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| Beth Galetti / About Amazon: |
Amazon plans to cut ~16,000 roles across the company as part of an ongoing effort to reduce organizational layers and bureaucracy, after cuts in October 2025 — I want to let you know that we're making additional organizational changes across Amazon that will impact some of our teammates.
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| Business Insider: |
Memo: Amazon appeared to mistakenly alert some AWS staff about planned layoffs in an email invite to a January 28 “Project Dawn” meeting on company efficiency — - Some Amazon employees got a worrying calendar invitation on Tuesday. — The invitation discussed upcoming job cuts and …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Tim Cook told Apple staff that he is “heartbroken by the events in Minneapolis”, calls for a “deescalation”, and says he discussed it with President Trump — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook became the latest executive to weigh in on the killing …
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| Jack Ryan / Bloomberg: |
Paolo Ardoino says Tether now holds ~140 tons of gold, worth ~$23B, has been buying one to two tons per week, and plans to keep doing so for the next few months — There are roughly 370,000 nuclear bunkers in Switzerland, a legacy of the Cold War that are now rarely used. One of them, though, is a hive of activity.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
A Google bug report apparently leaks the planned Android desktop interface, showing a taller status bar, a new mouse cursor, Chrome extensions, and more — A Google bug report on the Chromium Issue Tracker today has inadvertently leaked the Android desktop interface for the first time.
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| Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $30B more in OpenAI; SoftBank is already one of its largest shareholders after investing $22.5B in December 2025 — The Japanese conglomerate is exploring further investment as part of the startup's efforts to raise up to $100 billion| Reuters: |
Sources: China approved its first batch of Nvidia H200 imports, covering 400K+ chips for ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent, during Jensen Huang's visit to China — China has given the green light to three of its largest tech companies to buy Nvidia's (NVDA.O) H200 artificial intelligence chips … | Sri Muppidi / The Information: |
Sources: Anthropic raises its revenue forecasts to $18B in 2026, $55B in 2027, and $148B in 2029, delaying its cash flow positive expectations by a year to 2028 — Anthropic has hiked its revenue forecasts for the next several years, projecting that sales will quadruple this year … | Financial Times: |
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
A critique of a large UK social media study that suggested measures like social media bans are unlikely to have an effect on teens' long term mental health — The “moral panic” framing misses how platforms actually harm kids. PLUS: Newsom investigates TikTok over Trump, and the Clawdbot frenzy
More: Techdirt, Crikey, Pixel Envy, BBC, Digital Watch Observatory, Crooked Timber, BBC, and Euronews
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Elon Musk proposes timing SpaceX's IPO with a rare planetary alignment and his June birthday; SpaceX seeks to raise up to $50B at a ~$1.5T valuation — Celestial calendar meets high finance, as billionaire's personal impulses shape plans to raise $50bn in record listing
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Snap launches a wholly-owned subsidiary called Specs Inc. for its upcoming AR glasses, in a bid to facilitate minority investment and offer distinct branding — Specs will now be launched under... Specs. … Snap is launching a separate business for its upcoming Specs augmented reality glasses …
More: TechCrunch, Engadget, Reuters, Bloomberg, CNBC, Snap Newsroom, and The Indian Express
| Abhijeet Mishra / SamMobile: |
Samsung says it will introduce a display feature for the Galaxy S26 series that improves “privacy at a pixel level” to protect users from “shoulder surfing” — Samsung has confirmed that the Galaxy S26 series will introduce a new display feature designed to improve privacy when using your phone in public.| Tyler Kingkade / NBC News: |
Some US college students say they are using AI “humanizer” tools to alter text to avoid cheating accusations; AI detection tools now aim to catch “humanizers” — Students are taking new measures, such as dumbing down their work, spying on themselves and using AI …
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| Daniel Kuhn / The Block: |
PayPal survey in October 2025: 40% of merchants already accept crypto, led by large enterprises, 85% expect crypto payments to be commonplace by 2030, and more — Partner offers — Quick Take — Four in 10 surveyed merchants said they already accept crypto at checkout …
More: PayPal Newsroom, crypto.news, Bitcoin Insider, NewsBTC, Blockonomi, Ventureburn, BeInCrypto, and Cointelegraph
| Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
Sources: Hugging Face declined Nvidia's $500M investment offer at a $7B valuation in late 2025; Hugging Face says it does not want a single dominant investor — Amid investor frenzy over AI, the ‘anti Silicon Valley’ group chose independence and desire to promote open models
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
ASML reports Q4 net sales of €9.7B, vs. €9.6B est., and €2.84B net profit, vs. €3.01B est., and says it expects China to account for 20% of its total 2026 sales — ASML reported on Wednesday orders that smashed past expectations while 2026 sales guidance was also ahead … | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Bluesky says it is working to make feeds more “live”, interactive, and timely during live events, and teases improvements to posting and follow suggestions — The Bluesky 2026 roadmap teases updates for feeds, follows, posting, and real-time features.| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
ADL study of Grok, ChatGPT, Llama, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek: Grok performed worst at identifying and countering antisemitic content, while Claude was best — In a study, the Anti-Defamation League fed Grok, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, and Llama antisemitic, anti-Zionist … | Gil Press / Forbes: |
Tel Aviv-based Factify raised a $73M seed led by Valley Capital to develop an AI-native document standard intended to replace the legacy PDF format — Tel Aviv-based Factify has raised $73 million in a seed funding round to establish a new document standard for AI, the company announced Wednesday.
More: SiliconANGLE, Globes, and CTech
| Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at “neolabs” such as Safe Superintelligence and Humans&, which give priority to long-term AI R&D over immediate profits; dozens have become unicorns — Flapping Airplanes is one of a wave of new startup research labs drawing intense interest from investors, the latest chapter in the AI race
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
TikTok says the new US entity has not updated its algorithm since the joint venture was announced, after users accused it of suppressing posts related to ICE — Some users had accused the app of blocking them from posting videos about Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The app said it was a power outage issue.
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| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
SK Hynix reports Q4 revenue up 66% YoY to $23B, above ~$22.4B est., and operating profit up 137% YoY to $13.3B, both company records, driven by AI HBM demand — South Korea's SK Hynix on Wednesday reported record full-year profit for 2025, more than doubling its operating earnings as shortages … | John Sakellariadis / Politico: |
Sources: CISA's interim director Madhu Gottumukkala triggered automated security warnings in summer 2025 by uploading sensitive documents to ChatGPT — Cybersecurity sensors at CISA flagged the uploads this past August, said the four officials. One official specified there were multiple …
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| New York Times: |
Internal documents from 2025: Microsoft expects its annual water consumption to reach 28B liters by 2030, up from 7.9B liters in 2020 and 10.4B liters in 2024 — Driven by the artificial intelligence frenzy, Microsoft is internally projecting that water use at its data centers will more than double … | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Adaptive6, which treats cloud cost inefficiencies as security vulnerabilities to help companies cut bills, raised a $28M Series A, for $44M in total funding — Cloud cost governance and optimization startup Adaptive6 Inc. says it's ready to help large enterprises save millions of dollars …
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| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
ESA astronomers say they used AI model AnomalyMatch to scan 100M image cutouts from the Hubble Legacy Archive in 2.5 days, finding ~1,400 “anomalous objects” — The AI model took just 2.5 days to search 100 million image cutouts and flag oddities like jellyfish galaxies.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Amazon plans to discontinue its Amazon One palm recognition system on June 3 and will automatically delete all user data; One remains for healthcare check-ins — Amazon is discontinuing its Amazon One palm recognition ID system for stores later this year, the company said in messages to users Tuesday night.| Kang Yoon-seung / Yonhap News Agency: |
Sources: Nvidia has allocated ~70% of its 2026 HBM4 demand to SK Hynix; Counterpoint estimates SK Hynix will account for 54% of the global HBM4 market in 2026 — SK hynix Inc. has secured over two-thirds of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) supply orders from U.S. tech giant Nvidia Corp. to be used …
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Toronto-based self-driving truck startup Waabi raised a $750M Series C led by Khosla and G2 and partners with Uber, which can invest $250M based on performance — Waabi Innovation Inc., a Canadian startup that develops self-driving technology for trucks, has secured $1 billion in funding …
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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Outtake, which uses autonomous AI agents to help companies detect and remove cyberthreats, raised $40M led by Iconiq, after a $16.5M Series A in April 2025 — Alex Dhillon spent almost five years at Palantir before leaving to build cybersecurity startup Outtake.| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
OpenAI launches Prism, a free cloud-based LaTeX editor that embeds GPT-5.2 to assist in scientific paper drafting and citation management — OpenAI just revealed what its new in-house team, OpenAI for Science, has been up to. The firm has released a free LLM-powered tool for scientists called Prism …
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