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The US Commerce Department's CAISI says Google, Microsoft, and xAI join OpenAI and Anthropic in granting early access to evaluate models prior to public release (Bloomberg)

The US Commerce Department's CAISI says Google, Mi...

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Even the ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Directors Think People Are Too Serious About Spoilers These Days

Even the ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Directors Think Peop...

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Bose’s New Wired Speaker Sounds Like Sonos on Steroids

Bose’s New Wired Speaker Sounds Like Sonos on Ster...

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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announces the company is cutting ~700 jobs, or ~14% of its global workforce, to reduce costs, saying "AI is changing how we work" (Reuters)

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announces the company...

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Shopify reports Q1 revenue up 34% YoY to $3.2B, above est., GMV up 34% YoY to $100B, and forecasts weaker Q2 revenue growth; SHOP falls 11%+ pre-market (Ignacio Gonzalez/Bloomberg)

Shopify reports Q1 revenue up 34% YoY to $3.2B, ab...

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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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Christopher Nolan’s New ‘Odyssey’ Trailer Is Absolutely Massive

Christopher Nolan’s New ‘Odyssey’ Trailer Is Absol...

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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)

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Trump Reportedly Considering Executive Order Aimed at Vetting New AI Models

Trump Reportedly Considering Executive Order Aimed...

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Samsung Galaxy A57 5G Review: Not Worth It at Full Price

Samsung Galaxy A57 5G Review: Not Worth It at Full...

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Unlocking large scale AI training networks with MRC (Multipath Reliable Connection)

Unlocking large scale AI training networks with MR...

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GPT-5.5 Instant: smarter, clearer, and more personalized

GPT-5.5 Instant: smarter, clearer, and more person...

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GPT-5.5 Instant System Card

GPT-5.5 Instant System Card

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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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Here’s The Cheapest ‘EV’ in America, but You Can Only Drive It Until You’re 5-Years-Old

Here’s The Cheapest ‘EV’ in America, but You Can O...

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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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OpenAI turns its sold-out GPT-5.5 party into a monthlong Codex giveaway for 8,000 developers

OpenAI turns its sold-out GPT-5.5 party into a mon...

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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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Biologist Joey Davis explores how cells build complex structures

Biologist Joey Davis explores how cells build comp...

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The tech revolution that wasn’t

The tech revolution that wasn’t

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Astronomers pin down the origins of a planetary odd couple

Astronomers pin down the origins of a planetary od...

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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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Fake Urine Bottles Planted In Museum Before Met Gala to Protest Jeff Bezos

Fake Urine Bottles Planted In Museum Before Met Ga...

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Sources: Sam Altman discussed spinning out OpenAI's robotics and consumer hardware divisions in late 2025 to give them more room to grow; the plan was rejected (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Sam Altman discussed spinning out OpenAI'...

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As Colorado tech leaders say that burdensome regulations are driving companies away, lawmakers introduce a slimmer version of an AI anti-discrimination bill (Owen Tucker-Smith/Wall Street Journal)

As Colorado tech leaders say that burdensome regul...

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New ways to buy ChatGPT ads

New ways to buy ChatGPT ads

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Advancing youth safety and wellbeing in EMEA

Advancing youth safety and wellbeing in EMEA

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How AI is transforming the pharma industry, with most gains so far from back-office streamlining and faster manufacturing rather than breakthrough drug research (Peter Loftus/Wall Street Journal)

How AI is transforming the pharma industry, with m...

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Lattice Semiconductor agrees to acquire AMI for $1.65B in cash and stock; Georgia-based AMI provides firmware and infrastructure manageability for cloud and AI (Mike Rogoway/Oregonian)

Lattice Semiconductor agrees to acquire AMI for $1...

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Grab reports Q1 revenue up 24% YoY to $955M, above est., and a $154M adjusted EBITDA, vs. $146.3M est., helped by resilient demand for ride hailing and delivery (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)

Grab reports Q1 revenue up 24% YoY to $955M, above...

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New Mexico child safety trial: New Mexico asks a judge to declare Meta a public nuisance and to order it to pay $3.7B and overhaul its apps to protect children (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters)

New Mexico child safety trial: New Mexico asks a j...

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OpenAI President Greg Brockman grilled over embarrassing diary entries while taking charitable donations from Elon Musk: ‘What will take me to $1B?’

OpenAI President Greg Brockman grilled over embarr...

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Crypto stocks jump after lawmakers struck a compromise on the CLARITY Act to preserve stablecoin rewards under certain conditions; Circle's stock closed up ~20% (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)

Crypto stocks jump after lawmakers struck a compro...

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They Can’t Stop Showing Clips From the Opening of ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’

They Can’t Stop Showing Clips From the Opening of ...

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Duolingo reports Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to $292M, vs. $288.5M est., bookings up 14% to $308.5M, and expects slower growth in Q2; DUOL drops 12%+ after hours (Akash Sriram/Reuters)

Duolingo reports Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to $292M, v...

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Here’s a Taste of Just How Creepy ‘Obsession’ Gets

Here’s a Taste of Just How Creepy ‘Obsession’ Gets...

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Musk v. Altman: Greg Brockman testifies that his OpenAI stake is now worth ~$30B; a Musk attorney asks why he hasn't donated $29B to OpenAI's nonprofit arm (Bloomberg)

Musk v. Altman: Greg Brockman testifies that his O...

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Explosion Rocks SpaceX’s Test of Water Deluge System Ahead of Starship Launch

Explosion Rocks SpaceX’s Test of Water Deluge Syst...

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