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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia reports Q4 revenue up 73% YoY to $68.13B, vs. $66.21B est., Data Center revenue up 75% to $62.3B, and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates — Nvidia Corp., the dominant maker of artificial intelligence processors, failed to impress investors with its latest sales forecast …
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Google launches task automation for Gemini on Pixel 10 and Samsung Galaxy S26, enabling Gemini to autonomously perform tasks using apps like Uber and DoorDash — Gemini's in the driver's seat. … Google's Gemini AI is getting one step closer to being more like an actual assistant.
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| Prakhar Khanna / ZDNET: |
Samsung unveils the $1,299+ Galaxy S26 Ultra with a Privacy Display that limits side-angle screen legibility, a new agentic AI, improved night mode, and more — ZDNET's key takeaways — Samsung's Galaxy S26 series sports a much-needed design upgrade. — Top features include Privacy Display and truly useful AI.
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Galaxy S26 Ultra's Privacy Display: the two sets of pixels that lets users toggle the viewing angle to prevent screen peeking is very impressive — New hardware features? At a time like this? … Maybe it's a reflection of just how slow hardware innovation has been …
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| Patrick Holland / CNET: |
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| John Higgins / The Verge: |
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
New York's AG sues Valve over its use of loot boxes, accusing the game developer of violating state gambling laws and threatening to addict children to gambling — New York's attorney general sued Valve, a video game developer whose franchises include Counter-Strike, Team Fortress and Dota …
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| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
Kalshi says it has suspended an editor for MrBeast and a former GOP California gubernatorial candidate for insider trading, its first public enforcement action — An editor who works for YouTube's biggest creator, MrBeast, has been suspended from the prediction market platform Kalshi …
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| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Alphabet's Intrinsic, which builds AI models and software for industrial robots, joins Google; it will remain a distinct entity and work with Google DeepMind — Google is moving further into physical AI by bringing a familiar robotics software platform under its wing.| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Cisco warns of critical SD-WAN bug that was actively exploited in zero-day attacks since 2023, as CISA and international partners issue emergency directives — Cisco is warning that a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, tracked as CVE-2026-20127 …
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| Tim Anderson / The Register: |
A Cloudflare engineer rebuilt Next.js from scratch in one week using AI, reimplementing 94% of its API and spending $1,100 on Claude tokens — Uses Vite and Claude to sidestep Vercel lock-in — A Cloudflare engineer says he has implemented 94 percent of the Next.js API by directing Anthropic's Claude … | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Filing: C3.ai plans to cut ~26% of its workforce; the company had ~1,200 employees as of April 2025; C3.ai shares drop 20%+ after hours on weaker FY guidance — C3.ai Inc., a maker of data analysis software, is cutting about a quarter of its workforce after the appointment of a new chief executive officer.
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| Jason Hiner / The Deep View: |
Perplexity launches Perplexity Computer, “a general-purpose digital worker” that can route work across 19 AI models, available initially for Max subscribers — Claude Code and OpenClaw have taken 2026 by storm by offering the first glimpses of personal AI agents.| Reuters: |
Sources: DeepSeek did not share its upcoming V4 model with US chipmakers, including AMD and Nvidia, but granted early access to Chinese companies like Huawei — DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence lab whose low-cost model rattled global markets last year, has not shown U.S. chipmakers … | Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Salesforce reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $11.2B, vs. $11.18B est., forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates, and announces a $50B share repurchase program — Salesforce (CRM.N) forecast first-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations on Wednesday, betting on strong demand … | Suzanne Smalley / The Record: |
The FTC says it won't enforce COPPA against companies using age verification tools as long as they use the collected data only to verify a user's age — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday issued a policy statement advising industry that it will not bring enforcement actions …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Anthropic acquires Vercept, whose Vy desktop agent lets users control a Mac or PC with natural language, to “advance Claude's computer use capabilities” — Anthropic is acquiring Vercept, a Seattle startup founded by alumni of the Allen Institute for AI, in a move that illustrates …
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| Axios: |
Sources: DOD asked Boeing and Lockheed Martin to assess their reliance on Claude, a first step toward blacklisting Anthropic; Lockheed confirms it was contacted — The Pentagon asked two major defense contractors on Wednesday to provide an assessment of their reliance on Anthropic's AI model …
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| Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
Snowflake reports Q4 product revenue up 30% YoY to $1.23B, vs. $1.18B est., and forecasts Q1 and FY 2027 product revenue above estimates — Snowflake (SNOW.N) forecast fiscal 2027 product revenue above Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, a sign that new clients are turning … | Claude / @claudeai: |
Anthropic unveils scheduled tasks in Cowork, enabling Claude to complete recurring tasks at specific times automatically — New in Cowork: scheduled tasks. Claude can now complete recurring tasks at specific times automatically: a morning brief, weekly spreadsheet updates, Friday team presentations. [video]
More: Claude and The Verge
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| The Information: |
OpenAI hires Meta AI researcher Ruoming Pang, who joined Meta from Apple about seven months ago for a pay package reportedly worth $200M+ over several years — OpenAI has hired a high-profile AI researcher at Meta Platforms who had joined the company from Apple about seven months ago, a spokesperson from OpenAI confirmed.
| Michelle Chan / Financial Times: |
Tech companies are increasingly turning to GPU-backed debt, a model pioneered by CoreWeave, using SPVs to shift debt off their balance sheets — Investors attracted by high yields as companies look to shift debt off their balance sheets — Tech companies are increasingly turning … | The Information: |
Sources: Saronic, which is building autonomous warships, is raising up to $1.5B at a ~$7.5B pre-money valuation; Saronic was last valued at $3.4B a year ago — Saronic, a startup that builds autonomous warships, is raising as much as $1.5 billion in a financing that would value the company … | Alex Heath / Sources: |
Q&A with Skild AI CEO Deepak Pathak on building a general-purpose brain for robots, standing out among big tech's robotics efforts, the path to AGI, and more — Deepak Pathak has spent 15 years trying to solve one of the hardest problems in AI: getting machines to move through and manipulate the physical world.| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
Open-source tool Scrapling gains traction with OpenClaw users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission and has 200K+ downloads since its release — An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission.| The Information: |
Sources: Amazon plans to invest up to $50B in OpenAI, $35B of which could hinge on an IPO or AGI milestone; OpenAI is discussing custom models for Amazon — Amazon's decision to invest up to $50 billion in OpenAI could hang on whether OpenAI goes public or reaches a loosely defined milestone known … | The Economic Times: |
Mumbai-based digital payments processor BillDesk agrees to acquire the Indian business of Worldline for an equity value of ~$70M, set to close in H2 2026 — Billdesk is set to acquire the India payments business of French payment giant Worldline for an estimated equity value of $70 million.
More: Moneycontrol, Entrackr, VCCircle, MediaNama, The Economic Times, and Inc42
| Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: |
Zoom reports Q4 revenue up 5.3% YoY to $1.25B, vs. $1.23B est., online revenue up 2.6% to $489.7M, and forecasts Q1 adjusted profit per share below estimates — Zoom Communications (ZM.O) forecast quarterly profit below Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, signaling intense competition … Sponsor Posts
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