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Bloomberg:
OpenAI acquires io, Jony Ive's secretive AI startup, for nearly $6.5B in stock; Ive and LoveFrom will remain independent but take over design for all of OpenAI  —  OpenAI will acquire the AI device startup co-founded by Apple Inc. veteran Jony Ive in a nearly $6.5 billion all-stock deal …
OpenAI:
In a video and a letter signed “Sam & Jony”, Altman and Ive say io, founded in 2024 by Ive, Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey, and Tang Tan will develop new products  —  This is an extraordinary moment.  —  Computers are now seeing, thinking and understanding.
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Leaked recording: Sam Altman told his staff that OpenAI aims to ship 100M AI “companion” devices meant for everyday life, and to release the first by late 2026  —  Idea is a 'chance to do the biggest thing we've ever done as a company here,' Altman told OpenAI employees Wednesday
New York Times:
Sources: OpenAI owned a 23% stake in io from a 2024 deal, so it is now paying ~$5B to fully acquire it; the OpenAI Startup Fund also invested in io in 2024  —  Jony Ive, a former top executive at Apple, said that the goal with OpenAI was to create “amazing products that elevate humanity.”
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Sam Altman and LoveFrom have been working for two years on devices that move consumers beyond screens, like headphones and other devices with cameras  —  OpenAI to buy Ive's startup in $6.5 billion deal, as Ive and CEO Sam Altman work on new generation of devices and other AI products
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google is tapping its users' data to give its AI models an advantage over OpenAI and Anthropic, starting with its opt-in “Gemini with personalization” feature  —  Google is slowly giving Gemini more and more access to user data to ‘personalize’ your responses.
Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:
Q&A with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and Google co-founder Sergey Brin on AI frontier models, scaling data centers, reasoning, DeepThink, AGI, and more  —  Google co-founder Brin says “anybody who's a computer scientist should not be retired right now.  They should be working on AI."
Sharon Goldman / Fortune:
Google DeepMind says Gemini Diffusion, an experimental text diffusion model demoed at Google I/O and available by waitlist, generates 1,000-2,000 tokens/second
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Signal says its desktop app will block Windows from taking screenshots of it by default due to Recall's privacy risks; users can enable screenshots in settings  —  Signal Messenger is warning the users of its Windows Desktop version that the privacy of their messages is under threat by Recall …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft says it is reducing “politically focused emails” internally and externally; workers cannot send emails mentioning “Palestine”, “Gaza”, or “genocide”  —  Employees discovered that emails with a variety of terms related to Gaza and Palestine have been blocked internally.
Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Two new books on OpenAI and the AI industry show how Sam Altman became one of tech's great survivors, outlasting Elon Musk and returning after being sacked  —  Two timely and myth-busting books show that the AI boom is driven by the pursuit of power, wealth and hubris
IGN:
Q&A with legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto on Super Nintendo World, redesigning Donkey Kong, growing Pikmin, enhancing games for the Switch 2, and more  —  “What's important is to be able to create something new.”  —  In May of 2015, Nintendo officially announced plans to partner …
Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
Bitcoin reached a new all-time high on May 21, surpassing $110,000 and breaking its January 2025 record, after slumping to $74,000 in April 2025  —  WATCH NOW  —  Bitcoin rose to a new all-time high on Wednesday, breaking its January record.  —  The price of the flagship cryptocurrency …
Rebecca Dzombak / New York Times:
Microsoft researchers and others detail Aurora, an AI weather model they say makes accurate 10-day forecasts faster and at smaller scales than many other models  —  A Microsoft model can make accurate 10-day forecasts quickly, an analysis found.  And, it's designed to predict more than weather.
Turner Wright / Cointelegraph:
A New York jury convicts Braden John Karony, the former CEO of crypto company SafeMoon, of conspiracy to defraud the US, money laundering, and wire fraud  —  A New York jury found Braden John Karony, the former CEO of cryptocurrency company SafeMoon, guilty of three felony charges after less than a day of deliberation.
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
OpenAI updates its Responses API for building agentic applications to include remote MCP server support, image generation and Code Interpreter tools, and more  —  OpenAI is rolling out a set of significant updates to its newish Responses API, aiming to make it easier for developers and enterprises …
The Information:
Amazon plans to sell Nike products directly for the first time since 2019, when Nike stopped selling through Amazon due to lingering counterfeit issues  —  Six years after Nike stopped selling through Amazon in favor of going direct to customers through its own stores and website, the two companies are getting back together.
Milana Vinn / Reuters:
AT&T agrees to acquire Lumen's consumer fiber business for $5.75B, in an all-cash deal expected to close in H1 2026; LUMN jumps 13%+  —  AT&T (T.N) has clinched a deal to acquire Lumen Technologies' (LUMN.N) consumer fiber operations for $5.75 billion in cash, the companies said on Wednesday …

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

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Alfred Ng / Politico:
Sen. Wyden says AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile failed to create systems for notifying about surveillance on Senate-issued devices, despite a requirement to do so
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Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft seizes ~2,300 domains globally to disrupt Lumma's malware-as-a-service operation, after finding 394,000+ Windows computers infected by Lumma
Bloomberg:
AI model ranking project LMArena spins off from UC Berkeley and raises a $100M seed led by a16z and UC Investments, sources say at a $600M valuation
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