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OpenAI is buying io, Jony Ive's secretive AI startup, for ~$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 …
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LinkedIn: Christel Buchanan, Ghassan Kassabji, Liam Darmody, Graham Furlong, and Steve Witmer. Forums: Hacker News
| OpenAI: |
In a video and letter signed “Sam & Jony”, Altman and Ive say io, founded in 2024 by Ive, Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey, and Tang Tan plans to create new products — This is an extraordinary moment. — Computers are now seeing, thinking and understanding.
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LinkedIn: Maxmillian Minichetti, Matt Wyndowe, Thomas Lewis, and Aaron McReynolds
Forums: r/BetterOffline, r/singularity, and MacRumors Forums
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Sam Altman and LoveFrom have been working for two years on a new device to move consumers beyond screens, including headphones and 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
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LinkedIn: Benedict Evans, Alon Matas, and Pramod Gosavi
Forums: r/business, r/artificial, r/apple, r/technology, Beehaw, and Ars OpenForum
| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Leaked recording: Sam Altman told staff that OpenAI aims to ship 100M AI “companion” devices, with the goal of releasing a device 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: |
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google is using its extensive data on users to give its AI models an advantage over OpenAI and Anthropic, starting with its opt-in Gemini with personalization — Google is slowly giving Gemini more and more access to user data to ‘personalize’ your responses.
More: Gulf Business, CarBuzz, and Financial Times
| 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 — Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, at Google I/O 2025 in Mountain View. (Photo courtesy of Google)
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LinkedIn: Aaron Gokaslan, Lian Jye Su, Antonio Gulli, and Blanca Huergo
Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, and Slashdot
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Signal says it will block by default screenshots of its Windows 11 desktop app due to the privacy risks of Microsoft's Recall; users can enable them in settings — Signal Messenger is warning the users of its Windows Desktop version that the privacy of their messages is under threat by Recall …
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X: @alex4only and @signalapp
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it is reducing “politically focused emails” within the company; workers are unable to 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.
More: The Economic Times, Drop Site News, Fortune, Cyber Security News, Moneycontrol, TechIssuesToday.com, and Benzinga
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| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
Nansen: the 220 winners of Trump's May 22 dinner contest spent $394M total on the $TRUMP token, with the top seven spending $10M+ each and a third $1M+ each — In total, the 220 winners of the contest to attend the dinner spent $394 million on Trump's official cryptocurrency.| IGN: |
Q&A with legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto on Super Nintendo World, redesigning Donkey Kong, the new Mario Kart, the Pikmin franchise, 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 …
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LinkedIn: Surendra S, William Stickevers, orabi Hassan, Andrea Lisi, CFA, Bloomberg Television, and Mila H Rothschild. Forums: r/literaciafinanceira
| 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.
More: Nature, The Register, Microsoft Research, Microsoft on GitHub, Microsoft Research, and Microsoft
Bluesky: @marypcbuk and @wessel.ai
LinkedIn: The Alan Turing Institute, Satya Nadella, Reisel González Pérez, and Microsoft Research
| 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.| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
A US district judge rules Google and Character.AI must face a Florida woman's lawsuit claiming Character.AI's chatbots caused her 14-year-old son's suicide — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google and artificial-intelligence startup Character.AI must face a lawsuit from a Florida woman …
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| 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 …
More: OpenAI and WinBuzzer
X: @openaidevs, @jeffintime, @openaidevs, @kevinweil, @ritakozlov_, @gilgnyc, @stevenheidel, @kevinwhinnery, @tbpn, @chu_onthis, @gdb, @jeffintime, @paypaldev, @pranaveight, @yashhsm, @stevenheidel, @stellaz3g, @itsandrewgao, @dkundel, @bryanhelmig, @ilanbigio, @stevendcoffey, @wadefoster, @sendaifun, @jeff_weinstein, @mikeknoop, and @jeff_weinstein
| 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 — Earlier this month, a coordinated disruption action targeting the Lumma malware-as-a-service (MaaS) information stealer operation seized thousands …
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X: @ericgeller, @fbi, @struppigel, @thejusticedept, @imposecost, and @eset
LinkedIn: Noam Perel, Rossen Atanassov, and Jeff Bullwinkel
| 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.
More: CNBC, Oregonian, WWD, Tech in Asia, Bloomberg, Modern Retail, Benzinga, and Reuters
| 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 … | Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Amazon introduces AI shopping experts, an audio feature that summarizes product details, customer reviews, and more, on select products for some US customers — In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant's hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more.| New York Times: |
FTC v. Meta: Meta rested its case on May 21 after four days of arguments, including that it faces hefty competition and helped build Instagram and WhatsApp — The social media company called only a handful of witnesses as it sought to prove it helped Instagram and WhatsApp after acquiring them.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Telegram told investors ahead of a ~$1.5B bond offering that revenue reached $1.4B in 2024, up from $343M in 2023, and net profit reached $540M in 2024 — Messaging app's finances are booming even as chief Pavel Durov fights French case over alleged content failings
X: @ft
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Snowflake reports Q1 product revenue up 26% YoY to $996.8M, vs. $966M est., and forecasts Q2 product revenue above estimates; SNOW jumps 6%+ — Product revenue, which makes up the bulk of Snowflake's business, will increase about 25% to as much as $1.04 billion in the quarter ending in July, the company said Wednesday in a statement.
More: Snowflake, MarketWatch, Tech in Asia, The Information, SiliconANGLE, Yahoo Finance, Investopedia, Reuters, and Bloomberg
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
CoreWeave announces a $2B debt offering, representing a $500M increase from its initial announcement, and says it was five times oversubscribed; CRWV jumps 19% — CoreWeave shares popped 19% after announcing a $2 billion debt offering. — The renter of artificial intelligence data centers powered …
More: Financial Times, Tech in Asia, The Information, Yahoo Finance, and Barron's Online. Forums: r/wallstreetbets
| Financial Times: |
How SpaceX's Starlink moved quickly to solidify its lead in the satellite internet business, as its competitors face production and launch capacity bottlenecks — Unlock the Editor's Digest for free — Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.| Juby Babu / Reuters: |
Zoom reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.17B, in line with expectations, Enterprise revenue up 6% YoY to $704.7M, and raises its FY 2026 forecast above estimates — Zoom Communications (ZM.O) raised its annual revenue forecast on Wednesday, benefiting from hybrid work trends and the integration … Sponsor Posts
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