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.

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.

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

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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.

Anthropic's valuation has hit $1T on Forge Global, a leading private marketplace exchange, surpassing OpenAI's valuation on the platform of $880B  —  - Anthropic's valuation now hovers at $1 trillion on Forge Global, a leading private marketplace exchange.  — That is a higher price than OpenAI …

WhatsApp partners with PayU to roll out prepaid mobile recharges in India; it remains a marginal payments player in India despite launching payments in 2020  —  WhatsApp is adding prepaid phone recharges in India in a move to get more users to transact within the app, even as it struggles …

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 …

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 …

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.

Memo: White House says it has info indicating “foreign entities, principally based in China” are engaged in “industrial scale distillation” of American AI tech  —  Trump official Michael Kratsios says Chinese entities stealing from American labs

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 …

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 …

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.

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

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

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 …

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

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) …

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.

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) …

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.

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]

Sources: DeepSeek is fundraising to keep its researchers, some of whom have left for rivals whose valuations have soared; it is targeting a $20B valuation  —  Chinese AI start-up is raising funds for first time to keep researchers after several defections to rivals