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Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: EA reports Q4 net bookings up 3.6% YoY to 1.86B, vs. 2B est., weighed down by a post-launch drop-off in engagement for Battlefield 6 — Videogame publisher Electronic Arts (EA

Semiconductor Industry Association: Global chip sales hit 298.5B in Q1 2026, up 25% from Q4 2025, and March sales were up 79.2% YoY to 99.5B, driven by strong sales in Asia and the Americas — Worldwid

Patrick Seitz / Investor's Business Daily: GlobalFoundries reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.63B, in line with est., and forecasts Q2 revenue and adjusted earnings above estimates; GFS closes up 9.28

Counterpoint Research: In Q1, the iPhone 17 was the world's best-selling smartphone, with 6% of global sales; the iPhone 17 Pro Max and 17 Pro were 2nd and 3rd, and Galaxy A07 was 4th — Harshit Rastog

New York Times: Investigation: an inheritance dispute over an ex-LG chair's estate prompts a criminal complaint over how the dynastic South Korean chaebol family divides assets — On a Thursday afterno

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Kaspersky says Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, has been backdoored in a monthlong compromise that has pushed malicious updates — Daemon Tools, a wi

@mingchikuo: Kuo: OpenAI appears to be fast-tracking its AI agent phone with two NPUs and a custom MediaTek Dimensity 9600 SoC, targeting mass production as early as H1 2027 — 【Industry Check Update】O

Alice Speri / The Guardian: Letter: UK-based Google DeepMind workers voted to unionize with the Communication Workers Union and Unite in April, representing 1K+ staff, amid the US DOD deal — Exclusive

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Match Group reports Q1 revenue up 4% YoY to 864M, vs. 855M est., as Tinder's new user registrations grew for the first time since 2024, up 1% — Match Group Inc. reported fi

Emma Roth / The Verge: Meta is using AI on Facebook and Instagram to detect under-13 users by analyzing bone structure, height, and visual cues, but says it's “not facial recognition” — ‘We want to be

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Meta says it will expand Instagram teen account safeguards to 27 EU countries, and plans to roll them out on Facebook in the US, ahead of the UK and EU in June — Meta Platforms

Lola Murti / CNBC: Micron closes up 11% after announcing its highest-capacity SSD has started to ship, lifting its market cap past 700B for the first time; Sandisk closes up 12% — Micron's historic ra

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index: a survey of 20K AI users finds 65% fear falling behind, but only 13% report being rewarded for workplace AI experimentation — [Editor's Note:

Chris Metinko / Axios: Nace.AI, which lets companies build specialized AI models tailored to their business' mission and language, raised a 21.5M seed led by Walden Catalyst — Nace.AI, which lets busi

Paula Doenecke / Bloomberg: Nscale agrees to spend €695M on infrastructure in Portugal in an expansion of its Microsoft partnership, supplying 66K+ Nvidia Rubin GPUs from late 2027 — Nscale Global Hol

Paige Smith / Bloomberg: PayPal reports Q1 net revenue up 7% YoY to 8.4B, total payment volume up 11% YoY to 464B, active accounts up 1% to 439M, and seeks $1.5B+ in cost savings — PayPal Holdings Inc

Sangmi Cha / Bloomberg: Samsung reaches a 1T valuation, making it only the second Asian company after TSMC to hit the mark, after its stock rose 4x+ over the past year on the AI boom — Samsung Electro

Ignacio Gonzalez / Bloomberg: Shopify reports Q1 revenue up 34% YoY to 3.2B, above est., GMV up 34% YoY to 100B, and forecasts weaker Q2 revenue growth; SHOP falls 11%+ pre-market — Shopify Inc. share

The Information: Source: Anthropic plans to spend about $200B on Google's cloud and chips over five years, representing 40%+ of the “revenue backlog” Google disclosed last week — When Google last mont

John Gruber / Daring Fireball: Source: YC owns ~0.6% of OpenAI, which was seeded by a YC offshoot called YC Research in 2016; at OpenAI's current 852B valuation, the stake is worth 5B+ — Speaking of c

Bloomberg: Sources: Alphabet sold its biggest-ever euro-denominated bonds, raising €9B, and its first Canadian dollar notes, raising CA8.5B, months after raising 20B — Alphabet Inc. needs to borrow he

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Sources: Meta is building agentic tools, including an OpenClaw-like assistant powered by its new Muse Spark AI model to help users create AI bots — Social media platfo

Jyoti Mann / The Information: Sources: Meta is building an OpenClaw-inspired agent internally called Hatch, to be powered by its Muse Spark model, and an agentic shopping tool in Instagram — Meta Plat

Politico: Sources: the WH is mulling EOs to address security risks from advanced AI, including barring companies from “interfering” with the government's use of models — A White House spokesperson sai

Juby Babu / Reuters: Super Micro reports Q3 revenue up 123% YoY to 10.24B, vs. 12.33B est., forecasts Q4 revenue and adjusted profit above estimates; SMCI jumps 17%+ after hours — Super Micro Computer

New York Times: US labor experts and economists warn US unemployment benefits are unlikely to protect against AI job losses, and the GOP-led Congress is doing little to prepare — Economists aren't sur

Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal: Vodafone plans to take full ownership of its VodafoneThree joint venture with Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison, which agrees to sell its 49% stake for £4.3B — T

Jay Peters / The Verge: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says Xbox “will begin winding down Copilot on mobile and will stop development of Copilot on console” as part of a strategic shift — New Xbox CEO Asha Sha

Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: Zyg, an AI startup by ironSource's founders to automate business functions, raised 60M led by Accel at a 500M valuation, two months after exiting stealth — Zyg, an artifici

Jacob Shamsian / Business Insider: A profile of William Savitt, Sam Altman's lead lawyer against Elon Musk, who represented Twitter against Musk in 2022 and helped OpenAI's for-profit transition — - W

Deborah Sophia / Reuters: Amazon debuts Supply Chain Services, allowing other companies to use its logistics network to move, store, and deliver raw materials, final products, and more — Amazon.com (A

Wall Street Journal: An analysis of 1.6M Polymarket accounts since November 2022: 0.1% of users take 67% of profits, with the highest-frequency traders seeing the most success — A WSJ analysis shows a

Owen Tucker-Smith / Wall Street Journal: As Colorado tech leaders say that burdensome regulations are driving companies away, lawmakers introduce a slimmer version of an AI anti-discrimination bill —

Kate Rooney / CNBC: Bret Taylor's Sierra, which sells AI customer service agents, raised a 950M Series E led by Tiger and GV at a 15.8B post-money valuation, up from $10B in 2025 — Artificial intellig

Reuters: Cerebras seeks a valuation of up to 26.62B in its US IPO, aiming to raise 3.5B by selling 28M shares at 115 to 125 apiece in its second attempt to go public — Nvidia-rival Cerebras is seeking

New York Times: Chinese state media: AI-generated Chinese microdramas to be worth 3B+ in 2026, out of a 14B+ total microdrama market, boosted by tools like Seedance 2.0 — This actor was just hitting h

Meir Orbach / CTech: Cisco agrees to acquire Astrix Security, which helps companies monitor and control the permissions granted to AI agents, a source says for approximately $400M — The Israeli startu

Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: Crypto stocks jump after lawmakers struck a compromise on the CLARITY Act to preserve stablecoin rewards under certain conditions; Circle's stock closed up ~20% — Shares of Circ

Akash Sriram / Reuters: Duolingo reports Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to 292M, vs. 288.5M est., bookings up 14% to $308.5M, and expects slower growth in Q2; DUOL drops 12%+ after hours — Duolingo (DUOL.O) po

Nicola M White / Bloomberg: Elon Musk agrees to pay $1.5M to settle SEC allegations that he cheated Twitter shareholders in 2022 by failing to disclose the 5%+ stake he had in the company — Elon Musk

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: Ex-iRobot CEO Colin Angle launches Familiar Machines & Magic and unveils Familiar, a dog-like, “emotionally intelligent” robot that reacts to owner's feelings —

Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: Filing: Blackstone's data center acquisition vehicle seeks to raise as much as 1.75B in its IPO, and will target newly built data centers valued at 250M-1.5B — Blackstone D

Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: Grab reports Q1 revenue up 24% YoY to 955M, above est., and a 154M adjusted EBITDA, vs. $146.3M est., helped by resilient demand for ride hailing and delivery — Grab Holdings L

Peter Loftus / Wall Street Journal: How AI is transforming the pharma industry, with most gains so far from back-office streamlining and faster manufacturing rather than breakthrough drug research — D

Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times: How AI tools such as Naver's Talking Buddy and SuperBrain are helping South Korea's elderly ease loneliness, detect emergencies, and slow cognitive decline — In the wor

Ellen Cushing / The Atlantic: How “emotion AI”, the use of facial and sentiment analysis tools to track workers' moods, is seeping into white-collar jobs amid concerns over privacy and bias — The good