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| 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” …
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| Google DeepMind: |
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X: @googledeepmind, @googledeepmind, @demishassabis, @scottbelsky, @mishaalrahman, @8teapi, @googledeepmind, @googledeepmind, and @googledeepmind. Mastodon: @jalefkowit@vmst.io
Forums: Hacker News, r/BetterOffline, and r/accelerate
| CNBC: |
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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Forums: r/wallstreetbets and r/StockMarket
| 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.
More: TechCrunch, WhatsApp Blog, The Verge, PCMag, Meta Newsroom, Help Net Security, Reuters, T3, Moneycontrol, Engadget, Associated Press, BBC, The Next Web, Dallas Express, Quartz, Premium Times Nigeria, Business Standard, FoneArena.com, Harper Carroll AI on YouTube, The Tech Portal, Firstpost, Digit, WABetaInfo, The Indian Express, HardwareZone Singapore, and Gadgets 360
| Gyana Swain / CSO: |
Microsoft unveils MDASH, a security system that orchestrates 100+ AI agents to find vulnerabilities, and says it identified 16 previously unknown Windows flaws — The agentic tool, codenamed MDASH, will open to enterprise customers in private preview in June.| 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.| 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
More: TechCrunch, Crypto Briefing, Yahoo Finance, and CNBC
X: @8teapi, @gcockfoster, and @arakharazian
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
| 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.
More: New York Times. X: @chafkin, @jeff_bilbro, @michaelkruse, @teddyschleifer, @accass, and @jeffjarvis
| 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 Funding News, Tech.eu, and The Decoder
| 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 …
More: Inc, The Verge, Anthropic, Fast Company, and Canva
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Instagram rolls out Instants, which lets users share ephemeral photos, as an in-app feature in Instagram and as a standalone app in select countries — Meta just launched a brand new iPhone app called Instants. Built around ephemeral photo sharing, the new social media app is also the latest Instagram feature.
More: Instagram, TechCrunch, USA Today, Meta Newsroom, and Mashable
| 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: Reuters, BusinessDay, Nikkei Asia, Yahoo Finance, and Wall Street Journal
| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Adaption, co-founded by ex-Cohere VP of AI research Sara Hooker, unveils AutoScientist, which can automate the research loop behind model training and alignment — For years, AI researchers have anticipated the moment when AI systems will be able to improve themselves better than humans could.
More: Adaption and Axios
X: @sarahookr, @sarahookr, @sarahookr, @adaption_ai, @sudip_r0y, @sarahookr, and @sethbannon
| 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.
More: CNET, Gizmodo, Engadget, PCMag, TechRadar, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Android Authority, The Wrap, Raw Story, Mashable, Bangor Daily News, The Verge, Futurism, and Yahoo News. Forums: r/politics
| 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.
More: Forbes and Above Avalon
| Reuters: |
LinkedIn says it has “implemented organizational changes”; a source says LinkedIn plans to cut about 5% of its 17,500 full-time workers — LinkedIn planned to inform staff of layoffs on Wednesday, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a widening of technology sector cuts this year.
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Forums: r/technology and r/Layoffs
| 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.
More: Business Insider. X: @alexandr_wang, @ashleevance, @lefthanddraft, @ashleevance, @kyliebytes, and @bokuharuyaharu
| 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+
More: Tech Advisor, Android Authority, Tom's Guide, PCMag, Spyglass, and Digital Trends. Bluesky: @glinden
| 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 …
More: The Hill, PCMag, Benzinga, New York Post, Motley Fool, Electrek, BBC, Silicon Republic, San Francisco Chronicle, WPXI-TV, Tech Times, Bloomberg, Eschaton, and Baller Alert
Forums: r/technology and r/news
| 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 …
More: Fractile, Bloomberg, DatacenterDynamics, FinSMEs, Tech.eu, Sifted, The Next Web, and Tech Funding News
| 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 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.
More: Computerworld, The Register, AppleInsider, Cybersecurity Dive, BleepingComputer, TechCrunch, PYMNTS, The Record, SecurityWeek, Tech Times, 9to5Mac, iDrop News, TechRadar, Cult of Mac, Silicon Republic, iClarified, iPhone in Canada, MacRumors, Cyber Security News, Focus Taiwan, and DigiTimes
Forums: r/cybersecurity and r/pwnhub
| 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 … | 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, and PYMNTS
| 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 …
X: @chafkin and @bradstone
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Apple files an EU submission criticizing draft DMA measures that would require Google to give competing AI services access to Android apps, citing privacy risks — Apple (AAPL.O) on Wednesday echoed Google's criticism of EU antitrust regulators' efforts to force the search giant … | 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 — China's twin leaders in artificial intelligence reported revenue that fell short of estimates, signaling the challenges …
More: Reuters, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times
| Bloomberg: |
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 …
More: Benzinga, Crypto Briefing, Tech Funding News, and Tech in Asia
| 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
More: Reuters, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, Nikkei Asia, Blockonomi, Dow Jones Newswires, Benzinga, Tech in Asia, and Daily Sabah
| 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.
More: Globes, FinSMEs, Ventureburn, The Quantum Insider, and Forbes
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