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OpenAI acquires io, Jony Ive's secretive AI startup, for nearly $6.5B in stock; Ive and LoveFrom will remain independent but take over design for all of OpenAI — OpenAI will acquire the AI device startup co-founded by Apple Inc. veteran Jony Ive in a nearly $6.5 billion all-stock deal …
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| OpenAI: |
In a video and a letter signed “Sam & Jony”, Altman and Ive say io, founded in 2024 by Ive, Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey, and Tang Tan will develop new products — This is an extraordinary moment. — Computers are now seeing, thinking and understanding.
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| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Leaked recording: Sam Altman told his staff that OpenAI aims to ship 100M AI “companion” devices meant for everyday life, and to release the first by late 2026 — Idea is a 'chance to do the biggest thing we've ever done as a company here,' Altman told OpenAI employees Wednesday
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| New York Times: |
Sources: OpenAI owned a 23% stake in io from a 2024 deal, so it is now paying ~$5B to fully acquire it; the OpenAI Startup Fund also invested in io in 2024 — Jony Ive, a former top executive at Apple, said that the goal with OpenAI was to create “amazing products that elevate humanity.”
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Sam Altman and LoveFrom have been working for two years on devices that move consumers beyond screens, like headphones and other devices with cameras — OpenAI to buy Ive's startup in $6.5 billion deal, as Ive and CEO Sam Altman work on new generation of devices and other AI products
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LinkedIn: Benedict Evans, Alon Matas, and Pramod Gosavi
Forums: r/business, r/artificial, r/apple, r/technology, Beehaw, and Ars OpenForum
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google is tapping its users' data to give its AI models an advantage over OpenAI and Anthropic, starting with its opt-in “Gemini with personalization” feature — Google is slowly giving Gemini more and more access to user data to ‘personalize’ your responses.
More: CTech, Gulf Business, CarBuzz, and Financial Times
| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
Q&A with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and Google co-founder Sergey Brin on AI frontier models, scaling data centers, reasoning, DeepThink, AGI, and more — Google co-founder Brin says “anybody who's a computer scientist should not be retired right now. They should be working on AI."| Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
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LinkedIn: Aaron Gokaslan, Lian Jye Su, Blanca Huergo, and Antonio Gulli
Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Signal says its desktop app will block Windows from taking screenshots of it by default due to Recall's privacy risks; users can enable screenshots in settings — Signal Messenger is warning the users of its Windows Desktop version that the privacy of their messages is under threat by Recall …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it is reducing “politically focused emails” within the company; workers are unable to send emails mentioning “Palestine”, “Gaza”, or “genocide” — Employees discovered that emails with a variety of terms related to Gaza and Palestine have been blocked internally.
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| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Two new books on OpenAI and the AI industry show how Sam Altman became one of tech's great survivors, outlasting Elon Musk and returning after being sacked — Two timely and myth-busting books show that the AI boom is driven by the pursuit of power, wealth and hubris
More: Wired, The Guardian, New Yorker, New York Times, Business Insider, and Wired
| IGN: |
Q&A with legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto on Super Nintendo World, redesigning Donkey Kong, the new Mario Kart, the Pikmin franchise, Switch 2, and more — “What's important is to be able to create something new.” — In May of 2015, Nintendo officially announced plans to partner … | Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
Nansen: the 220 winners of Trump's May 22 dinner contest spent $394M total on the $TRUMP token, with the top seven spending $10M+ each and a third $1M+ each — In total, the 220 winners of the contest to attend the dinner spent $394 million on Trump's official cryptocurrency.| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Bitcoin reached a new all-time high on May 21, surpassing $110,000 and breaking its January 2025 record, after slumping to $74,000 in April 2025 — WATCH NOW — Bitcoin rose to a new all-time high on Wednesday, breaking its January record. — The price of the flagship cryptocurrency …
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| Financial Times: |
M&S CEO Stuart Machin says hackers accessed the UK retailer's systems using social engineering tactics via a third-party supplier, putting M&S “on its backside” — Hackers gained access via third-party supplier to perpetrate attack that put M&S ‘on its backside’
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| Rebecca Dzombak / New York Times: |
Microsoft researchers and others detail Aurora, an AI weather model they say makes accurate 10-day forecasts faster and at smaller scales than many other models — A Microsoft model can make accurate 10-day forecasts quickly, an analysis found. And, it's designed to predict more than weather.
More: Nature, The Register, Microsoft Research, Microsoft on GitHub, Microsoft Research, and Microsoft
Bluesky: @marypcbuk and @wessel.ai
LinkedIn: The Alan Turing Institute, Satya Nadella, Reisel González Pérez, and Microsoft Research
| Turner Wright / Cointelegraph: |
A New York jury convicts Braden John Karony, the former CEO of crypto company SafeMoon, of conspiracy to defraud the US, money laundering, and wire fraud — A New York jury found Braden John Karony, the former CEO of cryptocurrency company SafeMoon, guilty of three felony charges after less than a day of deliberation.| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
A US district judge rules Google and Character.AI must face a Florida woman's lawsuit claiming Character.AI's chatbots caused her 14-year-old son's suicide — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google and artificial-intelligence startup Character.AI must face a lawsuit from a Florida woman …
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI updates its Responses API for building agentic applications to include remote MCP server support, image generation and Code Interpreter tools, and more — OpenAI is rolling out a set of significant updates to its newish Responses API, aiming to make it easier for developers and enterprises …
More: OpenAI and WinBuzzer
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Telegram told investors ahead of a ~$1.5B bond offering that revenue reached $1.4B in 2024, up from $343M in 2023, and net profit reached $540M in 2024 — Messaging app's finances are booming even as chief Pavel Durov fights French case over alleged content failings
X: @ft
| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Amazon introduces AI shopping experts, an audio feature that summarizes product details, customer reviews, and more, on select products for some US customers — In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant's hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more.| Financial Times: |
How SpaceX's Starlink moved quickly to solidify its lead in the satellite internet business, as its competitors face production and launch capacity bottlenecks — Unlock the Editor's Digest for free — Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.| The Information: |
Amazon plans to sell Nike products directly for the first time since 2019, when Nike stopped selling through Amazon due to lingering counterfeit issues — Six years after Nike stopped selling through Amazon in favor of going direct to customers through its own stores and website, the two companies are getting back together.
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| Bloomberg: |
Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun unveils the Xring O1, a Xiaomi-made 3nm chip that will power three devices, including the Tablet 7 Ultra, in a bid to compete with Apple — “We also want to become one of the top chipmakers, with our phones targeting iPhones, can our chips also be compared against those of Apple's?” he said.
More: Reuters, Mashable India, Reuters, DigiTimes, and DigiTimes
| Brian Spegele / Wall Street Journal: |
China is catching up with the US in AI, robotics, and other sectors, driven by an R&D spending rise, hitting $500B in 2024, up 3x since Xi took office in 2012 — Beijing is racing ahead in advanced technology, including in robots, satellites and AI—and in some cases is catching up with the U.S.
X: @jchengwsj
| Milana Vinn / Reuters: |
AT&T agrees to acquire Lumen's consumer fiber business for $5.75B, in an all-cash deal expected to close in H1 2026; LUMN jumps 13%+ — AT&T (T.N) has clinched a deal to acquire Lumen Technologies' (LUMN.N) consumer fiber operations for $5.75 billion in cash, the companies said on Wednesday …
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| Bloomberg: |
Lenovo reports Q4 revenue up 23% to $16.98B, vs. $15.6B est., and net profit down 64% YoY to ~$90M, below $225.8M est., reflecting AI and PC market competition — The Chinese company reported net income of $90 million for the March quarter versus projections for more than $200 million …
More: Reuters, RTÉ, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, Lenovo StoryHub, and Morningstar, Inc.. X: @business
| Bloomberg: |
Takeaways from Computex 2025: little focus on consumer AI, Chinese AI and chip advances loom large, Intel and Nvidia courting Taiwanese partners, and more — With much of the world's attention on the AI race between the US and China, this week's Computex conference served as a stark reminder …
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