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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Annual letter: Andy Jassy says AWS' AI revenue has hit a $15B annual run rate as of Q1 and that Amazon's internal chips business is generating $20B+ per year — Andy Jassy's new letter to Amazon shareholders is a data-heavy defense of the tech giant's biggest bets — from AI and custom chips …
More: About Amazon, TechCrunch, Benzinga, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, Blockonomi, and Barchart.com
LinkedIn: Daniel Alves, Amazon, and Matt Garman
Bluesky: @bwnash and @edzitron.com
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Meta begins removing dozens of Facebook and Instagram ads that trial lawyers placed to reach eligible plaintiffs, after social media addiction trial losses — Meta on Thursday began removing advertisements from attorneys who were seeking clients that claim to have been harmed by social media while under the age of 18.| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Source: OpenAI is finalizing a model with advanced cybersecurity capabilities that it plans to release only to a small set of companies, similar to Anthropic — OpenAI is finalizing a model with advanced cybersecurity capabilities that it plans to release only to a small set of companies …
More: Moneycontrol, Yahoo Finance, The Decoder, Blockchain.News, Hindustan Times, Implicator.ai, AI News, Understanding AI, CNET, and New York Times
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI pauses Stargate in the UK, citing the energy costs and regulatory environment; OpenAI announced Stargate UK in September 2025 alongside Nvidia and Nscale — OpenAI said it is pausing its Stargate artificial intelligence infrastructure project in the UK, as it reins in ambitious spending plans ahead …
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| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Sources: Alibaba anonymously released AI video model HappyHorse-1.0, which ranks at the top of Artificial Analysis' AI model leaderboard, above Seedance 2.0 — Alibaba Group has anonymously released a new AI video generation model called HappyHorse-1., which rose to the top of an AI model leaderboard …
| Jack Queen / Reuters: |
A DC appeals court denies Anthropic's bid to pause the DOD's supply chain risk designation, after a California judge granted a preliminary injunction in March — A Washington, D.C., federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to block the Pentagon's national security blacklisting of Anthropic for now …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Meta commits to spending additional $21B on AI cloud infrastructure from CoreWeave, running from 2027 to 2032, on top of its prior $14.2B deal that ends in 2031 — Meta has committed to spending an additional $21 billion on AI cloud infrastructure from CoreWeave, which comes on top … | Financial Times: |
Meta releases Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang, to “power a smarter and faster” Meta AI across Meta's products — Muse Spark ‘purpose-built’ for social media apps as investors question huge AI investment
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
YouTube launches a Shorts feature to let creators generate photorealistic AI avatars using a “live selfie” recording of their face and voice, powered by Veo — YouTube is now letting users create an AI avatar that looks and sounds like them for use in Shorts. This feature was teased earlier this year.
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| Callie Holtermann / New York Times: |
A survey of 1,500 people aged 14 to 29: hopefulness regarding AI has dropped from 27% to 18% over the past year, and 50% report using GenAI daily or weekly — A new study from Gallup found that young adults have grown less hopeful and more angry about artificial intelligence.
More: Gallup, Implicator.ai, Digital Trends, Axios, The 74, and Walton Family Foundation
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers: a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader has been actively exploited since at least December 2025, and some docs contain Russian-language lures — Attackers have been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader using maliciously crafted PDF documents since at least December.
More: The Register, Haifei's random thoughts, CyberInsider, and Help Net Security. Forums: r/cybersecurity
| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Spotify is adding toggles to stop video from playing inside the app for both music and podcasts, rolling out worldwide on all platforms and devices — Controls are rolling out worldwide to stop videos playing alongside music and podcasts. … Spotify is adding new toggles to stop …
More: Android Police, TechCrunch, Spotify, 9to5Mac, Engadget, PCMag, and Digital Trends
| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Tubi becomes the first streamer to launch a native app within ChatGPT, allowing viewers to find movies or shows to watch by using conversational phrases — Tubi, the Fox-owned streaming service, announced Tuesday the launch of its native app within ChatGPT, giving viewers an easier … | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
RISC-V chip designer SiFive raised a $400M Series G led by Atreides at a $3.65B valuation; CEO Patrick Little says it is the final funding round before an IPO — Silicon Valley startup SiFive said on Thursday it has raised a $400 million round of funding from Atreides Management, Nvidia … | Reuters: |
John Deere agreed to pay $99M into a fund to settle a 2022 right-to-repair class action lawsuit, and make digital repair tools available to farmers for 10 years — U.S. agriculture equipment maker Deere (DE.N) on Monday agreed to pay $99 million into a settlement fund for farms and farmers …
More: The Drive, TechRadar, Pro Farmer, Carscoops, TheTruthAboutCars, Gadget Review, and Capital Press
| Bloomberg: |
Elorian, which builds visual AI models with better reasoning capabilities for industries like robotics, emerges from stealth with $55M at a $300M valuation — Former Google DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai believes that the artificial intelligence models at big labs have the intelligence of a 3-year-old kid … | Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Chapter, which uses AI to help seniors enroll in Medicare, raised a $100M Series E, doubling its valuation to $3B and bringing its total funding to $285M — Meta Platforms' Wednesday release of Spark, the first model in its broader Muse model family, doesn't blow other frontier models out of the water …
Bluesky: @kittyconner
| Sri Muppidi / The Information: |
Documents: OpenAI expects ads to generate ~$2.4B in revenue in 2026, ~$11B in 2027, and ~$102B in 2030, or 36% of its total revenue for 2030 — OpenAI's advertising effort is so new that the company is still working out the kinks in it. That hasn't stopped it from setting ambitious aims for the business … | Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Google and Intel expand their partnership to deploy Intel's Xeon 6 chips and co-develop custom Infrastructure Processing Units to improve computing efficiency — Intel and Google have expanded their partnership to advance the use of artificial intelligence-focused central processing units …
More: Bloomberg, CNBC, Crypto Briefing, Dow Jones Newswires, and Benzinga
X: @benbajarin, @intel, and @intelnews
| Financial Times: |
As AI transforms white-collar work, executives across sectors say trust, not AI, is the key differentiator where accuracy, accountability, and regulation matter — Executives across finance and cyber defence map where Anthropic's Claude “plug-ins” will — and won't — change work
Bluesky: @martinsfp
| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
TSMC says its most advanced chip packaging tech, CoWoS, is growing at an 80% CAGR as it ramps up capacity; Nvidia has reportedly reserved most of the capacity — An underappreciated step in the chipmaking process is poised to become the next bottleneck for artificial intelligence.| Chris Smyth / Financial Times: |
Memo: UK NHS data chief Ming Tang says Palantir-built Federated Data Platform is delivering “outstanding results”, as she pushes deeper rollout of Palantir tech — Ming Tang says the platform, which collates patient information in one place, is delivering ‘outstanding results’ in England
More: TechRadar and The Guardian
| Mike Cherney / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at a global scramble to protect submarine cables vulnerable to potential sabotage, as companies develop monitoring tech like distributed acoustic sensing — U.S. and allies turn to tech, patrols and new routes to defend crucial underwater infrastructure against Russia and China
More: Tom's Hardware, BBC, UPI, Washington Times, HuffPost, Bloomberg, The Guardian, The Ken, and Mobile Europe
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Poke, an AI agent that lets users automate tasks via text message, raised $10M, on top of a $15M seed in 2025, at a $300M post-money valuation — Is Poke an OpenClaw for the rest of us? That's the idea coming from a new startup offering an AI agent that you can access via iMessage, SMS, Telegram, and, in some markets, WhatsApp.
X: @joemiller199158, @aakashgupta, @lior_eth, and @arfurrock
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