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Gianluca Lo Nostro / Reuters: France-based Univity, which seeks to build 3,400 VLEO satellites to reduce Europe's reliance on Starlink, raised €27M, bringing its total funding to €68M — Univity, a sat

Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register: GitHub says it has begun collecting pseudonymous client-side telemetry from command-line interface (CLI) users and enabled it by default — Opt-out instructions inclu

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: GPT-5.5 is priced at 5/1M input tokens and 30/1M output tokens, double GPT-5.4's pricing; GPT-5.5 Pro costs 30/1M input tokens and 180/1M output tokens — After months of ru

The Verge: GPT-5.5 is rolling out to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in ChatGPT and Codex, and GPT-5.5 Pro to Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in ChatGPT — The new model ‘excels’ at tasks

Shawn Wen / Bloomberg: How Cash App founder Bob Lee's 2023 killing fed into a narrative pushed by tech leaders like Elon Musk about SF's decline until an acquaintance was convicted — The 2023 murder o

Sydney Bradley / Business Insider: Instagram launches Instants, an app for sharing disappearing photos, in Italy and Spain, after rolling out an Instants feature in its main app in some regions — - In

Katie Tarasov / CNBC: Intel reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY to 13.58B, vs. 12.42B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue and adjusted EPS above estimates; INTC jumps 15%+ after hours — - Intel reported first-qua

Greg Bensinger / Reuters: Internal memo: Amazon is replacing white-collar job titles at its Ring and Blink units with the designation “builder”, and “builder leaders” for managers — During Amazon's (A

Olivia Raimonde / Bloomberg: Joint statement: Apple, Amazon, and others push back on stricter emissions reporting rules proposed by climate body Greenhouse Gas Protocol to cut greenwashing — The tech

Kate Park / TechCrunch: Manila-based Salmon, a consumer finance app targeting underbanked Filipinos, raised 60M in equity and 40M in debt; it raised 310M to date, 160M in equity — The Philippines has

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Memo: Meta plans to cut 10% of workers, or ~8,000 jobs, on May 20 and won't fill 6,000 open roles, in an effort to offset its AI spending and boost efficiency — Meta Platforms

Financial Times: Memo: White House says it has info indicating “foreign entities, principally based in China” are engaged in “industrial scale distillation” of American AI tech — Trump official Michae

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Microsoft announces its first voluntary retirement program, for staff whose years of employment and age add up to 70+; source: 7% of US employees are eligible — Microsoft will off

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft announces the first voluntary retirement program in its 50-year history, for US staffers whose combined years of service added to their age totals 70+ — Microsoft is

Kyle Jahner / Bloomberg Law: Music publishers including UMG, Warner Music, and Sony drop a copyright suit against Verizon following a SCOTUS decision limiting ISP liability in Cox's suit — Publishers

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Omni, which is building a “semantic translation layer” for enterprise data, raised a 120M Series C led by Iconiq at a 1.5B valuation, up from $650M in 2025 — For years, com

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: OpenAI launches GPT-5.5, designed to handle complex tasks with minimal guidance; the model will be used to power the company's upcoming “super app” — OpenAI is introducing an

OpenAI: OpenAI says “GPT-5.5 matches GPT-5.4 per-token latency in real-world serving, while performing at a much higher level of intelligence” — A new class of intelligence for real work — We're relea

Madison Mills / Axios: OpenAI says GPT-5.5's improvements are strongest in agentic coding, computer use, and early scientific research, which require reasoning across longer contexts — OpenAI on Thurs

Chris Metinko / Axios: Orkes, which helps companies scale their AI and agentic systems, raised 60M, including a 40M Series B led by AVP, bringing its total funding to ~90M — Orkes, which helps compani

Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: Report: China's 360 Digital Security Group has uncovered ~1,000 previously unknown vulnerabilities, including in Microsoft's Office, using an AI-powered agent — A large Chi

Reuters: S-1 excerpts: SpaceX says its total addressable market could be as much as 28.5T, with 26.5T from the AI sector, most of it from AI for businesses — Over the last quarter century, Elon Musk r

Reuters: SAP reports Q1 revenue up 6% YoY to €9.56B, vs. €9.53B est., non-IFRS operating profit up 17% to €2.87B, cloud revenue up 19% to €5.96B; SAP up 10%+ after hours — Europe's largest software ma

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Sensor Tower: India's mobile app IAP revenue crossed 300M in Q1, up 33% YoY, with non-gaming apps generating 200M+, much of it captured by global platforms — India's mobile

The Robot Report: Shenzhen-based Pudu Robotics, which makes commercial service robots, raised ~150M, bringing its total funding to 300M+, and says its valuation exceeds 1.5B — Pudu Technology Inc. tod

Reuters: Singapore is slowly emerging as a neutral ground for AI companies, offering an alternative place to build without worrying about US or Chinese regulations — Singapore is transforming from Eas

Bloomberg: Sources: AI coding firm Cognition is in early talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a 25B valuation, up from 10.2B announced in September 2025 — Cognition AI Inc. is in early ta

Reuters: Sources: Bain Capital seeks to sell a stake of 40%+ in Bridge Data Centres in a deal that would value the Singapore-based data infrastructure builder at $5B — U.S. investment firm Bain Capita

Zijing Wu / Financial Times: Sources: DeepSeek is fundraising to keep its researchers, some of whom have left for rivals whose valuations have soared; it is targeting a $20B valuation — Chinese AI sta

Alastair Marsh / Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft told carbon-removal project developers it is shelving contracts under negotiation; Microsoft has been a major backer of carbon capture tech — In the earl

ABC News: Sources: the US DOJ arrested a soldier involved in the capture of Nicolás Maduro for allegedly making $400K+ on Polymarket by betting on his removal from office — The bet was allegedly place

Reuters: Sources: Thoma Bravo prepares to hand over customer experience management company Medallia to creditors, leading to a ~$5.1B wipeout for Medallia's investors — Private equity firm Thoma Bravo

Reuters: SpaceX's S-1 excerpts list “manufacturing our own GPUs” among the “substantial capital expenditures” it is undertaking, with the size of the expenditure TBD — SpaceX may be tackling one of th

Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post: Tencent releases Hy3-preview, its first AI model developed under former OpenAI researcher Yao Shunyu; the model features 295B parameters, down from HY2's 400B

Katie Tarasov / CNBC: Texas Instruments stock rose 19% on Thursday, its best day since 2000, after upbeat Q2 guidance driven by high demand for analog chips used in AI data centers — Texas Instruments

Connor Stringer / Telegraph: Trump threatens to “put a big tariff on the UK” if it does not drop its digital services tax, which he views as unfairly targeting US tech companies — President tells The

Bloomberg: TSMC says it will hold off on using ASML's most advanced high-NA EUV machines, costing upwards of €350M apiece, for chip production through 2029 to save money — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufac

Reuters: TSMC SVP Kevin Zhang says the company plans to open an advanced chip packaging plant in Arizona by 2029 and that construction has begun — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW) plans

Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: TSMC unveils its process technology roadmap through 2029, aiming to launch a new node yearly for client applications and every two years for AI and HPC — Still no High-N

Andrew Wilks / Associated Press: Turkey's parliament passes a bill requiring social media and online game companies to restrict access for children under 15, following a school shooting — Turkish lawm

Bloomberg: US child safety group NCMEC received 1.5M reports of suspected CSAM with ties to AI in 2025, a significant surge compared to 67,000 in 2024 and 4,700 in 2023 — William Michael Haslach was a

Alexandra Alper / Reuters: US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says Nvidia has yet to sell H200 chips to Chinese companies and that the Chinese government has not approved such purchases — Nvidia's (

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Vercel says some customer accounts were compromised prior to its early-April breach, potentially through social engineering, malware, or other methods — App and website ho

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: WhatsApp partners with PayU to roll out prepaid mobile recharges in India; it remains a marginal payments player in India despite launching payments in 2020 — WhatsApp is a

Tom Warren / The Verge: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Chief Content Officer Matt Booty detail their “return of Xbox” strategy, including daily active players as its “new north star” — Microsoft's new Xbox

Reuters: A South Korean court sentences a former Samsung researcher to seven years in prison for leaking semiconductor tech to China's CXMT, helping it develop HBM — A South Korean court said on Wedne