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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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| Prakhar Khanna / ZDNET: |
Google says it has worked with Meta and Apple to add creator-focused video-editing tools to Android 17, expand AirDrop connectivity, and more — ZDNET key takeaways — Google partnered with Meta and Apple to improve Android. — Adobe Premiere is launching on Android soon.| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Jensen Huang was not invited to travel with President Trump on his China trip, a potential setback to Nvidia; Huang expressed his willingness to join — The roster of business leaders invited to join President Donald Trump on his trip to China this week left off one notable …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Anthropic officials refused a Chinese think tank's request to change its stance and give Beijing access to Mythos at a meeting in Singapore in April — The latest artificial intelligence models from Anthropic and OpenAI are extending the United States' lead over China and intensifying the rivalry between the countries.| Qasim Nauman / New York Times: |
Instructure reaches a deal with the hackers who breached its Canvas edtech platform to return stolen data and destroy copies, without saying what it exchanged — Instructure, which provides Canvas software to thousands of schools and universities around the world, did not say what it had given …
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| Bloomberg: |
eBay rejects GameStop's $56B takeover offer, saying the unsolicited bid is “neither credible nor attractive”, in a letter from eBay Chairman Paul Pressler — EBay Inc. rejected a $56 billion takeover offer from GameStop Corp. Chief Executive Officer Ryan Cohen …
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| Socket: |
Many npm packages for Mistral, UiPath, and TanStack's web developer tools like react-router were compromised, likely in the Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack — - Immediate triage: Run shasum -a 256 on all router_init.js files in your dependency tree.
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| Etiido Uko / Tom's Hardware: |
More: Lyrie Research and Cyber Security News
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: some Amazon employees are using in-house OpenClaw-like tool MeshClaw for unnecessary tasks to inflate AI token use after Amazon set weekly AI targets — In-house MeshClaw tool enables employees to delegate jobs to AI agents and climb company's AI leaderboard
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Amazon Now, its 30-minute delivery service, in dozens of US cities including Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Philadelphia, and Seattle, after pilots — Amazon deliveries keep getting faster. On Tuesday, the online retailer announced the launch of its 30-minute delivery option …
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| Assaf Gilead / Globes: |
Source: Microsoft Israel's GM leaves after an internal probe into alleged unethical use of Azure by Israel's MOD; Microsoft France will manage Microsoft Israel — Alon Haimovich is leaving after an investigation into alleged unethical use of Azure by the Ministry of Defense, “Globes” has learned.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Google is in talks with SpaceX and other companies for a rocket launch deal, as Google expands its own efforts to put orbital data centers in space — A deal between the two tech titans would give a boost to SpaceX's business ahead of a historic public listing.
More: The Information, TechCrunch, Reuters, Bloomberg, Benzinga, Yahoo Finance, Crypto Briefing, Blockonomi, and Forbes
| Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
AppMagic: Grok downloads fell to ~8.3M in April, from a high of 20M+ in January; Recon Analytics: Grok's paid adoption in the US remains nearly flat YoY in Q2 — Adoption by business and consumer users has slowed as parent SpaceX rents out spare computing capacity to rival Anthropic
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| Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg:NEW |
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.
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| Sawdah Bhaimiya / CNBC: |
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the EU will take action against “addictive design” features on TikTok and Instagram, like “endless scrolling” — The EU is clamping down on social media firms and plans to target “addictive design” …
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| Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog AI News: |
OpenAI launches Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative integrating AI models and Codex Security to help organizations find, validate, and patch vulnerabilities — OpenAI launches Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative integrating AI models and Codex Security to help organizations patch vulnerabilities.
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| Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: |
SAP launches its Autonomous Enterprise software suite to help clients process and contextualize their data and deploy AI agents to automate business processes — German group seeks to stay on top of a technology that cast doubt on the sustainability of the software industry
More: Help Net Security, Forbes, CFO Dive, Constellation Research, and SAP News Center
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Spotify celebrates its 20th anniversary with a Wrapped-like experience that features “never-before-shared data” going back to when users first joined Spotify — The company will include ‘never-before-shared data’ as part of its 20th anniversary celebrations.
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Forums: r/popheads and r/truespotify
| Wall Street Journal: |
The US House Oversight Committee launches a probe into potential conflicts in Sam Altman's personal investments; letter: several GOP AGs call for an SEC review — Republican-led House Oversight Committee says it is investigating, and six GOP state attorneys general are calling for SEC review after WSJ article
More: The Information, PYMNTS, Forbes, Benzinga, and The Decoder
| Pritam Biswas / Reuters: |
Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug discovery spinoff from Google DeepMind, raised $2.1B led by Thrive, after raising $600M in its first round in March 2025 — Isomorphic Labs, an artificial intelligence-driven drug discovery company, said on Wednesday it has raised $2.1 billion …
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| John Koblin / New York Times: |
YouTube is shifting its creator monetization strategy by acting as a matchmaker between creators and sponsors, as Netflix and TikTok increasingly woo creators — The company is trying to help streaming influencers, who are increasingly being wooed by competitors like Netflix and TikTok.
More: Deadline, PCMag, Financial Post, and WeRSM
| Bloomberg:NEW |
Musk v. Altman: Altman testified that in 2017 Musk demanded complete control of a proposed OpenAI for-profit arm, musing that he would pass it to his children — OpenAI's Sam Altman testified that he was “extremely uncomfortable” with Elon Musk's insistence that he have complete control …
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| Thinking Machines Lab: |
Thinking Machines Lab unveils a preview of interaction models, which can think, respond, and act in real time, letting users continuously collaborate with AI — Today, we're announcing a research preview of interaction models: models that handle interaction natively rather than through external scaffolding.
More: PCWorld, Fortune, TechCrunch, The Verge, VentureBeat, The Decoder, The Economic Times, The Rundown AI, and Digital Trends
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