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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, Key Context, TechCrunch, Benzinga, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Reuters, Business Insider, Yahoo Finance, Blockonomi, and Barchart.com
LinkedIn: Daniel Alves, Amazon, and Matt Garman
Bluesky: @bwnash, @wado1, and @edzitron.com
| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Source: OpenAI is finalizing a model with advanced cybersecurity capabilities that it plans to release only to a small set of companies, similar to Anthropic — OpenAI is finalizing a model with advanced cybersecurity capabilities that it plans to release only to a small set of companies …
More: Moneycontrol, Yahoo Finance, The Decoder, Hindustan Times, Blockchain.News, AI News, Implicator.ai, Understanding AI, CNET, and New York Times
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| 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.| 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 …
| 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 … | 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
| 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 …
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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 …
More: Computerworld, Washington Examiner, Business Today, CNBC, Bloomberg, Reuters, RedState, Cointelegraph, Fortune, Benzinga, Silicon Republic, Cryip, Axios, Business Standard, ZeroHedge News, SiliconANGLE, CCIA, Wired, New York Times, The Hill, The Information, Politico, Reason, and The Decoder
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| 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, and CyberInsider. Forums: r/cybersecurity
| 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: Gallup, Implicator.ai, Digital Trends, Axios, The 74, and Walton Family Foundation
| 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 …
More: Android Police, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Spotify, Engadget, PCMag, and Digital Trends
| 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: 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, and Capital Press
| 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 …
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| 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
| Sri Muppidi / The Information: |
Documents: OpenAI expects ads to generate ~$2.4B in revenue in 2026, ~$11B in 2027, and ~$102B in 2030, or 36% of its total revenue for 2030 — OpenAI's advertising effort is so new that the company is still working out the kinks in it. That hasn't stopped it from setting ambitious aims for the business … | 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
| 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.| 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
| Bloomberg: |
Samsung plans to invest $4B to construct a chip packaging facility in Vietnam's Thai Nguyen province to support 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
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Meta is opening a private API preview for Muse Spark to select partners, and plans to offer paid API access to a wider audience later; META closed up 6.5% — Meta is debuting its first major artificial intelligence model since the costly hiring of Scale AI's Alexandr Wang nine months ago …
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| Financial Times: |
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LinkedIn: Alexandr Wang, Carlos Pereira, Pooja Bandekar, Matt Deitke, and Roshan Sumbaly
Bluesky: @davelee.me and @danabra.mov
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