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ServiceNow Inc. today delivered first-quarter results that surpassed Wall Street’s expectations, but its stock fell hard in late trading after it said the ongoing war in Iran was dragging on its subsc

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

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

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

CNBC: Sources: Microsoft considered buying Cursor in recent weeks but didn't make an offer; Microsoft has been working to boost GitHub Copilot's popularity — Prior to SpaceX's announcement this week t

Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank seeks a 10B two-year margin loan secured by its OpenAI shares, with an option for a year extension, as SoftBank aims to become an AI linchpin — SoftBank Group Corp. is see

Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX isn't acquiring Cursor immediately because the deal could delay its IPO; Cursor is no longer proceeding with its reported 2B funding round — SpaceX said it has an agreement

SpaceX Corp. will help Cursor, a venture-backed vibe coding startup, train artificial intelligence models optimized for programming tasks. The companies announced the initiative on Tuesday. According

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

This article from Databricks discusses the challenges and inefficiencies of manually building Change Data Capture (CDC) pipelines and advocates for automated or framework-based approaches to streamlin

On Substack: Substack adds translation tools, and says ~100K publishers earn on the platform, including ~30K outside the US; European creators earn $90M+/year collectively — Who changed your life toda

The FBI is looking for any connections among the recent deaths and disappearances of at least 10 scientists who had ties to government science projects or other sensitive information. At least 10 indi

Tesla reported Q1 2026 earnings-per-share of 0.41 and revenues of 22.387 billion, beating analysts' EPS expectation of 0.37 and estimated revenue of 21.92 billion. While the company reported better-th

The DP World Tour will become the first professional sports organization to use Amazon Leo as its official satellite connectivity partner, deploying low Earth orbit or LEO terminals at tournament venu

This article examines the fundamental trade-offs in large language model inference operations, specifically the competing priorities of maximizing throughput, minimizing latency, and reducing costs. I

Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: The UK FCA says it has carried out its first joint operation to disrupt illegal peer-to-peer crypto trading, targeting eight premises across London — Quick Take — The UK'

Mason Boycott-Owen / Politico: The UK's GCHQ believes ~100 countries have procured cyber intrusion software, such as Pegasus, suggesting the barrier to get access to the tech is dropping — GLASGOW — M

Financial Times: TikTok's plan to build a ~38B data center campus in Brazil, its first in Latin America, is facing local pushback over sustainability in a semi-arid area — TikTok's plan for 9.5bn data

Vast Data Inc. today said it has raised about 1 billion in a late-stage Series F funding round that values the company at 30 billion amid growing demand for infrastructure to support artificial intell

Humans have been building ping-pong playing robots for decades, such as Omron's FOREPHUS that challenged amateur competitors at CES 2017. What sets Ace apart from the rest is that the robot, which was

Google Cloud has long believed that one of most compelling benefits of artificial intelligence is that it helps people get more work done faster, and that’s the main purpose behind a slate of new capa

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: A look at Apple's management changes and several key executives' futures; sources say Mike Rockwell has considered leaving or taking an advisory role next year — John Ternus,

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

Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: AcuityMD, which provides AI tools that automate sales call recaps, CRM data entry, and more for medtech companies, raised an 80M Series C at a 955M valuation — Medtech softw

Ask Americans how they feel about AI and most say they have concerns. Communities have mounted resistance to data center projects, stalling them across the US. On social media, anger at AI companies a

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: All-hands: Tim Cook said he's stepping down now to ensure the “best-ever transition,” citing strong financials, an “incredible” pipeline, and Ternus' readiness — Apple Inc.'s

Amazon.com Inc. plans to invest up to 25 billion in Anthropic PBC and provide the company with a significant amount of additional computing capacity. The collaboration, which was announced today, buil

Juro Osawa / The Information: Anthropic started requiring government-issued photo IDs and selfies from some users to prevent access from US adversaries like China, Russia, and North Korea — Anthropic

YouTube is expanding its AI deepfake monitoring feature to Hollywood - meaning some celebrity AI videos could soon disappear. The platform's likeness detection feature searches YouTube for AI deepfake

AES-128 remains secure against quantum computers and does not require key size changes as part of the post-quantum transition. NIST considers AES-128 safe and has made it the security benchmark for po

Cybersecurity insurance provider Cowbell Cyber Inc. today announced the U.S. launch of Cowbell Prime One, a new non-admitted cyber insurance product that is designed for organizations with advanced di

Ashley Gold / Axios: Filing: Anthropic spent 1.6M and OpenAI 1M on lobbying in Q1, vs. 360K and 560K in Q1 2025, respectively; Meta topped Big Tech lobbying spending with 7.1M — Both Anthropic and Ope

Echo Wang / Reuters: Filing: SpaceX tells investors that orbital AI data centers use “unproven technologies” and may not achieve “commercial viability” due to space-related risks — SpaceX warned inves

Alex Ebert / Bloomberg Law: Florida AG James Uthmeier issues criminal subpoenas to OpenAI to investigate if ChatGPT's role in planning a mass shooting constitutes criminal liability — Florida is sendi

Florida is opening a criminal investigation into ChatGPT following new details in the mass shooting at Florida State University last year. Investigators say the shooter used ChatGPT to plan the attack

The Framework Laptop 13 Pro is a complete redesign featuring a new full-CNC aluminum chassis, a much larger 74Wh battery, LPCAMM2 memory support, a power-optimized display with touch support, and a ha

Framework announced a new Laptop 13 Pro with pre-installed Ubuntu Linux as its first certified Linux option, while navigating ongoing RAM and storage supply chain shortages. The laptop features Intel

Solar added approximately 600 terawatt-hours of generation globally in 2025—the largest increase ever recorded in a single year for any power technology. Solar was the single biggest contributor to gl

NPR: How opposition to data centers, over concerns like power demands, pollution, and water needs, has become a voting issue for many people in the 2026 US midterms — Fifteen minutes after Susan Bourg

California Attorney General Rob Bonta publicly released unredacted evidence from the state's lawsuit against Amazon for illegal price fixing, detailing how Amazon allegedly coerced vendors to raise pr

Less than a year ago, Apple made headlines for a lack of AI announcements at its annual WWDC event. Ten months later, the company has announced that hardware executive John Ternus will succeed longtim

A major European study tracking over 10,000 people aged 65-94 for seven years found that lonely older adults performed worse on initial memory tests, though their memory declined at the same rate as t

This DigitalOcean guide covers strategies and best practices for deploying and optimizing very large language models (600 billion+ parameters) on cloud infrastructure, focusing on inference performanc

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft cuts Xbox Game Pass Ultimate price from 29.99 to 22.99/month and PC Game Pass from 16.49 to 13.99, but both tiers won't get new Call of Duty games — After Xbox CEO As

Microsoft reduced Game Pass Ultimate pricing from 29.99 to 22.99 per month and PC Game Pass from 16.49 to 13.99 per month, effective April 21, 2026. Call of Duty games will no longer be available on G

As AI assistants and privacy proxies challenge the capabilities of traditional bot detection, the Web needs new models for accountability. We believe that control should remain with the client, and th