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Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen will step down after a successor is named; he became CEO in 2007 and will remain as chair of the board; ADBE drops 6%+ after hours  —  Adobe said CEO Shantanu Narayen will step down after a successor has been appointed, and he will remain as the design software company's chair.
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xAI hires senior Cursor leaders Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg; Elon Musk said he expects xAI to catch up with rivals in coding by “the middle of this year”  —  Elon Musk's xAI is hiring two senior Cursor leaders as part of an effort to catch up with AI rivals in coding …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Anthropic says Claude can now generate custom charts, diagrams, and other visualizations directly in a conversation, available to all users in beta  —  Claude will automatically generate interactive visuals based on your conversation, or you can ask it directly, too.
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Emil Michael says Anthropic's Claude models would “pollute” the DOD's supply chain because they have “a different policy preference” that is baked in  —  Defense Department CTO Emil Michael on Thursday said Anthropic's Claude artificial intelligence models would …
Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft launches Copilot Health, which integrates medical records, biometric data from wearables, and lab test results to give personalized advice, in the US  —  A new feature within the Copilot app will offer personalized healthcare advice and make it easy to upload test results, fitness data and more
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Google launches Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered conversational Google Maps feature that lets users ask “complex, real-world questions”, available in the US and India  —  'Where's the closest public bathroom that's not completely disgusting' is going to get asked a lot in my household.
Eli Tan / New York Times:
Sources: Meta delayed the launch of its Avocado model to at least May over performance concerns and discussed temporarily licensing Gemini to power its products  —  The tech giant pushed back the timeline after spending billions to be on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence.
Associated Press:
Social media addiction trial: the plaintiff, Meta, and YouTube make closing arguments; jurors begin deliberations Friday on liability for harm to children  —  After about a month of hearing from addiction experts, therapists, platform engineers and executives, including Mark Zuckerberg …
Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg:
Sunday, which is building autonomous home robots, raised a $165M Series B led by Coatue at a valuation of $1.15B, and aims to begin testing in homes this year  —  Sunday Inc. has raised $165 million to build a dream robot for any household: a friendly looking machine capable of performing tasks …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft says EVP of Experiences and Devices, Rajesh Jha, plans to retire on July 1 after 35+ years at Microsoft and promotes four of his direct reports to EVP  —  The leaders of Windows and Office are now getting promoted and report directly to Satya Nadella.
Jessica Lyons / The Register:
A US DOJ-led international law enforcement operation disrupted SocksEscort, a residential proxy network used to exploit residential routers worldwide  —  International cops stuck down 23 servers in 7 countries  —  Cops from eight countries this week disrupted SocksEscort …
Robert Purchese / Eurogamer.net:
European video game age ratings body PEGI plans to add four new categories in June to tackle elements of addictive design in games, including loot boxes  —  Loot boxes and in-game purchases targeted.  —  Follow EA Sports FC 27  —  Video game age-ratings are about to change in Europe.
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Telus Digital confirms a security incident after ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen ~1PB of data from the Canadian outsourcing giant in a multimonth breach  —  Canadian business process outsourcing giant Telus Digital has confirmed it suffered a security incident after threat actors claimed …
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A US appeals court voids much of a March 2025 injunction blocking California's online child safety law, while keeping some of the law's provisions blocked  —  A federal appeals court on Thursday threw out much of an injunction that had blocked California from enforcing a state law meant …
Erin Brodwin / Axios:
Sources: Qualified Health, which helps health care organizations assess and orchestrate AI tools, is raising a ~$100M Series A from NEA, SignalFire, and others  —  Qualified Health, a health care AI evaluation and implementation startup, is raising around $100 million in Series A funds …
Pew Research Center:
A survey of US adults: 75% say they have heard a lot or a little about data centers; 39% say they are bad for the environment, and 38% bad for home energy costs  —  A broad majority of Americans have heard about data centers - the often-sprawling computing facilities that are popping up nationwide.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta has paused the Persian Gulf section of its 2Africa subsea cable project as the war in the Middle East freezes activity in the region  —  Meta Platforms Inc. has paused part of a massive effort to expand internet service across Africa as the war in the Middle East freezes activity in the region.
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Allen Institute for AI CEO Ali Farhadi steps down after two and a half years to pursue research ambitions; founding member Peter Clark will serve as interim CEO  —  Ali Farhadi is stepping down as the CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), after a two-and-a-half-year tenure …
Colin Demarest / Axios:
Swarm Aero, which is developing large swarming drones capable of carrying missiles and cargo, raised a $35M Series A, following a $22M seed in 2023  —  Swarm Aero raised $35 million and plans to more than double its headcount by the end of the year.  —  The big picture: The California startup …
Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch:
Google Research launches Groundsource, a geo-tagged time series dataset created by using Gemini to extract 2.6M flood events from 5M historical news articles  —  Flash floods are among the deadliest weather events in the world, killing more than 5,000 people each year.  They're also among the most difficult to predict.

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Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Five more states join the lawsuit filed last month by eight states seeking to block Nexstar's Tegna acquisition, which Nexstar said the DOJ and FCC approved

Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
A group of TV consumers sue in federal court in California to block Paramount's acquisition of WBD on antitrust grounds; Paramount says the suit lacks merit

Reporters Without Borders:
RSF Press Freedom Index hits a 25-year low: over 50% of the world's countries fall into the “difficult” or “very serious” categories; Norway holds the top spot

More News

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Gumloop, which helps companies deploy reliable AI agents that handle complex, multi-step tasks, raised a $50M Series B led by Benchmark
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Disney+ is rolling out Verts, its new short-form video feed, to US users on its mobile app, featuring clips from movies and TV shows on Disney+

Earlier Picks

Varsha Bansal / The Guardian:
How Amazon pushes employees to integrate AI across their workloads despite their concerns that the company's “half-baked” tools are creating more work for all
Steven Sinofsky / Hardcore Software:
Apple's MacBook Neo validates a vision that began 15 years ago with a demo of Windows on ARM, which is held back by Microsoft's commitment to x86 compatibility
Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk:
The US SEC and the US CFTC enter an MOU to coordinate and collaborate where their work overlaps, including by building a combined crypto oversight framework
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