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Sources: Blue Origin outlines a new employee stock plan to quell staff unrest and make its incentives more competitive with SpaceX (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)

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Google has quietly shut down Project Mariner, its Chrome-browsing AI agent for completing tasks on users' behalf, after highlighting it onstage at I/O 2025 (Max Zeff/@zeffmax)

Google has quietly shut down Project Mariner, its ...

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Germany-based eleQtron, which develops trapped-ion quantum computing processors using proprietary tech, raised a €57M Series A led by Schwarz Digits (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

Germany-based eleQtron, which develops trapped-ion...

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Source: Alphabet is in talks with Blackstone, KKR, and EQT to give their portfolio companies AI model access, after OpenAI's and Anthropic's JVs with PE firms (The Information)

Source: Alphabet is in talks with Blackstone, KKR,...

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Nace.AI, which lets companies build specialized AI models tailored to their business' mission and language, raised a $21.5M seed led by Walden Catalyst (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Nace.AI, which lets companies build specialized AI...

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Coupang reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to $8.5B and a net loss of $266M following a 2025 Korean customer data breach, its largest loss since Q4 2021 (The Korea Herald)

Coupang reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to $8.5B and ...

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CRM software company Freshworks said it plans to cut 11% of its workforce, or ~500 jobs, as it deals with AI's impact; FRSH has dropped ~26% in 2026 (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)

CRM software company Freshworks said it plans to c...

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US labor experts and economists warn US unemployment benefits are unlikely to protect against AI job losses, and the GOP-led Congress is doing little to prepare (New York Times)

US labor experts and economists warn US unemployme...

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Samsung reaches a $1T valuation, making it only the second Asian company after TSMC to hit the mark, after its stock rose 4x+ over the past year on the AI boom (Sangmi Cha/Bloomberg)

Samsung reaches a $1T valuation, making it only th...

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Sources: the WH is mulling EOs to address security risks from advanced AI, including barring companies from "interfering" with the government's use of models (Politico)

Sources: the WH is mulling EOs to address security...

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Doc and sources: Google is testing an agent in the Gemini app, internally named Remy, that can integrate with Google services to take actions on a user's behalf (Hugh Langley/Business Insider)

Doc and sources: Google is testing an agent in the...

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Astrocade, which lets users create video games using natural language prompts, raised $56M, including a Series A and a Series B, and says it has ~5M MAUs (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Astrocade, which lets users create video games usi...

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Sources: Meta is building an OpenClaw-inspired agent internally called Hatch, to be powered by its Muse Spark model, and an agentic shopping tool in Instagram (Jyoti Mann/The Information)

Sources: Meta is building an OpenClaw-inspired age...

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Sources: Alphabet sold its biggest-ever euro-denominated bonds, raising €9B, and its first Canadian dollar notes, raising CA$8.5B, months after raising $20B (Bloomberg)

Sources: Alphabet sold its biggest-ever euro-denom...

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Kaspersky says Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, has been backdoored in a monthlong compromise that has pushed malicious updates (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Kaspersky says Daemon Tools, a widely used app for...

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EA reports Q4 net bookings up 3.6% YoY to $1.86B, vs. $2B est., weighed down by a post-launch drop-off in engagement for Battlefield 6 (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)

EA reports Q4 net bookings up 3.6% YoY to $1.86B, ...

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GlobalFoundries reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.63B, in line with est., and forecasts Q2 revenue and adjusted earnings above estimates; GFS closes up 9.28% (Patrick Seitz/Investor's Business Daily)

GlobalFoundries reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to $1...

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Micron closes up 11% after announcing its highest-capacity SSD has started to ship, lifting its market cap past $700B for the first time; Sandisk closes up 12% (Lola Murti/CNBC)

Micron closes up 11% after announcing its highest-...

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