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| Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg: |
SEC and CFTC issue guidance on which digital assets are securities, carving out stablecoins, digital collectives, and digital commodities as non-securities — The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a long-awaited “token taxonomy” on Tuesday, a key step forward laying out which types of digital assets it deems to be securities.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Nvidia is preparing to sell a version of Groq chips to the Chinese market that is expected to be available in May and will not be downgraded — Nvidia is preparing a version of its Groq artificial-intelligence chips that can be sold to the Chinese market, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.
More: The Information, New York Times, and DigiTimes
| Karen Freifeld / Reuters: |
Source: Beijing has approved multiple Chinese companies to purchase H200 chips from Nvidia; a Chinese spokesperson said they are “not aware of specifics” — Chinese authorities have granted approval for multiple Chinese companies to purchase H200 AI chips from Nvidia, according to a person familiar with the situation.
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| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 mini and nano, aimed at agents, coding, and multi-modal workflows, and offering near GPT-5.4-level performance at a much lower cost — ZDNET's key takeaways — GPT-5.4 mini runs more than twice as fast as GPT-5 mini. — New models aim at agents, coding, and multi-modal workflows.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Brian Lynch, Apple's senior director in charge of home devices since 2022, leaves for Oura, a setback for a unit already contending with product delays — Apple Inc.'s top hardware engineering executive overseeing home devices is leaving for smart ring maker Oura Health Oy …
More: Gizmodo, MacRumors, The Mac Observer, 9to5Mac, iClarified, and AppleInsider
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft says former Snap executive Jacob Andreou will lead Copilot for commercial and consumers; Mustafa Suleyman will focus on building new AI models — Microsoft said Tuesday that it's bringing together the engineering groups for its commercial and consumer Copilot assistants, which have yet to gain broad adoption.
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| Anna Washenko / Engadget: |
Arizona sues Kalshi for allegedly operating an illegal gambling business and unlawfully facilitating betting on elections; Kalshi faces a similar suit in Nevada — It's also facing a similar lawsuit in Nevada. — Kalshi has been sued by Arizona's attorney general for operating …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets Gemini tailor its responses by connecting to Gmail and other Google services, from paid users to all US users — Google announced on Tuesday that it's expanding Personal Intelligence, its feature that allows its AI assistant to tailor …
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| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Meta says Quest users will lose access to Meta Horizon Worlds on the headsets on June 15; access will continue on the Meta Horizon mobile app — Meta Platforms Inc. said that users of its Quest headsets will lose access to Horizon Worlds, a virtual destination where cartoon versions of people …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
A US judge rules Apple can remove apps “with or without cause”, a loss for Musi, a streaming app removed from the App Store that used YouTube to source music — Musi, a free music streaming app that had tens of millions of iPhone downloads and garnered plenty of controversy …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: a JPMorgan-led bank group halted a $5.3B debt deal for Qualtrics, whose existing $1.5B loan trades at 86 cents on the dollar, on weak investor interest — A group of banks led by JPMorgan Chase & Co. halted a $5.3 billion debt deal for software firm Qualtrics International Inc …
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| CoinDesk: |
Robinhood Ventures Fund I discloses its first investments, buying $14.6M of Stripe shares and $20M of ElevenLabs' preferred stock in March — The closed-end fund aims to give everyday investors exposure to private firms before they go public. — What to know:
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| Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: |
Companies start to track employees' AI token use, tallying the costs to measure their return on AI investments and to prevent unauthorized uses of tokens — Companies that now regularly use artificial intelligence are starting to track their workers' use of tokens, AI's unit of measurement| TechCrunch: |
Mistral announces Mistral Forge to help enterprises build custom models actually trained on their own data, using Mistral open-weight models as a starting point — Most enterprise AI projects fail not because companies lack the technology, but because the models they're using don't understand their business.
More: Mistral AI, VentureBeat, TestingCatalog, and The Deep View
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
A US appeals court puts on hold an earlier ruling that had blocked Perplexity from using its agentic shopping tool to shop on Amazon's marketplace — A U.S. appeals court has put a California judge's ruling on hold that had blocked Perplexity AI from using its artificial-intelligence-powered …
More: Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, CyberScoop, and MediaPost
| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Filing: the DOD said it designated Anthropic a supply chain risk over concerns the AI company could disable its tech if the Pentagon crossed its “red lines” — In response to Anthropic's lawsuit, the government said it lawfully penalized the company for trying to limit …
More: New York Times, Reuters, Bloomberg, and Business Insider
| Arvelisse Bonilla Ramos / Bloomberg: |
AI drone software company Swarmer closed up 520% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing it at $380M+; its tech has been deployed in 100K+ combat missions in Ukraine — Swarmer Inc. shares skyrocketed as much as 700% on Tuesday, making the artificial intelligence drone software company's debut …
More: Benzinga, invezz.com, Financial Times, Barron's Online, and Austin Business Journal
X: @constant_shysh and @aseyevstanislav
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung says it is considering a shift toward multi-year contracts for memory chips that may help stabilize supply and ease concerns about a shortage — Samsung Electronics Co. is considering a shift toward multi-year contracts for memory chips, a much longer timeframe than is typical …
More: Techstrong IT, Android Headlines, SammyGuru, and SamMobile
| James O'Donnell / MIT Technology Review: |
Source: the Pentagon is discussing plans to set up secure environments for AI companies to train military-specific versions of their models on classified data — The Pentagon is discussing plans to set up secure environments for generative AI companies to train military-specific versions … | Esther Fung / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon, long the USPS' biggest customer, plans to cut packages it ships via the service by at least two-thirds this fall, when its contract expires — The e-commerce giant wants to reduce its postal volume by at least two-thirds by this fall — Amazon.com is planning to sharply cut … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Chartbeat: over two years, search traffic fell by 60% for small publishers with 1K-10K daily page views, 47% for medium-sized publishers, and 22% for large ones — Smaller web publishers, with 1,000-10,000 daily page views, are experiencing the most precipitous traffic declines in the AI era … | Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: |
| Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: |
You.com appoints Saahil Jain as new CTO after co-founder Bryan McCann left for Anthropic; You.com, which began in consumer search, is targeting enterprise more — AI startup You.com, valued at $1.5 billion after a funding round in September, is changing its senior leadership as it focuses on helping businesses adopt AI.
More: You.com
| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Intel unveils the Core Ultra 200HX Plus CPUs for high-end gaming laptops, offering an Intel Binary Optimization Tool to improve native performance in some games — The new flagship Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus is accompanied by a Core Ultra 7 270HX Plus.
More: Intel, Tom's Hardware, DigiTimes, Digital Trends, Thurrott, XDA Developers, Gizmodo, KitGuru, PCWorld, and Tom's Hardware
| Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: |
An Argentine court ruled Polymarket lacked approval to operate and directed ISPs and app stores to restrict it; Polymarket is now unavailable in 30+ countries — The ruling directs internet providers to block access to the site, and Apple and Google to remove or restrict Polymarket's mobile apps.
More: The Coin Republic, CryptoPotato, and DL News
| Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
At an all-hands, Andy Jassy said he expects AI to help AWS reach $600B in annual sales by 2036, double his prior estimate; AWS had revenue of $128.7B in 2025 — Amazon O> CEO Andy Jassy said during an internal all-hands meeting he expects artificial intelligence could help cloud computing …
More: The Information, Reuters, PYMNTS.com, MarketWatch, and SiliconANGLE
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