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| Bloomberg: |
DeepSeek releases its new flagship models V4 Pro and V4 Flash in preview, saying V4 Pro trails the performance of state-of-the-art models by about 3 to 6 months — DeepSeek rolled out preview versions of a new flagship artificial intelligence model a year after upending Silicon Valley …
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LinkedIn: Merve Noyan, Angus CHENG Zhe, Jing Conan Wang, Houwei Rui, and Daniel Langkilde
Forums: Hacker News, r/DeepSeek, r/singularity, r/LocalLLaMA, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/DeepSeek
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
DeepSeek V4 Pro costs $1.74/1M input and $3.48/1M output tokens while V4 Flash costs $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens, both the cheapest in their class — Chinese AI lab DeepSeek's last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) last December. They just dropped the first of their …
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says “GPT-5.5 matches GPT-5.4 per-token latency in real-world serving”, performs “at a much higher level of intelligence”, and is more capable for Codex — A new class of intelligence for real work — We're releasing GPT-5.5, our smartest and most intuitive …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, r/ClaudeAI, r/OpenAI, r/ChatGPT, r/programare, r/singularity, and MacRumors Forums
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI launches GPT-5.5, a model designed to handle more complex tasks with minimal guidance; the model will be used to power the startup's upcoming “super app” — OpenAI is introducing an artificial intelligence model that's intended to be better at completing work without much direction …
More: The Verge, New York Times, The Hans India, Moneycontrol, CNBC, The Deep View, The Indian Express, The Economic Times, Business Today, Developer Tech News, Fortune India, Business Standard, NVIDIA, Livemint, The Deep View, OpenAI, and Axios
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Forums: r/rickygervais, r/coding_agents, r/accelerate, r/OpenAI, and r/singularity
| ABC News: |
The US DOJ arrests a soldier involved in the capture of Nicolás Maduro for allegedly making $400K+ on Polymarket by betting on Maduro's removal from office — The bet was allegedly placed by a commando involved in Nicolas Maduro's capture. — Katherine Faulders, Aaron Katersky, Peter Charalambous, and Alexander Mallin
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| Financial Times: |
Canada's Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha agree to a merger deal valuing the combined group at ~$20B to work on sovereign AI; both governments support the deal — Canadian and German start-ups to focus on ‘sovereign’ AI systems independent of US and China — Canadian AI start-up Cohere …
More: Business Wire, BetaKit, The Decoder, Globe and Mail, Constellation Research, New York Times, and Reuters
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LinkedIn: Cohere and Aleph Alpha
| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
As part of the Cohere-Aleph Alpha deal, Aleph Alpha backer Schwarz Group plans to invest $600M in Cohere's Series E, which a source says is set to close in 2026 — Canadian AI lab Cohere announced on Friday that it planned to acquire German AI company Aleph Alpha, as it eyed major expansion in Europe.
More: The Information, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, PitchBook, Tech.eu, Sifted, The Next Web, Reuters, and Tech in Asia
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Meta plans to cut 10% of workers, or ~8,000 jobs, on May 20 and won't fill 6,000 open roles, in an effort to offset its AI spending and boost efficiency — Meta Platforms Inc. plans to cut 10% of workers, or roughly 8,000 employees, in an effort to boost efficiency and offset its heavy spending on artificial intelligence.
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LinkedIn: Vassilis Galanos, Russ Cofano, Patrick Galey, Brandon Busteed, Jaime Casap, and Kurt Wagner
Bluesky: @attorneynora, @mangiotto, @lukaszolejnik, @jessimckenzi, @kurtwagner, @stokel, and @paleofuture
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft announces its first voluntary retirement program, for staff whose years of employment and age add up to 70+; source: 7% of US employees are eligible — Microsoft will offer voluntary buyouts to some U.S. employee, a first for the 51-year-old software giant, as the tech industry grapples …
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LinkedIn: Max Pashman, CFP, Brody Ford, and Richard King
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Forums: Hacker News, r/economicCollapse, r/SeattleWA, r/business, r/microsoft, r/amazonemployees, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: AI coding firm Cognition is in early talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a $25B valuation, up from $10.2B announced in September 2025 — Cognition AI Inc. is in early talks to raise a new round of funding that would more than double its valuation to $25 billion … | Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Alibaba says its Qwen AI models will be integrated into BYD, Volkswagen, and other cars, letting users buy food and tickets via voice commands on select models — BEIJING — Chinese tech giant Alibaba said Friday that its Qwen artificial intelligence model will be integrated into vehicles …
More: Benzinga
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on building infrastructure for AI agents, balancing internal needs and the demands of customers like Anthropic, and more — An interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian about Google's cloud priorities, enterprise agent platform, and Google's integration advantage.
LinkedIn: Jody Tan
| Reuters: |
S-1 excerpts: SpaceX warns multiple investigations into sexually abusive AI imagery created with xAI's Grok may hurt the company's global market access — The multiple investigations into xAI's creation and dissemination of sexually abusive imagery may lead the company to lose access to certain markets …
Bluesky: @breakify
| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY to $13.58B, vs. $12.42B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue and adjusted EPS above estimates; INTC jumps 25%+ after hours — - Intel reported first-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street expectations … Intel reported first-quarter earnings Thursday …
More: Intel, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, Finbold, Silicon Republic, and Bloomberg
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| Reuters: |
Sources: India is piloting 10 schemes to test whether its CBDC, the e-rupee, can deliver welfare payments more efficiently, as it looks to boost e-rupee usage — In the western Indian village of Phulenagar, Samadhan Sonawane set up a drip irrigation system on his small onion farm using … | The Information: |
Sources: Cursor hit $2.7B in annualized sales in March, up ~14x from a year ago, and reported a ~$900M loss in its last fiscal year on $770M in total revenue — Weeks before Cursor agreed to a $60 billion potential takeover from SpaceX, the hot AI coding startup set out to raise billions of dollars.| Connor Stringer / Telegraph: |
Trump threatens to “put a big tariff on the UK” if it does not drop its digital services tax, which he views as unfairly targeting US tech companies — President tells The Telegraph he will retaliate if Britain continues to ‘target’ major American companies such as Apple, Google and Meta
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Forums: r/ukpolitics, r/unitedkingdom, r/worldnews, and r/LabourUK
| Terje Solsvik / Reuters: |
Norway plans to ban children from using social media until they turn 16; the government says it will introduce a bill in parliament by the end of 2026 — Norway said on Friday it would present a bill in parliament by year-end to ban children from using social media until they turn 16 …
More: Bloomberg, PetaPixel, Bloomberg Law, Sweden Herald, The Next Web, RTÉ, and Engadget
| Emma Dunkley / Financial Times: |
EY survey of 18,000 people across 23 countries: ~49% of consumers have used AI over the past six months to support their savings and investment decisions — Gen Z and millennials the most likely groups to consult chatbots on money matters — Nearly half of global consumers are turning …
More: EY
| Daniel Ren / South China Morning Post: |
Huawei plans to spend up to $11.7B over five years to boost compute for training and testing autonomous cars, with ~$2.64B for autonomous driving R&D in 2026 — Company claims it will outspend all rivals combined to boost computing power, which is essential to enhance advanced driving systems
More: Reuters, DigiTimes, and Silicon UK
| Mimi Billing / Sifted: |
Helsinki-based Verda, formerly Datacrunch, which aims to become Europe's first AI cloud hyperscaler, raised €100M in debt and equity — The Finnish cloud provider, formerly known as Datacrunch, says its success comes from being vertically integrated — Helsinki-headquartered Verda … Sponsor Posts
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Copilot to autopilot: Why no single safeguard is enough — Microsoft designed a layered model that lets an AI agent resolve network incidents on its own within defined boundaries.
Copilot to autopilot: Why no single safeguard is enough — Microsoft designed a layered model that lets an AI agent resolve network incidents on its own within defined boundaries.
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