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| Kyle Kucharski / ZDNET: |
Google unveils Googlebook, its new laptop lineup featuring a unified OS merging ChromeOS and Android, with devices from Dell, HP, and others coming this fall — ZDNET's key takeaways — Googlebook is a new device line coming this fall. — It merges Android and ChromeOS for smoother phone-to-laptop use.
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Forums: r/InterstellarKinetics and r/gadgets
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
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” … | Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Google unveils Gemini Intelligence, bundling existing and new Gemini features, including task automation across apps and letting users vibe code Android widgets — We're one step closer to our phones just using themselves. … It is, once again, Gemini season.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
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| CNBC: |
Nvidia says Jensen Huang is joining President Trump on his China trip; a source says Trump asked Huang to join him 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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Forums: r/wallstreetbets and r/StockMarket
| Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: |
Google unveils Android security features, including protection from spoofed banking calls, default theft protection, and biometric protection for Mark as lost — Here's a look at the sweeping set of Android security and privacy upgrades Google has in store for you this year. — • — TL;DR| Tim Starks / CyberScoop: |
More: Amnesty International …, TechCrunch, Reporter ohne Grenzen, and The Hacker News
Bluesky: @campuscodi.risky.biz, @lorenzofb, and @donncha.is
| New York Times: |
Analysis: a16z is the largest known donor in the current US midterm election cycle, spending $115M+ so far on pro-crypto, pro-AI, or 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.
More: New York Times. X: @accass, @michaelkruse, and @jeff_bilbro
Bluesky: @marypcbuk, @agelston, and @justinhendrix
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources: Anthropic is in talks to raise between $30B and $50B at an up to $950B valuation, up from $380B after raising $30B in February 2026 — The start-up, which recently released a powerful A.I. model called Mythos and is separately battling with the Pentagon, was previously valued at $380 billion.| 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 may 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.
More: Reuters, Fortune, Business Insider, Pulse 2.0, Tech Funding News, Bloomberg, Tech in Asia, and Anduril
| Bloomberg: |
Musk v. Altman: Sam Altman testified that in 2017 Musk demanded complete control of a proposed OpenAI for-profit arm, musing that he would pass it to his kids — OpenAI's Sam Altman testified that he was “extremely uncomfortable” with Elon Musk's insistence that he have complete control …
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| Winnie Hsu / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: contract prices for NAND chips are up 600%+ since late September 2025, while those for DRAM chips are up ~400%, with analysts expecting further gains — The worsening shortage in global memory chips due to the artificial intelligence buildout is driving a widening gulf in corporate results and stock performances.
More: Above Avalon
| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
Q&A with Amazon SVP of Devices and Alexa Panos Panay on Alexa+, the company's focus on devices for the home, its Leo satellite broadband business, and more — Executive tasked with driving ‘beauty’ and profitability at group's device unit on hardware push that follows Alexa+| Molly Taft / Wired: |
Internal emails: xAI 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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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Foxconn says some of its North American factories suffered a cyberattack in recent days; ransomware group Nitrogen claims it stole 8TB of data — 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.
More: BleepingComputer, AppleInsider, Silicon Republic, MacRumors, The Record, The Register, Focus Taiwan, iClarified, 9to5Mac, and DigiTimes
Forums: r/cybersecurity and r/pwnhub
| 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 …
More: Tech.eu and The Decoder
| Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
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 — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. posted its first operating loss since the depths of the Covid pandemic, underscoring the extent …
More: South China Morning Post, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Reuters, and Wall Street Journal
| 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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| 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) … | Douglas Belkin / Wall Street Journal: |
Princeton's faculty votes to require proctoring in all in-person exams starting this summer, reversing an 1893 policy amid concerns about AI-fueled cheating — The change reverses an honor-code policy dating back to 1893 — For more than a century, Princeton University prided itself … | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
The US' Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is testing ACCESS, an outcome-based payment model for AI-driven medical care, with 150 tech companies — Neil Batlivala has spent seven years building a healthcare company that most of the tech industry has never heard of and that serves … | Google DeepMind: |
Google DeepMind details a Gemini-powered mouse pointer that understands what it is pointing at, allowing users to perform tasks without using text-heavy prompts — We are developing more seamless, intuitive ways to collaborate with AI — The mouse pointer has been a constant companion …
More: Google DeepMind on YouTube, The Decoder, Android Central, TheNeuron, Phandroid, Android Authority, MarkTechPost, 9to5Google, Digital Trends, Android Central, and MakeUseOf
X: @googledeepmind, @scottbelsky, @demishassabis, @mishaalrahman, @8teapi, @googledeepmind, @googledeepmind, @googledeepmind, and @googledeepmind. Mastodon: @jalefkowit@vmst.io
Forums: Hacker News and r/accelerate
| Reuters: |
Samsung and its South Korean labor union fail to reach a pay deal; the union has said workers will strike for 18 days from May 21 if its demands are not met — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) and its union failed to reach a pay deal on Wednesday, heightening the risk of a massive strike … | 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 …
More: Nikkei Asia, The Economic Times, Reuters, DealStreetAsia, and Wall Street Journal
| 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.
More: Financial Times, Tech Times, 80 Level, and Ars Technica
| Michelle Del Rey / USA Today: |
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.| Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic names eight unauthorized secondary market sellers of its shares, including Hiive and Forge Global, warning that any share transactions there are void — Anthropic PBC identified a number of secondary marketplaces as unauthorized sellers of the company's shares, telling investors that buying the stock won't work.
More: Claude, The Block, OpenAI, TechCrunch, and Tech in Asia
X: @danprimack, @charlesd353, @briannorgard, @richardchen39, @andyyy, @symonebeez, @frankieislost, @centristpeater, @turnernovak, @kukreja_abhinav, @swarajk_, @thedukekim, @givnerariel, @chesterzelaya, @yoheinakajima, @zeroxkyle, @amritwt, @isaacking314, @mikeisaac, @dowdedward, @shardib2, @lex_node, and @tftc21
| Agnieszka Barteczko / Bloomberg: |
Poland says it plans to proceed with a digital services tax of up to 3% on large digital platforms, despite threats of retaliation like tariffs from the US — Poland will continue working on legislation to tax digital platforms, Finance Minister Andrzej Domanski said, despite threats … | Bloomberg: |
An analysis of Tokenomist.ai data: Trump family members made ~$1.55B from sales of World Liberty Financial's WLFI tokens, lifting their total fortune by ~$660M — Trump family members made roughly $1.55 billion from sales of World Liberty Financial Inc. tokens, lifting their total fortune … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to make the Camera app fully customizable in iOS 27, along with noticeable design changes across Siri, Safari, Weather, and more — Apple Inc. is planning to upgrade its Camera app, making the software fully customizable as part of a broader set of user interface changes coming in its next iPhone software update.
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X: @markgurman, @markgurman, and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
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