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Connor Stringer / Telegraph: Trump threatens to “put a big tariff on the UK” if it does not drop its digital services tax, which he views as unfairly targeting US tech companies — President tells The

Bloomberg: TSMC says it will hold off on using ASML's most advanced high-NA EUV machines, costing upwards of €350M apiece, for chip production through 2029 to save money — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufac

Reuters: TSMC SVP Kevin Zhang says the company plans to open an advanced chip packaging plant in Arizona by 2029 and that construction has begun — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW) plans

Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: TSMC unveils its process technology roadmap through 2029, aiming to launch a new node yearly for client applications and every two years for AI and HPC — Still no High-N

Andrew Wilks / Associated Press: Turkey's parliament passes a bill requiring social media and online game companies to restrict access for children under 15, following a school shooting — Turkish lawm

Bloomberg: US child safety group NCMEC received 1.5M reports of suspected CSAM with ties to AI in 2025, a significant surge compared to 67,000 in 2024 and 4,700 in 2023 — William Michael Haslach was a

Alexandra Alper / Reuters: US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says Nvidia has yet to sell H200 chips to Chinese companies and that the Chinese government has not approved such purchases — Nvidia's (

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Vercel says some customer accounts were compromised prior to its early-April breach, potentially through social engineering, malware, or other methods — App and website ho

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: WhatsApp partners with PayU to roll out prepaid mobile recharges in India; it remains a marginal payments player in India despite launching payments in 2020 — WhatsApp is a

Tom Warren / The Verge: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Chief Content Officer Matt Booty detail their “return of Xbox” strategy, including daily active players as its “new north star” — Microsoft's new Xbox

Reuters: A South Korean court sentences a former Samsung researcher to seven years in prison for leaking semiconductor tech to China's CXMT, helping it develop HBM — A South Korean court said on Wedne

Sam Tobin / Reuters: A UK tribunal rules Microsoft must face a lawsuit alleging it overcharged UK businesses to run Windows Server on cloud services from Amazon, Google, and Alibaba — Microsoft (MSFT.

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

Qwen: Alibaba launches Qwen3.6-27B, an open-weight dense model with 27B parameters, saying it surpasses Qwen3.5-397B-A17B on major coding benchmarks — · 4226 words · QwenTeam丨Translations:.体中文 — HUGGI

Meaghan Tobin / New York Times: An undergraduate used AI assistants to rewrite leaked source code for Claude Code in a different language, highlighting the uncertainty over copyright and AI — Artifici

John Higgins / The Verge: Anker announces Thus, a compute-in-memory chip it says will bring on-device AI to its products and accessories, starting with its upcoming Soundcore earbuds — The Thus chip

Renju Jose / Reuters: Australia's eSafety Commissioner issues transparency notices to Roblox, Microsoft's Minecraft, and other online gaming platforms to detail child safety measures — Australia's int

Business Insider: Core Automation, co-founded by ex-OpenAI VP Jerry Tworek, launches to build “the world's most automated AI lab” with talent from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind — - A new AI startup,

Heather Landi / Fierce Healthcare: Courier Health, which develops an AI-powered biopharma platform for managing the end-to-end patient experience, raised a $50M Series B led by Oak HC/FT — Oak HC/FT N

Lee Harris / Financial Times: Documents and sources: insurers including QBE and Beazley are moving to cap cyber policy payouts for losses and regulatory fines tied to AI use and “LLMjacking” — Beazley

Bloomberg: Dune Analytics: Polymarket's global trading volumes have fallen behind Kalshi in recent months; sources: product delays are contributing to Polymarket's decline — Polymarket, the long-time

Michael Acton / Financial Times: Efforts to revive chip manufacturing in Pennsylvania have been left in limbo by President Trump's sudden upending of US semiconductor policy over the past year — High-

CoinDesk: Filing: Tron founder Justin Sun sues the Trump family's World Liberty Financial, alleging it unfairly locked up his WLFI holdings and threatened and defamed him — World Liberty unfairly froz

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

Hugh Langley / Business Insider: Google says 75% of new code created inside the company is now generated by AI and reviewed by human engineers, up from 50% last fall — - Three-quarters of new code at

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google says Meet's Gemini-powered Take Notes for Me feature can now be used for in-person meetings and adds support for Teams and Zoom — Besides Workspace Intelligence, Google a

Jordan Novet / CNBC: IBM reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to 15.92B, vs. 15.62B est., software revenue up 11% to $7.05B, and maintains FY 2026 guidance; IBM drops 7%+ after hours — IBM shares slipped 6% i

Dan Mangan / CNBC: Kalshi suspends and fines congressional candidates Mark Moran of Virginia, Matt Klein of Minnesota, and Ezekiel Enriquez of Texas for political insider trading — Prediction market p

Jordan Novet / CNBC: LinkedIn names COO Daniel Shapero as its new CEO, succeeding Ryan Roslansky, who will retain his position as EVP at Microsoft — Microsoft has tapped Dan Shapero to be the new CEO

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Meta unveils Live Chats on Threads for real-time conversations during cultural events, launching first within the NBA Threads community during the playoffs — Threads is launc

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

Ryan Lawler / Axios: Monk, which automates accounts receivable workflows, raised a 25M Series A co-led by Footwork and Acrew Capital, bringing its total funding to 29M — Monk, which automates accounts

Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg: Netherlands-based ASM, whose deposition tools are used to make advanced chips, projects Q2 revenue of ~€980M, above €886.8M est., driven by AI demand — ASM International NV pr

OpenAI: OpenAI announces workspace agents in ChatGPT, letting teams create Codex-powered shared agents for complex tasks, and says they are “an evolution of GPTs” — Codex-powered agents for teams. — C

OpenAI: OpenAI releases ChatGPT for Clinicians, a tool for medical tasks like documentation and research, free for verified physicians, pharmacists, and more in the US — Built for clinical work, ChatG

OpenAI: OpenAI releases Privacy Filter, an open-weight model for masking personally identifiable information in text, with 1.5B total and 50M active parameters — Our state of the art model for masking

Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: Polymarket says perpetuals are coming to the platform and lets users sign up for early access; it hasn't specified whether crypto perpetual futures are included — Prediction mar

Politico: Sean Plankey, President Trump's pick to lead CISA, withdraws from consideration after resistance from Sen. Rick Scott stalled his nomination for over a year — Spokespeople for the White Hous

Lola Murti / CNBC: ServiceNow reports Q1 subscription revenue up 22% YoY to 3.67B, vs. 3.65B est., says conflict in the Middle East weighed on growth; NOW drops 12%+ after hours — ServiceNow reported

Dylan Butts / CNBC: SK Hynix reports Q1 revenue up 198% YoY to ~35.55B, vs. ~36.2B est., and operating profit up 405% YoY to ~25.4B, vs. ~25.6B est., as memory prices rise — South Korean memory chip g

Reuters: SK Hynix says it plans to invest ~12.85B in a new fab in South Korea for advanced packaging to meet AI demand for HBM, with construction starting this month — SK Hynix (000660.KS) said on Wed

Will Dunham / Reuters: Sony AI says its autonomous ping pong robot is the first robot to attain expert-level performance in a physical sport after beating some top-level human players — An autonomous

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Sooth Labs, founded by ex-Meta employees to build AI models that let businesses forecast geopolitical events, is raising ~50M at a ~335M valuation — Sooth Labs, a new art

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Source: Mira Murati's TML signed a deal with Google Cloud, valued in single-digit billions, to access Google's latest AI systems built on Nvidia's GB300 chips — Former Ope

Ryan Mac / New York Times: Sources detail how Elon Musk has de-emphasized SpaceX's original aim of reaching Mars as it prepares to go public, focusing instead on AI and other moonshots — For years, Sp

Karen Freifeld / Reuters: Sources: Micron is pushing the US Congress to pass the “MATCH Act”, which would put new export restrictions on equipment its Chinese rivals use to make chips — Micron Technol