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Laurie Chen / Reuters: China's Linkerbot, which holds 80%+ of global dexterous robotic hands market, raised a Series B+ at a 3B valuation and seeks a 6B valuation in its next round — Chinese robotics

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen says he is making an unsolicited ~$56B offer to buy eBay and will take the offer to shareholders if the company is not receptive — Cohen to

Chavie Lieber / Wall Street Journal: How Amazon's expansion into fashion helped Jeff Bezos enter fashion's inner circle, as he and Lauren Sánchez Bezos become underwriters for this year's Met Gala — T

Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: How music streaming services are adapting to the rise of AI-generated music by labeling, deranking, and demonetizing tracks, using AI detection tools, and more — The use

Financial Times: JLL: Japan's $23B data center market is set to grow ~50% by 2030, with 90% of sites concentrated in densely populated regions, prompting pushback from residents — Japan is getting rea

David Keohane / Financial Times: Nintendo's share price has fallen by ~45% since August 2025, as rising memory chip costs drive investor concerns over profit margins for the Switch 2 — Higher memory c

The Economic Times: Palo Alto Networks agrees to acquire Portkey, which develops AI gateway tech to manage and secure AI agents; sources say the deal values Portkey at 120M-140M — Cybersecurity giant

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Anthropic is finalizing a deal for a 1.5B JV with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Hellman & Friedman, and others to sell AI tools to PE-backed companies — Anthropic, Blackston

Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI employees have raised alarms internally over failures to alert law enforcement when users describe plans for real-world violence to ChatGPT — OpenA

Victor Swezey / Bloomberg: A Chinese court ruled that companies cannot terminate staff just to replace them with AI, following a similar ruling by another Chinese court in December 2025 — A Chinese co

Bloomberg: A look at casino-style games, considered gambling in some US states, where player “whales” spend tens of thousands via IAP on Apple, Google, and Meta platforms — “please remove this game fr

Wall Street Journal: A profile of OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, who sources say helped keep OpenAI's Microsoft deal on track and has privately suggested waiting until 2027 for an IPO — The chief financial o

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Analysis: after Trump's World Liberty raised $550M from investors, tokens worth hundreds of millions in USD were privately sold in “white glove” transactions — The pitch was s

Chase DiBenedetto / Mashable: Ask.com shutters, as its owner IAC “continues to sharpen its focus”; a dot-com era icon, Ask Jeeves launched in 1997, a year before Google — “As IAC continues to sharpen

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Avoca, whose AI agents let physical services businesses handle inbound calls and dispatch, raised 125M+ across seed, Series A, and Series B at a 1B valuation — Tyson Chen an

Reuters: Investigation: Nobitex was founded by two brothers from Iran's elite Kharrazi family; the crypto exchange processed hundreds of millions beyond US sanctions — Two brothers from the elite Khar

Sanya Mansoor / The Guardian: Maryland becomes the first US state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores, as other states including CO, CA, MA, IL, and NJ consider similar bills — Critics say M

New York Times: Ripple Labs investor and exec Chris Larsen plans to spend 3.5M to help Alex Bores, a NY congressional candidate at the center of a proxy war over AI regulation — Chris Larsen, who hail

The Information: Sources: Anthropic is in early talks to buy AI inference chips from UK-based Fractile when they become available in 2027 — As Anthropic's sales explode, straining the servers it uses,

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: Sources: GameStop is preparing to make an offer for eBay after quietly building a stake; GameStop had a market cap of ~11B as of May 1, while eBay had ~45B — Retai

Bloomberg: Sources: Nigerian mobile payments service OPay is preparing for a US IPO at a $4B valuation with Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan Chase advising — Opay Digital Services Ltd. is workin

Robert Booth / The Guardian: Study: OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of emergency room patients using electronic records and a few sentences from nurses, vs. to 50-55% for triage doctors — Research

Jonathan Greig / The Record: A bug in popular cPanel, WHM, and WP Squared software has reportedly been exploited since Feb.; CISA it gives a 9.8 CVSS score, tells agencies to patch by May 3 — Federal

Sam Tobin / Reuters: A UK court orders Samsung to pay ZTE 392M for patents needed to enable phone network access; Samsung faces similar suits from ZTE in China, Germany, and Brazil — Samsung Electroni

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Amazon debuts “Join the chat”, an AI-powered feature that lets users ask questions about products and get conversational audio responses generated in real time — Amazon

Michael Acton / Financial Times: Apple CFO Kevan Parekh says “the iPhone 17 family is now the most popular lineup in our history” and “we believe we gained market share during the quarter” — John Tern

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Apple has stopped offering a 256GB storage option for the Mac mini globally; Mac mini now starts at 512GB for $799 in the US — Apple this week stopped offering a 256GB stora

Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: China's EV makers are competing on in-car AI features; ByteDance says its Doubao AI is used in 7M+ cars across 145 models, including from Mercedes, Audi, and VW — - China's EV pri

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Cloud computing provider Nebius agrees to buy Eigen AI, which optimizes the performance of chips running AI inference tasks, for $615M in stock and cash — Cloud computing provid

Jessica Lyons / The Register: Experts say supply chain attacks compromised SAP and Intercom npm packages, plus the PyPI package Lightning, in a campaign that calls itself Mini Shai-Hulud — The wave of

Ben Weiss / Fortune: Fun, which builds fiat and crypto payment rails for platforms like Polymarket and Aave, raised a $72M Series A in January, co-led by Multicoin and SignalFire — The finer details o

Taylor Lorenz / Wired: How influencers boosting US-based AI and opposing Chinese AI are paid with money tied to Leading the Future, funded by execs from OpenAI, Palantir, a16z, others — Build American

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Meta acquires a startup Assured Robot Intelligence to bolster its robotics team, which is working on humanoid hardware and the underlying AI that powers it — Meta Platforms In

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: “Podslop” is flooding listening platforms like Spotify; Podcast Index: of ~11K new podcast feeds in a recent 9-day span, ~39% were likely for AI content shows — Over the pas

Ben Shimkus / Business Insider: Pushing back on AI job loss fears, AWS CEO Matt Garman says Amazon plans to hire 11,000 software engineering interns in 2026, a figure in line with recent years — - AWS

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers detail CopyFail, a now-patched Linux vulnerability that lets unprivileged users gain admin access, as many distributions have yet to add fixes — Publicly release

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical have been down for more than a day, following a “sustained, cross-border attack” — Servers operated by Ubuntu and

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Some retail traders are training AI agents to buy and sell assets on their behalf, as exchanges like Polymarket and Bybit roll out agent-friendly interfaces — Jake Nesler's

Bloomberg: Sources: Cerebras is seeking to raise as much as 4B in its IPO and is targeting a valuation of about 40B — Cerebras Systems Inc. is seeking to raise as much as $4 billion in its initial pub

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Coatue formed Next Frontier in 2025 to buy land for data centers; Next Frontier has a JV with neocloud Fluidstack that has raised $5.7B via junk bonds — Philippe Laffont'

Zijing Wu / Financial Times: Sources: Huawei expects AI chip revenue to hit ~12B in 2026, up 60% from 7.5B in 2025, as orders for its Ascend 950PR chip surge and Nvidia stalls in China — Chinese tech

Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: Sources: Peter Thiel's Founders Fund raised 6B for a fund to invest in later-stage companies, marking its largest haul ever; 4.5B comes from limited partners — Peter T

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: Sources: the US DOD strikes agreements with Nvidia, Microsoft, Reflection AI, and AWS to use their AI tools on classified military networks for “lawful” use — The Pentagon

Lisa Richwine / Reuters: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences issues new rules saying acting and writing must be performed by humans and not AI to be eligible for Oscars — Academy Awards or

Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs: The FBI warns of rising cyber cargo theft, where attackers hack freight brokers' accounts and dupe carriers; 2025 cargo theft losses in N. America rose 60% YoY —

Issie Lapowsky / Bloomberg: The gender gap in AI use may be a matter of visibility more than usage, as data suggests women face more judgment for using AI and are less likely to admit it — Women are u