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Benjamin Wallace / New York Times: A profile of Dwarkesh Patel, whose podcast has become mandatory listening in the AI community, with guests like Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg — Dwarke

Stephen Totilo / Game File: An interview with Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and EVP Matt Booty on the “Return of Xbox” memo, making Xbox Series X and S the “first-class experience again”, and more — In an excl

Stephen Morris / Financial Times: Epoch AI: Google controls ~25% of global AI compute, with ~3.8M TPUs and 1.3M GPUs; Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says demand and revenue justify the spend — Thomas

Prime Video released the official full trailer for Nicolas Cage's Spider-Noir TV show, a live-action series about Ben Reilly . The eight-episode series premieres on MGM+ May 25, 2026 before rolling ou

Lucinda Shen / Axios: Sources: Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup Genki Robotics, co-founded by Andy Rubin, raised a Series A at a ~1B valuation; it raised a ~50M seed in 2025 — Genki Robotics, a h

The teaser for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 boasts a decidedly more adventurous vibe. The teaser has a much more traditional Trek feel with a voice-over about the power of exploration and sh

Databricks Genie is an AI-powered assistant that enables users to query data and generate insights through natural language interactions, reducing the need for SQL expertise. The next generation updat

Bloomberg: A 16B financing for a giant Oracle data center in Michigan has closed, with BofA selling 14B in bonds; Oracle plans to use the campus to power apps for OpenAI — A $16 billion financing for

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: A look at Tin Can's $100 retro-style, Wi-Fi-enabled landline phone, and how some schools are seeding the device to students in an attempt to curb smartphone use — The Tin C

PYMNTS.com: Adyen plans to acquire Talon.One, a platform for loyalty and incentives that serves more than 300 global merchants, for €750M, expected to close in H2 2026 — Adyen plans to acquire Talon.O

Artificial intelligence startups Cohere Inc. and Aleph Alpha GmbH today announced that they intend to merge. The transaction is backed by Schwarz Group GmbH, Germany’s largest retailer. It plans to le

Bloomberg: Analysis: Taiwan's stock market value has surpassed the UK's at ~$4.3T, with South Korea close behind, driven by massive gains in TSMC, Samsung, and SK Hynix — The artificial intelligence b

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen surpassed the record for human spaceflight's farthest distance from Earth on April 6,

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Citizen Lab details two spying campaigns that abuse weaknesses in the SS7 and Diameter protocols across 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G networks to track people's locati

DigitalOcean's Dedicated Inference offering provides cloud infrastructure optimized for running machine learning inference workloads with guaranteed resources and performance isolation. This technical

Russell Contreras / Axios: How the Vatican is moving faster than most legacy institutions to shape AI rules and guardrails, with an AI framework, banning use of AI to write homilies, more — The Vatica

Ian King / Bloomberg: Intel's upbeat outlook suggests CEO Lip-Bu Tan is making progress on a turnaround, having strengthened the company's balance sheet and now improving operations — Intel's Strong A

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: LinkedIn profile review shows Thinking Machines Lab has been hiring more researchers from Meta than from any other employer; TML's headcount now stands at ~140 — Weiyao Wan

Current and former Palantir employees have expressed concerns about the company's 'descent into fascism,' particularly following the company's involvement in the Trump administration's crackdowns on c

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Report: Samsung co-CEO TM Roh told company leaders that the mobile division MX could report its first ever annual loss this year, amid RAM and storage shortages — As AI contin

Sasha Rogelberg / Fortune: Survey of 1,050 Australian teens: ~60% said they retained access to social media accounts after ban; two-thirds say platforms took no action to remove accounts — If teenager

Bloomberg: The value of US government's stake in Intel has increased fourfold to ~36B, since an August 2025 announcement that the US will buy a stake worth 8.9B — The value of the US government stake

Twelve companies including Anduril, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, SpaceX, and others have received contracts to develop space-based interceptor prototypes for Golden Dome , with

We knew at some point Tim Cook would step down from his position as Apple's CEO. Over the last year, it has become increasingly obvious that John Ternus was his likely successor. The news this week wa

Bloomberg: Anthropic says Google is committing to invest 10B now in cash at a 350B valuation and will invest another 30B if Anthropic hits performance targets — Google will invest 10 billion in Anthro

Porsche has agreed to sell its 45% stake in Bugatti Rimac to a consortium led by HOF Capital , ending its involvement in the 2021 joint venture with Rimac Group. Porsche will also divest its 20.6% sta

Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: As part of the Cohere-Aleph Alpha deal, Aleph Alpha backer Schwarz Group plans to invest $600M in Cohere's Series E, which a source says is set to close in 2026 — Canadian AI

Amazon Web Services Inc. has inked a multiyear deal to supply Meta Platforms Inc. with cloud infrastructure. Bloomberg reported today that the agreement is worth billions of dollars. The deal centers

Artificial intelligence coding assistant startup Cognition AI Inc. is engaged in discussions with investors over another massive funding round that would more than double its valuation to 25 billion,

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: ComfyUI, which gives creators granular control over image, video, and audio outputs from diffusion models, raised 30M at a 500M valuation — ComfyUI, a startup that helps cr

Europe authorized Moderna's combination mRNA flu-COVID vaccine before the United States did. This dual-purpose vaccine addresses two respiratory viruses in a single shot. The European Commission grant

Joe Wertz / Bloomberg: France's forecasting office refers suspected weather sensor tampering at Paris airport to police, after detecting unusual readings alongside Polymarket betting — France's foreca

Google-parent Alphabet will invest up to 40 billion in Anthropic, deepening its partnership with the AI startup . The deal consists of 10 billion in immediate cash at a 350 billion valuation, with an

Mimi Billing / Sifted: Helsinki-based Verda, formerly Datacrunch, which aims to become Europe's first AI cloud hyperscaler, raised €100M in debt and equity — The Finnish cloud provider, formerly known

In the first 24 hours of the assault on Iran, the US military struck more than 1,000 targets, nearly double the scale of the 'shock and awe' attack on Iraq over two decades ago. This acceleration was

Gopika Gopakumar / Reuters: India's central bank cancels Paytm Payments Bank's banking license, after imposing business curbs over non-compliance with rules in January 2024 — India's central bank said

Intel Corp. crushed analysts’ expectations as it delivered its first-quarter earnings results today, in a sign that its efforts to turn around its business under Chief Executive Lip-Bu Tan could be fi

CNBC: Intel stock closes up 23.6%, its best performance since October 1987, as Intel shows signs of renewed growth amid the AI boom; the stock is up 124% YTD — Intel shares soared 24% on Friday, their

Jenna Russell / New York Times: Maine's governor vetoes a bill that would have led to US' first state pause on data centers, citing its failure to exempt a project in a distressed mill town — Gov. Jan

Fossilized jaws reveal that enormous octopuses growing up to 19 meters long were top predators in the oceans during the Cretaceous Period, potentially making them the largest marine animals and invert

Matt Day / Bloomberg: Meta and Amazon reach a multibillion-dollar, multiyear deal for Meta to rent hundreds of thousands of Amazon's Graviton chips for its AI inference needs — Amazon.com Inc. and Met

Ina Fried / Axios: Meta inks deal to use more Amazon chips — Meta on Friday announced a deal to use Amazon-designed chips to help deliver its next generation of AI models. … - The new pact, which buil

Terje Solsvik / Reuters: Norway plans to ban children from using social media until they turn 16; the government says it will introduce a bill in parliament by the end of 2026 — Norway said on Friday

Operational databases are designed to manage and power real-time transactions by handling high-throughput Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) workloads. They differ significantly from data warehouses

We love to muse over how 'real' photography is defined here at The Verge now that generative AI is so prolific, and the World Press Photo competition might have the answer. The prestigious award celeb

Samsung's mobile division may record its first-ever annual loss in 2026 , driven primarily by rising memory chip prices, particularly low-power DRAM . Samsung executive TM Roh has warned that a possib