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CJ Haddad / CNBC: Meta, Broadcom, Applied Materials, GlobalFoundries, and Synopsys launch a 125M “Semiconductor Hub” at UCLA to advance AI chip research and more — Broadcom, Meta, Applied Materials, G

Mariella Moon / Engadget: Meta releases Forum, a Reddit-like standalone app for Facebook Groups, with a feed showing Group conversations and an AI-powered “Ask” feature, on iOS — It's a new dedicated

France 24: President Emmanuel Macron says France will invest an additional €1B for quantum computing research and a further €550M in state funding for semiconductors — Bruyères-le-Châtel (France) (AFP

Katie Tarasov / CNBC: Qualcomm stock closed up 11.6% on Friday and is now up 75% in the past month, as the company increasingly becomes a key player in AI devices — Qualcomm shares surged 12% on Frida

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Reddit stock fell 5%+ on Friday after Meta launched a standalone app for online forums, called Forum; Reddit's stock is now down almost 40% this year — Reddit shares fell about

Justin Papp / CNBC: Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says he requested information from Kalshi and Polymarket on their efforts to prevent insider trading — Rep. James Comer, R

Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: Sources and documents detail Satya Nadella's effort to revamp Microsoft's senior leadership, creating a startup-style operating model to compete in the AI race — CEO

Politico: Sources: David Sacks told President Trump that federal reviews of AI models before release would slow down innovation and hurt the US in its AI race with China — But during a conversation wi

Washington Post: Sources: last-minute calls with Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, David Sacks, and others helped persuade President Trump not to sign the highly anticipated AI EO — Industry leaders warned

Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: Sources: Nintendo asked partners and suppliers to assemble ~20M Switch 2 consoles by March 2027, ~20% above the 16.5M public sales outlook issued in early May — Nintendo

Scott Patterson / Bloomberg: Sources: the SEC has delayed the release of a plan for an “innovation exemption” that would allow crypto firms to trade tokenized versions of US stocks — The Securities an

New York Times: Sources: WH approved a $9B request to acquire advanced AI chips for spy agencies; Anthropic is finalizing a classified contract for NSA to keep using its tools — The C.I.A. and N.S.A.

Peter Wells / Financial Times: The Trump administration plans to require most green card applicants to return to their home countries to apply, which could adversely impact tech workers — Move to tigh

Paul Vieira / Wall Street Journal: The US Ambassador to Canada accuses Canada of imposing trade barriers by requiring that US streamers contribute 15% of Canadian revenue to local programming — Remark

Jeremy Hsu / Ars Technica: The US NTSB suspends access to its database of civil transportation accidents after people re-created voices of pilots killed in a 2025 UPS plane crash using AI — Pilots' vo

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: US and Canadian authorities arrest 23-year-old Jacob Butler, known online as “Dort”, for allegedly operating the Kimwolf DDoS botnet, which infected ~2M devices — U.S

Tech Xplore: A study conducted in the Phoenix metro area finds that waste heat from data centers can raise air temperatures in downwind neighborhoods by as much as 4°F — Waste heat from data centers c

James Peckham / PCMag: Adobe, Canva, and CapCut announce Gemini integrations to let users access the companies' image and video editing tools within the Gemini app — Adobe, Canva, and CapCut all plan

Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal: AMD pledges to invest $10B+ in Taiwan's chip industry to make advanced chip packaging for AI, and says TSMC will ramp up production of its next-gen Venice chips — The

Bloomberg: Analysis: Samsung is set to distribute ~26.6B to its 78,000 chip employees, or a ~340K bonus to each, in early 2027 as part of a last-minute labor union deal — Samsung Electronics Co. could

Preeti Singh / Bloomberg: Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman's unnamed enterprise services JV buys Fractional AI, its first deal; sources say Fractional ends its OpenAI deal — The new artif

Todd Spangler / Variety: Apple plans to broadcast an MLS game on Saturday shot entirely on 15 iPhone 17 Pros, the first major live sports event to be captured using only smartphones — Apple has freque

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Bengaluru-based Scapia, which offers travel-focused co-branded credit cards and an app, raised 63M led by GC, a source says at a 500M+ post-money valuation — Scapia, an Ind

Steven Lee Myers / New York Times: Bluesky and Clemson researchers detail a novel Russian influence campaign that hijacked legitimate, influential accounts to spread pro-Kremlin propaganda — The compa

Logan Hitchcock / Decrypt: Crypto exchange Blockchain.com confidentially files for a US IPO; the UK-based company founded in 2011 was once valued at $14B — Long-running crypto exchange Blockchain.com

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: ElevenLabs, which aims to build an all-in-one AI voice app, licensed 200K human-voiced audiobooks from major publishers, available in ElevenReader for $11/mo. — ElevenLabs i

Reuters: Federal records: Grok was utilized in only 3 of 400+ publicly identified federal AI use cases in 2025, behind 234 for ChatGPT, 33 for Gemini, 26 for Claude — SpaceX's initial public offering

Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware: Flipper unveils the Flipper One, a pocketable open Arm Linux computer with similar performance to a Raspberry Pi 5, and welcomes feedback to get it market-ready — But the

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: GitHub links the breach of 3,800 internal repositories to the TanStack npm supply-chain attack, saying hackers used a malicious Nx Console VS Code extension — GitHub

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Hark, founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock to build AI-powered devices, raised a 700M+ Series A led by Parkway Venture at a 6B post-money valuation — Entrepreneur Brett Ad

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: Higgsfield AI premieres Hell Grind, a 95-minute fully AI-generated film, at Cannes and says it took two weeks and cost 500K to make, of which 400K was on AI

CNBC: Jeff Bezos dismisses AI job fears, defends billionaires against “vilification”, proposes eliminating income taxes for low earners, and praises President Trump — VIDEO 54:38 — Watch CNBC's full i

Robert Booth / The Guardian: London Mayor Sadiq Khan blocks the Met police's £50M Palantir deal to automate intelligence analysis, citing a “clear and serious breach” of procurement rules — Exclusive:

Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: Netflix and iHeartMedia say Charlamagne tha God's The Breakfast Club will stream live on Netflix on weekdays from June 1, the service's first daily live show — Charl

Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: Paris-based Pivot, which develops AI tools for procurement and financial workflows, raised a $40M Series B co-led by Forestay Capital and Notion Capital — With new fundin

Chloe Taylor / CNBC: Shares of quantum computing companies surged Thursday after the US government announced grants with equity stakes: D-Wave closed up 33%, Rigetti 30%, IBM 12% — Quantum computing s

Wired: Socket: TeamPCP, the gang claiming GitHub's repositories breach, also executed 20 “waves” of supply chain attacks recently, compromising 500+ pieces of software — GitHub is just the latest vict

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Source: Cursor reached 3B in annualized revenue in late April and now has 3,000+ customers paying at least 100K each for its software on an annualized basis — Cursor's annuali

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Source: smart ring maker Oura filed confidentially for a US IPO, set for later in 2026; SF- and Finland-based Oura had an $11B valuation in September 2025 — Smart Ring Maker O

The Information: Sources: Anthropic is in talks to rent servers powered by Microsoft-designed chips; source: Anthropic has steadily increased its Azure usage since November 2025 — Anthropic is in talk

Bloomberg: Sources: Manus' co-founders are in talks to raise 1B+ to buy back the Chinese-founded company, after Beijing ordered Meta to unwind its 2B acquisition — The co-founders of Manus are explori

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: Sources: Sony's Bungie plans significant layoffs as it ends development on its online game Destiny 2 with no new projects lined up; Destiny 2 launched in 2017 — The Sony su

Axios: Sources: Trump delayed signing the AI EO because “he just hates regulation”; he spoke with Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and David Sacks just prior to the delay — Everything seemed set for a phot

Bloomberg: SpaceX S-1: Valor Equity Partners founder Antonio Gracias, a longtime Elon Musk ally, controls a 7.3% stake in SpaceX, the second-largest holder after Musk — Antonio Gracias, the founder of

Jem Aswad / Variety: Spotify and UMG plan to let Premium users create AI covers and remixes using music from participating UMG artists as a paid add-on, without giving a launch date — Spotify and Univ

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Spotify closes up 13% after announcing new features and 2030 guidance, forecasting a compound annual growth rate in the mid-teens and gross margins of 35%-40% — Spotify shares j