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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Annual letter: Andy Jassy says AWS' AI revenue has hit a $15B annual run rate as of Q1 and that Amazon's internal chips business is generating $20B+ per year — Andy Jassy's new letter to Amazon shareholders is a data-heavy defense of the tech giant's biggest bets — from AI and custom chips …
More: About Amazon, Thurrott, Quartz, Bloomberg, Key Context, TechCrunch, Benzinga, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Proactive, Constellation Research, Reuters, Business Insider, Yahoo Finance, Blockonomi, and Barchart.com
LinkedIn: Daniel Alves, Amazon, and Matt Garman
Bluesky: @bwnash, @wado1, and @edzitron.com
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI pauses Stargate in the UK, citing the energy costs and regulatory environment; OpenAI announced Stargate UK in September 2025 alongside Nvidia and Nscale — OpenAI said it is pausing its Stargate artificial intelligence infrastructure project in the UK, as it reins in ambitious spending plans ahead …
More: The Guardian, The Register, CNBC, Decrypt, Silicon Republic, Reuters, DatacenterDynamics, Sifted, Engadget, Tech.eu, Telegraph, Financial Times, ITPro, Capacity, Telecompaper, Sherwood News, and Politico
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Meta begins removing dozens of Facebook and Instagram ads from lawyers seeking clients who claim to have been harmed by social media while under the age of 18 — Meta on Thursday began removing advertisements from attorneys who were seeking clients that claim to have been harmed by social media while under the age of 18.
More: Wall Street Journal and NewsMax.com
| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Sources: Alibaba anonymously released AI video model HappyHorse-1.0, which ranks at the top of Artificial Analysis' AI model leaderboard, above Seedance 2.0 — Alibaba Group has anonymously released a new AI video generation model called HappyHorse-1., which rose to the top of an AI model leaderboard …
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Meta commits to spending additional $21B on AI cloud infrastructure from CoreWeave, running from 2027 to 2032, on top of its prior $14.2B deal that ends in 2031 — Meta has committed to spending an additional $21 billion on AI cloud infrastructure from CoreWeave, which comes on top …
More: Bloomberg, The Information, Bloomberg, eWeek, DatacenterDynamics, Capital Brief, Barron's Online, CoreWeave, Quartz, Business Wire, Investor's Business Daily, CoinDesk, Reuters, Benzinga, Wall Street Journal, Proactive, New Jersey Business Magazine, Barchart.com, Bloomberg Law, ZeroHedge News, Capacity, Blockonomi, Yahoo Finance, Dow Jones Newswires, Tech Funding News, crypto.news, and Channel NewsAsia
| Callie Holtermann / New York Times: |
A survey of 1,500 people aged 14 to 29: hopefulness regarding AI has dropped from 27% to 18% over the past year, and 50% report using GenAI daily or weekly — A new study from Gallup found that young adults have grown less hopeful and more angry about artificial intelligence.
More: Gizmodo, Gallup, Techstrong.ai, Implicator.ai, Digital Trends, Axios, The 74, and Walton Family Foundation
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
YouTube launches a Shorts feature to let creators generate photorealistic AI avatars using a “live selfie” recording of their face and voice, powered by Veo — YouTube is now letting users create an AI avatar that looks and sounds like them for use in Shorts. This feature was teased earlier this year.
More: Google Help Center, PCMag, Engadget, Dexerto, The Verge, The Hans India, Android Police, Business Standard, Phandroid, and Tech Times
| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Source: OpenAI is finalizing a product with advanced cybersecurity capabilities that it plans to release only to a small set of partners, similar to Anthropic — OpenAI is finalizing a product with advanced cybersecurity capabilities that it plans to release to a small set of partners, a source familiar told Axios.
More: Moneycontrol, Barron's Online, The Decoder, Transformer, Blockchain.News, AI News, Sherwood News, and Implicator.ai
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| Jack Queen / Reuters: |
A DC appeals court denies Anthropic's bid to pause the DOD's supply chain risk designation, after a California judge granted a preliminary injunction in March — A Washington, D.C., federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to block the Pentagon's national security blacklisting of Anthropic for now …
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Spotify is adding toggles to stop video from playing inside the app for both music and podcasts, rolling out worldwide on all platforms and devices — Controls are rolling out worldwide to stop videos playing alongside music and podcasts. … Spotify is adding new toggles to stop … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers: a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader has been actively exploited since at least December 2025, and some docs contain Russian-language lures — Attackers have been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader using maliciously crafted PDF documents since at least December.
More: The Register, Haifei's random thoughts, eSecurity Planet, Help Net Security, CyberInsider, Forbes, and Cyber Security News. Forums: r/cybersecurity
| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Tubi becomes the first streaming service to debut a native app within ChatGPT, letting viewers discover its 300K+ movies or shows via a conversational interface — Tubi, the Fox-owned streaming service, announced Tuesday the launch of its native app within ChatGPT, giving viewers an easier … | Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Chapter, which uses AI to help seniors enroll in Medicare, raised a $100M Series E, doubling its valuation to $3B and bringing its total funding to $285M — Meta Platforms' Wednesday release of Spark, the first model in its broader Muse model family, doesn't blow other frontier models out of the water … | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
RISC-V chip designer SiFive raised a $400M Series G led by Atreides at a $3.65B valuation; CEO Patrick Little says it is the final funding round before an IPO — Silicon Valley startup SiFive said on Thursday it has raised a $400 million round of funding from Atreides Management, Nvidia …
More: eeNews Europe, Investor's Business Daily, FinSMEs, Bloomberg, HPCwire, and Phoronix
| Reuters: |
John Deere agreed to pay $99M into a fund to settle a 2022 right-to-repair class action lawsuit, and make digital repair tools available to farmers for 10 years — U.S. agriculture equipment maker Deere (DE.N) on Monday agreed to pay $99 million into a settlement fund for farms and farmers …
More: The Drive, Health API Guy, TechRadar, Pro Farmer, Carscoops, TheTruthAboutCars, Gadget Review, Capital Press, and Inc.com
| Bloomberg: |
Elorian, which builds visual AI models with better reasoning capabilities for industries like robotics, emerges from stealth with $55M at a $300M valuation — Former Google DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai believes that the artificial intelligence models at big labs have the intelligence of a 3-year-old kid …
More: Tech Funding News
| Kelly Tyko / Axios: |
Visa unveils Intelligent Commerce Connect, a platform that facilitates payments for AI agents across multiple card networks, including those of Visa competitors — Visa is rolling out a new platform for a future where AI agents do the shopping for consumers.
More: crypto.news, Cointelegraph, Financial Post, and The AI Economy
| Financial Times: |
As AI transforms white-collar work, executives across sectors say trust, not AI, is the key differentiator where accuracy, accountability, and regulation matter — Executives across finance and cyber defence map where Anthropic's Claude “plug-ins” will — and won't — change work
Bluesky: @martinsfp
| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
TSMC says its most advanced chip packaging tech, CoWoS, is growing at an 80% CAGR as it ramps up capacity; Nvidia has reserved most of TSMC's CoWoS capacity — An underappreciated step in the chipmaking process is poised to become the next bottleneck for artificial intelligence.| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Google and Intel expand their partnership to deploy Xeon chips, including Xeon 6, and co-develop custom Infrastructure Processing Units to improve efficiency — Intel and Google have expanded their partnership to advance the use of artificial intelligence-focused central processing units …
More: Bloomberg, CNBC, Crypto Briefing, and Dow Jones Newswires
X: @benbajarin, @intel, and @intelnews
| Sri Muppidi / The Information: |
Docs: OpenAI expects ads to generate ~$2.4B in 2026 revenue, to quadruple to nearly $11B in 2027, and to hit ~$102B in 2030, or 36% of its total revenue then — OpenAI's advertising effort is so new that the company is still working out the kinks in it. That hasn't stopped … | Chris Smyth / Financial Times: |
Memo: UK NHS data chief Ming Tang says Palantir-built Federated Data Platform is delivering “outstanding results”, as she pushes deeper rollout of Palantir tech — Ming Tang says the platform, which collates patient information in one place, is delivering ‘outstanding results’ in England
More: TechRadar and The Guardian
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Poke, an AI agent that lets users automate tasks via text message, raised $10M, on top of a $15M seed in 2025, at a $300M post-money valuation — Is Poke an OpenClaw for the rest of us? That's the idea coming from a new startup offering an AI agent that you can access via iMessage, SMS, Telegram, and, in some markets, WhatsApp.
X: @joemiller199158, @aakashgupta, @lior_eth, and @arfurrock
| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
Anthropic announces Claude Managed Agents, offering developers an agent harness and other tools to build and deploy AI agents at scale, available in public beta — Amid rapid enterprise growth, Anthropic is trying to lower the barrier to entry for businesses to build AI agents with Claude.
More: Claude, Help Net Security, TechRadar, TestingCatalog, Digit, The Decoder, Techstrong.ai, Claude on YouTube, and The New Stack
X: @michael_chomsky, @trq212, @weswinder, @k7agar, @coreyganim, @kimmonismus, @yuchenj_uw, @alexalbert__, @claudeai, @kimmonismus, @aakashgupta, @bentoboinft, @mikeyk, @rlancemartin, @notionhq, @katelyn_lesse, @vadimstrizheus, @claudeai, @claudeai, and @claudeai
LinkedIn: Jeremy Sticco and Ravi Trivedi
| Bloomberg: |
Samsung plans to invest $4B to build a chip packaging plant in Vietnam's Thai Nguyen province to meet rising AI demand; sources say the first phase costs $2B — Samsung Electronics Co. plans a $4 billion outlay to build a chip packaging plant in northern Vietnam, as the country's largest …
More: Reuters
| Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Neo, a VC firm that made early bets on startups including Kalshi and Cursor, pushing the value of its first two funds far above industry averages — The venture firm, led by CEO Ali Partovi, illustrates the growing gulf between a few top performers and the industry median
LinkedIn: Yuliya Chernova and Hadi Partovi
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