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Sources: SpaceX expects to proceed with its acquisition of Cursor 30 days after its public trading debut, which is expected to occur on June 12 (Bloomberg)

Sources: SpaceX expects to proceed with its acquis...

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Roblox authorizes its first share buyback program, aiming to repurchase up to $3B of its stock, including $1B over the next year; RBLX is down ~45% YTD (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

Roblox authorizes its first share buyback program,...

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Analog Devices agrees to buy Empower Semiconductor, which makes chips used to regulate voltage, for $1.5B in cash (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)

Analog Devices agrees to buy Empower Semiconductor...

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Google adds a conversational search feature to YouTube and rolls out the new Gemini Omni model in YouTube Shorts Remix and the Create app (Sanuj Bhatia/Android Central)

Google adds a conversational search feature to You...

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OpenAI introduces Guaranteed Capacity, a new offering that lets customers guarantee access to OpenAI's compute through one- to three-year commitments (OpenAI)

OpenAI introduces Guaranteed Capacity, a new offer...

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Meta begins laying off 8,000 employees, or 10% of staff, in a push to become an AI-first company; another 7,000 workers will be reassigned to AI initiatives (New York Times)

Meta begins laying off 8,000 employees, or 10% of ...

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed the nation's first law banning prediction market sites from operating in the state; the CFTC has sued Minnesota in response (Bobby Allyn/NPR)

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed the nation's fi...

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Sources: Google DeepMind has reached a ~$100M deal to hire 20+ researchers from Contextual AI, including CEO Douwe Kiela, and license its technology (Bloomberg)

Sources: Google DeepMind has reached a ~$100M deal...

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Google unveils Pics, an AI image editor in Workspace that lets users edit specific elements and modify text, rolling out this summer to AI Pro and Ultra users (Mat Smith/Engadget)

Google unveils Pics, an AI image editor in Workspa...

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Ocean, which uses AI agents to detect email attacks, raised a $20M Series A led by Lightspeed, following an $8M seed in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Ocean, which uses AI agents to detect email attack...

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Sundar Pichai announced at Google I/O that Gemini 3.5 Pro will launch next month; attendees groaned at the model coming out later than they expected (Charles Rollet/Business Insider)

Sundar Pichai announced at Google I/O that Gemini ...

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Hands-on with Google and Samsung's Android XR smart glasses from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, and with XReal's Project Aura, all set to arrive this fall (Wired)

Hands-on with Google and Samsung's Android XR smar...

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Google unveils Universal Cart, a shopping assistant that works "across merchants", built on the Universal Commerce Protocol, rolling out in the US today (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Google unveils Universal Cart, a shopping assistan...

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At a hearing, two of three judges of a federal appeals court appeared skeptical of Anthropic's bid to block the DOD from designating it a supply-chain risk (Jen Judson/Bloomberg)

At a hearing, two of three judges of a federal app...

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Demis Hassabis says companies looking to replace developers with AI may be due to a "lack of imagination and a lack of understanding" of the future (Will Knight/Wired)

Demis Hassabis says companies looking to replace d...

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Google's web-based AI Studio now lets users build native Android apps; Google says the apps are for personal use only for now and publishing is on the roadmap (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Google's web-based AI Studio now lets users build ...

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Google introduces Antigravity 2.0, featuring an updated desktop app that lets users orchestrate multiple agents, alongside an Antigravity CLI tool and SDK (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Google introduces Antigravity 2.0, featuring an up...

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Google says Gemini's MAUs grew to 900M+ across 230 countries, up from 400M at I/O 2025, and launches Neural Expressive, a new design language for Gemini (Josh Woodward/The Keyword)

Google says Gemini's MAUs grew to 900M+ across 230...

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