagram teen account safeguards to 27 EU countries, and plans to roll them out on Facebook in the US, ahead of the UK and EU in June — Meta Platforms

Lola Murti / CNBC: Micron closes up 11% after announcing its highest-capacity SSD has started to ship, lifting its market cap past 700B for the first time; Sandisk closes up 12% — Micron's historic ra

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index: a survey of 20K AI users finds 65% fear falling behind, but only 13% report being rewarded for workplace AI experimentation — [Editor's Note:

Chris Metinko / Axios: Nace.AI, which lets companies build specialized AI models tailored to their business' mission and language, raised a 21.5M seed led by Walden Catalyst — Nace.AI, which lets busi

Paula Doenecke / Bloomberg: Nscale agrees to spend €695M on infrastructure in Portugal in an expansion of its Microsoft partnership, supplying 66K+ Nvidia Rubin GPUs from late 2027 — Nscale Global Hol

Paige Smith / Bloomberg: PayPal reports Q1 net revenue up 7% YoY to 8.4B, total payment volume up 11% YoY to 464B, active accounts up 1% to 439M, and seeks $1.5B+ in cost savings — PayPal Holdings Inc

Sangmi Cha / Bloomberg: Samsung reaches a 1T valuation, making it only the second Asian company after TSMC to hit the mark, after its stock rose 4x+ over the past year on the AI boom — Samsung Electro

Ignacio Gonzalez / Bloomberg: Shopify reports Q1 revenue up 34% YoY to 3.2B, above est., GMV up 34% YoY to 100B, and forecasts weaker Q2 revenue growth; SHOP falls 11%+ pre-market — Shopify Inc. share

The Information: Source: Anthropic plans to spend about $200B on Google's cloud and chips over five years, representing 40%+ of the “revenue backlog” Google disclosed last week — When Google last mont

John Gruber / Daring Fireball: Source: YC owns ~0.6% of OpenAI, which was seeded by a YC offshoot called YC Research in 2016; at OpenAI's current 852B valuation, the stake is worth 5B+ — Speaking of c

Bloomberg: Sources: Alphabet sold its biggest-ever euro-denominated bonds, raising €9B, and its first Canadian dollar notes, raising CA8.5B, months after raising 20B — Alphabet Inc. needs to borrow he

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Sources: Meta is building agentic tools, including an OpenClaw-like assistant powered by its new Muse Spark AI model to help users create AI bots — Social media platfo