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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Google launches Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered conversational feature for iOS and Android in the US and India that lets users ask “complex, real-world questions” — 'Where's the closest public bathroom that's not completely disgusting' is going to get asked a lot in my household.
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LinkedIn: Paolo Malabuyo, Victoria Wong, and Charles Armstrong
| CNBC: |
Atlassian is cutting 10% of its workforce, or ~1,600 jobs, to fund investments in AI and enterprise sales; filing: the cuts will incur $225M to $236M in charges — Atlassian said on Wednesday that it's eliminating 10% of its workforce, or about 1,600 jobs, as the company restructures following …
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X: @birdabo, @tukifromkl, @pawelhuryn, and @ai_for_success. LinkedIn: Jaspreet Singh. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft launches Copilot Health, which integrates medical records, biometric data from wearables, and lab test results to give personalized advice, in the US — A new feature within the Copilot app will offer personalized healthcare advice and make it easy to upload test results, fitness data and more
More: New York Times, The Verge, Microsoft AI, PCWorld, Engadget, Bloomberg, Fortune, CNET, Pureinfotech, Healthcare Brew, Healthcare Dive, Axios, and The Deep View
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Anthropic says Claude can now generate custom charts, diagrams, and other visualizations directly in a conversation, available to all users in beta — Claude will automatically generate interactive visuals based on your conversation, or you can ask it directly, too.
More: Claude, 9to5Google, CNET, Engadget, TechRadar, The AI Creator Drop, The Hans India, The Deep View, and Digital Trends
X: @morningbrew, @param_eth, @kimmonismus, @itsolelehmann, @omarsar0, @adocomplete, and @claudeai. Forums: r/ClaudeAI
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says EVP of Experiences and Devices, Rajesh Jha, plans to retire on July 1 after 35+ years at Microsoft and promotes four of his direct reports to EVP — The leaders of Windows and Office are now getting promoted and report directly to Satya Nadella.
More: Microsoft, The Information, Reuters, GeekWire, Windows Central, Bloomberg, and Business Insider. Bluesky: @tomwarren.co.uk
| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Apple updates iOS and iPadOS for older devices, including the iPhone 6s, iPad Air 2, and iPod touch (7th gen), to address the Coruna exploit disclosed last week — A few days ago, Google and iVerify published details on Coruna, an exploit that chained multiple vulnerabilities to target iPhones running older iOS versions.
More: Apple Support, Apple Support, Security Affairs, BleepingComputer, MacRumors, OS X Daily, Android Headlines, Forbes, CyberInsider, The Hacker News, Digit, Neowin, AppleInsider, iClarified, and iPhone in Canada
Forums: Hacker News and r/apple
| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The US SEC and the US CFTC enter an MOU to coordinate and collaborate where their work overlaps, including by building a combined crypto oversight framework — The two agencies sealed their memorandum of understanding to link the parts of their work that overlap, and coordinated crypto oversight is among the top goals.
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X: @secgov, @cryptowendyo, @cryptoinsightuk, @cftc, @carolinedpham, and @secpaulsatkins. Forums: r/Superstonk
| Steven Sinofsky / Hardcore Software: |
Apple's MacBook Neo validates a vision that began 15 years ago with a demo of Windows on ARM, which is held back by Microsoft's commitment to x86 compatibility — I'm completely blown away by Mac Neo. It made me think a lot about what we tried to accomplish with Windows 8 more than a dozen years ago.
More: Daring Fireball, PCMag, AppleInsider, Windows Central, Tyler Stalman on YouTube, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, and On my Om
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| Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
Google Research launches Groundsource, a geo-tagged time series dataset created by using Gemini to extract 2.6M flood events from 5M historical news articles — Flash floods are among the deadliest weather events in the world, killing more than 5,000 people each year. They're also among the most difficult to predict.
More: The Keyword, Engadget, PCMag, Pulse 2.0, Google Research, Heatmap News, and Times Of AI
| Will Knight / Wired: |
Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B-parameter hybrid MoE open-weight model; filing: Nvidia plans to spend $26B over the next five years to build open models — The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek.
More: Fortune, Constellation Research, The Decoder, Shelly Palmer, NVIDIA Technical Blog, Implicator.ai, NVIDIA, Motley Fool, InfoWorld, The Indian Express, Constellation Research, Benzinga, NVIDIA Nemotron, The Deep View, and Cloudflare
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LinkedIn: Mostofa Patwary, Jiantao Jiao, and Samuel G. Rodriques
Forums: r/technology, r/ArtificialInteligence, and r/nvidia
| Varsha Bansal / The Guardian: |
How Amazon pushes employees to integrate AI across their workloads despite their concerns that the company's “half-baked” tools are creating more work for all — Corporate employees said Amazon's race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and ‘more work for everyone’.
X: @ichbingisele. LinkedIn: Varsha Bansal. Mastodon: @susankayequinn@wandering.shop. Forums: r/technology and r/ArtificialInteligence
| Robert Purchese / Eurogamer.net: |
European video game age ratings body PEGI plans to add four new categories in June to tackle elements of addictive design in games, including loot boxes — Loot boxes and in-game purchases targeted. — Follow EA Sports FC 27 — Video game age-ratings are about to change in Europe.
More: Pegi Public Site, Game World Observer, The Verge, Video Games Chronicle, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, OpenCritic, Nintendo Life, Wccftech, IGN, TheGamer, PocketGamer.biz, Push Square, and TechRaptor
Forums: r/PS5, r/gamingnews, and r/xbox
| CoinDesk: |
Mastercard unveils a Crypto Partner Program with 85+ companies, including Binance, PayPal, and Ripple, to link blockchain tech with its payments infrastructure — More than 85 partners will work with Mastercard to connect on-chain payments with banks, merchants and global commerce as part of the payment giant's recent crypto program.| James Rundle / Wall Street Journal: |
US medtech giant Stryker confirms a global outage due to a cyberattack; Iran-linked group Handala says the hack is retaliation for a strike on a school in Iran — The U.S. medtech company experiences a global outage, with some staff devices remotely wiped — Medical technology giant Stryker …
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LinkedIn: Kim Nash and Jessica Dabbs
Forums: Hacker News, r/TrueAnon, r/PrepperIntel, r/technews, r/cybersecurity, r/politics, r/news, r/BMET, r/technology, r/worldnews, r/StockMarket, and Lobsters
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Axiom Math, which uses AI and the Lean language to verify code in much the same way that mathematicians prove math problems, raised $200M at a $1.6B valuation — In January, a team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University published a study analyzing the use of artificial intelligence technologies … | Kritika Lamba / Reuters: |
Bumble jumps 30%+ after reporting Q4 revenue above estimates and unveils an AI-driven app overhaul to lure back users; BMBL is down 90% since its 2021 IPO — Bumble (BMBL.O) shares jumped more than 40% in early trading on Thursday after the company posted upbeat fourth-quarter revenue …
More: Benzinga, Bloomberg, Fast Company, Bumble, Yahoo Finance, Blockonomi, Reuters, and Tech in Asia
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon announces new personality styles for Alexa+, including an adult-only “Sassy” option, which it says won't get into areas like explicit sexual content — Amazon's AI assistant Alexa+ is getting another new personality. On Thursday, the company announced it's expanding …
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Google spins off GFiber, formerly Google Fiber, forming an independent provider with investment firm Stonepeak's Astound; Google will retain a minority stake — Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news. — CNBC Councils| Tom Dotan / Newcomer: |
Sources: Cursor is in early talks to raise billions at a post-money valuation of up to $60B, up from $29.3B in November 2025; one source puts the round at $5B — Very early discussions involve a $5 billion raise at a valuation of up to $60 billion — Can a company be declared both passé and the next big thing?
More: Bloomberg and PYMNTS.com
| Max Hunder / Reuters: |
Ukraine's defense minister says Ukraine is opening up access to its battlefield data for its allies to train AI models — Ukraine is opening up access to its battlefield data for its allies to train drone AI software, the defence minister said on Thursday, as Kyiv seeks to harness the experience …
More: Tech.eu and Defense News
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's foldable iPhone will feature iPad-like layouts and side-by-side apps on its iPad mini-sized inner display and a small iPhone-sized outer screen — Apple Inc.'s forthcoming foldable iPhone will include updates to the iOS operating system that enable iPad-like layouts and side …
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
Replit raised a $400M Series D led by Georgian Partners at a $9B valuation and says it is on track to hit $1B in annual recurring revenue by the end of 2026 — Amjad Masad's Replit allows users to build apps together like they're doodling on a white board. It also made the Jordanian immigrant a billionaire along the way.| Kaamil Ahmed / The Guardian: |
IDS and ADRN study: 11 African governments spent $2B+ on Chinese-built surveillance tech that recognizes faces and monitors movements; Nigeria spent $470M — Countries across the continent have spent more than $2bn on Chinese tracking technology that is not ‘necessary or proportionate’, new report finds
More: Institute of Development … and TechCabal
Bluesky: @phatcontroller and @hypervisible.blacksky.app
| Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
Oro Labs, which uses AI to streamline corporate procurement, raised a $100M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity and Brighton Park Capital — Oro Labs, a Silicon Valley startup that uses artificial intelligence to automate companies' procurement processes, has raised $100 million in new venture capital funding.
More: FinSMEs, Pulse 2.0, ORO Labs, and SiliconANGLE
| Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
Michael Dell says “I don't think a company can dictate to a sovereign government what it does with its tools”, responding to a question on the Anthropic feud — Dell Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell said that a company doing business with the government …
More: Reuters
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Disney+ is rolling out Verts, its new short-form video feed, to US users on its mobile app, featuring clips from movies and TV shows on Disney+ — Disney+ is starting to roll out Verts, its new short-form video feed, to U.S. users on its mobile app. First announced in January … | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft and Meta each committed nearly $50B in additional data center leases in their most recent quarters, pushing major cloud companies' total to $700B+ — Microsoft Corp. and Meta Platforms Inc. each committed nearly $50 billion in additional data center leases in their most recent quarters …
More: DatacenterDynamics, Implicator.ai, Financial Times, and Spyglass
| Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg: |
Sunday, which is building autonomous home robots, raised a $165M Series B led by Coatue at a valuation of $1.15B, and aims to begin testing in homes this year — Sunday Inc. has raised $165 million to build a dream robot for any household: a friendly looking machine capable of performing tasks …
X: @mascobot, @saranormous, @tonyzzhao, @tonyzzhao, @tonyzzhao, and @tonyzzhao
| Sofia Chierchio / Forbes: |
Sources: after Google's $32B deal, each of Wiz's four co-founders is set to get $2B+ in post-tax cash; Index is set to net $4B, Sequoia ~$3B, and Insight $2.7B — Two years after rejecting a $23 billion offer, Israel-based Wiz secured the largest acquisition in Google's history …
More: The Independent, Android Headlines, Tech Funding News, Business Today, DigiTimes, and TechCrunch. X: @jasonlk
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Greenoaks founder Neil Mehta is pitching an endowment-type fund to Silicon Valley billionaires to influence CA politics, aiming to raise $100M to $500M — Silicon Valley billionaires have been seething over the threat of more taxes and regulations at home.| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Gumloop, which helps companies deploy reliable AI agents that handle complex, multi-step tasks, raised a $50M Series B led by Benchmark — When Max Brodeur-Urbas co-founded Gumloop in mid-2023, his vision was to help non-technical employees automate repetitive tasks using AI.
More: FinSMEs and Gumloop
X: @oneabhishek, @everettrandle, @lizwessel, @maxbrodeururbas, and @gumloop
| Robert Scammell / Business Insider: |
Tel Aviv-based Bold, which uses AI agents to secure enterprise devices like laptops from cyberattacks, emerges from stealth with $40M in funding — Follow Robert Scammell … - Israeli cybersecurity startup Bold has raised $40 million and emerged from stealth.| Financial Times: |
SEC filing: Oracle sets aside $500M more for restructuring, taking its FY total to $2.1B, as it prepares to cut jobs and hails efficiencies from AI coding tools — Database group sets aside an additional $500mn for restructuring costs — Oracle has stepped up preparations to cut jobs …
More: The Register, Wall Street Journal, Capacity, The Economic Times, and CIO.com
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