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Cherlynn Low / Engadget:
Google launches the Google Fitbit Air, a $100 Whoop-like screenless wearable with Gemini-powered features like Google Health Coach, available from May 26  —  The Whoop-like wearable that Google teased in March has just been unveiled.  Called the Google Fitbit Air, it's a screenless device …
Adamya Sharma / Android Authority:
Google rebrands Fitbit Premium as Google Health Premium, adding Gemini-powered coaching and other features, and raises its annual price from $79.99 to $99.99  —  The rebranded service includes Gemini-powered coaching, adaptive fitness plans, deeper sleep insights, and more.  —  •  —  TL;DR
Julian Chokkattu / Wired:
An interview with Google VP for Health and Home Rishi Chandra on shutting down Fit by the end of 2026, Fitbit's rebrand to Google Health, Health Coach, and more
Ignacio Gonzalez / Bloomberg:
Cloudflare reports Q1 revenue up 34% YoY to $639.8M, plans to cut 1,100+ jobs as it shifts to an “agentic AI-first operating model”; NET drops 13%+ after hours  —  Cloudflare Inc. plans to cut more than 1,100 jobs globally as it accelerates its shift to an agentic AI-first operating model.
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:
Kalshi raised $1B led by Coatue at a $22B valuation, its third round in seven months after raising $1B and $300M+, and hits $178B in annualized trading volume  —  The platform for betting on sports, politics, the weather and more has raised $1 billion and sees big financial firms as a key source of growth.
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
OpenAI launches three voice models in the API: GPT-Realtime-2 with GPT-5-class reasoning, GPT-Realtime-Whisper for transcription, and GPT-Realtime-Translate  —  OpenAI has just released three new realtime voice models that it says will “unlock a new class of voice apps for developers.”
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: AirPods with cameras reached an advanced testing stage; the cameras will feed data to Siri to help answer questions, rather than take photos or video  —  Apple Inc. has reached the late stages of development for new AirPods with built-in cameras, a significant milestone for what will likely …
Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
French prosecutors escalate an investigation into Elon Musk and X, focused on alleged algorithmic manipulation and sexual deepfakes, to a criminal probe  —  French cybercrime authorities have escalated an investigation of Elon Musk and his social network X to a criminal probe, the Paris prosecutor's office said Thursday.
Natallie Rocha / New York Times:
Dario Amodei says Anthropic had planned to grow ~10x in 2026 but saw “crazy” 80x annualized growth in revenue and usage in Q1, calling it “too hard to handle”  —  The chief executive, Dario Amodei, said the rapid growth had exponentially increased the start-up's need for more computing power.
Lauren Goode / Wired:
Elon Musk says he spent time with Anthropic employees “to understand what they do to ensure Claude is good for humanity”; earlier, he called Anthropic “evil”
Elon Musk / @elonmusk:
Elon Musk says SpaceX reserves “the right to reclaim the compute” from Anthropic if its “AI engages in actions that harm humanity”
Pieter Haeck / Politico:
EU legislators reach a deal to postpone restrictions on high-risk AI until December 2027 and to exempt the use of AI in industrial applications from the AI Act  —  Deal marks first significant delay of digital rules amid pressure from the U.S.  —  Restrictions on high-risk uses …
Anna Heim / TechCrunch:
Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI unveils GENE-26.5, its first model, which can control robotic hands that it designed in-house to do tasks like cooking  —  Genesis AI, a startup that raised a $105 million seed round to build foundational AI for robotics, has unveiled its first model …
RT Watson / The Block:
AWS unveils Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments and partners with Coinbase and Stripe to enable AI agents to execute transactions using stablecoins  —  Quick Take  — Amazon Web Services has partnered with Coinbase and Stripe to enable AI agents to execute transactions using stablecoins.
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Nvidia and data center operator IREN announce a deal to deploy up to 5 GW of AI infrastructure; Nvidia can invest $2.1B into IREN; IREN jumps 9%+ after hours  —  IREN shares surged in extended-trading on Thursday before giving back nearly all of the gains after the data center operator announced …
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge:
Spotify launches Save to Spotify, a command-line tool that allows AI agents to upload AI-generated audio summaries and personal podcasts to a user's account  —  A new command-line tool lets AI agents save audio alongside your other podcasts. … Save to Spotify is a new command-line tool …
Anissa Gardizy / The Information:
Sources: OpenAI and Broadcom discuss terms for Broadcom to finance initial custom chip production for ~$18B, conditioned on Microsoft buying ~40% of the chips  —  When OpenAI and chip designer Broadcom announced last fall that they would make custom artificial intelligence chips together, they positioned it as a done deal.
The Information:
Sources: AI model builder Core Automation, founded in March by Jerry Tworek, aims to raise $300M-$500M at a $4B valuation after raising $100M at a $1B valuation  —  Nvidia's investment spree in startups that use its AI chips has stoked traditional venture capital firms' interest in those companies.

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Salon:
Salon, launched in 1995 to cover politics, culture, and more, says it is closing: “business realities of independent digital journalism have changed profoundly”

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Nielsen: ~31.2M people watched midterm primetime coverage across 13 TV networks; NBC News led with 6.74M, ahead of ABC News with 5.19M and Fox News with 4.32M

A.J. Katz / The Wrap:
LIV Golf is shutting down after five years and over $5B in Saudi backing, ending its efforts to build a TV audience on Fox and, before that, The CW

More News

Anthropic:
Anthropic researchers detail “natural language autoencoders”, which convert LLM activations, the numbers encoding a model's thoughts, into natural language text
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Researchers: 5,000+ web apps built using AI coding tools like Lovable, Base44, and Replit have little to no authentication, and ~40% exposed sensitive data
More: Digital Trends, Peridot Blog, and Axios
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Bloomberg:
UK-based Quantum Motion, which builds quantum computers on silicon chips, raised a $160M Series C; EU-backed growth fund Kembara made its first investment
Brian Halligan / @bhalligan:
As founders race to make their companies “legible” to AI, they must keep the things that make them hard to copy “illegible”, or risk commoditizing their moat
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