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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

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

Michael Larabel / Phoronix: Initial benchmarks show Nvidia's Vera CPU, which features 88 in-house-designed Olympus cores, packs a heavy-hitting punch, beating Intel's and AMD's x86_64 CPUs — NVIDIA's

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

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

Tom Warren / The Verge: Nvidia officially retires its GeForce Control Panel app after 20 years, following the porting of all of its major features to the Nvidia app — Nvidia has now ported across all

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

Bloomberg: Sources: Chinese government agencies begin imposing overseas travel restrictions on individuals involved in advanced AI work, including at Alibaba and DeepSeek — China is restricting overse

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

David Jeans / Reuters: Sources: SpaceX successfully pressured the Pentagon to raise Starlink fees for LUCAS kamikaze drones amid increasing tensions over Starlink's pricing — As U.S. kamikaze drones g

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: SpaceX filing: X's ad revenue was 1.8B in 2025, 1.7B in 2024, and 2.3B in 2023, below Twitter's 4B in 2021; X and Grok now have 6.3M active paid subscribers — Spa

Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: Spain says it is blocking Polymarket and Kalshi as a precautionary measure while it probes possible gambling law violations over the next three to four months — The g

Financial Times: Spotify co-CEO Alex Norström defends the company's expansion into AI-generated music, arguing that “controlled” products are superior to unregulated AI “slop” — Streaming app strikes

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Spotify launches a library of over 650 narrated long-form magazine articles in English for Premium users; free users can buy articles “individually for $1.99” — More than

Pieter Haeck / Politico: The Dutch government blocks the acquisition of authentication IT supplier Solvinity by US-based Kyndryl, citing “a possible risk to the public interest” — BRUSSELS — The Dutch

Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: US cybersecurity company Zscaler reports Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to 850.5M, above 835.4M est., and forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; ZS drops 18%+ after hours — Zscaler

Daniel Boguslaw / Wired: US law enforcement documents: the DHS, FBI, and other agencies introduce a novel domestic threat category termed “anti-tech violent extremism” amid the AI boom — As Americans

Bloomberg: Xiaomi reports Q1 revenue down 11% YoY to ~14.6B, its first quarterly decline in three years, and net income down 57% to 695M amid a global memory price jump — Xiaomi Corp.'s quarterly prof

Joann S. Lublin / Wall Street Journal: A growing number of execs are creating AI digital twins to manage tasks; Reid Hoffman says “Reid AI” has delivered 75+ addresses and presentations since 2024 — I

@bookwormengr: A look at DeepSeek's model optimization to reduce HBM use, potentially enabling domestic memory, ASIC, and CPU makers to create a Chinese AI hardware ecosystem — Have you ever wondered,

New York Times: A look at the UK's AI Safety Institute, whose researchers probe AI models for safety gaps, as its work becomes a blueprint for other governments' AI policies — The government's A.I. Se

Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: A look at Xiaomi's AI push to future-proof its hardware and EV ecosystem, as it recently committed ~$8.8B in AI investments over the next three years — Xiaomi is

Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, a top lieutenant of Mark Zuckerberg who is leading the gargantuan effort to transform Meta into an AI-first company

Washington Post: A section of the Pope's encyclical describing AI's unpredictability suggests influence from Anthropic, whose co-founder Christopher Olah attended the unveiling — In “Magnifica humanit

New York Times: A surge in AI-generated “pro se” cases, or lawsuits filed by self-represented litigants, is democratizing the US legal system but consuming more court resources — For years, courts hav

Check Point Research: How Iranian threat actor Nimbus Manticore used techniques like AI-assisted malware development and SEO poisoning to target companies during the US-Iran war — Key Findings — The I

Joshua McElwee / Reuters: In his ~43,000-word encyclical, the Pope urged governments to slow down AI development and decried “new forms of slavery” in AI and tech supply chains — Pope Leo urged govern

Reuters: Iranian state media reports that President Masoud Pezeshkian has issued an order to reopen international internet access after a near-90-day blackout — Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian has

Bryan Hecht / The Boston Globe: Massachusetts formally recognizes the App Drivers Union, which says it represents ~70,000 workers and is the first state-certified rideshare union in the US — Uber and

Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: More than 5,500 GitHub repositories were infected with malware in a supply chain attack, dubbed Megalodon, on May 18 that relies on automated commits — Fake automated com

New York Times: Pope Leo XIV presents Magnifica humanitas, his encyclical on AI, calling for AI regulation, protection for children against hypersexualized AI images, and more — The document marks a p

Reuters: Report: the EU plans to fine Google a high triple-digit million euro amount as part of a 2025 probe over concerns it favors its own services in search results — The European Union is planning

Bloomberg: SoftBank stock jumped 4.6% to a record high on Monday, spurred by hopes of big returns from the company's stakes in OpenAI and SB Energy Corp if they go public — SoftBank Group Corp. shares

Océane Herrero / Politico: Sources: Meta, Google, and Amazon execs met Vatican officials on April 29, as part of a quiet lobbying push ahead of Pope Leo XIV's first AI encyclical — As Leo XIV prepares