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May 4, 2026, 8:40 AM
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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  —  Cohen told The Wall Street Journal he wants to make eBay a ‘legit competitor to Amazon’  —  GameStop Chief Executive Ryan Cohen …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Anthropic is finalizing a deal for a $1.5B JV with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Hellman & Friedman, and others to sell AI tools to PE-backed companies  —  Anthropic, Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman each expected to invest around $300 million; Goldman Sachs also an investor
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 …
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%.
Deborah Sophia / Reuters:
Amazon debuts Supply Chain Services, allowing other companies to use its logistics network to move, store, and deliver raw materials, final products, and more  —  Amazon.com (AMZN.O) said on Monday it was rolling out “Amazon Supply Chain Services”, opening up its logistics network for other businesses to use.
More: About Amazon
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
How AI tools such as Naver's Talking Buddy and SuperBrain are helping South Korea's elderly ease loneliness, detect emergencies, and slow cognitive decline  —  In the world's fastest aging society, artificial intelligence is being used to make care calls to older adults who live alone and to fight dementia.
More: Newser
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 …
LinkedIn: Chris Adams and Mark Butcher
Bluesky: @aethien and @westbywest.  Mastodon: @davidgerard@circumstances.run
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes:
A profile of music AI startup Suno, valued at ~$2.5B with 2M+ paying users and $300M annualized revenue as of February, as it battles record labels and artists
Brock E.W. Turner / Axios:
Enzo Health, whose AI tools help home health and hospice agencies automate tasks like patient intake and documentation review, raised a $20M Series A led by N47  —  Enzo Health, an AI workflow company for post-acute care, raised a $20 million Series A led by N47, CEO Zach Newman tells Axios Pro exclusively.
Laurie Chen / Reuters:
China's Linkerbot, which holds 80%+ of global dexterous robotic hands market, raised a Series B+ at a $3B valuation and seeks a $6B valuation in its next round  —  Chinese robotics startup Linkerbot, the global market leader in highly dexterous robotic hands for humanoids …
More: The Next Web
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Apple's handling of vibe coding apps draws complaints from startups like Replit and Anything, which say Apple is applying App Store rules erratically  —  iPhone maker warns about security risks as new software floods its review process  —  Apple's handling of “vibe coding” …

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From Mediagazer

Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Sony's Spider-Man: Brand New Day opened to a record-setting $360M in North America, beating Avengers: Endgame's $357M; globally, it hit $932M, second to Endgame

Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Imax reaches its highest-grossing month ever with $257M globally in July, 47% above its previous record; The Odyssey has generated $221M globally in Imax so far

CNBC:
Snap reports Q2 revenue up 19% YoY to $1.6B, above $1.54B est., DAUs up 5% to 493M, above 487M est., and forecasts Q3 revenue above est.; SNAP jumps 10%+

Earlier Picks

Chavie Lieber / Wall Street Journal:
How Amazon's expansion into fashion helped Jeff Bezos enter fashion's inner circle, as he and Lauren Sánchez Bezos become underwriters for this year's Met Gala
Chase DiBenedetto / Mashable:
Ask.com shutters, as its owner IAC “continues to sharpen its focus”; a dot-com era icon, Ask Jeeves launched in 1997, a year before Google
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