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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Adobe unveils Firefly AI Assistant, which can orchestrate and execute multistep tasks across Creative Cloud apps, available in public beta in the coming weeks — Last October,
Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: AI cloud infrastructure company Parasail raised a 32M Series A led by Touring Capital and Kindred Ventures, bringing its total funding to 42M — “Give me tokens. Just give me
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm invest 60M in London-based self-driving tech startup Wayve as part of an extension to its 1.2B Series D, announced in February — Chipmakers AMD, Ar
Matt Burgess / Wired: Analysis: nearly 90 schools and 600 students globally have been impacted by AI-generated deepfake nudes; North America had nearly 30 reported cases since 2023 — An analysis by WI
Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt: Anthropic rolls out identity verification that may require Claude users to provide a government-issued photo ID and live selfie to access “certain capabilities” — Anthropi
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple endorses the ~$11.6B Amazon-Globalstar deal, citing a “proven track record” with Amazon infrastructure; Apple holds a ~20% stake in Globalstar — Amazon.com Inc.'s takeov
Sharon Goldman / Fortune: Artemis, which aims to replace rule-based cybersecurity systems with an AI-driven centralized “brain”, emerges from stealth with a $70M Series A led by Felicis — Artemis, a n
Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: Asia's startup funding rose 93% YoY to 27.4B in Q1, the highest quarterly total in 3+ years, with Chinese startups raising 16.5B and Indian startups $3.8B — Asia's st
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: ASML reports Q1 net sales of €8.8B, above €8.5B est., a €2.8B net profit, above €2.5B est., and raises 2026 net sales forecast to €36B to €40B from €34B to €39B — ASML raised its
Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg: ASML says South Korea surpassed China as its largest market in Q1 2026, with shipments hitting 45% of net system sales, or €2.84B, up from 22% in Q4 2025 — South Korea emerged
Juro Osawa / The Information: ByteDance launches its Seedance 2.0 video model to enterprise clients in 100+ countries, excluding the US amid legal disputes, after a February launch in China — ByteDanc
Steven Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNET: Cal.com, which provides scheduling software, is moving its core open-source codebase to a closed repository, citing the dangers of AI hacking its open code — ZDNET's ke
Jo Constantz / Bloomberg: Companies that hire young “AI natives” have found that AI tools can be both helpful and debilitating to workers, in some cases requiring more careful oversight — The promises
Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: European VC funding in Q1 2026 rose nearly 30% YoY to 17.6B, AI claimed over 50% of all European funding for the quarter, and deal volume dropped 40% YoY — European ventu
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Filings: Caterpillar acquires self-driving electric tractor startup Monarch Tractor's assets, after it raised $200M+ and struggled to pivot to software services — Monarch Tra
Bloomberg: Filings: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz donated 25M to pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future, bringing the group's total cash on hand to over 51M — Venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and B
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: Former Mercor staffers describe “operational mishaps” at the 10B startup, including employee fraud, a security breach, and suspected North Korean infiltration — Founded in
IDC: Global smartphone shipments fell 4.1% YoY in Q1, the first decline since 2023, amid a memory chip crunch; Samsung's shipments grew 3.6% and Apple's grew 3.3% — Limited memory supply and record hi
Google DeepMind: Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 robotic reasoning model, says it shows significant spatial and physical reasoning improvements over ER 1.5 — For robots to be truly h
Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google launches a Gemini Mac app, featuring a keyboard shortcut, screen sharing for better context, image generation with Nano Banana, and more — Gemini now has a native Mac app
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Google rolls out Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, a text-to-speech model with support for over 70 languages and audio tags that give developers granular speech control — The compa
Madison Mills / Axios: Hilbert, whose AI software connects data across teams to help companies make decisions from a single system, raised a 28M Series A led by a16z — Hilbert, an AI startup rethinkin
Natalie Breymeyer / Axios: London-based Gizmo, which uses AI to turn young students' notes into gamified study materials, raised a 22M Series A led by Shine Capital and reports 13M users — Gizmo, an A
Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg: Memo: Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says the company plans to lay off ~1,000 full-time employees, or 16% of its global workforce, to cut costs and achieve profitability — Snap
Chris Metinko / Axios: NY-based Auctor, which uses AI to curate resource plans and process flows to help companies adopt new software, raised 20M in a combined seed and Series A — Auctor, a startup he
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Objection, which aims to use AI and experts to evaluate claims in news stories, debuts with funding from Peter Thiel, Balaji Srinivasan; evaluations cost $2,000 — After he
Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: OpenAI updates Agents SDK with native sandboxing and an in-distribution harness for deploying and testing agents on long-horizon tasks — Agentic AI is the tech industry's new
Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: PitchBook: US growth and late-stage venture funds raised 23.6B YTD, up from 7.4B in 2025 and above the totals for any of the past 12 years, amid the AI boom — U.
John Collison / Cheeky Pint: Q&A with ElevenLabs co-founder Mati Staniszewski on how audio models work, the company's business model, the conversational Turing Test, voice agents, and more — Mati Stan
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: Q&A with Jensen Huang on Nvidia's supply chain moat, competition from ASICs like Google's TPU, investing in AI labs and neoclouds, selling to China, and more — “If o
Alex Heath / Sources: Sources: a Snap-Perplexity AI search deal calling for Perplexity to pay Snap $400M has fallen apart; Snap is set to announce significant layoffs on Wednesday — Mass layoffs land
Financial Times: Sources: ahead of US midterms, Democrats have been advised not to antagonize a ~$300M pro-AI lobby; internal polling shows broad support for tougher AI rules — Pro-industry campaign g
Financial Times: Sources and analyst estimates: Uber is on track to spend 7.5B+ on buying robotaxis and 2.5B+ on equity stakes in their makers over the next few years — Ride-hailing app races to make
The Information: Sources: Apple plans to send ~200 people from its Siri team, a group internally known as a laggard, to an AI coding bootcamp — Apple is sending a portion of its Siri programmers back
Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank invites more banks to join its 40B loan backing its OpenAI investment, requiring them to commit ~5B each; SoftBank has already invested 30B — More banks are being invited
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Spotify launches a feature to buy physical books in the US and UK, powered by Bookshop.org, and expands its Page Match tool to support 30 additional languages — In Febru
Washington Post: Survey: only 35% of Virginia voters are comfortable with new data center construction, down from 69% in 2023, and just 37% support data center tax breaks — Virginians previously embra
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Tel Aviv-based eToro agrees to acquire crypto wallet provider Zengo, a source says for ~$70M, mostly in cash; Zengo lets traders swap between tokens and fiat — EToro Group L
Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: The EU unveils an open-source age verification app that requires legal ID to shield minors from harmful content, aiming to standardize verification in the bloc — The Europ
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: The European Commission issues a supplementary statement of objections threatening Meta with an interim ban on WhatsApp policies that allegedly block rivals — Meta Platform
Molly Taft / Wired: The US Energy Information Administration plans to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use — In a letter obtained by WIRED, the Energy In
Bloomberg: Trading firm Jane Street takes an additional 1B stake in CoreWeave, and plans to spend ~6B to access CoreWeave's Vera Rubin chips to build and deploy AI — Jane Street Group, a trading firm,
Bryce Elder / Financial Times: Trainer maker Allbirds, which sold last week for 39M after its valuation fell from 4B in 2021, says it aims to become an AI compute provider; BIRD jumps 150%+ — Ah, zeit
David McCabe / New York Times: WPP, Dentsu, and Publicis settle with the FTC over claims they colluded on misinformation policies that denied ad revenue to conservative publishers — WPP, Dentsu and Pu
Timmy Shen / The Block: X launches Cashtags, a feature that lets users view real-time financial data on stocks and crypto directly in their timelines, in the US and Canada — Quick Take — Nikita Bier,
Jason Parham / Wired: X users complain that the latest crackdown on bots purged secret accounts they had used for years to watch and curate their favorite porn — The platform's large-scale crackdown o
Byard Duncan / Bloomberg: A profile of BusPatrol, whose AI-powered cameras on 35K+ school buses in 24 US states record vehicles passing illegally, claiming they help reduce violations — BusPatrol says
Dom Cooke / Colossus: A profile of Jeffrey Yan and his startup Hyperliquid, a 10B crypto exchange that never took VC money and generated 900M+ in profit in 2025 with 11 employees — Jeffrey Yan turned
About Amazon: Amazon agrees to acquire satellite operator Globalstar, set to close in 2027, to expand Leo; Amazon and Apple say Leo will power some iPhone and Watch services — Today Amazon.com, Inc. a
Reuters: Amazon agrees to pay 11.57B for Globalstar, or 90/share in cash or Amazon stock, assuming Globalstar meets certain HIBLEO-4 replacement satellite milestones — Amazon.com (AMZN.O) said on Tues
Anthropic: Anthropic details using AI agents to accelerate alignment research on “weak-to-strong supervision”, where a weak model supervises the training of a stronger one — Large language models' eve
The Information: Anthropic recently changed Claude Enterprise pricing; customers now pay $20/month per user plus consumption-based charges, instead of a fixed subscription — Businesses whose employees
Claude: Anthropic redesigns Claude Code on desktop, adding a sidebar for managing multiple sessions, a drag-and-drop layout, an integrated terminal, and a file editor — Today, we're releasing a redesi
Reuters: AWS launches Amazon Bio Discovery, an AI-powered application designed to speed up drug development, giving scientists access to biological foundation models — Amazon's (AMZN.O) cloud unit on
Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal: EV maker Lucid says Uber agreed to buy 35K+ additional Lucid vehicles for its robotaxi fleet and invest 200M more, taking its total Lucid investment to 500M — Uber w
Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google designates “back button hijacking” as malicious, saying sites interfering with a browser's back button function may be demoted in Search starting in June — Websites that
Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google releases a Windows desktop app with a macOS Spotlight-like search box for the web, Google Drive, and local files, a screen sharing feature, and more — After testing got u
Konstantin Kakaes / Quanta Magazine: How some mathematicians are exploring ways to incorporate LLM models into their research without losing direct experience with mathematical understanding — Those c
David Ingram / NBC News: In a letter to senators in January, Apple said it notified X that Grok could be removed from the App Store over Grok's ability to generate sexualized deepfakes — In a letter t
Financial Times: Iran's internet blackout enters a record 45th day, per NetBlocks, amid the war; the country's 90M people now rely on the domestic National Information Network — When the US and Israel