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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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| Reuters: |
TSMC SVP Kevin Zhang says the company plans to open an advanced chip packaging plant in Arizona by 2029 and that construction has begun — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW) plans to open a chip packaging plant in Arizona by 2029, an executive told Reuters.
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S-1 excerpts: SpaceX says its total addressable market could be as much as $28.5T, with $26.5T from the AI sector, most of it from AI for businesses — Over the last quarter century, Elon Musk revived space travel, turning cosmic exploration into thriving businesses.| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Apple fixes a bug that stored notifications for deleted messages on iPhone and iPad, following a report that police used it to extract deleted Signal messages — Apple released a software update on Wednesday for iPhones and iPads fixing a bug that allowed law enforcement to extract messages …
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| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Around 30K attend a Samsung union rally demanding 15% of operating profits for chip division staff amid the AI boom; the demand totals $27B or $400K+ per worker — Tens of thousands of people gathered outside Samsung Electronics Co.'s main chip hub to demand employees get a greater share of profits reaped from the AI boom.| 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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| Gil Kaufman / Billboard: |
Spotify celebrates its 20th anniversary with a first-ever list of its 20 most streamed artists, albums, songs, podcasts, and audiobooks — But who else made the cut? … It was 20 years ago today that Spotify began to play. And to mark the streaming service's big anniversary …
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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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| Financial Times: |
A poll of 4,000 workers in the US and the UK finds that the highest-earning and most experienced workers are adopting AI in their jobs far faster than others — FT-Focaldata poll offers early evidence on how the technology is reshaping work and reinforcing gender and pay gaps| Shawn Wen / Bloomberg: |
How Cash App founder Bob Lee's 2023 killing fed into a narrative pushed by tech leaders like Elon Musk about SF's decline until an acquaintance was convicted — The 2023 murder of a tech executive seemed to fit neatly into narratives about street crime in liberal cities, until it didn't.| Ryan Lawler / Axios: |
Petual, which automates internal audit work and generates auditor-ready workpapers, raised $20M across a pre-seed led by First Round and a seed led by a16z — - Other backers include Cowboy Ventures, Lachy Groom, the founders of Lyft and Opendoor, and other angels.
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| Sumit Chauhan / Microsoft 365 Blog: |
Microsoft says Copilot's agentic features in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are now generally available and enabled by default for 365 Copilot and 365 Premium — Try Microsoft 365 Copilot — Available on desktop and mobile devices — Today, I am excited to share that agentic capabilities in Word … | 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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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: India's mobile app IAP revenue crossed $300M in Q1, up 33% YoY, with non-gaming apps generating $200M+, much of it captured by global platforms — India's mobile app market is generating record revenue, with in-app purchases crossing $300 million in the first quarter …
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| 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.| Andrew Wilks / Associated Press: |
Turkey's parliament passes a bill requiring social media and online game companies to restrict access for children under 15, following a school shooting — Turkish lawmakers passed a bill late Wednesday that includes restricting access to social media platforms for children under 15, state media reported.| Reuters: |
Sources: Bain Capital seeks to sell a stake of 40%+ in Bridge Data Centres in a deal that would value the Singapore-based data infrastructure builder at $5B — U.S. investment firm Bain Capital is seeking to sell a stake of at least 40% in Bridge Data Centres (BDC) in a deal that would value …
More: DatacenterDynamics, The Next Web, and Tech in Asia
| Kaye Wiggins / Financial Times: |
Anthropic and law firm Freshfields sign a deal to develop specialized legal AI tools for document drafting, contract review, due diligence, and more — Tech group will tap ‘magic circle’ law firm's expertise as it builds products that can be sold to rivals| 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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Forums: r/hardware and r/intelstock
| Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post: |
Tencent releases Hy3-preview, its first AI model developed under former OpenAI researcher Yao Shunyu; the model features 295B parameters, down from HY2's 400B — The model is relatively small with only 295 billion parameters, bucking a recent trend of large models with trillions of parameters
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Beehiiv rolls out new creator tools, including metered paywalls, letting creators host webinars for up to 10,000 people, AI analytics, and more — It's been clear for a while that Beehiiv wants to be more than just a newsletter platform. The L.A.-based company announced a slew of updates … | Olivier Acuna / CoinDesk: |
Sam Bankman-Fried withdraws his request for a new trial, saying he doubts he would receive a fair hearing; his broader appeal remains pending — What to know: … Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, has withdrawn his request for a retrial over doubt …
More: Unchained, Crypto Briefing, crypto.news, The Block, and Cointelegraph
| 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.| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Lyft agrees to buy London black cab app Gett, its third acquisition in the past year, as the company expands its presence beyond the US — Lyft Inc. has agreed to buy London black cab app Gett, its third acquisition in the past year, as the company works to expand its presence beyond the US.
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| Natalie Breymeyer / Axios: |
Cloudsmith, which is building a cloud-native system to manage software artifacts, raised a $72M Series C, following a $23M Series B in 2025 — Cloudsmith, a platform that protects software components, raised a $72 million Series C, CEO Glenn Weinstein tells Axios exclusively.| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Orkes, which helps companies scale their AI and agentic systems, raised $60M, including a $40M Series B led by AVP, bringing its total funding to ~$90M — Orkes, which helps companies scale their AI and agentic systems, raised $60 million, CEO Jeu George tells Axios Pro exclusively.| Gianluca Lo Nostro / Reuters: |
France-based Univity, which seeks to build 3,400 VLEO satellites to reduce Europe's reliance on Starlink, raised €27M, bringing its total funding to €68M — Univity, a satellite internet startup backed by the French state, said on Thursday it had closed a 27 million euro ($32 million) …
More: Silicon Republic, The Next Web, Ventureburn, Telecompaper, SpaceNews, and Payload
| Nikita Bier / @nikitabier: |
X says it is deprecating X Communities, giving members until May 30 to migrate to XChat, and plans to increase group chat limits to 1,000 in the next two weeks — Today we're announcing two product changes for organizing communities on X: 1. XChat now supports joinable links for groupchats. Create a public link & share direct to Timeline. With support for 350 members per chat (and growing), Groupchat Links are the fastest way to bring [image]
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