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Cisco reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $15.84B, above $15.56B est., raises its FY2026 AI orders forecast, and is cutting ~4,000 jobs; CSCO jumps 19%+ pre-market — Cisco shares soared 17% in extended trading on Wednesday after the networking company issued results and guidance that topped Wall Street's projections.
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Anthropic unveils Claude Agent SDK credits for paid plans, which users can allocate for programmatic use of third-party agents like OpenClaw, starting June 15 — Good news, OpenClaw fans — you can once again use your Claude AI subscription to power the hit, open source, autonomous AI agentic harness!
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Microsoft updates Edge with new AI features, including letting Copilot gather information from open tabs and use browsing history for more relevant answers — The new features include AI podcasts, summaries, and quizzes based on what you're browsing.
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Cerebras prices its IPO at $185 per share, above the expected range of $150 to $160 per share, raising at least $5.55B and valuing it at $56.4B fully diluted — Cerebras Systems, a maker of artificial intelligence chips, priced its IPO at $185 a share on Wednesday, above the expected range …
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| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
Filing: Jensen Huang's foundation bought $108.3M worth of AI computing time from CoreWeave and is donating it to universities and other nonprofit institutes — The foundation of Nvidia (NVDA.O) CEO Jensen Huang and his wife, Lori, is buying computing time from CoreWeave (CRWV.O) …
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| AI Security Institute: |
Mythos Preview is the first AI model to complete both of the AISI's cyber ranges, which measure AI models' cyberattack capabilities; GPT-5.5 solved only one — In February 2026, we internally estimated that the length of cyber tasks AI models could complete had doubled every 4.7 months since late 2024 …
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Musk v. Altman filing: Sam Altman holds $2B+ in stakes in companies that have done business with OpenAI, including a $1.7B stake in fusion startup Helion Energy — OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman holds more than $2 billion in companies that have done business with the artificial intelligence company …
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TikTok launches TikTok GO in the US for users to book hotels, attractions, and experiences directly in the app, partnering with Booking.com, Expedia, and others — TikTok announced on Tuesday that it's launching TikTok GO, a way for users to discover and book hotels, attractions, and experiences directly within its app.
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LinkedIn says it has “implemented organizational changes”; a source says it plans to cut ~5% of its 17,500 full-time workers and focus on business growth areas — LinkedIn planned to inform staff of layoffs on Wednesday, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a widening of technology sector cuts this year.
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As Meta prepares to lay off ~10% of its staff on May 20, sources say morale is low, and Meta forcibly moved 1,000+ engineers to an AI unit to build GenAI models — BY PARESH DAVE, LAUREN GOODE, STEVEN LEVY, AND ZOË SCHIFFER — MODEL BEHAVIOR
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| Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apollo Global, Morgan Stanley, and others are testing Grok internally as part of xAI's finance sector push, but financiers are rarely using it for work — Elon Musk's xAI has recruited multiple Wall Street firms with ties to the billionaire's business empire to test its Grok chatbot …
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Zhaopin: Chinese graduates returning home from abroad rose 12% YoY in 2025, fueling Beijing's plans to take on Silicon Valley; China is offering big incentives — More Chinese nationals who return home after working in the U.S., called ‘sea turtles,’ are fueling Beijing's efforts to take on Silicon Valley
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Blackstone Digital Infrastructure Trust raised $1.75B in its US IPO, selling 87.5M shares at $20 each, and plans to acquire data centers worth $250M to $1.5B — Blackstone Digital Infrastructure Trust Inc. raised $1.75 billion in a US initial public offering, as investors' appetite …
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| Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says it would support a global AI governance body that is led by the US and includes China as a member, similar to the International Atomic Energy Agency — OpenAI would support the creation of a global governance body for artificial intelligence led by the US and including China as a member …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Netflix says its ad tier now has 250M monthly active viewers, up from 94M in 2025, and is expanding to 15 new countries, as it tests an ad personalization tool — The streaming service's ad-supported tier now reaches 250 million viewers each month. … For the second year in a row … | Reuters: |
Sources: Microsoft is in discussions to acquire LLM developer Inception; SpaceX also courted Inception, which is looking for a price of over $1B — Microsoft (MSFT.O) is shopping for artificial-intelligence startups as the software company prepares for a future independent of its once-vital partner OpenAI …
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| Gyana Swain / CSO: |
Microsoft unveils MDASH, a security system that orchestrates 100+ AI agents to find vulnerabilities, and says it identified 16 previously unknown Windows flaws — The agentic tool, codenamed MDASH, will open to enterprise customers in private preview in June.| Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: |
ZipRecruiter: IT and CS job postings are up 14.2% YoY in April; entry-level roles fell from 8.1% a year ago to 7.4%, while senior roles grew from 38.8% to 43.1% — Layoffs keep coming but there's still a market for higher-grade talent to harness agents — It should be a tough … | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Instagram rolls out Instants, which lets users share ephemeral photos, as an in-app feature and as a standalone Android and iOS app in select countries — Meta just launched a brand new iPhone app called Instants. Built around ephemeral photo sharing, the new social media app is also the latest Instagram feature.
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| Nikkei Asia: |
LY Corp launches a bid with Bain Capital to buy Kakaku.com, which operates restaurant review and booking site Tabelog, for $4B, challenging EQT's $3.75B offer — TOKYO — The operator of the Line messaging app and web portal Yahoo Japan said on Thursday it has launched a counterbid for Japan's Kakaku.com …
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| Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: |
Riyadh-based Stitch, which develops software for banks and financial services companies, raised a $25M Series A led by a16z, its first investment in the Gulf — Andreessen Horowitz is making its first investment in the Gulf with a fundraise for a Saudi startup, as investors continue to sign deals despite the US-Israel war on Iran.
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Canadian legaltech company Clio says its ARR has reached $500M, citing demand for its AI tools; Clio had a $5B valuation after a $500M Series G in November 2025 — While AI is now being applied to everything from healthcare to customer support, no single use case has yet been nearly as popular or lucrative as code writing.| Alex Heath / Sources: |
Sources: Google plans to announce a new Gemini model at its I/O conference next week; the model will land roughly in the class of GPT-5.5, but short of Mythos — Sources say that Google plans to announce a new Gemini model at its annual I/O conference on Tuesday.
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