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| Wired: |
As Meta prepares to lay off ~10% of its staff on May 20, sources say morale is low, and it moved 1,000+ engineers to an AI unit to build generative AI models — Next week, Meta is cutting about 10 percent of its staff. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen current and former employees …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cisco reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $15.84B, above $15.56B est., raises its FY 2026 AI orders forecast, and is cutting fewer than 4,000 jobs; CSCO jumps 15%+ — Cisco shares soared 15% after the networking company issued results and guidance that topped Wall Street's projections on Wednesday after the bell.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: the US has cleared ~10 Chinese companies, including Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, and JD.com, to buy Nvidia H200 chips, but no deliveries have been made — The U.S. has cleared around 10 Chinese firms to buy Nvidia's second-most powerful AI chip, the H200, but not a single delivery …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Microsoft updates Edge with new AI features, including letting Copilot gather information from open tabs and use browsing history for more relevant answers — The new features include AI podcasts, summaries, and quizzes based on what you're browsing.| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Spotify says it will adopt Apple's HTTP Live Streaming tech later in 2026, helping Spotify creators distribute video podcast shows on Apple Podcasts and Spotify — Spotify is making two video podcast announcements today, including one related to Apple's big video podcast enhancement.| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Anthropic unveils Claude Agent SDK credits for paid plans, which users can allocate for programmatic usage of third-party agents like OpenClaw, starting June 15 — Good news, OpenClaw fans — you can once again use your Claude AI subscription to power the hit, open source, autonomous AI agentic harness!
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon sign an “agreement in principle” to form a joint venture that aims to end wireless dead zones in the US, without giving many details — A new joint venture has been proposed to pool spectrum resources and improve satellite capacity.| AI Security Institute: |
Claude Mythos Preview is the first AI model to complete both of AISI's cyber ranges, which measure AI models' cyberattack capabilities; GPT-5.5 solved only one — In February 2026, we internally estimated that the length of cyber tasks AI models could complete had doubled every 4.7 months since late 2024 …
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| Tim Craig / Washington Post: |
Gallup: 70% of Americans oppose local data center construction, citing water and electricity issues, with opposition higher among Democrats than Republicans — The survey found that Republicans and Democrats are uncomfortable living near a data center, but opposition is especially intense among Democrats.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Foxconn reports Q1 revenue up 29% YoY to ~$67B and net profit up 19% YoY to ~$1.6B, meeting est., as it boosts AI server production, its largest revenue source — Cloud and networking products—including AI servers—remained the company's largest revenue contributor
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cerebras prices its IPO at $185 per share, above the expected range of $150 to $160 per share, raising $5.55B and valuing it at $56.4B on a fully diluted basis — Cerebras Systems, a maker of artificial intelligence chips, priced its IPO at $185 a share on Wednesday, above the expected range …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Wirestock, which says it provides multi-modal data to six of the largest foundation AI labs, raised a $23M Series A, bringing its total funding to $26M — In the past few years, creative marketplaces and platforms have realized that they are sitting on a data goldmine … | Sam Rutherford / Engadget: |
Motorola Razr Fold review: good performance and screen, great battery life, sharp cameras, and stylus support, but heavier than the Z Fold 7 and lackluster AI — rating : 8.8 / 10 — Big, bright screens - Great battery life - Surprisingly sharp cameras - Native stylus support - Good performance
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| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
Filing: Jensen Huang's foundation bought $108.3M worth of AI computing time from CoreWeave and is donating it to universities and other nonprofit institutes — The foundation of Nvidia (NVDA.O) CEO Jensen Huang and his wife, Lori, is buying computing time from CoreWeave (CRWV.O) …
More: The Information and Benzinga
| Alex Heath / Sources: |
Sources: Google plans to announce a new Gemini model at its I/O conference next week; the model will land roughly in the class of GPT-5.5, but short of Mythos — Sources say that Google plans to announce a new Gemini model at its annual I/O conference on Tuesday.
More: The Defense Post, PC Gamer, TestingCatalog AI News, and Digital Trends
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok launches TikTok GO in the US for users to book hotels, attractions, and experiences directly in the app, partnering with Booking.com, Expedia, and others — TikTok announced on Tuesday that it's launching TikTok GO, a way for users to discover and book hotels, attractions, and experiences directly within its app.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Meta President Dina Powell McCormick is traveling with President Trump on his China trip and met King Charles III, indicating she is Meta's new global emissary — The social media company's vice chair is part of the group traveling with Trump to China … Tech Across the Globe
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| Jared Perlo / NBC News: |
OpenEvidence, an AI-powered medical search engine, says ~65% of US physicians, or ~650K doctors, and another 1.2M doctors internationally use its services — OpenEvidence, an AI-powered medical search tool, has become a fast friend to America's doctors and is now used by nearly two-thirds of physicians.| Reuters: |
The UK CMA launches an antitrust investigation into Microsoft's business software dominance, focusing on its bundling of Windows, Word, Teams, and other apps — Britain launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft's (MSFT.O) dominance in business software that could lead to targeted action … | Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal: |
Klarna reports Q1 revenue up 44% YoY to $1.01B, above est., GMV up 33% to $33.7B, active customers up 20% to 119M, and a $1M profit, up from a $99M loss YoY — The buy now, pay later company said first-quarter revenue jumped 44% to $1.01 billion — Klarna swung to a profit in the first quarter …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Zhaopin: Chinese graduates returning home from abroad rose 12% YoY in 2025, fueling Beijing's plans to take on Silicon Valley; China is offering big incentives — More Chinese nationals who return home after working in the U.S., called ‘sea turtles,’ are fueling Beijing's efforts to take on Silicon Valley| Kenrick Cai / Reuters: |
Musk v. Altman filing: Sam Altman holds $2B+ in stakes in companies that have done business with OpenAI, including a $1.7B stake in fusion startup Helion Energy — OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman holds more than $2 billion in companies that have done business with the artificial intelligence company … | Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says it would support a global AI governance body that is led by the US and includes China as a member, similar to the International Atomic Energy Agency — OpenAI would support the creation of a global governance body for artificial intelligence led by the US and including China as a member … | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Canadian legaltech company Clio says its ARR has reached $500M, citing demand for its AI tools; Clio had a $5B valuation after a $500M Series G in November 2025 — While AI is now being applied to everything from healthcare to customer support, no single use case has yet been nearly as popular or lucrative as code writing.
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