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Ina Fried / Axios: Amazon and OpenAI announce an expanded deal that will make OpenAI's models available from AWS, a day after OpenAI revised its Microsoft partnership — Amazon and OpenAI on Tuesday an
Matthew Gault / 404 Media: An analysis of Internet Archive data: by mid-2025, ~35% of new websites published since ChatGPT's launch in November 2022 were AI-generated or AI-assisted — Researchers foun
Anthropic: Anthropic partners with Blender, Autodesk, Adobe, Ableton, and others to launch connectors that integrate Claude directly into professional creative workflows — Creative professionals look
New York Times: As Russia throttles popular apps and intermittently cuts off internet access, ordinary citizens, politicians, TV stars, and others criticize the restrictions — From beauty influencers
The Guardian: Australia unveils a draft News Bargaining Incentive scheme that imposes a 2.25% levy on local revenues for platforms; Meta says the government is “simply wrong” — Google also rejects nee
Jigar Thakkar / About Amazon: AWS launches a desktop app for its Amazon Quick AI assistant, letting users connect their tools and local files to build custom apps, live dashboards, and more — Amazon Q
Matt Day / Bloomberg: AWS launches Amazon Connect Decisions and Amazon Connect Talent, which are AI agentic tools aimed at logistics workers and recruiters — Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud unit, best known f
Joel Khalili / Wired: Bloomberg CTO Shawn Edwards says the company is overhauling Terminal with a new chatbot-style interface called ASKB, currently open to ~125K users in beta — WIRED spoke with Bloo
Luke James / Tom's Hardware: China's National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen unveils the Lingshen project, aiming for 2+ exaFLOPS performance using a domestic-made CPU-only architecture — Good luck
Bloomberg: Chinese billionaire Chen Tianqiao says his startup MiroMind is adding strict “firewalls” between its Chinese and US businesses, as China blocked Manus' sale — The fallout from Meta Platform
Sri Muppidi / The Information: Docs: OpenAI projected at the start of this year that 8/month ChatGPT Go subs will grow ~36x to 112M in 2026, while 20/month Plus subs will fall 80% to ~9M — For three y
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: EU countries and lawmakers reach an impasse on a deal watering down the EU's AI Act due to some parties seeking exemptions for already regulated industries — EU countries and E
Rachel Yeo / Bloomberg: Foxconn Industrial Internet, which sells AI servers, reports Q1 revenue up 57% YoY to ~37B, below 44.5B est., and a record ~1.5B net income, below 1.8B est. — Foxconn Industria
Derek B. Johnson / CyberScoop: Gartner: US states issued $3.45B in privacy-related fines to companies in 2025, a total larger than the last five years combined, driven by new privacy laws — The increa
Vlad Fedorov / The GitHub Blog: GitHub addresses two recent incidents and says it aims to improve reliability amid AI growth, focusing on “availability first, then capacity, then new features” — Here'
Jay Peters / The Verge: Google launches Ask YouTube, a conversational AI search “experiment” that generates pages with videos and text summaries, for Premium users in the US aged 18+ — ‘Ask YouTube’ i
Alice Hancock / Financial Times: Kpler, an online analytics platform tracking global maritime traffic and energy flows, says it has gained millions of new users since the war in Iran began — Kpler rep
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Lovable launches its AI coding app on iOS and Android, letting users code via voice or text AI prompts, and allowing them to switch between a PC and mobile — Apple's recent c
Financial Times: Many US rural communities oppose the AI data center buildout; Pew says 67% of planned data centers are rural, while 87% of existing ones are in urban areas — Many rural communities ar
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Match Group invests 100M in Seattle-based Sniffies, a web-only platform for queer men with ~3M MAUs worldwide, paving the way for a possible acquisition — Match Group Inc.,
Aditya Soni / Reuters: Microsoft is rolling out Copilot 365 to all of Accenture's roughly 743,000 employees, in the biggest enterprise deal for Copilot, following a 2023 pilot — Microsoft (MSFT.O) is
Mitchell Hashimoto: Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp, says his terminal application Ghostty will move off GitHub, citing GitHub's frequent outages — I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008. —
Bloomberg: Musk v. Altman: Musk testifies he's suing OpenAI because “it is not okay to steal a charity” and its pivot sets a concerning precedent for philanthropic efforts — Elon Musk testified Tuesda
Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg: Musk v. Altman: the judge asks Elon Musk and Sam Altman to “control your propensity to use social media to make things worse”, as opening statements begin — The judge ove
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal model with a 30B-A3B hybrid MoE architecture; the Nemotron 3 family saw 50M+ downloads in the past year — Nvidia Cor
Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: NXP reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to 3.18B, vs. 3.15B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; NXPI jumps 13%+ after hours — NXP Semiconductors NV jumped in l
Seth Fiegerman / Bloomberg: OpenAI describes a report that it has missed internal goals as “prime clickbait” and says its consumer and enterprise businesses are “firing on all cylinders” — OpenAI push
Will Knight / Wired: OpenAI's Codex instruction set contains a line, repeated several times, that forbids Codex from randomly mentioning goblins, gremlins, and other creatures — “Never talk about gobl
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: Parallel Web Systems, founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and which offers web search tools for AI agents, raised a 100M Series B at a 2B valuation — Parallel
Lenny Rachitsky / Lenny's Newsletter: Q&A with Evan Spiegel on why distribution is the most important moat in consumer tech, investing in Specs, 2026 as a “crucible” moment for Snap, and more — Snap's
Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Q&A with Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman about OpenAI's new partnership with AWS, Bedrock Managed Agents, Trainium chips, and more — As I noted yesterday, today's Strate
Luke Kawa / Sherwood News: Robinhood reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to 1.07B, vs. 1.14B est., and crypto revenue down 47% to 134M, vs. 147.6M est.; HOOD drops 6%+ after hours — The brokerage just repor
Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: Seagate reports Q3 revenue up 44% YoY to 3.11B, vs. 2.96B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue and adjusted EPS above estimates; STX jumps 13%+ after hours — Seagate Technology (S
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Snap launches AI Sponsored Snaps, a conversational ad format in Snapchat's Chat tab that lets users talk to brand-specific AI agents for product recommendations — Snapchat an
Erin Woo / The Information: Source: Google signed a deal allowing the US DOD to use Google's AI for “any lawful government purpose”; Google says the agreement amends an existing contract — Google and
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple plans an AI overhaul for photo editing in iOS 27, including using on-device AI models to extend, enhance, and reframe photos — Apple Inc. is planning a major ov
Financial Times: Sources: Goldman Sachs stopped its bankers in Hong Kong from using Anthropic's models; Anthropic says its models were never officially “supported” in Hong Kong — Employees were unable
Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: Sources: Google dropped out of a 100M Pentagon challenge to create tech for voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarms, following an internal ethics review — Google abruptly
Bloomberg: Sources: Polymarket has discussed lifting the prohibition on US-based customers with the CFTC, as it seeks to bring its main exchange back to the US — Polymarket is taking steps to try to b
Karen Freifeld / Reuters: Sources: the US Commerce Department last week ordered multiple chip equipment companies to halt some shipments to China's second-largest chipmaker, Hua Hong — The U.S. Depart
Nellie Peyton / Reuters: South Africa withdraws its first draft national AI policy after revelations that it contained fictitious sources that appeared to have been AI-generated — South Africa has wit
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to €4.5B, MAUs up 12% to 761M, above 759M est., and forecasts Q2 operating income below est.; SPOT falls 10%+ pre-market — Spotify Techn
Lily Hay Newman / Wired: The FIDO Alliance launches two working groups to establish industry standards for securing AI agent transactions; Google contributes the Agent Payments Protocol — AI agents ma
Samantha Subin / CNBC: True Anomaly, which makes autonomous spacecraft and software for the US Space Force, raised a 650M Series D at a 2.2B valuation, bringing total funding to $1B — True Anomaly, a
Jason Meisner / Chicago Tribune: US prosecutors allege Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian citizen known as Bouquet, is a Scattered Spider member; he was arrested in a Helsinki airport — The
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: US startup Poolside debuts its first open-weight model, Laguna XS.2, a 33B-A3B-parameter MoE model, and Laguna M.1, a proprietary 225B-A23B-parameter MoE model — The AI rac
Neil Hacker / Works in Progress: A deep dive into how ASML became a chokepoint for making cutting-edge chips by betting on EUV, close collaboration with TSMC and the US government, and more — By betti
Bloomberg: A look at Elon Musk's efforts to launch the banking and payments service X Money, delayed by US regulatory concerns, as some industry watchers remain skeptical — More than three years after
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: A look at what's next for Netflix and Comcast's Peacock after the WBD-Paramount deal; Nielsen says Netflix had six of the top 10 original streaming shows in Q1 — The company's
Boaz Sobrado / Forbes: A profile of Anthony Fujiwara, who industrialized “clipping” for social media video marketing and has contributed to the rise of crypto casinos like Stake — Anthony Fujiwara is
Nicole Sperling / New York Times: Amazon reaches a multiyear licensing deal with Oprah Winfrey to produce twice-a-week video podcasts starting in July, repurpose The Oprah Winfrey Show, and more — The
The Information: Analysis: as of late 2025, 79 of 500 tracked software companies including HubSpot, Adobe, and Salesforce adopted usage-based AI fees, more than doubling on 2024 — Dozens of enterprise
Sam Goldfarb / Wall Street Journal: Analysis of 100 actively traded software company loans since January 20 finds sector-wide price pressure as investors seek defensive moats against AI disruption — M
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Canva says it “moved quickly to investigate and fix” an issue with its Magic Layers feature that replaced the word “Palestine” in designs, after a viral X post — The Magi
Financial Times: China blocks Meta's 2B Manus acquisition, after reviewing whether it violated investment rules, and tells both to cancel it; Manus moved to Singapore in 2025 — Regulators had reviewed
Mario Rodriguez / The GitHub Blog: GitHub says all Copilot plans will move to usage-based billing on June 1, replacing premium requests with monthly GitHub AI Credits — Starting June 1, your Copilot u
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Have I Been Pwned: ShinyHunters' breach of ADT exposed the personal data of 5.5M people; ADT previously disclosed data breaches in August 2024 and October 2024 — The
Bloomberg: How Sergey Brin's political push against a proposed wealth tax in California has helped mobilize a network of fellow tech leaders to sway state issues — In a treehouse nestled in redwoods n
Will Knight / Wired: Ineffable Intelligence, founded by ex-Google DeepMind Principal Scientist David Silver, raised a 1.1B seed at a 5.1B valuation to build AI “superlearners” — David Silver has a new
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Kashable, which lets companies offer “socially responsible” credit and financial wellness programs for employees as a voluntary benefit, raised a $60M Series C — Ka