Corning and Nvidia partner to open three advanced manufacturing plants in North Carolina and Texas dedicated to optical tech for Nvidia, creating 3,000+ jobs  —  Nvidia, the chipmaker at the center of the artificial intelligence boom, is partnering with glassmaker Corning for three …

Sources: DeepSeek is in talks to raise funds, and the Big Fund, China's biggest state-backed chip fund, is seeking to lead the investment at a ~$45B valuation  —  Value soars in ongoing fundraising discussions as investors including Tencent seek slice of AI lab

Sources and a document: Google is testing a “personal agent” codenamed Remy in the Gemini app that integrates with Google services to take actions for users  —  - Google is working on an AI agent codenamed “Remy,” according to an internal document.

Kaspersky says Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, was backdoored on April 8 in a monthlong compromise that has pushed malicious updates  —  Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, has been backdoored in a monthlong compromise that has pushed malicious updates …

Apple reaches a $250M settlement in a California federal court in a false advertising class action lawsuit over its 2024 announcement of a “personalized” Siri  —  iPhone buyers sued the tech giant for touting features in 2024 that have yet to launch

Morgan Stanley rolls out a crypto trading pilot on E*Trade, charging less than Coinbase, Robinhood, and Charles Schwab, ahead of a wider launch later in 2026  —  Morgan Stanley is rolling out cryptocurrency trading on its E*Trade platform with a dig at rivals: cheaper pricing.

Source: Anthropic plans to spend ~$200B on Google's Cloud and chips over five years, representing 40%+ of the “revenue backlog” that Google disclosed last week  —  When Google last month said it would supply Anthropic with an astonishing five gigawatts of server capacity …

Sources: Meta is building an OpenClaw-inspired agent, internally called Hatch and powered by its Muse Spark model, and an agentic shopping tool in Instagram  —  Meta Platforms is building a consumer version of the AI agent OpenClaw and a new agentic shopping tool, people familiar with the efforts said …

A profile of David Sacks, the White House's AI and crypto adviser since December 2024, who is ruthlessly devoted to self-interest and helped pass the GENIUS Act  —  How David Sacks and the new tech right went full MAGA and captured Washington  —  the courtship between Silicon Valley and MAGA …

OpenAI partners with Microsoft, AMD, Broadcom, Nvidia, and Intel researchers to detail the Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC) protocol to help scale compute  —  OpenAI is getting creative to deal with the industry's imminent compute crunch. … The protocol, which has been in the works for two years …

Source: Alphabet is in talks with Blackstone, KKR, and EQT to let their portfolio companies access its models, after OpenAI's and Anthropic's JVs with PE firms  —  Private equity firms Blackstone, KKR and EQT are in talks with Alphabet to get their portfolio companies access to Google's AI models …

Google quietly shuts down Project Mariner, its AI agent that navigated Chrome and completed tasks on a user's behalf, after highlighting it onstage at I/O 2025  —  NEW: Google quietly shut down Project Mariner yesterday, the web-browsing AI agent it highlighted onstage last year at Google IO. I reported for WIRED, nearly 2 months ago, that Google had moved staffers off the Project Mariner team as it responded to OpenClaw-style agents. [image]

Sources: Denver-based, Blue Owl Capital-owned Stack Infrastructure is considering selling all or some of its Asia data center operations in an up to $30B deal  —  Stack Infrastructure Inc., a data center company owned by Blue Owl Capital, is considering options including a sale of its Asia operations …

DefiLlama: investors pulled nearly $14B from the DeFi space after North Korea-tied hackers stole $290M from Aave in April, weeks after stealing $280M from Drift  —  DeFi was once touted as the future of finance but traders have grown concerned over the security of these projects

The UK FCA says it is investigating PayPal, Mastercard, and Visa for alleged anti-competitive behavior, in a rare antitrust investigation by the regulator  —  Move is rare exercise of Financial Conduct Authority's competition law powers  —  PayPal, Mastercard and Visa are being investigated …

AMD reports Q1 revenue up 38% YoY to $10.25B, above $9.89B est., Data Center revenue up 57% YoY to $5.8B, and forecasts Q2 revenue above est.; AMD jumps 15%+  —  Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) forecast second-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations on Tuesday, helped by keen demand …

Google updates AI Mode and AI Overviews to add “a preview of perspectives” from firsthand sources like social media and Reddit, presented as “Expert Advice”  —  The new AI Mode and AI Overviews updates bring in perspectives from firsthand sources like social media and web forums.

Sources: the White House is mulling EOs to address advanced AI security risks, including barring companies from “interfering” with the government's model usage  —  A White House spokesperson said any official policy announcement would come directly from President Donald Trump …

Uber reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $13.2B, below $13.3B est., Gross Bookings up 25% YoY to $53.7B, trips up 20% YoY to 3.6B, and a $1B revenue UK tax law hit  —  Ride-hailing company posts weaker than expected first-quarter revenues but issues optimistic outlook

Study: using weaker AI models to supervise a more capable model could prevent the stronger model from deliberately underperforming on benchmarks and evaluations  —  New paper from MATS, Redwood, and Anthropic! If a capable model is strategically sandbagging, can we train it to stop when the only supervision we have comes from weaker models? We find that we can! Work done as part of the Anthropic-Redwood MATS stream. [image]

Finnish AI lab QuTwo, led by ex-AMD Silo AI CEO Peter Sarlin, raised a €25M angel round at a €325M valuation, and secures $23M in committed partnership revenue  —  QuTwo, the Finnish AI lab founded by former AMD Silo AI CEO Peter Sarlin, is now valued at €325 million …

Coupang reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to ~$8.5B and a ~$266M net loss, its largest since Q4 2021, after a 2025 South Korean customer data breach; CPNG drops 10%+  —  US-listed e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. said Wednesday it swung to a net loss in the first quarter amid fallout from a massive customer data breach in South Korea.

Apple's R&D spending hit 10.3% of revenue in Q2, up from 7.6% in Q1 and 9% in Q2 2025, amid the AI boom; Q2 revenue rose 17% YoY, while R&D jumped 34% YoY  —  For the first time in at least 30 years, Apple is spending more than 10 cents of every dollar it brings in on research and development …

reMarkable Paper Pure review: the new $399 e-paper slate has a great display, responsiveness, and design, but no backlight or typing, and some software issues  —  rating : 8.3 / 10  — Class-leading handwriting - Better responsiveness  —  There's a lot riding on reMarkable's Paper Pure …

Sources: in a reshuffle, LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky will lead Microsoft's new Work Experiences Group, including Teams, after 35-year veteran Rajesh Jha retired  —  The departure of veteran executive Rajesh Jha has triggered big organizational changes inside Microsoft.

Doc: SpaceX proposes spending $55B to begin building a Terafab chip facility in Grimes County, Texas, and estimates total capital expenditures could hit $119B  —  Elon Musk's SpaceX estimated a chip factory it plans to build along with Tesla Inc. will cost at least $55 billion …

Security camera companies are embracing AI to give customers detailed descriptions of surveillance footage, which are often spot on but can also be wildly wrong  —  AI descriptions, designed to give customers more detail than generic motion alerts, are mistaking brake lights for house fires and humans for bears

Super Micro reports Q3 revenue up 123% YoY to $10.24B, below $12.33B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue and adjusted profit above est.; SMCI jumps 15%+  —  Super Micro Computer (SMCI.O) on Tuesday forecast fourth-quarter revenue above Wall Street estimates, banking on robust demand …

A medical student reverse-engineered AI tools used by medical colleges on suspicion they were filtering his applications, highlighting AI-driven hiring concerns  —  Armed with some Python and a white-hot sense of injustice, one medical student spent six months trying to figure out whether an algorithm trashed his job application.

Instacart reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.02B, above $1.01B est., GTV up 13% YoY to $10.29B, and orders up 10% YoY to 91.2M, as users focus on affordability  —  First-quarter revenue rose 14% to $1.02 billion  —  Instacart reported higher first-quarter revenue and said consumers …