Knowledge catalogue
Bloomberg: Sources: Nigerian mobile payments service OPay is preparing for a US IPO at a $4B valuation with Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan Chase advising — Opay Digital Services Ltd. is workin
Robert Booth / The Guardian: Study: OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of emergency room patients using electronic records and a few sentences from nurses, vs. to 50-55% for triage doctors — Research
Jonathan Greig / The Record: A bug in popular cPanel, WHM, and WP Squared software has reportedly been exploited since Feb.; CISA it gives a 9.8 CVSS score, tells agencies to patch by May 3 — Federal
Sam Tobin / Reuters: A UK court orders Samsung to pay ZTE 392M for patents needed to enable phone network access; Samsung faces similar suits from ZTE in China, Germany, and Brazil — Samsung Electroni
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Amazon debuts “Join the chat”, an AI-powered feature that lets users ask questions about products and get conversational audio responses generated in real time — Amazon
Michael Acton / Financial Times: Apple CFO Kevan Parekh says “the iPhone 17 family is now the most popular lineup in our history” and “we believe we gained market share during the quarter” — John Tern
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Apple has stopped offering a 256GB storage option for the Mac mini globally; Mac mini now starts at 512GB for $799 in the US — Apple this week stopped offering a 256GB stora
Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: China's EV makers are competing on in-car AI features; ByteDance says its Doubao AI is used in 7M+ cars across 145 models, including from Mercedes, Audi, and VW — - China's EV pri
Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Cloud computing provider Nebius agrees to buy Eigen AI, which optimizes the performance of chips running AI inference tasks, for $615M in stock and cash — Cloud computing provid
Jessica Lyons / The Register: Experts say supply chain attacks compromised SAP and Intercom npm packages, plus the PyPI package Lightning, in a campaign that calls itself Mini Shai-Hulud — The wave of
Ben Weiss / Fortune: Fun, which builds fiat and crypto payment rails for platforms like Polymarket and Aave, raised a $72M Series A in January, co-led by Multicoin and SignalFire — The finer details o
Taylor Lorenz / Wired: How influencers boosting US-based AI and opposing Chinese AI are paid with money tied to Leading the Future, funded by execs from OpenAI, Palantir, a16z, others — Build American
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Meta acquires a startup Assured Robot Intelligence to bolster its robotics team, which is working on humanoid hardware and the underlying AI that powers it — Meta Platforms In
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: “Podslop” is flooding listening platforms like Spotify; Podcast Index: of ~11K new podcast feeds in a recent 9-day span, ~39% were likely for AI content shows — Over the pas
Ben Shimkus / Business Insider: Pushing back on AI job loss fears, AWS CEO Matt Garman says Amazon plans to hire 11,000 software engineering interns in 2026, a figure in line with recent years — - AWS
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers detail CopyFail, a now-patched Linux vulnerability that lets unprivileged users gain admin access, as many distributions have yet to add fixes — Publicly release
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical have been down for more than a day, following a “sustained, cross-border attack” — Servers operated by Ubuntu and
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Some retail traders are training AI agents to buy and sell assets on their behalf, as exchanges like Polymarket and Bybit roll out agent-friendly interfaces — Jake Nesler's
Bloomberg: Sources: Cerebras is seeking to raise as much as 4B in its IPO and is targeting a valuation of about 40B — Cerebras Systems Inc. is seeking to raise as much as $4 billion in its initial pub
Wall Street Journal: Sources: Coatue formed Next Frontier in 2025 to buy land for data centers; Next Frontier has a JV with neocloud Fluidstack that has raised $5.7B via junk bonds — Philippe Laffont'
Zijing Wu / Financial Times: Sources: Huawei expects AI chip revenue to hit ~12B in 2026, up 60% from 7.5B in 2025, as orders for its Ascend 950PR chip surge and Nvidia stalls in China — Chinese tech
Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: Sources: Peter Thiel's Founders Fund raised 6B for a fund to invest in later-stage companies, marking its largest haul ever; 4.5B comes from limited partners — Peter T
Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: Sources: the US DOD strikes agreements with Nvidia, Microsoft, Reflection AI, and AWS to use their AI tools on classified military networks for “lawful” use — The Pentagon
Lisa Richwine / Reuters: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences issues new rules saying acting and writing must be performed by humans and not AI to be eligible for Oscars — Academy Awards or
Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs: The FBI warns of rising cyber cargo theft, where attackers hack freight brokers' accounts and dupe carriers; 2025 cargo theft losses in N. America rose 60% YoY —
Issie Lapowsky / Bloomberg: The gender gap in AI use may be a matter of visibility more than usage, as data suggests women face more judgment for using AI and are less likely to admit it — Women are u
Mike Stone / Reuters: The US Navy awards Domino Data Lab a contract worth up to $100M for AI software that teaches underwater drones to identify new mines in the Strait of Hormuz — The U.S. Navy is ra
Greg Otto / CyberScoop: The US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand publish guidance on orgs' use of agentic AI systems, saying many give AI more access than can be safely monitored — The guidance
Juli Clover / MacRumors: Tim Cook says that the Mac Studio and the Mac mini, which many are buying for AI and agentic tools, “may take several months to reach supply demand balance” — During today's e
Aarian Marshall / Wired: Waymo says it is continuing to “refine” its system preventing kids under 18 from riding alone, after adult riders reported new age-verification checks — As adult riders report
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: xAI launches Grok 4.3, featuring “always-on reasoning”, 1M token context window, and low API pricing, and releases a voice cloning suite called Custom Voices — While Elon M
Will Knight / Wired: A look at Eka, which trains its robotic claw on a “vision-force-action model” incorporating realistic joints, motors, and physics principles into its simulation — From sorting chi
Annie Palmer / CNBC: Alphabet's stock climbed 10% on Thursday and 34% in April, its best month since 2004; Meta's stock plunged 8.5% on Thursday, its steepest drop since October — Alphabet's stock sur
Financial Times: Analysis: Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon's combined capex hit a record 130B in Q1, and it is set to reach 725B in 2026, up 77% from $410B in 2025 — Meta stock drops on capex in
Anthropic: Anthropic unveils BioMysteryBench to test Claude's bioinformatics skills against human experts, and says Mythos solved ~30% of 23 questions that stumped experts — In this post, Brianna, a r
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates and reports Q2 results above projections in China but below expectations in the Americas and Europe regions — Apple Inc. delivered a
Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Apple Q2: iPhone up 22% YoY to 56.99B, vs. 57.21B est., Mac up 6% to 8.4B, iPad up 8% to 6.91B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories up 5% to $7.9B — Apple issued a better-than-
Todd Spangler / Variety: Apple reports Q2 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, and more, grew 16.3% YoY to 30.98B, beating estimates of 30.4B — Apple hit another
Apple: Apple reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to 111.18B, vs. 109.66B est., net income up 19% to 29.6B, and authorizes an additional 100B share buyback program — March quarter records for total company r
Counterpoint Research: Apple shipped 71.6% of all smartphones with satellite connectivity in 2025; smartphones with satellite connectivity to reach 46% of global shipments by 2030 — - Driven by premiu
Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: Atlassian reports Q3 revenue up 32% YoY to 1.79B, vs. 1.69B est., and raises its annual revenue forecast; TEAM jumps 17%+ after hours — Atlassian (TEAM.O) raised its annual r
Chloe Meley / Bloomberg: European software companies, including SAP, Capgemini, Nemetschek, Hexagon, and Dassault, report better-than-expected earnings despite AI fears and the Iran war — Europe's sof
Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: GoTo reports net income of ~$15M for Q1 2026, its first ever, after job cuts and unit disposals helped Indonesia's largest internet company reduce costs — GoTo Group shares jum
Bloomberg: How Kosovo's tech industry, driven by local companies like business outsource provider SPEEEX, is helping cut youth unemployment and changing Pristina's skyline — From the rooftop terrace o
Hyonhee Shin / Bloomberg: Hyundai unveils Pleos Connect, a next-generation infotainment system with Gleo AI voice assistant, debuting in May on the new Grandeur sedan in South Korea — Hyundai Motor Co
Katie Tarasov / CNBC: Intel shares jumped 114% in April, hitting a record on April 24 and lifting its market cap past $470B, closing out the chipmaker's best month on record — Intel is on a winning st
Wired: Musk v. Altman: OpenAI lawyers claim Shivon Zilis, a longtime Musk employee and mother to four of his children, acted as a covert liaison between him and OpenAI — Messages presented at trial re
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Netomi, which builds AI for enterprise customer service, raised 110M led by Accenture Ventures and signs a deal to bring its platform to Accenture clients — Netomi, the Sa
TRM Insights: North Korea-linked hackers stole ~$577M across the Drift Protocol and KelpDAO hacks in April, accounting for 76% of total crypto hack losses so far in 2026 — Key takeaways — North Korean
OpenAI: OpenAI says its models, starting with GPT-5.1, “increasingly mentioned goblins, gremlins, and other creatures”, leading to prompt instructions to mitigate it — Starting with GPT-5.1, our model
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Reddit reports Q1 revenue up 69% YoY to 663M vs. 611M est., DAUq up 17% to 126.8M, above est., forecasts Q2 revenue above est.; RDDT jumps 13%+ after hours — Reddit reported be
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: Roblox reports Q1 bookings up 43% YoY to 1.7B, vs. 1.73B est., and DAUs up 35% to 132M, below analysts' estimates of 143.8M; RBLX drops 16%+ after hours — Roblox Corp.
Todd Spangler / Variety: Roku reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to 1.25B, ad revenue up 27% to 613M, subscription revenue up 30%, raises 2026 profit guidance; ROKU jumps 8%+ after hours — Roku beat Wall S
Kim Jaewon / Nikkei Asia: Samsung says the memory shortage will worsen in 2027 as customers are already placing orders for that year, leading to a projected supply gap larger than 2026 — SEOUL — Samsu
Britney Nguyen / MarketWatch: Sandisk reports Q3 revenue up 251% YoY to 5.95B, vs. 4.72B est., consumer revenue below est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above est.; SNDK drops 5%+ after hours — The compan
Jason Beeferman / Politico: Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Dave McCormick introduce a bill banning members of the legislative and executive branches from trading on prediction markets — The bill comes t
Laura J. Nelson / Wall Street Journal: Sergey Brin-backed Building a Better California says two ballot countermeasures to the proposed wealth tax are on track to qualify for the November ballot — Two
Gabe Gurwin / GameSpot: Sony confirms that some digital PS4 and PS5 games require a one-time online license check “to confirm the game's license”, likely to combat refund scams — The problem appears t
Business Insider: Sources: Meta HR chief Janelle Gale told employees she can't rule out further layoffs; Zuckerberg said AI automation is not the driving factor behind them — - Meta previously announc
Reuters: Sources: strong AI demand in China nearly doubles prices for Nvidia's B300 servers to ~$1M each, as a crackdown on chip smuggling dries up black market supply — Strong demand for AI computing