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Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: Filing: Netflix plans a 25B share buyback, adding to a Dec. 2024 program that still has 6.8B for purchases; NFLX is down 13% since its Q1 earnings on April 16 — Netflix Inc. p

Gianluca Lo Nostro / Reuters: France-based Univity, which seeks to build 3,400 VLEO satellites to reduce Europe's reliance on Starlink, raised €27M, bringing its total funding to €68M — Univity, a sat

Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register: GitHub says it has begun collecting pseudonymous client-side telemetry from command-line interface (CLI) users and enabled it by default — Opt-out instructions inclu

Thinking Machines Lab Inc. will expand its use of Google LLC’s cloud platform as part of a partnership the companies announced this morning. TechCrunch cited a source as saying that the deal is valued

Data center facilities linked to major tech companies could emit 129 million tons of greenhouse gases annually, potentially surpassing the total emissions of entire nations like Morocco. Tech companie

Shawn Wen / Bloomberg: How Cash App founder Bob Lee's 2023 killing fed into a narrative pushed by tech leaders like Elon Musk about SF's decline until an acquaintance was convicted — The 2023 murder o

A ransomware gang called Kyber became the first known ransomware operation to deploy NIST standardized post-quantum cryptography in production. The Windows variant uses Kyber1024 post-quantum key enca

Katie Tarasov / CNBC: Intel reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY to 13.58B, vs. 12.42B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue and adjusted EPS above estimates; INTC jumps 15%+ after hours — - Intel reported first-qua

Olivia Raimonde / Bloomberg: Joint statement: Apple, Amazon, and others push back on stricter emissions reporting rules proposed by climate body Greenhouse Gas Protocol to cut greenwashing — The tech

Prediction market platform Kalshi said today that it has suspended and fined three congressional candidates from Minnesota, Texas and Virginia for “political insider trading” relating to wagering bets

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Memo: Meta plans to cut 10% of workers, or ~8,000 jobs, on May 20 and won't fill 6,000 open roles, in an effort to offset its AI spending and boost efficiency — Meta Platforms

Meta Platforms Inc. told staff today that it’s planning to lay off about 8,000 employees, or roughly 10% of its workforce, and cancel 6,000 open roles in an efficiency drive aimed at offsetting a mass

Meta is planning to layoff around 10 percent of employees in May, according to a memo from the company's chief people officer, Janelle Gale, published by Bloomberg. That means approximately 8,000 peop

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft announces the first voluntary retirement program in its 50-year history, for US staffers whose combined years of service added to their age totals 70+ — Microsoft is

Omni Analytics Inc. today announced that it has closed a 120 million funding round at a 1.5 billion valuation, more than double what it was valued at last year. ICONIQ led the Series C investment. It

OpenAI Group PBC said today it’s pushing ChatGPT outside its usual chat interface with the launch of “workspace agents,” which is a new feature that allows business users to automate recurring tasks,

A startup called Rilian that’s building agentic systems integration tools for companies operating in the defense and national security industries, said today it has raised 17.5 million in seed funding

Reuters: S-1 excerpts: SpaceX says its total addressable market could be as much as 28.5T, with 26.5T from the AI sector, most of it from AI for businesses — Over the last quarter century, Elon Musk r

Reuters: SAP reports Q1 revenue up 6% YoY to €9.56B, vs. €9.53B est., non-IFRS operating profit up 17% to €2.87B, cloud revenue up 19% to €5.96B; SAP up 10%+ after hours — Europe's largest software ma

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Sensor Tower: India's mobile app IAP revenue crossed 300M in Q1, up 33% YoY, with non-gaming apps generating 200M+, much of it captured by global platforms — India's mobile

The Robot Report: Shenzhen-based Pudu Robotics, which makes commercial service robots, raised ~150M, bringing its total funding to 300M+, and says its valuation exceeds 1.5B — Pudu Technology Inc. tod

Reuters: Singapore is slowly emerging as a neutral ground for AI companies, offering an alternative place to build without worrying about US or Chinese regulations — Singapore is transforming from Eas

Bloomberg: Sources: AI coding firm Cognition is in early talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a 25B valuation, up from 10.2B announced in September 2025 — Cognition AI Inc. is in early ta

Reuters: Sources: Bain Capital seeks to sell a stake of 40%+ in Bridge Data Centres in a deal that would value the Singapore-based data infrastructure builder at $5B — U.S. investment firm Bain Capita

Alastair Marsh / Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft told carbon-removal project developers it is shelving contracts under negotiation; Microsoft has been a major backer of carbon capture tech — In the earl

ABC News: Sources: the US DOJ arrested a soldier involved in the capture of Nicolás Maduro for allegedly making $400K+ on Polymarket by betting on his removal from office — The bet was allegedly place

Reuters: Sources: Thoma Bravo prepares to hand over customer experience management company Medallia to creditors, leading to a ~$5.1B wipeout for Medallia's investors — Private equity firm Thoma Bravo

Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post: Tencent releases Hy3-preview, its first AI model developed under former OpenAI researcher Yao Shunyu; the model features 295B parameters, down from HY2's 400B

Katie Tarasov / CNBC: Texas Instruments stock rose 19% on Thursday, its best day since 2000, after upbeat Q2 guidance driven by high demand for analog chips used in AI data centers — Texas Instruments

Today on Decoder, I want to lay out an idea that’s been banging around my head for weeks now as we’ve been reporting on AI and having conversations here on this show. I’ve been calling it software bra

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

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

Russia's co-orbital anti-satellite system, known as the Nivelir system, can deploy so-called nesting doll sub-satellites for inspection or kinetic kills. The U.S. assesses that Russia has launched cou

Vast, a company developing the world's first commercial space station, has adopted a custom flight suit for its crew after 25 years of U.S. astronauts wearing off-the-rack clothes in orbit. The suit i

A decade-long precision measurement of the gravitational constant (G) at NIST yielded a value 0.0235% lower than a previous French experiment , but the result does not resolve the uncertainty in G, wh

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

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

Today, Amazon SageMaker AI supports optimized generative AI inference recommendations. By delivering validated, optimal deployment configurations with performance metrics, Amazon SageMaker AI keeps yo

Several US federal agencies are taking up Anthropic's new cybersecurity model to find vulnerabilities, but one is reportedly not getting in on the action: the nation's central cybersecurity coordinato

Anthropic's Mythos AI model, a powerful cybersecurity tool that the company said could be dangerous in the wrong hands, has been accessed by a 'small group of unauthorized users,' Bloomberg reports. A

This Databricks article examines whether Large Language Model agents can effectively optimize SQL join order, a critical query optimization problem in database systems. The analysis likely evaluates L

ChargePoint has unveiled the ChargePoint Express Grid, powered by Eaton, a vehicle-to-everything capable solution that delivers up to 600 kW of power for passenger EVs and megawatt charging for heavy-

Databricks discusses how its platform enables CFOs in financial services to move beyond traditional spreadsheet-based processes by leveraging data analytics and unified data management capabilities. T

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today expanded its Cloud Detection and Response service to Google Cloud Platform, adding runtime protection for Google workloads as attackers lean on artificial intelligence

Scammers are impersonating Iranian authorities and sending fraudulent messages to shipowners demanding Bitcoin or USDT payments for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. The Athens-based firm MAR