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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Spotify says it has 1M+ subscriptions to Audiobook+, which is on track for $100M in ARR, and unveils an ElevenLabs-powered audiobook self-publishing tool — Alongside tools for

Bloomberg: Taiwan is seeking to detain three people for forging documents to export Nvidia-powered Super Micro servers to China, Hong Kong, and Macau, breaking US rules — Taiwanese officials are seeki

Wall Street Journal: The US Commerce Department plans to award 2B in grants to nine quantum computing companies and will take equity stakes; IBM is set to get 1B of the package — Trump administration

Ashley Gold / Axios: The White House postpones a planned ceremony this afternoon for Trump to sign a new EO on AI and cybersecurity; Trump says “I didn't like certain aspects of it” — The White House

Reuters: Waymo suspends freeway rides and pauses its Atlanta operations, as it updates software to improve performance around construction zones and flooded roadways — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Waymo said

Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Waymo suspends operations in Atlanta and San Antonio as its robotaxis struggle with flooded roads and says it has yet to develop a “final remedy” for flooding — Waymo has now

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Zoom reports Q1 revenue up 5.5% YoY to 1.24B, vs. 1.22B est., AI Companion paid users up 184%, forecasts FY 2027 revenue above est.; ZM jumps 8%+ after hours — Zoom Communicati

Jacob Passy / Wall Street Journal: Airbnb says it is adding luggage storage, airport pickups, car rentals, grocery delivery, and thousands of boutique and independent hotels to its platform — Platform

Nan Ransohoff / Nan's Substack: An analysis based on current valuations of OpenAI and Anthropic suggests ~$370B of philanthropic assets tied to the two AI companies are poised to become liquid — AI is

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: An interview with Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff about plans for Tinder, including a redesign, AI features, live events, and group dating to win over Gen Z — The dating ap

Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: Apple says the App Store prevented over $2.2B in potentially fraudulent transactions in 2025, rejected over 2M problematic app submissions, and more — Ahead of Apple's annu

The Register: Cloud provider Railway says Google Cloud temporarily suspended its account without cause; in 2024, GCP deleted the account of an Australian pension fund — PaaS platform Railway says Goog

Financial Times: Document and sources: China banned Nvidia's RTX 5090D V2 chip, aimed at gamers and animators, while Jensen Huang was visiting China with Donald Trump last week — Beijing aims to suppo

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: GitHub confirms ~3,800 internal repositories were breached after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension; TeamPCP claims responsibility — GitHub

Anu Adegbola / Search Engine Land: Google says it is testing new ad formats in search results and AI Mode, including Conversational Discovery ads, Highlighted Answers, and AI-powered Shopping ads — Go

Katie Paul / Reuters: Internal memo: Mark Zuckerberg told employees that he does not expect more company-wide layoffs this year — Meta (META.O) CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees in an internal memo o

Tom Warren / The Verge: Internal memo: Xbox hires game industry analyst Matthew Ball as chief strategy officer, and names Scott Van Vliet, who led Azure AI infrastructure, as Xbox CTO — The second maj

Mariella Moon / Engadget: Kickstarter retracts stricter rules on mature content after creator backlash, and says it adopted the tougher rules because of its payment processor Stripe — It explained tha

Damisola Sulaiman / Sifted: London-based Primer, which helps e-commerce merchants connect and manage multiple payment providers, raised a 100M Series C led by Sofina — The London-based fintech is doub

Hugh Son / CNBC: Mercury, which provides banking services to startups, raised a 200M Series D led by TCV at a 5.2B valuation, up from 3.5B in March 2025 — Mercury, a fintech firm that provides banking

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: NanoClaw creator NanoCo raised a 12M seed led by Valley Capital and says it is booking enterprise customers; co-founders say they rejected a 20M buyout offer — NanoCo, the com

Brendan Bordelon / Politico: OpenAI's Chris Lehane says he is pursuing “reverse federalism”, lobbying blue states to pass AI safety laws and create a de facto US standard, as DC dithers — OpenAI's eff

George Hammond / Financial Times: Q&A with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg on launching the legal AI startup in 2022, how AI could shake up law firm business models, legal AI competition, and more — The c

Reuters: Russia's Sberbank says it hopes to use Chinese chips to power its flagship GigaChat AI model, as sanctions continue to block the country's access to hardware — Russia hopes to power its flags

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: S. “Soma” Somasegar, who led Microsoft's Developer Division for 12 years as part of his 27-year tenure at the company before leaving in 2015, has died at age 59 — S. “Soma” Som

Jemima McEvoy / The Information: Sam Altman says OpenAI offered to invest 2M in tokens in each startup in the current YC batch; a source says the offer is in exchange for equity via SAFE — OpenAI cofo

Reuters: Samsung Electronics and its South Korean labor union reach a preliminary pay deal; the union says it has suspended a general strike and put the deal to a vote — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Socket, which helps companies safeguard open-source code against hackers, raised 60M led by Thrive Capital at a 1B valuation — Socket, a cybersecurity startup that sells technol

Alexander Martin / The Record: Sources: an attack exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in Huawei router software caused a three-hour nationwide telecoms outage in Luxembourg in 2025 — An atta

Financial Times: Sources: Nvidia's business development group, not its VC arm NVentures, has led much of its ~90B dealmaking push across 145+ companies over the past 16 months — Nvidia's Huang bankrol

Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI is preparing to file confidentially for an IPO as early as Friday; the company plans to be ready to go public as early as September — The artificial-intelligence g

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Stability AI releases a new family of audio models called Stable Audio 3.0 that is trained on licensed data; the top model can generate six-minute songs — Stability AI, the co

Catie Edmondson / New York Times: Three precedent-setting court rulings in China have said that employers replacing workers with AI is voluntary cost-cutting that does not justify mass layoffs — A ser

John Timmer / Ars Technica: Two research papers describe how Google's Co-Scientist and nonprofit FutureHouse's AI tools can succeed at drug-retargeting tasks by forming hypotheses — Both tools generat

Reuters: Ubisoft reports a record operating loss of $1.40B for the year to March and says sales in 2026-27 will fall by about 8% to 9%; UBI falls 6%+ — French videogame publisher Ubisoft warned on Wed

Jack Kubinec / Fortune: Variational, which has built a protocol for decentralized derivatives trading aimed at gathering liquidity from traditional markets, raised a $50M Series A — The crypto industr

Lien Hoang / Nikkei Asia: Vietnam introduces Decree 142 to implement its AI law, requiring companies to classify AI models by risk level, label deepfakes, and disclose chatbot use — HO CHI MINH CITY —

Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: Analog Devices agrees to buy Empower Semiconductor, which makes chips used to regulate voltage, for 1.5B in cash — The deal will help Analog Devices expand it

Bloomberg: CertiK: physical attacks on crypto holders rose 75% YoY to 72 confirmed cases and 41M in known losses in 2025; Coinbase spent ~7.6M to protect Brian Armstrong — After a year of kidnappings,

Bloomberg: Chinese flash memory chipmaker YMTC says it officially initiated a pre-listing tutoring process with local brokers, marking the first formal step toward an IPO — Yangtze Memory Technologies

Jess Kinghorn / PC Gamer: Discord says voice and video calls outside of stage channels are now end-to-end encrypted by default, after launching its encryption protocol in September 2024 — “Likely one

New York Times: Elon Musk's OpenAI loss is set to speed up the AI juggernaut amid rising opposition; the case offered a rare glimpse into tech's workings, ending with a whimper — Even as protests incr

Sanuj Bhatia / Android Central: Google adds a conversational search feature to YouTube and rolls out the new Gemini Omni model in YouTube Shorts Remix and the Create app — Seriously, who is asking for

Macy Meyer / CNET: Google announces updates to Flow and Flow Music: Gemini Omni support, mobile apps, the ability to create custom tools like a video resizer or shaders, and more — Google Flow's famil

Jackson Chen / Engadget: Google debuts Gemini for Science, a set of experimental tools that help researchers generate hypotheses, conduct testing, and understand scientific literature — Three new feat

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google unveils Continue On, a new feature in Android 17 that will let users move tasks between Android devices, similar to Apple's Handoff feature — Google is setting the stag