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Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg: Honeywell's Quantinuum files for a US IPO, reporting a 136.6M net loss on revenue of 5.2M for the three months ended March 31; sources: it could raise $1.5B+ — Quantinuum

Nathan Lambert / Interconnects AI: Impressions of China's AI ecosystem after visiting many leading AI labs there, and the similarities and differences in working on LLMs in China and the West — Lesson

Bloomberg: Sources: Apollo Global and Blackstone are among private credit lenders in talks with Broadcom over a ~$35B financing deal to fund the development of AI chips — Apollo Global Management Inc.

Bloomberg: Sources: Cerebras plans to raise its IPO price range from 115-125 per share to 125-135 after drawing orders for more than 20x the number of shares available — Cerebras Systems Inc. is set t

Bloomberg: Sources: Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug discovery company spun out of Google DeepMind, is in advanced talks to raise $2B+ led by Thrive Capital — Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug di

Bloomberg: Sources: WH is preparing to order US agencies to partner with AI companies on cybersecurity; the EO wouldn't require pre-release model testing by the government — The Trump administration i

Michael Kan / PCMag: The FCC says foreign-made routers and drones can now receive software updates at least until 2029, extending its earlier 2027 cutoff — The FCC's bans on foreign-made Wi-Fi routers

Todd Spangler / Variety: Trump Media and Technology Group reports Q1 net sales up 6% YoY to 871,200 and a 405.9M net loss; DJT is down 35% so far in 2026 for a market cap of ~$2.47B — Trump Media and

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Airbnb reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to 2.68B, vs. 2.62B est., Nights and Seats Booked up 9% to 156.2M, vs. 155.77M est., lifts 2026 revenue growth guidance — Airbnb reported mi

Julian Chokkattu / Wired: An interview with Google VP for Health and Home Rishi Chandra on shutting down Fit by the end of 2026, Fitbit's rebrand to Google Health, Health Coach, and more — Google is s

Sangmi Cha / Bloomberg: Analysis: South Korea's equity market overtakes Canada's as the world's seventh largest, driven by Samsung and SK Hynix, whose stocks have more than doubled YTD — South Korea's

Anthropic: Anthropic researchers detail “natural language autoencoders”, which convert LLM activations, the numbers encoding a model's thoughts, into natural language text — When you talk to an AI mod

Simon Sharwood / The Register: Arm expects the AGI CPU, its own AI chip for data centers, to drive 2B in sales in FY2027 and FY2028, doubling its March 2026 sales guidance for the period — Someone oth

RT Watson / The Block: AWS unveils Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments and partners with Coinbase and Stripe to enable AI agents to execute transactions using stablecoins — Quick Take — Amazon Web Servi

Isabelle Lee / Bloomberg: Block reports Q1 revenue up 5% YoY to 6.1B, vs. 5.9B est., and raises its 2026 gross profit forecast above estimates; XYZ jumps 7%+ after hours — Block Inc. offered a sunnier

Ignacio Gonzalez / Bloomberg: Cloudflare reports Q1 revenue up 34% YoY to $639.8M, plans to cut 1,100+ jobs as it shifts to an “agentic AI-first operating model”; NET drops 13%+ after hours — Cloudfla

CNBC: Coinbase reports Q1 revenue down 31% YoY to 1.41B, vs. 1.52B est., and a loss of 1.49 per share, vs. a 0.27 profit est.; COIN drops 4%+ after hours — Coinbase posted lower-than-expected results

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: Cologne-based AI translation startup DeepL plans to cut ~25% of its workforce, or ~250 staff, saying adapting to AI “means fewer layers” and “faster decisions” — DeepL, the Ge

Jordan Novet / CNBC: CoreWeave reports Q1 revenue up 112% YoY to 2.08B, vs. 1.97B est., a $99.4B revenue backlog, forecasts Q2 revenue below estimates; CRWV drops 8%+ after hours — CoreWeave shares tu

Elon Musk / @elonmusk: Elon Musk says SpaceX reserves “the right to reclaim the compute” from Anthropic if its “AI engages in actions that harm humanity” — @MobofJoggers @nottombrown Just as SpaceX la

Pieter Haeck / Politico: EU legislators reach a deal to postpone restrictions on high-risk AI until December 2027 and to exempt the use of AI in industrial applications from the AI Act — Deal marks fi

Bloomberg: Filing: OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky's wife assumed significant control of OnlyFans holding company Fenix in March following the death of Radvinsky — Leonid Radvinsky's widow has surface

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: French prosecutors escalate an investigation into Elon Musk and X, focused on alleged algorithmic manipulation and sexual deepfakes, to a criminal probe — French cybercrime author

Robin Wigglesworth / Financial Times: Goldman Sachs: Alphabet and Amazon generated “other income” totaling 53B in Q1, or ~60% of their Q1 income; 49B was due to equity stakes in private companies — Th

Cherlynn Low / Engadget: Google launches the Google Fitbit Air, a $100 Whoop-like screenless wearable with Gemini-powered features like Google Health Coach, available from May 26 — The Whoop-like wear

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: Google rebrands Fitbit Premium as Google Health Premium, adding Gemini-powered coaching and other features, and raises its annual price from 79.99 to 99.99 — The reb

Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: Kalshi raised 1B led by Coatue at a 22B valuation, its third round in seven months after raising 1B and 300M+, and hits 178B in annualized trading volume — Th

Anna Heim / TechCrunch: Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI unveils GENE-26.5, its first model, which can control robotic hands that it designed in-house to do tasks like cooking — Genesis AI, a

Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: Kraken parent Payward agrees to buy Hong Kong-based Reap, which connects financial systems with digital assets, for 600M, and issues stock at a 20B valuation — The owner of cr

Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal: Lyft reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to 1.65B, vs. 1.63B est., gross bookings up 19% to 4.95B, vs. 4.91B est., and rides up 8.5% to 236.9M, vs. 241.2M est. — The com

Sam Tobin / Reuters: Meta challenges Ofcom in UK High Court over the Online Safety Act, which calculates levies based on global, not UK, revenue, in a case scheduled for October — Facebook and Instagr

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Moonshot, the Chinese AI startup behind Kimi chatbot, raised ~2B at a 20B+ valuation led by Meituan's venture arm; Moonshot's ARR topped 200M in April 2026 — Moonshot AI has

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Nova Intelligence, which is building agentic AI for SAP ahead of a 2030 migration, raised a 31.5M Series A led by Chemistry, taking its total funding to 40M+ — An estimated

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Nvidia and data center operator IREN announce a deal to deploy up to 5 GW of AI infrastructure; Nvidia can invest $2.1B into IREN; IREN jumps 9%+ after hours — IREN shares surg

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Researchers: 5,000+ web apps built using AI coding tools like Lovable, Base44, and Replit have little to no authentication, and ~40% exposed sensitive data — Companies like Lov

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: AirPods with cameras reached an advanced testing stage; the cameras will feed data to Siri to help answer questions, rather than take photos or video — Apple Inc. has

Anissa Gardizy / The Information: Sources: OpenAI and Broadcom discuss terms for Broadcom to finance initial custom chip production for ~$18B, conditioned on Microsoft buying ~40% of the chips — When

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Ramp told investors it is raising 750M co-led by Iconiq Capital and GIC at a valuation of 40B+ before the investment, up from $32B in November 2025 — The fin

Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: Spotify launches Save to Spotify, a command-line tool that allows AI agents to upload AI-generated audio summaries and personal podcasts to a user's account — A new comma

Anna Tong / Forbes: Tessera Labs, which uses AI agents to automate enterprise IT migrations and ERP transformations, raised a 60M Series A led by a16z at a 320M valuation — Kabir Nagrecha is tackling

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: While Anthropic will use the Colossus 1 data center, which has a really bad environmental record, xAI retains the larger Colossus 2 for its own AI training —

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: A US appeals court strikes down a 2023 FCC rule banning broadband access discrimination based on income, race, and more; Chair Brendan Carr welcomes the ruling — An appeals

Anthropic: Anthropic researchers detail “model spec midtraining”, which adds a stage between pretraining and fine-tuning to improve generalization from alignment training — Sara Price2, Samuel Marks2,

Axios: Anthropic says it signed a deal with SpaceX to use “all of the compute capacity” at Colossus 1, giving it access to over 300 MW of new capacity within the month — Anthropic said Wednesday it ha

Michael Acton / Financial Times: Arm reports Q4 revenue up 20% YoY to 1.5B, says AGI CPU demand will drive 2B in sales in 2027 and 2028, over 2x its prior guidance; ARM jumps 11%+ after hours — SoftBa

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Bengaluru-based Pronto, an on-demand home-help service, raised a 20M Series B extension from Lachy Groom at a 200M valuation, up from $100M in March — Lachy Groom, one of S