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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Google launches Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered conversational feature for iOS and Android in the US and India that lets users ask “complex, real-world questions” — 'Where's the closest public bathroom that's not completely disgusting' is going to get asked a lot in my household.
More: The Keyword, PCWorld, Gizmodo, MacRumors, ZDNET, CNBC, PCMag, Ars Technica, Associated Press, Moneycontrol, How-To Geek, Android Central, Android Police, MakeUseOf, Digital Trends, iPhone in Canada, The Economic Times, Pulse 2.0, Neowin, Digit, 9to5Google, The Decoder, TechRadar, Droid Life, TechCrunch, Android Authority, Blockonomi, Tom's Guide, Wired, Bloomberg, CNET, The Indian Express, Carscoops, Pocket-lint, Search Engine Journal, BGR, The Internet Marketing Driver, and Engadget
X: @nihalmehta, @alexgroberman, @thefox, @gabor, @exm7777, @google, @sundarpichai, @markknd, @cryptopunk7213, @sundarpichai, @google, @minchoi, @ehuanglu, @autismcapital, @abhijitwt, @kimmonismus, @_tenzdhon_, @officiallogank, and @fofrai
LinkedIn: Krystal Taing, Paolo Malabuyo, Victoria Wong, and Charles Armstrong
Bluesky: @matthewdownhour, @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk, and @caseynewton
Forums: r/applemaps, r/Bard, and r/Android
| 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.
More: Claude, The New Stack, Inc, 9to5Google, CNET, Engadget, Neowin, Blockchain.News, The Decoder, Crypto Briefing, iPhone in Canada, TechRadar, The AI Creator Drop, The Deep View, The Hans India, and Digital Trends
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Forums: r/ClaudeAI and Slashdot
| 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 …
More: Capital Brief, Quartz, The Guardian, New York Post, Reuters, The Decoder, and Reuters
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| 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| Jessica Lyons / The Register: |
A US DOJ-led international law enforcement operation disrupted SocksEscort, a residential proxy network used to exploit residential routers worldwide — Cops from eight countries this week disrupted SocksEscort, a residential proxy service used by criminals to compromise hundreds of thousands …
More: TechCrunch, Europol, US Department of Justice, LinkedIn, Decrypt, CyberScoop, BleepingComputer, and IC3.gov News
| 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.
More: Microsoft, Engadget, CNBC, Thurrott, The Information, Reuters, GeekWire, Bloomberg, Windows Central, and Business Insider
| 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.
More: Pegi Public Site, Video Games Chronicle, Engadget, GamesIndustry.biz, Game World Observer, The Verge, PC Gamer, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, TheGamer, Nintendo Life, Push Square, Wccftech, TechRaptor, GameRant, and IGN
Forums: r/PS5, r/gamingnews, and r/xbox
| 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 — The two agencies sealed their memorandum of understanding to link the parts of their work that overlap, and coordinated crypto oversight is among the top goals.
More: cftc.gov, US Securities …, The Block, US Securities …, Reuters, Unchained, Coinpedia Fintech News, ZyCrypto, CryptoSlate, Bloomberg, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, Crypto Briefing, The Crypto Times, Bitcoinist.com, and CoinGape
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| 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 …
More: TechCrunch and Sunday
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| Caiwei Chen / MIT Technology Review: |
A small cottage industry offering OpenClaw installation services and preconfigured hardware emerges in China as the tool becomes the country's latest tech craze — Feng Qingyang had always hoped to launch his own company, but he never thought this would be how—or that the day would come this fast.
More: Fast Company, Business Insider, CNBC, Nikkei Asia, South China Morning Post, and Bloomberg
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| CNBC: |
Atlassian is cutting 10% of its workforce, or ~1,600 jobs, to fund investments in AI and enterprise sales; filing: the cuts will incur $225M to $236M in charges — Atlassian said on Wednesday that it's eliminating 10% of its workforce, or about 1,600 jobs, as the company restructures following …
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X: @birdabo, @tukifromkl, @pawelhuryn, and @ai_for_success. LinkedIn: Jaspreet Singh. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Forums: r/technology
| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Apple updates iOS and iPadOS for older devices, including the iPhone 6s, iPad Air 2, and iPod touch (7th gen), to address the Coruna exploit disclosed last week — A few days ago, Google and iVerify published details on Coruna, an exploit that chained multiple vulnerabilities to target iPhones running older iOS versions.
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| 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 — I'm completely blown away by Mac Neo. It made me think a lot about what we tried to accomplish with Windows 8 more than a dozen years ago.
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| 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.
More: The Keyword, PCMag, Engadget, Google Research, Pulse 2.0, Heatmap News, and Times Of AI. X: @sundarpichai
| 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 …
More: Aviation Week Network
| 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 — Corporate employees said Amazon's race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and ‘more work for everyone’.
More: Gizmodo. X: @ichbingisele. LinkedIn: Varsha Bansal. Mastodon: @susankayequinn@wandering.shop. Forums: r/technology and r/ArtificialInteligence
| CoinDesk: |
Mastercard unveils a Crypto Partner Program with 85+ companies, including Binance, PayPal, and Ripple, to link blockchain tech with its payments infrastructure — More than 85 partners will work with Mastercard to connect on-chain payments with banks, merchants and global commerce as part of the payment giant's recent crypto program.| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Google spins off GFiber, formerly Google Fiber, forming an independent provider with investment firm Stonepeak's Astound; Google will retain a minority stake — Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news. — CNBC Councils| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Axiom Math, which uses AI and the Lean language to verify code in much the same way that mathematicians prove math problems, raised $200M at a $1.6B valuation — In January, a team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University published a study analyzing the use of artificial intelligence technologies … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Greenoaks founder Neil Mehta is pitching an endowment-type fund to Silicon Valley billionaires to influence CA politics, aiming to raise $100M to $500M — Silicon Valley billionaires have been seething over the threat of more taxes and regulations at home.| Kritika Lamba / Reuters: |
Bumble jumps 30%+ after reporting Q4 revenue above estimates and unveils an AI-driven app overhaul to lure back users; BMBL is down 90% since its 2021 IPO — Bumble (BMBL.O) shares jumped more than 40% in early trading on Thursday after the company posted upbeat fourth-quarter revenue …
More: TechCrunch, Engadget, Bloomberg, Fortune, Bumble, Benzinga, Fast Company, Yahoo Finance, Blockonomi, and Reuters
| Georgie McKay / Bloomberg: |
PayPay shares jump 19% in their Nasdaq debut after the company's $879.8M US IPO, the biggest listing by a Japanese company on a US stock exchange in a decade — Shares of PayPay Corp. jumped 19% in its trading debut Thursday after the digital payments firm's $879.8 million US IPO …
More: American Banker and Reuters
| Kaamil Ahmed / The Guardian: |
IDS and ADRN study: 11 African governments spent $2B+ on Chinese-built surveillance tech that recognizes faces and monitors movements; Nigeria spent $470M — Countries across the continent have spent more than $2bn on Chinese tracking technology that is not ‘necessary or proportionate’, new report finds
More: Institute of Development … and TechCabal
Bluesky: @phatcontroller and @hypervisible.blacksky.app
| Max Hunder / Reuters: |
Ukraine's defense minister says Ukraine is opening up access to its battlefield data for its allies to train AI models — Ukraine is opening up access to its battlefield data for its allies to train drone AI software, the defence minister said on Thursday, as Kyiv seeks to harness the experience … | 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 — When Max Brodeur-Urbas co-founded Gumloop in mid-2023, his vision was to help non-technical employees automate repetitive tasks using AI.
More: FinSMEs, Pulse 2.0, and Gumloop
X: @oneabhishek, @lizwessel, @maxbrodeururbas, @gumloop, and @everettrandle
| Robert Scammell / Business Insider: |
Tel Aviv-based Bold, which uses AI agents to secure enterprise devices like laptops from cyberattacks, emerges from stealth with $40M in funding — Follow Robert Scammell … - Israeli cybersecurity startup Bold has raised $40 million and emerged from stealth.| Martin Coulter / Sifted: |
Paris-based Waiv, which uses AI to enable more precise testing of cancer, raised $33M after spinning out of AI diagnostics and drug discovery platform Owkin — French healthtech aims to revolutionise cancer screening — Waiv, a Paris-based medical testing startup spun out of biotech unicorn Owkin …
More: FinSMEs, Pulse 2.0, Axios, Business Wire, Tech Funding News, and Business Wire
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's foldable iPhone will feature iPad-like layouts and side-by-side apps on its iPad mini-sized inner display and a small iPhone-sized outer screen — Apple Inc.'s forthcoming foldable iPhone will include updates to the iOS operating system that enable iPad-like layouts and side …
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Sofia Chierchio / Forbes: |
Sources: after Google's $32B deal, each of Wiz's four co-founders is set to get $2B+ in post-tax cash; Index is set to net $4B, Sequoia ~$3B, and Insight $2.7B — Two years after rejecting a $23 billion offer, Israel-based Wiz secured the largest acquisition in Google's history …
More: CTech, The Independent, Android Headlines, Tech Funding News, Business Today, and TechCrunch. X: @jasonlk
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon announces new personality styles for Alexa+, including an adult-only “Sassy” option, which it says won't get into areas like explicit sexual content — Amazon's AI assistant Alexa+ is getting another new personality. On Thursday, the company announced it's expanding … | Tom Dotan / Newcomer: |
Sources: Cursor is in early talks to raise billions at a post-money valuation of up to $60B, up from $29.3B in November 2025; one source puts the round at $5B — Very early discussions involve a $5 billion raise at a valuation of up to $60 billion — Can a company be declared both passé and the next big thing?
More: Bloomberg and PYMNTS.com
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