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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

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Spotify Labs launches Studio, a NotebookLM-like desktop app to generate private, AI-powered podcasts, in research preview across 20+ markets — One of the common features for c

Ethan Millman / The Hollywood Reporter: Spotify partners with Live Nation to launch Reserved, a new feature that sets aside tickets for the most dedicated fans, starting with Premium users in the US —

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