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would be fascinating to break down this result by country, etc. Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, eve

At #RenderCon2026, @EMostaque makes the case during How to Build the Holodeck that stories still matter, IP still matters, but the barriers to building entirely new experiences are dropping faster tha

Jerry Liu congratulated the ET30 Class of 2026 for ringing the Nasdaq closing bell, celebrating what appears to be an achievement by members of an executive or entrepreneurial cohort. The ET30 is like

🚨 In a new court filing (below), Clippers owner Steve Ballmer dismisses @pablofindsout as “gossip” from a “former talking head and television personality.” Here is an excerpt from the federal whistleb

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

Last night was the biggest disaster in the history of Tesla. Let me walk you through what actually happened on that earnings call, because the headlines are doing you a disservice: Elon Musk got on th

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

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

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: 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

This post shows the #ET30 Class of 2026 (likely a cohort of emerging entrepreneurs or innovators) at the Nasdaq in Times Square, with Jerry Liu inviting followers to identify who in the photo inspires

Within two years you'll be able to prompt inject an entire country Under the directives of the President of the UAE, we launch a new government model. Within two years, 50% of government sectors, serv

Molly Taft / Wired: Air permit docs: new gas projects linked to just 11 US data center campuses could emit 129M+ tons of greenhouse gases per year, more than some small countries — A WIRED review of p

Last year at Google Cloud Next ‘25, we asked you to imagine a new future for AI. At Next ‘26, the question before you is how do you move AI into production across your entire enterprise? According to

Excited to share some big news: I've joined @FireworksAI_HQ President. I've spent my career at the intersection of great teams, disruptive technology, and massive market opportunity, from architecting

Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: Google Cloud and Wiz debut new AI security agents at Next '26, including Threat Hunting and Detection Engineering agents, to combat automated zero-day exploits — Th

LiteParse: our open-source, layout-aware PDF parser for AI agents. The secret? Grid projection. Instead of heavy ML layout models or flat text extraction, it projects text onto a monospace grid so ali

Ainslie Chandler / Bloomberg: Microsoft plans to invest AU25B by 2029 to expand Azure AI supercomputing and cloud infrastructure in Australia, its largest commitment to the country — Microsoft Corp. a

The future is taking shape in Las Vegas this week, where the world’s leading startups are showcasing their groundbreaking AI work at Google Cloud Next. Whether they need the top AI models, infrastruct

Wall Street Journal: A look at transnational scam syndicates in Cambodia, running hundreds of online scam operations and call centers and infiltrating Cambodia's ruling class — Crime syndicates in Cam

Bloomberg: Filings: crypto PACs amassed a ~180M war chest for the 2026 midterms, including Fairshake's 166M, giving them the ability to outspend some GOP super PACs — Political groups tied to the cryp

Our core mission today is using AI to solve document OCR. All of our product offerings, from commercial (LlamaParse) to open-source (LiteParse, ParseBench), are fully aligned towards solving this prob

They just indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 counts of fraud. Wow! The SPLC worked with Facebook, Old Twitter and Youtube on their safety teams, sometimes directly advising/flagging what c

David McCabe / New York Times: Filing in California's antitrust lawsuit: CA accuses Amazon of price-fixing by pressuring brands to ask competing retailers to increase prices on some products — The sta

This post from AI researcher Yohei Nakajima is a motivational message wishing readers a successful week, combined with a brief security reminder to rotate secrets (likely referring to API keys, passwo

Nduka Orjinmo / Bloomberg: Nigeria-based Terra, which makes pilotless drones and defense systems, raised $34M from Joe Lonsdale, Lux Capital, and others, as jihadist groups drive demand — Terrahaptix

NYC FinTech Week just got an AI track 🗽 Next week we're co-hosting the AI Builders Rooftop Happy Hour with @LinkupAPI — for the people shipping fintech agents, document intelligence, and agentic workf

André Beganski / Decrypt: RaveDAO's RAVE has lost $6.6B+ in market cap and its price has sunk ~98% since Saturday, after ZachXBT called on exchanges to probe if it was being manipulated — RaveDAO's to

Advances in the use of artificial intelligence by major providers such as Google Cloud are not confined solely to the hyperscaler’s own customers. Partners, such as the AI-first digital engineering co

Sneha Kumar / Reuters: Australian data center operator NextDC plans to raise AU1.5B in equity for its 350MW Sydney site rollout, and raises its FY26 capex by AU300M to AU2.7B-AU3B — Australia's NEXTDC

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Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Vercel says its internal systems were accessed via a compromised third-party AI tool, after a user with a ShinyHunters handle claimed a breach on BreachForums — Clo

Brent Crane / Bloomberg: A profile of OpenTable CEO Debby Soo, who shifted its focus from diners to restaurants; it now seats ~2B diners a year across 65K restaurants, an all-time high — The pioneerin

Financial Times: Sources: China mobilizes multiple agencies to probe Meta's 2B Manus deal; some officials worry aggressive measures may send chilling signals to the tech sector — The landmark tech exi

Axios: Sources: Dario Amodei is set to meet with WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday, a breakthrough in Anthropic's effort to resolve its fight with the Pentagon — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is sc

Reuters: Sources: Meta intends to conduct a first wave of sweeping layoffs planned for this year on May 20, laying off ~10% of its global workforce, or ~8,000 employees — Meta (META.O) intends to cond

'The post all LLMs hate and want you to NOT SEE' ^^ Serious title, you can also discuss this with the LLM, it would be biased against it, as it's known at this point that memory is the true long term

Emad Mostaque, founder of Stability AI, posted a birthday message on his 43rd birthday reflecting humorously on not discovering the meaning of life at 42 (a reference to Douglas Adams' 'Hitchhiker's G

This post by Yohei Nakajima, founder of Credistick, adapts Lincoln's famous quote to address the challenge of managing limited partner (LP) expectations in venture capital or investment fund managemen

Yohei Nakajima announced a new capability to visualize and display revenue growth metrics across individual fund portfolios, suggesting an advancement in portfolio analytics or tracking tools. This fe

Bloomberg: Memo: the White House notified Cabinet departments that OMB is setting up protections that would allow their agencies to begin using Anthropic's Mythos model — The US government is preparin

Robert Scammell / Business Insider: NYC-based Nas.com, an AI platform founded by content creator Nas Daily that helps solo entrepreneurs build online stores, raised a 27M Series A led by Khosla — - Na

We're proud to be on the @Forbes AI 50 list again! It reflects our focus on building secure, sovereign AI that helps enterprises and governments put their data to work on their terms. Learn more: http

April 13 - April 17 We announced we are reintroducing Data Studio to play a significant role in the AI era, expanding from data visualizations and reports to host BigQuery conversational agents and da

Speculative decoding is a technique used to accelerate the slow, sequential token generation (decode stage) in LLM inference. This method significantly reduces latency and improves hardware utilizatio