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Wall Street Journal:
Anthropic announces a JV with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Hellman & Friedman that aims to sell AI tools to companies; sources: the JV is worth ~$1.5B  —  Anthropic, Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman each expected to invest around $300 million; Goldman Sachs also an investor
Seth Fiegerman / Bloomberg:
Source: OpenAI has raised $4B+ at a $10B pre-money valuation for The Deployment Company, a new joint venture that will aim to help businesses adopt OpenAI tools  —  OpenAI has raised more than $4 billion for a new joint venture that will focus on helping businesses adopt its artificial intelligence software …
Bloomberg:
eBay's stock jumps 5%+ to ~$109, below GameStop's $125/share acquisition offer, in a sign investors see hurdles to completing a deal; GameStop stock drops 7%+  —  Meme Stock GameStop Pitches $56 Billion eBay Takeover  —  Video Player is loading.  —  Unmute  —  Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 36.28% Playback Rate
Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
GameStop makes an unsolicited ~$56B offer to buy eBay after building a ~5% stake, offering $125/share in cash and stock, a ~20% premium on May 1's closing price  —  EBay said Monday its board and financial advisers would review GameStop's unsolicited proposal
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple prepares a “Create a Pass” feature for iOS 27, which lets users take a QR code and generate a custom pass around it for concerts and other venues  —  Apple Inc. is preparing a new “Create a Pass” feature for its next major iPhone software update …
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Filing: Elon Musk texted Greg Brockman about settling days before trial; after being denied, he said Brockman and Altman “will be the most hated men in America”  —  Two days before Elon Musk's multi-billion-dollar lawsuit against OpenAI was slated to head to trial …
Reuters:
Amazon debuts Supply Chain Services, which lets companies use its logistics network to move, store, and deliver everything from raw materials to final products  —  Amazon.com (AMZN.O) is opening the supply-chain network that has powered its operations for decades to other businesses …
Reuters:
Cerebras seeks a valuation of up to $26.62B in its US IPO, aiming to raise $3.5B by selling 28M shares at $115 to $125 apiece in its second attempt to go public  —  Nvidia-rival Cerebras is seeking a valuation of as much as $26.62 billion in its U.S. initial public offering …
Jack Clark / Import AI:
Anthropic co-founder explains why there's a 60%+ chance of AI systems autonomously building their successors by 2029 and the consequences of automated AI R&D  —  The first step towards recursive self improvement  —  Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research.
Kate Rooney / CNBC:
Bret Taylor's Sierra, which sells AI customer service agents, raised a $950M Series E led by Tiger and GV at a $15.8B post-money valuation, up from $10B in 2025  —  Artificial intelligence startup Sierra is raising nearly a billion dollars in a new funding round, CNBC has learned …
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
Ex-iRobot CEO Colin Angle launches Familiar Machines & Magic and unveils Familiar, a dog-like, “emotionally intelligent” robot that reacts to owner's feelings  —  The inventor behind the world-famous robot vacuum is now designing robots that form an emotional bond with their owners
Ben Weiss / Fortune:
Trump's World Liberty Financial countersues Tron founder Justin Sun, alleging defamation, contract violations, and more  —  One of the Trump family's biggest early crypto backers is now a foe.  In response to claims of fraud by billionaire Justin Sun, the Trump-backed crypto firm World …
Bloomberg:
Nearly 20 US state-run health insurance exchanges include ad trackers that send user data like race and citizenship info to companies like Meta, TikTok, Google  —  Nearly all of the 20 state-run health insurance exchanges in the US have added advertising trackers that transmit user activity …
Alex Bronzini-Vender / New York Magazine:
Inside Palantir Foundation's Atlantic and Pacific Forum at Yale for invited students: State Dept. and Palantir staff share a vision of mixing AI and state power  —  At a quiet conference at Yale, the company and its allies sketched a vision for AI, state power, and how to mix the two.
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Panthalassa, which aims to power floating data centers using energy generated by ocean waves, raised $140M led by Peter Thiel, source says at a $1B valuation  —  US tech billionaire leads $140mn investment into Panthalassa as search for AI power pushes into exotic new frontiers
New York Times:
Former Trump and Biden AI advisers Dean Ball and Ben Buchanan urge bipartisan action on AI security risks, including tighter export controls and safety audits  —  We come from different parties and have guided artificial intelligence policy under very different presidents.
Financial Times:
Sources: some lenders are exploring private deals to sell their data center debt, and some banks are seeking to offload their Oracle-linked loans at a discount  —  Global lenders explore private deals and risk transfers to cut exposure to AI boom  —  Banks are hunting for new ways …
More: The Decoder.  LinkedIn: Mark Butcher and Chris Adams
Bluesky: @aethien and @westbywest.  Mastodon: @davidgerard@circumstances.run
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware:
Jensen Huang said Nvidia's market share of AI accelerators in China has “now dropped to zero” and that the US' export policy “has already largely backfired”  —  US export restrictions bite. … Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that the company's market share of AI accelerators in China has now dropped to 0%.

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David Ellison / New York Times:
David Ellison says antitrust suits against Paramount's WBD deal imagine a bygone Hollywood and are really about trust in his CNN stewardship, not market share

Sara Fischer / Axios:
Axel Springer names Business Insider's interim CEO Christian Baesler as the outlet's permanent CEO; he plans to keep focusing on direct sales and subscriptions

Sara Fischer / Axios:
Substack's legal support program wins its first federal court case, helping SpyTalk EIC Jeff Stein beat a defamation lawsuit filed by ex-CIA official Keith Bass

More News

Dylan Martin / CRN:
Intel taps Alex Katouzian, an ex-Qualcomm EVP, to lead Client Computing & Physical AI group, and names Pushkar Ranade as CTO, after serving on an interim basis
More: Thurrott, Intel, and HotHardware
X: @benbajarin, @intel, and @iancutress.  LinkedIn: Dylan Martin
Reuters:
Investment and tech firm Long Lake says it will buy corporate travel operator Amex GBT for $6.3B, citing AI's ability to modernize the business travel sector
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
The jury-less bench trial phase of Meta's child safety case in NM begins today to determine if Meta's actions were a public nuisance and warrant product changes

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