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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Paris-based AI startup Mistral raised $830M in its debut debt financing to build Nvidia-powered data centers across Europe; Mistral plans to spend €4B in total — French company's debut debt financing follows rising demand for alternatives to US groups
More: Reuters, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, TheEnergyMag, Unite.AI, CNBC, The Times, Implicator.ai, The American Bazaar, Data Center Knowledge, Quartz, Ventureburn, Le Monde, Blockonomi, TelecomTV, The Decoder, Barron's Online, The Next Web, Bloomberg, Tech Funding News, Wall Street Journal, DatacenterDynamics, Benzinga, Sifted, Silicon Canals, Capacity, Silicon Republic, Tech.eu, and Tech in Asia
| Jared Spataro / Microsoft 365 Blog: |
Microsoft rolls out Copilot Cowork to its Frontier program for early-stage testing, including a new Researcher Critique tool using Anthropic and OpenAI models — Microsoft 365 Copilot is your AI for work. It's built on a multi-model advantage—bringing the best AI innovation from across …
More: Microsoft Tech Community, SiliconANGLE, The New Stack, Decrypt, The Information, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, Engadget, Implicator.ai, XDA Developers, The Verge, TechRadar, GeekWire, ITPro, Techstrong.ai, Neowin, The AI Economy, Constellation Research, Thurrott, Digital Trends, TestingCatalog, and The Decoder
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LinkedIn: Satya Nadella, Kapil Chawla, Gaurav Anand, Stephen Zeng, and Jared Spataro
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta is testing an Instagram Plus subscription in a few countries, offering features including anonymous Story viewing and extended 48-hour Story durations — Meta has begun testing a premium subscription on Instagram in a few countries, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday.
More: CNET, The Economic Times, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, The Mac Observer, 9to5Mac, Neowin, Investing.com, Beebom Gadgets, Crypto Briefing, Engadget, iPhone in Canada, WeRSM, Digital Trends, and Times Now
Threads: @cmcalgary, @mattnavarra, @rowilson, @brooksrocco, @itsy2kei, and @reblmedia. Forums: r/technology
| Kara Scannell / CNN: |
Sources: US prosecutors are exploring whether some prediction market bets, including on the capture of Nicolás Maduro, violated insider trading and other laws — Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are exploring whether certain lucrative bets placed on prediction markets …
More: Gizmodo, The Information, CoinDesk, Raw Story, and Benzinga
| Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
AI chip startup Rebellions raised $400M in a pre-IPO round at a $2.34B valuation, bringing its total funding to $850M, with $650M in the past six months — Fresh off a successful Series C funding round in November, the South Korean fabless AI chip startup Rebellions has raised an additional $400 million.
More: CNBC, The Next Web, Reuters, Unite.AI, Pulse 2.0, SiliconANGLE, Silicon Canals, Rebellions, FinSMEs, DatacenterDynamics, The Register, and Data Center Knowledge. LinkedIn: Sunghyun Park
| Qwen: |
Alibaba releases its Qwen3.5-Omni omnimodal LLM with support for 10+ hours of audio input, saying the Plus variant surpasses Gemini 3.1 Pro on audio benchmarks — Qwen3.5-Omni is Qwen's latest generation of fully omnimodal LLM, supporting the understanding of text, images, audio, and audio-visual content.
More: Decrypt and Benzinga
X: @ali_tongyilab, @adinayakup, @alibaba_qwen, @kimmonismus, @alibaba_qwen, @alibaba_qwen, @alibabagroup, and @bowang87. Forums: r/singularity
| Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: |
Gurman: Apple pulls Apple Intelligence in China, after accidentally launching it in the country; there is no imminent launch as Apple has no regulatory approval — Apple Intelligence first launched in the US in October 2024, but now after a nearly 18-month wait, Apple's AI features appear to be rolling out in China too.
More: The Information, The Verge, MacRumors, AppleInsider, The Mac Observer, AppleInsider, Pocket-lint, MacTech.com, and Digit
X: @markgurman and @zollotech
| Vaibhav Srivastav / @reach_vb: |
OpenAI introduces a Codex plugin for Claude Code, letting users invoke Codex from inside Claude Code to review code or delegate tasks — If you already use Claude Code, this Codex plugin gives you a simple way to pull Codex into the same workflow. It is useful for three things …
More: GitHub. X: @embirico, @thsottiaux, @dkundel, @rohanvarma, @ns123abc, @austinc3301, @cocktailpeanut, @romainhuet, @dkundel, @kevinkern, @btibor91, @reach_vb, @dkundel, @krishnanrohit, @nickadobos, @llmjunky, @romainhuet, and @badlogicgames. Bluesky: @promptslinger
| Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: |
Quinnipiac poll: 55% of Americans say AI will do more harm than good in their day-to-day lives, and 65% oppose building data centers in their community — Americans are increasingly turning against artificial intelligence, with growing majorities saying they fear the fast-moving technology …
More: Quinnipiac University Poll, TechCrunch, Business Insider, The Deep View, Courthouse News Service, NewsMax.com, and The Hill
X: @fshakir, @melatkirosco, @nick_field90, @patricksvitek, @aidaross_, @_nathancalvin, and @therealjchubby
Bluesky: @bestonetx and @reckless
| Axios: |
Inside David Sacks' new role shaping Trump's AI agenda; officials say Sriram Krishnan is taking on a position at the National Economic Council to focus on AI — - The move lands as Republicans grow increasingly wary of an all-in attitude on AI development and begin to question … | Sujeet Indap / Financial Times: |
A Delaware judge reassigns Elon Musk cases over “disproportionate media attention” after allegations she “liked” a LinkedIn post celebrating a Musk legal defeat — Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick denies bias but cites media glare as risk to justice
More: Gizmodo, New York Post, The Hill, CNBC, Business Insider, Bloomberg Law, Fox Business, Reuters, TESLARATI, Mercury News, and Fortune
| Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: |
Leaked January presentation: Coatue estimated that Anthropic would lose $14B in EBITDA on $18B in revenue in 2026 and reach a $1.995T valuation in 2030 — We talk about it & more on the Cerebral Valley Show — In a presentation to prospective investors in January, Coatue offered a rare look … | Lola Murti / CNBC: |
Micron shares closed down 10% on Monday and are now down 30% since Micron's earnings report on March 18; Sandisk fell 7% and Western Digital dropped 9% — Micron shares plummeted 10% on Monday, continuing the memory maker's significant post-earnings sell-off.| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber agrees to acquire Berlin-based chauffeur booking app Blacklane for an undisclosed sum to bolster its Uber Elite service, set to close by the end of 2026 — Uber Technologies Inc. has acquired the chauffeur booking app Blacklane, the company's latest move to court a high-end clientele.| Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: |
Levels.fyi: median base-salary offers for US software engineers at VC-backed startups have risen 25% to $200K since 2022; total compensation has risen just 18% — Young tech companies once might have complemented lower salaries with generous equity packages. Now they're upping base pay.
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Match Group agrees to settle an FTC lawsuit claiming it illegally shared user data from the OkCupid app with facial recognition tech company Clarifai in 2014 — Match Group (MTCH.O) agreed to settle a U.S. Federal Trade Commission lawsuit claiming it gave an outside company unauthorized access … | Sean Endicott / Windows Central: |
After Copilot injected an ad into a pull request on GitHub, referencing Raycast, GitHub says it “disabled product tips entirely thanks to the feedback” — Over 11,000 pull requests have been spotted with the same “tips” injected into descriptions.
More: Zach Manson, Neowin, The Register, and OSnews
X: @martinwoodward, @aaronontheweb, @simonw, @quinnypig, @geerlingguy, @martinwoodward, and @badlogicgames. LinkedIn: Brent Ozar
Forums: r/technews and r/microsoft
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Social gaming startup Rec Room is shutting down its service on June 1, saying it could not find a path to profitability; it was valued at $3.5B in December 2021 — Rec Room, the Seattle-based social gaming company once valued at $3.5 billion, is shutting down its platform on June 1 …
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| Derek Thompson: |
Examining the Smartphone Theory of Everything, which blames phones for anxiety, populism, and polarization, despite harms being concentrated in the Anglosphere — Many people believe that the nexus of smartphones, Internet, and social media is to blame for every modern catastrophe.
More: The Argument. X: @dkthomp, @richardhanania, @richarddias_cfa, @louisanslow, @rachaelrad, @tomowenmorgan, @noahpinion, @samuelmxc, and @barneyflames
| Financial Times: |
Fermi shares drop 12%+ after the data center real estate company reported a $486M YTD net loss, amid concerns over a lack of a tenant for its Texas data center — Data centre property group faces investor concerns around lack of tenant revenue — Shares in data centre real estate group Fermi plunged …
More: Barron's Online, Motley Fool, Dow Jones Newswires, and Proactive
| Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
Space data center startup Starcloud raised a $170M Series A led by Benchmark and EQT at a $1.1B valuation, and plans to launch Starcloud 2 later in 2026 — Starcloud's latest funding round values the space compute company at $1.1 billion, making it one of the fastest startups to reach unicorn status after graduating from Y Combinator.
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X: @ezrafeilden, @sarthakgh, @philipjohnston, @varungupta, and @jackkuhr
LinkedIn: Roshen Karavattuveetil and Philip Johnston
| Wall Street Journal: |
Inside the rise and fall of OpenAI's Sora, which worked apart from OpenAI's research team, as the company shuts down Sora and redirects compute to other tasks — When Sam Altman arrived in Los Angeles to attend Vanity Fair's Oscar afterparty earlier this month, his company was just weeks away …
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X: @firstadopter, @dkthomp, @_jason_dean_, @paularambles, @andrewcurran_, @woke8yearold, @andrewcurran_, @johnnyandai, @jon, @yuchenj_uw, @udiwertheimer, @cfryant, and @_simonsmith
LinkedIn: Chuck Bamford PhD and Dylan Jones. Bluesky: @maximillianquinn. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
Forums: Hacker News and r/BetterOffline
| Ezra Klein / New York Times: |
Some thoughts about companies and people in San Francisco adapting to AI workflows, AI's sycophancy, “cognitive offloading” and “cognitive surrender”, and more — In his classic book “Understanding Media,” Marshall McLuhan dwells on the Greek myth of Narcissus.
More: HotAir. X: @markfollman, @mroth78, @k8brannen, @katherinemiller, and @kbandersen
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| Boaz Barak / Windows On Theory: |
State of AI safety: as capabilities grow and models can monitor other models, issues like adversarial robustness persist and society is still not ready for AI — Here is a quick overview of my intuitions on where we are with AI safety in early 2026: — So far, we continue to see exponential improvements in capabilities.
More: Notes from the Circus. X: @_nathancalvin, @fleetingbits, @so8res, @_nathancalvin, @boazbaraktcs, and @sama
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
A look at Pretext, a new JS library that solves the problem of calculating multi-line text height without touching the DOM, enabling highly dynamic layouts — Pretext solves the problem of calculating the height of a paragraph of line-wrapped text without touching the DOM.
More: VentureBeat. X: @_chenglou, @tobi, @riyvir, @stevibe, @kho, @baconbrix, @_chenglou, @charliegreenman, @vladartym, @0xmrtn, @kevinleeus, @neogoose_btw, @domenic, @valcoholics1, @ahmedshahnab, @ukint_vs, @solarise_webdev, @gkurttech, @samjb1234, @davederiso, @_chenglou, @lucas__crespo, @its_bvisness, @steren, @lucas__crespo, @birdabo, and @_chenglou. Forums: Hacker News
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI's ChatGPT app store has 300+ app integrations six months after launch, but developers say adoption is sluggish and the apps offer limited functionality — Six months in, ChatGPT's third-party apps offer limited functionality and have been frustrating for developers.Sponsor Posts
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