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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

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

Zoox approached robotaxi design by prioritizing autonomous operation requirements over traditional vehicle constraints, with sensor placement as a foundational design decision. Sensors positioned on t

The expansion of AI infrastructure across the United States has sparked significant debate between urban and rural areas, with large tech companies and the federal government advocating for data cente

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

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

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

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

One of the most popular Linux distributions is about to get an influx of AI features. As reported by Phoronix, Jon Seager, VP of engineering at Ubuntu developer Canonical, shared a blog post on Monday

One of Canva's new AI features has been caught replacing the word 'Palestine' in designs. The Magic Layers feature - which is designed to break flat images out into separate editable components - isn'

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

The cost to build natural gas power plants has spiked 66% in the last two years, with prices rising from less than 1,500 per kilowatt in 2023 to 2,157 in 2025 , driven by surging demand from data cent

Sam Altman and Elon Musk are set to face off in a high-stakes trial that could alter the future of tech’s leading AI startup, OpenAI. The trial begins with jury selection on April 27th, as Musk pushes

Northrop Grumman confirmed corrosion in both the HALO and I-HAB modules of NASA's Lunar Gateway space station, citing a 'manufacturing irregularity.' The company attributed the issue to the French-Ita

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

Over 600 Google employees signed a letter to CEO Sundar Pichai demanding that Google block the Pentagon from using its AI models for classified purposes, reports the The Washington Post. Its organizer

Google is trying out an AI Mode-like search experience for YouTube. The company is now testing 'a new way to search on YouTube that feels more like a conversation,' with results pulling in things like

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

Databricks discusses how leading technology companies are using Lakebase to eliminate 'builder's tax'—the overhead and complexity costs associated with building and maintaining data infrastructure. Th

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

On Monday, the courtroom battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over alleged broken promises at OpenAI started, as usual, with jury selection. The only tricky part? A lot of the prospective jurors al

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

Ivan Levingston / Financial Times: Lithuania-based Vinted says it completed an ~€880M secondary share sale led by EQT, Teachers' Venture Growth, Schroders at an €8B valuation, up from €5B in 2024 — Se

Legacy, launched in 2023, was a blockchain business simulator that raised $54 million via a virtual 'land sale' in 2021 , but tanked almost immediately after launching . Molyneux later stated that fun

Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: Meta says it signed a deal with Overview Energy for 1GW of space solar energy; the startup seeks to collect sunlight in satellites, with a demonstration in 2028 — Meta Platf

OpenAI: Microsoft and OpenAI amend their deal to let OpenAI serve all its products across any cloud provider; Microsoft will no longer pay a revenue share to OpenAI — Amended agreement provides long-t

Aaron Holmes / The Information: Microsoft and OpenAI remove a clause that would have given Microsoft IP rights until OpenAI achieved “AGI”; Microsoft retains use of OpenAI's models until 2032 — Micros

OpenAI and Microsoft's partnership-turned-situationship just got even less committed. And a clause about artificial general intelligence, which has for years dictated the future of their deal, has off

Microsoft Corp. has partnered with Accenture Plc on the largest-ever deployment of its artificial intelligence tool Microsoft 365 Copilot, rolling it out to the consultancy’s global workforce of more

Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: More than 600 Google employees, including many from DeepMind, sign a letter to Sundar Pichai demanding he bar the DOD from using Google's AI for classified work — “W

All 22 members of the National Science Board, which advises and oversees the US National Science Foundation, were fired on April 24 without explanation. Members received no explanation for their termi

Scientists are concerned about the upcoming El Niño because it's developing against the backdrop of already-elevated global temperatures from climate change, which could create a 'perfect storm' of cl

A widely-downloaded open source package called element-data was compromised after attackers exploited a vulnerability in developer account workflows, gaining access to signing keys and releasing a mal

OpenAI Group PBC and Microsoft Corp. have revised several sections of the contract that governs their technology partnership. The update, which was announced today, is at least the third that the comp

Microsoft will continue to have a license to OpenAI IP through 2032, but Microsoft's license is now non-exclusive, allowing OpenAI to serve its products across any cloud provider . Microsoft will stop

Ineffable Intelligence is building a superlearner—an AI system that discovers knowledge through its own experience rather than human data, using reinforcement learning without pre-training. The compan

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Quantum Art, a quantum computing startup focused on enhancing computational throughput using its unique “multicore” architecture, extends its Series A to $140M — Quantum

Quantum Art Ltd., a quantum computing startup focused on enhancing computational throughput, said today it has extended its Series A funding round to 140 million following a surge of interest from inv

Paresh Dave / Wired: San Francisco public records: in 2024, Salesforce and Airbnb were among the top tech spenders in the city's 10B program, which lets them hire police officers — A recent attack on

Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Sources detail Microsoft's “Windows K2”, an ongoing initiative to address major Windows 11 user complaints about AI features, OS bloat, performance, and more — Microsoft

Bloomberg: Spotify partners with Peloton to offer Premium subscribers access to curated playlists and 1,400+ ad-free fitness classes, its first foray into fitness content — Spotify Technology SA is no

Recent research found that participants exposed to infrasound reported increased irritation, unease, and elevated stress levels regardless of other conditions. While infrasound appears to be one contr

Super ZSNES is a modern SNES emulator created by two of the original ZSNES developers, zsKnight and _Demo_, which has been rewritten from scratch as a GPU-powered successor. The emulator uses GPU acce

The auto design world is full of advanced 3D visualization tools and VR sculpting platforms, but your average new car still enters the world as a sketch. Those sketches traditionally see endless itera

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: The EU unveils new proposals under the DMA aimed at opening up Android to rivals' AI services; Google says the measures are “unwarranted intervention” — Google was targeted