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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia reports Q4 revenue up 73% YoY to $68.13B, above $66.21B est., Data Center revenue up 75% YoY 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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LinkedIn: Randa Hinton and Emil Protalinski
Forums: r/technology, r/hardware, and r/wallstreetbets
| 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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Bluesky: @reckless and @turboshawn.com
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| Prakhar Khanna / ZDNET: |
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
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| Patrick Holland / CNET: |
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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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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Cisco warns of a critical SD-WAN bug that was actively exploited in zero-day attacks since 2023; CISA and its 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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| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Salesforce reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $11.2B, above $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 …
More: CNBC, TechCrunch, Implicator.ai, and Constellation Research
| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Alphabet's Intrinsic, which builds AI models and software for industrial robots, joins Google, but 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.
More: Intrinsic, The Verge, Moneycontrol, Fortune, and SiliconANGLE
| 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 …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/vibecoding, r/nextjs, Lobsters, and Slashdot
| New York Times: |
As China grapples with a shrinking population and low birthrate, some women are finding romance with AI chatbots, leading Beijing to increase AI regulations — As China grapples with a shrinking population and historically low birthrate, people are finding romance with chatbots instead.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Instagram says it will alert parents if their teen repeatedly searches for terms related to self-harm or suicide in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia — Meta is planning something similar for its chatbots later this year. — Starting next week, Instagram will notify parents …
More: Meta Newsroom, CNBC, Reuters, The Sun, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Hill, RTÉ, CBS News, and BBC
| 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%+ pre-market 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.
More: Investing.com, C3.ai, Inc., Benzinga, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, Benzinga, Barron's Online, and SFGATE
| Suzanne Smalley / The Record: |
The US 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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| 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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| 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 … | Financial Times: |
Analysis: super PACs for and against AI regulation have raised $265M ahead of the midterms, with pro-AI groups significantly outraising pro-regulation groups — Midterm election contests poised to become battlegrounds over nascent technology — Alex Bores was on the way to his wedding anniversary dinner …
Bluesky: @hannescools
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic retired Claude Opus 3, its first model to undergo a new “retirement interview” process, and says Opus 3 asked to write weekly essays for a newsletter — As we develop increasingly capable AI models, it's currently necessary to deprecate and retire our past models due …
More: The Rundown AI and Claude's Corner
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Bluesky: @tcarmody, @reckless, @lindsaypcohn, and @annmlipton
Forums: r/Anthropic and r/ClaudeAI
| 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.
More: Perplexity, Moneycontrol, Digital Trends, Neowin, The Indian Express, Business Standard, and PYMNTS.com
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| 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]
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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 …
More: Anthropic, Computerworld, SiliconANGLE, LinkedIn, Moneycontrol, and TechCrunch
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| 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.| Citadel Securities: |
Citadel rebuts Citrini's viral article, arguing that AI deployment is constrained by the marginal cost of compute vs. human labor, and needs far more compute — Copyright © Citadel Enterprise Americas LLC or one of its affiliates. All rights reserved.
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Bluesky: @chrislhayes, @sky.skymarchini.net, @katie0martin.ft.com, and @ddayen
| Philip Stafford / Financial Times: |
UK online supermarket Ocado plans to cut ~1,000 jobs and restructure its automated warehouse tech business; Kroger and Sobeys exited their Ocado deals early — Company warns key business's earnings will be hit by end of prolonged period of capital investment
More: Telegraph, Bloomberg, The Grocer, The Standard, Sky News, The Times, The Guardian, The Sun, and Reuters
| 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.
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Bluesky: @marypcbuk and @parsley72
| Wall Street Journal: |
Mistral and Accenture sign a multi-year deal to let Accenture deploy Mistral's models for its clients; Mistral has deals with IBM, Cisco, SAP, ASML, and others — Accenture is added to its list of major clients at a critical juncture in the AI race — Mistral AI struck an agreement …
More: Accenture
| Arijeta Lajka / New York Times: |
An analysis of 1,000+ YouTube Shorts videos recommended to kids: the algorithm pushes bizarre, often nonsensical, AI-generated videos, and many lack disclosures — Experts caution that low-quality, A.I.-generated videos on YouTube geared toward children often feature conflicting information …
More: New York Times and Digit
| Alex Heath / Sources: |
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