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UK startup Nscale signs an up to $14B deal with Microsoft to deploy ~104K Nvidia GB300 chips for Microsoft in Texas within 18 months and 12,600 GPUs in Portugal (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

UK startup Nscale signs an up to $14B deal with Mi...

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SoftBank's $5.4B purchase of ABB's robotics unit is another setback for Europe, which risks losing its edge to Asian and US companies in the "physical AI" era (Chris Bryant/Bloomberg)

SoftBank's $5.4B purchase of ABB's robotics unit i...

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Inside First Wap, a European-led phone tracking company in Indonesia that has exploited the SS7 telecom protocol to target politicians, journalists, and others (Mother Jones)

Inside First Wap, a European-led phone tracking co...

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How AI is upending India's business process management sector, which employs 1.65M people; conversational AI startup LimeChat claims to have automated 5K jobs (Reuters)

How AI is upending India's business process manage...

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The Japanese government says it formally requested that OpenAI refrain from infringing on Japanese IPs, such as anime, calling them "irreplaceable treasures" (Verity Townsend/IGN)

The Japanese government says it formally requested...

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SEC filing: Jeff Bezos discloses that he now owns 9% of Amazon's shares, down from 10.1% a year ago, after selling 100M+ shares over the course of the past year (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

SEC filing: Jeff Bezos discloses that he now owns ...

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Stripe's stablecoin arm, Bridge, applied for a US national trust bank charter, joining Circle, Paxos, Ripple, and Coinbase in seeking federal oversight (Vince Dioquino/Decrypt)

Stripe's stablecoin arm, Bridge, applied for a US ...

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ASML reports Q3 net bookings of €5.4B, v. €4.9B est., as the AI spending boom boosts demand for its EUV machines to produce the most sophisticated AI chips (Bloomberg)

ASML reports Q3 net bookings of €5.4B, v. €4.9B es...

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ASML reports Q3 net sales of €7.5B, v. €7.7B est., and €2.12B net profit, v. €2.11B est., warning that it expects China sales to decline "significantly" in 2026 (April Roach/CNBC)

ASML reports Q3 net sales of €7.5B, v. €7.7B est.,...

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ASML reports Q3 net sales of €7.5B, v. €7.7B est., and €2.12B net profit, v. €2.11B est., warning that it expects China sales to decline "significantly" in 2026 (April Roach/CNBC)

ASML reports Q3 net sales of €7.5B, v. €7.7B est.,...

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YouTube starts rolling out its redesigned video player, which features rounded, slightly translucent on-screen buttons, across mobile, web, and TV globally (Jay Peters/The Verge)

YouTube starts rolling out its redesigned video pl...

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Sources: OpenAI makes a five-year business plan to meet $1T+ spending pledges; it currently books ~$13B in ARR, 70% of which comes from consumers using ChatGPT (Financial Times)

Sources: OpenAI makes a five-year business plan to...

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Coinbase invests in Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX to expand into India and the Middle East; CEO Sumit Gupta said the deal values CoinDCX at $2.45B post-money (Danny Park/The Block)

Coinbase invests in Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX...

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Reducto, which uses OCR with vision language models to convert complex documents into inputs for LLMs, raised a $75M Series B led by a16z at a $600M valuation (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

Reducto, which uses OCR with vision language model...

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Finch, which offers a voice-based AI system to automate administrative tasks done by paralegals, raised a $20M Series A, source says at a $100M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

Finch, which offers a voice-based AI system to aut...

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Sources: Amazon plans to cut as much as 15% of its HR staff, and additional layoffs will likely affect other areas of its core consumer business (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)

Sources: Amazon plans to cut as much as 15% of its...

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Spotify's deal to bring video podcasts to Netflix bars shows from airing in full on YouTube; Netflix won't run ad breaks, but Spotify's integrated ads remain (New York Times)

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Hands-on with Nvidia's DGX Spark: trades some performance and bandwidth for 128GB of unified memory, Nvidia's software ecosystem is valuable, and more (Tobias Mann/The Register)

Hands-on with Nvidia's DGX Spark: trades some perf...

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