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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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| 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 …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Vercel says some customer accounts were compromised prior to its early-April breach, potentially through social engineering, malware, or other methods — App and website hosting giant Vercel on Thursdays said hackers had accessed some of its customers' data before the company discovered … | Reuters: |
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 …
More: Tom's Hardware, PC Gamer, Benzinga, DigiTimes, and Digital Trends
| 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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| 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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| 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
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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.| Financial Times: |
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
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| 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.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces the first voluntary retirement program in its 50-year history, for US staffers whose combined years of service added to their age totals 70+ — Microsoft is also changing its rewards program to recognize ‘high performance.’ — Microsoft is changing up its annual rewards … | 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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| 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.
More: GitHub CLI, 9to5Mac, and GitHub
| Ben Bergman / Business Insider: |
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 … | Olivia Raimonde / Bloomberg: |
Joint statement: Apple, Amazon, and others push back on stricter emissions reporting rules proposed by climate body Greenhouse Gas Protocol to cut greenwashing — The tech giants and dozens more companies are resisting changes proposed by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, a global standard-setter.| 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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| 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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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
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 …
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| 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.
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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.| 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
| 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
More: Forbes, Implicator.ai, and Bloomberg
| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Manila-based Salmon, a consumer finance app targeting underbanked Filipinos, raised $60M in equity and $40M in debt; it raised $310M to date, $160M in equity — The Philippines has millions of unbanked adults, and its consumer lending market is starting to catch up.
More: Ventureburn
| 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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| 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.| Reuters: |
Sources: Thoma Bravo prepares to hand over customer experience management company Medallia to creditors, leading to a ~$5.1B wipeout for Medallia's investors — Private equity firm Thoma Bravo is nearing an agreement to hand over software firm Medallia to its lenders, wrapping up months …
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| 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.
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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) … | 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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