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 …

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.

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 …

SpaceX's S-1 excerpts list “manufacturing our own GPUs” among the “substantial capital expenditures” it is undertaking, with the size of the expenditure TBD  —  SpaceX may be tackling one of the biggest challenges in the chip business: manufacturing the keys …

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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

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

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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

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 …

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

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.

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 …

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.

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.

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]

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) …