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Sumit Chauhan / Microsoft 365 Blog:
Microsoft says Copilot's agentic features in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are now generally available and enabled by default for 365 Copilot and 365 Premium  —  Try Microsoft 365 Copilot  —  Available on desktop and mobile devices  —  Today, I am excited to share that agentic capabilities in Word …
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 …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
A look at Microsoft's recent wave of executive departures, as it struggles to retain talent and changes its annual rewards and performance programs in response  —  Leadership reshuffling signals the mounting pressure on Microsoft's AI bet. … It feels like not a week has gone by this year without …
Reuters:
S-1 excerpts: SpaceX says its total addressable market could be as much as $28.5T, with $26.5T from the AI sector, most of it from AI for businesses
CNBC:
Sources: Microsoft considered buying Cursor in recent weeks but didn't make an offer; Microsoft has been working to boost GitHub Copilot's popularity  —  Prior to SpaceX's announcement this week that it's obtained the right to acquire Cursor for $60 billion, Microsoft looked at a potential deal …
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Apple fixes a bug that stored notifications for deleted messages on iPhone and iPad, following a report that police used it to extract deleted Signal messages  —  Apple released a software update on Wednesday for iPhones and iPads fixing a bug that allowed law enforcement to extract messages …
Financial Times:
A poll of 4,000 workers in the US and the UK finds that the highest-earning and most experienced workers are adopting AI in their jobs far faster than others  —  FT-Focaldata poll offers early evidence on how the technology is reshaping work and reinforcing gender and pay gaps
More: Financial Times.  X: @wi_john.  LinkedIn: Tim Quine and Jeff de Kleijn.  Bluesky: @siobhandowling.  Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Vercel says some customer accounts were compromised prior to its early-April breach, potentially through social engineering, malware, or other methods  —  App and website hosting giant Vercel on Thursdays said hackers had accessed some of its customers' data before the company discovered …
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:
Around 30K attend a Samsung union rally demanding 15% of operating profits for chip division staff amid the AI boom; the demand totals $27B or $400K+ per worker  —  Tens of thousands of people gathered outside Samsung Electronics Co.'s main chip hub to demand employees get a greater share of profits reaped from the AI boom.
Gil Kaufman / Billboard:
Spotify celebrates its 20th anniversary with a first-ever list of its 20 most streamed artists, albums, songs, podcasts, and audiobooks  —  But who else made the cut? … It was 20 years ago today that Spotify began to play.  And to mark the streaming service's big anniversary …
Ben Bergman / Business Insider:
Anthropic's valuation has hit $1T on Forge Global, a leading private marketplace exchange, surpassing OpenAI's valuation on the platform of $880B  —  - Anthropic's valuation now hovers at $1 trillion on Forge Global, a leading private marketplace exchange.  — That is a higher price than OpenAI …
Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register:
GitHub says it has begun collecting pseudonymous client-side telemetry from command-line interface (CLI) users and enabled it by default  —  Opt-out instructions included if you're not keen on GitHub watching you in the name of product improvement  —  Users of GitHub's command-line interface (CLI) who value privacy, beware.
More: GitHub CLI and 9to5Mac
LinkedIn: Kat Cosgrove.  Bluesky: @hugovk.dev.  Mastodon: @hugovk@mastodon.social.  Forums: Hacker News and r/linux
Natalie Breymeyer / Axios:
Cloudsmith, which is building a cloud-native system to manage software artifacts, raised a $72M Series C, following a $23M Series B in 2025  —  Cloudsmith, a platform that protects software components, raised a $72 million Series C, CEO Glenn Weinstein tells Axios exclusively.
Reuters:
Elon Musk says Tesla plans to use Intel's 14A process technology to make chips at its Terafab project, which would make Tesla the first major customer for 14A  —  Tesla (TSLA.O) CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday the EV maker plans to use Intel's (INTC.O) next-generation 14A manufacturing process …
Kate Park / TechCrunch:
Manila-based Salmon, a consumer finance app targeting underbanked Filipinos, raised $60M in equity and $40M in debt; it raised $310M to date, $160M in equity  —  The Philippines has millions of unbanked adults, and its consumer lending market is starting to catch up.
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
WhatsApp partners with PayU to roll out prepaid mobile recharges in India; it remains a marginal payments player in India despite launching payments in 2020  —  WhatsApp is adding prepaid phone recharges in India in a move to get more users to transact within the app, even as it struggles …
Chris Metinko / Axios:
Orkes, which helps companies scale their AI and agentic systems, raised $60M, including a $40M Series B led by AVP, bringing its total funding to ~$90M  —  Orkes, which helps companies scale their AI and agentic systems, raised $60 million, CEO Jeu George tells Axios Pro exclusively.
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Lulu Garcia-Navarro / New York Times:
Q&A with Scott Pelley on his last days at 60 Minutes, CBS News' Bari Weiss era, “Black Thursday massacre” firings, confronting Nick Bilton publicly, and more

Jody Godoy / Reuters:
Sources: a group of US states is preparing a lawsuit against Paramount's WBD acquisition; California's AG has said his office would make a decision soon

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump stormed out of his interview with NBC News' Meet the Press after getting into a verbal sparring match with Kristen Welker over election fraud claims

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Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Filing: Netflix plans a $25B share buyback, adding to a Dec. 2024 program that still has $6.8B for purchases; NFLX is down 13% since its Q1 earnings on April 16
Nikita Bier / @nikitabier:
X says it is deprecating X Communities, giving members until May 30 to migrate to XChat, and plans to increase group chat limits to 1,000 in the next two weeks

Earlier Picks

Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg:
Report: China's 360 Digital Security Group has uncovered ~1,000 previously unknown vulnerabilities, including in Microsoft's Office, using an AI-powered agent
Bloomberg:
US child safety group NCMEC received 1.5M reports of suspected CSAM with ties to AI in 2025, a significant surge compared to 67,000 in 2024 and 4,700 in 2023
More: Digital Trends.  LinkedIn: Kurt Wagner.  Threads: @kurtwag8, @kurtwag8, @kurtwag8, and @kurtwag8
Ainslie Chandler / Bloomberg:
Microsoft plans to invest AU$25B by 2029 to expand Azure AI supercomputing and cloud infrastructure in Australia, its largest commitment to the country
Qwen:
Alibaba launches Qwen3.6-27B, an open-weight dense model with 27B parameters, saying it surpasses Qwen3.5-397B-A17B on major coding benchmarks
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Kalshi suspends and fines congressional candidates Mark Moran of Virginia, Matt Klein of Minnesota, and Ezekiel Enriquez of Texas for political insider trading
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