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Zyg, an AI startup by ironSource's founders to automate business functions, raised $60M led by Accel at a $500M valuation, two months after exiting stealth (Marissa Newman/Bloomberg)

Zyg, an AI startup by ironSource's founders to aut...

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Meta says it will expand Instagram teen account safeguards to 27 EU countries, and plans to roll them out on Facebook in the US, ahead of the UK and EU in June (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Meta says it will expand Instagram teen account sa...

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Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index: a survey of 20K AI users finds 65% fear falling behind, but only 13% report being rewarded for workplace AI experimentation (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index: a survey of 20K...

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PayPal reports Q1 net revenue up 7% YoY to $8.4B, total payment volume up 11% YoY to $464B, active accounts up 1% to 439M, and seeks $1.5B+ in cost savings (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)

PayPal reports Q1 net revenue up 7% YoY to $8.4B, ...

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Meta is using AI on Facebook and Instagram to detect under-13 users by analyzing bone structure, height, and visual cues, but says it's "not facial recognition" (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Meta is using AI on Facebook and Instagram to dete...

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Crypto exchange Bullish agrees to acquire Equiniti, a UK-based financial services outsourcing business, from Siris Capital in a $4.2B deal, set to close in 2027 (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Crypto exchange Bullish agrees to acquire Equiniti...

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Investigation: an inheritance dispute over an ex-LG chair's estate prompts a criminal complaint over how the dynastic South Korean chaebol family divides assets (New York Times)

Investigation: an inheritance dispute over an ex-L...

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Source: YC owns ~0.6% of OpenAI, which was seeded by a YC offshoot called YC Research in 2016; at OpenAI's current $852B valuation, the stake is worth $5B+ (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)

Source: YC owns ~0.6% of OpenAI, which was seeded ...

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Nscale agrees to spend €695M on infrastructure in Portugal in an expansion of its Microsoft partnership, supplying 66K+ Nvidia Rubin GPUs from late 2027 (Paula Doenecke/Bloomberg)

Nscale agrees to spend €695M on infrastructure in ...

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In Q1, the iPhone 17 was the world's best-selling smartphone, with 6% of global sales; the iPhone 17 Pro Max and 17 Pro were 2nd and 3rd, and Galaxy A07 was 4th (Counterpoint Research)

In Q1, the iPhone 17 was the world's best-selling ...

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Letter: UK-based Google DeepMind workers voted to unionize with the Communication Workers Union and Unite in April, representing 1K+ staff, amid the US DOD deal (Alice Speri/The Guardian)

Letter: UK-based Google DeepMind workers voted to ...

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Global chip sales hit $298.5B in Q1 2026, up 25% from Q4 2025, and March sales were up 79.2% YoY to $99.5B, driven by strong sales in Asia and the Americas (Semiconductor Industry Association)

Global chip sales hit $298.5B in Q1 2026, up 25% f...

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Vodafone plans to take full ownership of its VodafoneThree joint venture with Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison, which agrees to sell its 49% stake for £4.3B (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal)

Vodafone plans to take full ownership of its Vodaf...

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Q&A with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on his plan to make Uber an everything app, Uber's AI integrations, investing in autonomous cars, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on his plan to...

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How Europe is falling behind in the global crypto race, as delays to the ECB's digital euro leave the bloc exposed to US-led stablecoin dominance (Bloomberg)

How Europe is falling behind in the global crypto ...

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Kuo: OpenAI appears to be fast-tracking its AI agent phone with two NPUs and a custom MediaTek Dimensity 9600 SoC, targeting mass production as early as H1 2027 (@mingchikuo)

Kuo: OpenAI appears to be fast-tracking its AI age...

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Sources: Apple held exploratory talks with Intel and its executives visited a Samsung plant in Texas to explore producing core chips for its devices in the US (Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple held exploratory talks with Intel a...

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Inference cloud startup DeepInfra raised a $107M Series B co-led by 500 Global and Georges Harik; it currently supports more than 190 open models (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Inference cloud startup DeepInfra raised a $107M S...

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