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Nvidia says Jensen Huang has joined President Trump on his China trip; source: Trump called Huang to ask him to join after seeing media coverage of his absence — BEIJING — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has joined U.S. President Donald Trump's trip to China, after initial indications the executive had not been invited.
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| Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: |
Anduril raised a $5B Series H led by Thrive and a16z at a $61B valuation, up from $30.5B in June 2025, taking its total funding to $6.82B, and could IPO in 2027 — The start-up, which makes A.I.-backed weapons, was valued at $61 billion in the financing round, double what it was a year ago.
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
WhatsApp launches Incognito Chat, an AI chat mode built on Private Processing that Meta says lets users talk to AI without Meta being able to access the chats — The company says its new Incognito Chat allows you to use its AI chatbot without anyone else—including Meta—being able to access your conversations.| Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
Investor docs: Anthropic's revenue run-rate is on track to hit $50B by the end of June; Ramp says more of its customers now use Anthropic than OpenAI, a first — After years as also-ran, startup pulls ahead in AI race after focusing on enterprise users and coding| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
| Gyana Swain / CSO: |
Microsoft unveils MDASH, a security system that can orchestrate 100+ AI agents to find vulnerabilities, and says it identified 16 Windows vulnerabilities — The agentic tool, codenamed MDASH, will open to enterprise customers in private preview in June. — Microsoft has unveiled … | New York Times: |
Analysis: a16z is the largest known donor in the current US midterm election cycle, spending $115.5M so far on pro-crypto, pro-AI, and Republican Super PACs — The biggest donor in the midterm elections is not Elon Musk, or George Soros, or any of the other billionaires who are often thought to wield the fattest wallets in politics.
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Amazon is replacing its Rufus AI shopping assistant with Alexa for Shopping, which is powered by Alexa+, on Amazon.com and its app, for all customers in the US — The company is giving its AI-powered assistant special shopping skills on its website and app.| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Richard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence raised $650M+ from GV, Greycroft, Nvidia, AMD, and others at a $4B valuation to pursue “recursive self-improvement” — Recursive Superintelligence, founded by former Google, Meta and OpenAI researchers, is part of a growing effort … | Bloomberg: |
Tencent reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to ~$28.9B, below ~$29.4B est., and net income of ~$8.5B, meeting est., amid a costly AI pivot; its stock is down 23% YTD — Tencent Holdings Ltd. reported its slowest revenue growth in six quarters, underscoring the urgency around its costly AI pivot …
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Google says Chromebooks will get support through their “existing date commitment”, and “many” models are “eligible to transition” to the Googlebook experience — During The Android Show earlier today, Google revealed its “Googlebook” …
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Trump Mobile CEO Pat O'Brien says T1 Phone pre-orders will begin shipping to customers this week, and the device is assembled in the US, after months of delays — Trump Mobile phones are being shipped this week, the company exclusively confirmed to USA TODAY in an email May 11.
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| Winnie Hsu / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: contract prices for NAND chips are up 600%+ since September 2025's end, while DRAM chip prices are up nearly 400%, and analysts expect more increases — The worsening shortage in global memory chips due to the artificial intelligence buildout is driving a widening gulf in corporate results and stock performances.
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Foxconn says some of its North American factories “suffered a cyberattack” in recent days; ransomware group Nitrogen claims it stole 8TB of data from Foxconn — Famous for helping build Apple's iPhones, Foxconn just suffered another cyberattack, highlighting the perils of warehousing some of the world's most valuable data.
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Waymo recalls ~3,800 robotaxis in the US to fix software issues that may cause them to drive onto flooded roads, after some were seen stalled on flooded streets — Waymo is recalling about 3,800 robotaxis in the U.S. to fix software issues that could allow them to “drive onto a flooded roadway …
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| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
Q&A with Panos Panay, SVP of Devices, Alexa, and Leo, on Alexa+, Amazon's focus on devices for the home, delivering affordable broadband to everyone, and more — Executive tasked with driving ‘beauty’ and profitability at group's device unit on hardware push that follows Alexa+| Agnieszka Barteczko / Bloomberg: |
Poland says it plans to continue working on a digital services tax of up to 3% on large digital platforms, despite the US' threats of retaliation, like tariffs — Poland will continue working on legislation to tax digital platforms, Finance Minister Andrzej Domanski said … | Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
The FTC says Shutterstock will pay $35M to settle charges that Shutterstock misled consumers about its subscription plans and made it too difficult to cancel — Shutterstock (SSTK.N) will pay $35 million to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges that the online provider of stock photography … | Bloomberg: |
A profile of California Rep. Ro Khanna, who spent years cheering on the tech industry and now supports a 5% billionaire wealth tax and stricter AI regulations — Ro Khanna spent years cheering on the tech industry and building ties with wealthy donors. Now he's pitching himself …
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| Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business, featuring a host of automated services like bookkeeping functions, business insights, and tools for ad campaigns — Anthropic is looking to court smaller companies. To that end, the company announced Wednesday the launch of Claude for Small Business …
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Sources: Arm and SoftBank expressed preliminary interest in acquiring Cerebras weeks before its expected IPO; Cerebras rebuffed them — Arm Holdings Plc and its majority owner SoftBank Group Corp. made an approach to acquire Cerebras Systems Inc., the AI computing firm …
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| Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: |
UK chip startup Fractile raised a $220M Series B led by Factorial Funds, Accel and Founders Fund to make specialized logic and memory chips for inference — Factorial Funds, Accel and Peter Thiel's Founders Fund invest in company — The U.K. chip startup Fractile said it has raised … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Mistral has been developing a cybersecurity-focused AI model and held discussions about it with European banks, which don't have access to Mythos — French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI is in discussions with European banks about deploying its answer to Anthropic PBC's Mythos …
More: Axios, Reuters, nltimes.nl, New York Times, PYMNTS, and BankInfoSecurity.com
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Alibaba reports Q4 revenue up 3% YoY to ~$35.8B, below ~$36.3B est., and net income up ~100% to ~$3.7B, in part due to investments, as it seeks to monetize AI — China's twin leaders in artificial intelligence reported revenue that fell short of estimates, signaling the challenges …
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| David Keohane / Financial Times: |
SoftBank reports Q4 net income up 3x to ~$11.6B, above ~$1.5B est., driven by a $25B gain in its OpenAI stake; by October, its OpenAI investment will hit $64.6B — Japanese group books net income of $11.6bn in fourth quarter, vastly ahead of analyst expectations
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| Molly Taft / Wired: |
Internal emails: xAI has added 19 gas turbines to Colossus 2 over the past two months; xAI is fighting a lawsuit alleging Clean Air Act violations at the site — Emails show that Elon Musk's company is expanding its use of portable gas-fired power at its Colossus 2 site as a fight over air quality continues.
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| Shiona McCallum / BBC: |
The Lucy Faithfull Foundation's Project Intercept, a partnership with Google, TikTok, and Meta, sent 70M+ warning messages to users seeking CSAM in two years — More than 70 million warning messages have been sent to people attempting to access child sexual abuse material (CSAM) … | Katherine Davis / Axios: |
German quantum MRI imaging startup NVision raised a $55M Series B led by Abbott at a $250M to $300M valuation, and plans a $100M+ Series C later in 2026 — NVision, a German quantum imaging technology company, on Wednesday said it has raised a $55 million Series B.
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| Ashlee Vance / Core Memory: |
Q&A with Alexandr Wang on rebuilding Meta's AI stack, launching Muse Spark, personal superintelligence, acquiring Assured Robot Intelligence, and more — Last June, Meta pried Alex Wang away from Scale AI, the company he co-founded and ran, in a deal valued at $14 billion.| OpenAI Global Affairs: |
OpenAI endorses the Kids Online Safety Act and Illinois SB 315, an AI safety bill to create requirements around transparency, incident reporting, and more — Welcome (back) to The Prompt. For the first time, we're using it to endorse legislation. The bills we're supporting today …
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| Kim Bhasin / New York Times: |
How eBay CEO Jamie Iannone transformed the company, refocusing on power buyers in categories with especially high resale demand like trading cards and sneakers — The online marketplace has remade itself by focusing on collectibles and other high-end goods — and attracted an unwelcome takeover bid from GameStop.
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