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Sources: Microsoft considered buying Cursor in recent weeks but didn't make an offer; Microsoft has been working to boost GitHub Copilot's popularity — Prior to SpaceX's announcement this week that it's obtained the right to acquire Cursor for $60 billion, Microsoft looked at a potential deal …
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| Grace Kay / Business Insider: |
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Forums: r/accelerate, r/technology, and r/cursor
| Bloomberg: |
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Google introduces its eighth generation of TPUs, including the TPU 8t for training and the TPU 8i for inference, generally available later this year — Alphabet Inc.'s Google Cloud division unveiled the latest generation of its tensor processing unit, or TPU, a homegrown chip that's designed …
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LinkedIn: Jim Fairweather, Umesh Vaghela, Patrick Musau, Ph.D., Manuel Greisinger, Oliver Parker, Anna Berenberg, and LinkedIn
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| Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET: |
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| Dan Mangan / CNBC: |
Kalshi suspends and fines congressional candidates Mark Moran of Virginia, Matt Klein of Minnesota, and Ezekiel Enriquez of Texas for political insider trading — Prediction market platform Kalshi said Wednesday it had suspended and fined three candidates for Congress from Minnesota …
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| Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register: |
GitHub says it has begun collecting pseudonymous client-side telemetry from command-line interface (CLI) users and enabled it by default — Opt-out instructions included if you're not keen on GitHub watching you in the name of product improvement — Users of GitHub's command-line interface (CLI) who value privacy, beware.
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| Qwen: |
Alibaba launches Qwen3.6-27B, an open-weight dense model with 27B parameters, saying it surpasses Qwen3.5-397B-A17B on major coding benchmarks — · 4226 words · QwenTeam丨Translations:.体中文 — HUGGING FACE — MODELSCOPE — DISCORD
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Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
TSMC unveils its process technology roadmap through 2029, aiming to launch a new node yearly for client applications and every two years for AI and HPC — Still no High-NA on horizon. … TSMC revealed its general manufacturing technology roadmap through 2029 at its North American Technology Symposium 2026 on Wednesday.| OpenAI: |
OpenAI announces workspace agents in ChatGPT, letting teams create Codex-powered shared agents for complex tasks, and says they are “an evolution of GPTs” — Codex-powered agents for teams. — Create an agent(opens in a new window)Contact sales(opens in a new window)
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| Politico: |
Sean Plankey, President Trump's pick to lead CISA, withdraws from consideration after resistance from Sen. Rick Scott stalled his nomination for over a year — Spokespeople for the White House, DHS and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
IBM reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to $15.92B, vs. $15.62B est., software revenue up 11% to $7.05B, and maintains FY 2026 guidance; IBM drops 7%+ after hours — IBM shares slipped 6% in extended trading on Wednesday after the hardware, software and consulting provider reported stronger …
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Texas Instruments reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to $4.83B, vs. $4.52B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; TXN jumps 10%+ after hours — Texas Instruments Inc. shares surged in late trading after the chipmaker gave a surprisingly strong forecast, helped by booming spending on data centers and industrial equipment.| Lola Murti / CNBC: |
ServiceNow reports Q1 subscription revenue up 22% YoY to $3.67B, vs. $3.65B est., says conflict in the Middle East weighed on growth; NOW drops 12%+ after hours — ServiceNow reported first-quarter results on Wednesday that narrowly beat Wall Street's estimates as the company said the conflict …
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| Reuters: |
Elon Musk says Tesla plans to use Intel's 14A process technology to make chips at its Terafab project, which would make Tesla the first major customer for 14A — Tesla (TSLA.O) CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday the EV maker plans to use Intel's (INTC.O) next-generation 14A manufacturing process …
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| Ainslie Chandler / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft plans to invest AU$25B by 2029 to expand Azure AI supercomputing and cloud infrastructure in Australia, its largest commitment to the country — Microsoft Corp. announced its biggest-ever investment in Australia, pledging to spend A$25 billion ($17.9 billion) … | Will Dunham / Reuters: |
Sony AI says its autonomous ping pong robot is the first robot to attain expert-level performance in a physical sport after beating some top-level human players — An autonomous robot ping-pong player dubbed Ace has achieved a milestone for AI and robotics in Tokyo by competing …
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| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
SK Hynix reports Q1 revenue up 198% YoY to ~$35.55B, vs. ~$36.2B est., and operating profit up 405% YoY to ~$25.4B, vs. ~$25.6B est., as memory prices rise — South Korean memory chip giant SK Hynix posted yet another quarter of record profit and revenue on Thursday, as prices for its products continue to surge amid strong AI demand.| OpenAI: |
OpenAI releases ChatGPT for Clinicians, a tool for medical tasks like documentation and research, free for verified physicians, pharmacists, and more in the US — Built for clinical work, ChatGPT for Clinicians is now available for free to verified individual clinicians in the U.S.| Alexandra Alper / Reuters: |
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says Nvidia has yet to sell H200 chips to Chinese companies and that the Chinese government has not approved such purchases — Nvidia's (NVDA.O) powerful H200 AI chips have not yet been sold to Chinese companies, Commerce Department Secretary Howard Lutnick …
More: Global Times, Fortune, The Asia Business Daily, and Washington Examiner
| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
Report: China's 360 Digital Security Group has uncovered ~1,000 previously unknown vulnerabilities, including in Microsoft's Office, using an AI-powered agent — A large Chinese cybersecurity firm is using artificial intelligence to identify security vulnerabilities in widely used software applications …
Source: Natto Thoughts. More: Reuters, iTnews, TWiT.tv, HotHardware, Yahoo Finance, AI News, I Programmer, Crypto Briefing, and The Hans India
X: @business and @eubenincasa
| Alastair Marsh / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft told carbon-removal project developers it is shelving contracts under negotiation; Microsoft has been a major backer of carbon capture tech — In the early days of April, a group of mid-level employees at Microsoft Corp. started making calls that would send tremors through the global market for carbon removals.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
LinkedIn names COO Daniel Shapero as its new CEO, succeeding Ryan Roslansky, who will retain his position as EVP at Microsoft — Microsoft has tapped Dan Shapero to be the new CEO of its LinkedIn division, succeeding Ryan Roslansky, who has run the subsidiary since 2020 and last year took …
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LinkedIn: Ryan Roslansky, Daniel Shapero, Jeff Weiner, and Mohak Shroff
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