| 11:35 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Apple held exploratory talks with Intel and Apple executives visited a Samsung plant in Texas to explore producing core chips for its devices in the US |
| 10:40 PM • | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Inference cloud startup DeepInfra raised a $107M Series B co-led by 500 Global and Georges Harik, and currently supports 190+ open models, including Nemotron |
| 9:30 PM • | Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Sam Altman discussed spinning out OpenAI's robotics and consumer hardware divisions in late 2025 to give them more room to grow; the plan was rejected |
| 8:55 PM • | Owen Tucker-Smith / Wall Street Journal: As Colorado tech leaders say that burdensome regulations are driving companies away, lawmakers introduce a slimmer version of an AI anti-discrimination bill |
| 7:45 PM • | Peter Loftus / Wall Street Journal: How AI is transforming the pharma industry, with most gains so far from back-office streamlining and faster manufacturing rather than breakthrough drug research |
| 7:10 PM • | Mike Rogoway / Oregonian: Lattice Semiconductor agrees to acquire AMI for $1.65B in cash and stock; Georgia-based AMI provides firmware and infrastructure manageability for cloud and AI |
| 7:05 PM • | Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: Grab reports Q1 revenue up 24% YoY to $955M, above est., and a $154M adjusted EBITDA, vs. $146.3M est., helped by resilient demand for ride hailing and delivery |
| 7:00 PM • | Diana Novak Jones / Reuters: New Mexico child safety trial: New Mexico asks a judge to declare Meta a public nuisance and to order it to pay $3.7B and overhaul its apps to protect children |
| 6:15 PM • | Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: Crypto stocks jump after lawmakers struck a compromise on the CLARITY Act to preserve stablecoin rewards under certain conditions; Circle's stock closed up ~20% |
| 5:16 PM • | Akash Sriram / Reuters: Duolingo reports Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to $292M, above $288.5M est., bookings up 14% to $308.5M, and expects slower growth in Q2; DUOL drops 12%+ pre-market |
| 5:10 PM • | Bloomberg: Musk v. Altman: Greg Brockman testifies that his OpenAI stake is now worth ~$30B; a Musk attorney asks why he hasn't donated $29B to OpenAI's nonprofit arm |
| 4:46 PM • | Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Palantir reports Q1 revenue up 85% YoY to $1.63B, above $1.54B est., US government revenue up 84% YoY to $687M, and US commercial revenue up 133% YoY to $595M |
| 4:40 PM • | Nicola M White / Bloomberg: Elon Musk agrees to pay $1.5M to settle SEC allegations that he cheated Twitter shareholders in 2022 by failing to disclose the 5%+ stake he had in the company |
| 4:31 PM • | Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Pinterest reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $1B, above $966M est., MAUs up 11% YoY to 631M, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; PINS jumps 17%+ pre-market |
| 4:10 PM • | Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: Musk v. Altman: Stuart Russell, Elon Musk's only AI expert witness, warned of AI risks, but the judge excluded his concerns about AI's existential threats |
| 3:55 PM • | New York Times: Sources: the Trump administration is discussing an EO to create an AI working group to examine AI oversight procedures, including vetting models before release |
| 3:05 PM • | New York Times: Former Trump and Biden AI advisers Dean Ball and Ben Buchanan urge bipartisan action on AI security risks, including tighter export controls and safety audits |
| 2:10 PM • | Jack Clark / Import AI: Anthropic co-founder explains why there's a 60%+ chance of AI systems autonomously building their successors by 2029 and the consequences of automated AI R&D |
| 1:50 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple prepares a “Create a Pass” feature for iOS 27, which lets users take a QR code and generate a custom pass around it for concerts and other venues |
| 1:40 PM • | Dylan Martin / CRN: Intel taps Alex Katouzian, an ex-Qualcomm EVP, to lead Client Computing & Physical AI group, and names Pushkar Ranade as CTO, after serving on an interim basis |
| 1:30 PM • | Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: Ex-iRobot CEO Colin Angle launches Familiar Machines & Magic and unveils Familiar, a dog-like “emotionally intelligent” robot that reacts to an owner's feelings |
| 1:01 PM • | Bloomberg: Nearly 20 US state-run health insurance exchanges include ad trackers that send user data like race and citizenship info to Meta, TikTok, Google, and others |
| 12:55 PM • | Suzanne McGee / Reuters: Sources: more than two dozen prediction-market ETFs have been pushed back as the SEC seeks more information; they were originally expected to launch this week |
| 12:45 PM • | Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: Filing: Blackstone's data center acquisition vehicle seeks to raise as much as $1.75B in its IPO, and will target newly built data centers valued at $250M-$1.5B |
| 12:40 PM • | Meir Orbach / CTech: Cisco agrees to acquire Astrix Security, which helps companies monitor and control the permissions granted to AI agents, a source says for approximately $400M |
| 12:01 PM • | Reuters: Investment and tech firm Long Lake says it will buy corporate travel operator Amex GBT for $6.3B, citing AI's ability to modernize the business travel sector |
| 11:50 AM • | Alex Bronzini-Vender / New York Magazine: Inside Palantir Foundation's Atlantic and Pacific Forum at Yale for invited students: State Dept. and Palantir staff share a vision of mixing AI and state power |
| 11:45 AM • | Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Panthalassa, which aims to power floating data centers using energy generated by ocean waves, raised $140M led by Peter Thiel, source says at a $1B valuation |
| 11:40 AM • | Ellen Cushing / The Atlantic: How “emotion AI”, the use of facial and sentiment analysis tools to track workers' moods, is seeping into white-collar jobs amid concerns over privacy and bias |
| 11:25 AM • | Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: SAP to acquire Dremio, an open data lakehouse provider, and Prior Labs, which it pledges to invest €1B in over four years, hoping to create a frontier AI lab |
| 11:20 AM • | Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: Katie Haun raised $1B for two funds split between early and later-stage investments, looking at startups blending financial services, AI, and alternative assets |
| 11:15 AM • | Kate Rooney / CNBC: Bret Taylor's Sierra, which sells AI customer service agents, raised a $950M Series E led by Tiger and GV at a $15.8B post-money valuation, up from $10B in 2025 |
| 11:05 AM • | Ben Weiss / Fortune: Trump's World Liberty Financial countersues Tron founder Justin Sun, alleging defamation, contract violations, and more |
| 10:15 AM • | Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: The jury-less bench trial phase of Meta's child safety case in NM begins today to determine if Meta's actions were a public nuisance and warrant product changes |
| 9:35 AM • | Bloomberg: eBay's stock jumps 5% to $109.33, below GameStop's $125/share acquisition offer, in a sign investors see hurdles to completing a deal; GameStop stock drops 10% |
| 9:32 AM • | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Filing: Elon Musk texted Greg Brockman about settling days before trial; after being denied, he said Brockman and Altman “will be the most hated men in America” |
| 8:52 AM • | Bloomberg: Source: OpenAI has raised $4B+ at a $10B pre-money valuation for The Deployment Company, a new joint venture that will aim to help businesses adopt OpenAI tools |
| 8:35 AM • | Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: Enzo Health, whose AI tools help home health and hospice agencies automate tasks like patient intake and documentation review, raised a $20M Series A led by N47 |
| 7:35 AM • | Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times: How AI tools such as SuperBrain and Naver's Talking Buddy are helping South Korea's elderly ease loneliness, detect emergencies, and slow cognitive decline |
| 6:30 AM • | Reuters: Amazon debuts Supply Chain Services, which lets companies use its logistics network to move, store, and deliver everything from raw materials to final products |
| 6:20 AM • | Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: Instructure reported a data breach on April 30; ShinyHunters adds Instructure to its victims list, claiming it has 3.65TB of data from nearly 9,000 institutions |
| 5:45 AM • | Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: Jensen Huang said Nvidia's market share of AI accelerators in China has “now dropped to zero” and that the US' export policy “has already largely backfired” |
| 4:55 AM • | Reuters: Cerebras seeks a valuation of up to $26.62B in its US IPO, aiming to raise $3.5B by selling 28M shares at $115 to $125 apiece in its second attempt to go public |
| 4:01 AM • | Pieter Haeck / Politico: Legislators and experts criticize the EU's €20B sovereign compute data center plan, questioning whether there is demand and the plan's reliance on Nvidia GPUs |
| 2:01 AM • | Wall Street Journal: An analysis of 1.6M Polymarket accounts since November 2022: 0.1% of users get 67% of the profits, with the highest-frequency traders seeing the most success |
| 1:35 AM • | Jacob Shamsian / Business Insider: A profile of William Savitt, Sam Altman's lead lawyer against Elon Musk, who represented Twitter against Musk in 2022 and helped OpenAI's for-profit transition |
| 1:20 AM • | New York Times: Chinese state media: AI-generated Chinese microdramas will be worth $3B+ in 2026, out of a $14B+ total microdrama market, boosted by AI tools like Seedance 2.0 |
| 12:55 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: some lenders are exploring private deals to sell their data center debt, and some banks are seeking to offload their Oracle-linked loans at a discount |
| 12:10 AM • | Natsuki Yamamoto / Nikkei Asia: Sources: SoftBank plans to make lithium- and cobalt-free data center batteries in Japan as soon as FY 2027, as Japan tries to cut its reliance on Chinese metals |
| 9:00 PM • | Sam Tobin / Reuters: A UK court orders Samsung to pay ZTE $392M for patents needed to enable phone network access; Samsung faces similar suits from ZTE in China, Germany, and Brazil |
| 7:45 PM • | Aarian Marshall / Wired: Waymo says it is continuing to “refine” its system preventing kids under 18 from riding alone, after adult riders reported new age-verification checks |
| 6:55 PM • | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: xAI launches Grok 4.3, featuring “always-on reasoning”, 1M token context window, and low API pricing, and releases a voice cloning suite called Custom Voices |
| 6:10 PM • | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: A group sympathetic to Iran claims responsibility for DDoS attacks on Ubuntu and its parent Canonical, hampering communications about the CopyFail vulnerability |
| 6:05 PM • | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Apple has stopped offering a 256GB storage option for the Mac mini globally; Mac mini now starts at 512GB for $799 in the US |
| 5:50 PM • | Lisa Richwine / Reuters: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences issues new rules saying acting and writing must be performed by humans and not AI to be eligible for Oscars |
| 5:10 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Cerebras is seeking to raise as much as $4B in its IPO and is targeting a valuation of about $40B |
| 5:05 PM • | Taylor Lorenz / Wired: How influencers boosting US-based AI and opposing Chinese AI are paid with money tied to Leading the Future, funded by execs from OpenAI, Palantir, a16z, others |
| 5:00 PM • | Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: “Podslop” is flooding listening platforms like Spotify; Podcast Index: of ~11K new podcast feeds in a recent 9-day span, ~39% were likely for AI content shows |
| 4:15 PM • | Ben Shimkus / Business Insider: Pushing back on AI job loss fears, AWS CEO Matt Garman says Amazon plans to hire 11,000 software engineering interns in 2026, a figure in line with recent years |
| 3:35 PM • | Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Some retail traders are training AI agents to buy and sell assets on their behalf, as exchanges like Polymarket and Bybit roll out agent-friendly interfaces |
| 3:30 PM • | Greg Otto / CyberScoop: The US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand publish guidance on orgs' use of agentic AI systems, saying many give AI more access than can be safely monitored |
| 3:10 PM • | Issie Lapowsky / Bloomberg: The gender gap in AI use may be a matter of visibility more than usage, as data suggests women face more judgment for using AI and are less likely to admit it |
| 2:50 PM • | Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs: The FBI warns of rising cyber cargo theft, where attackers hack freight brokers' accounts and dupe carriers; 2025 cargo theft losses in N. America rose 60% YoY |
| 2:00 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Meta acquires Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup developing AI models for robots; Assured Robot Intelligence's team will join Meta Superintelligence Labs |
| 1:55 PM • | Jonathan Greig / The Record: A bug in popular cPanel, WHM, and WP Squared software has reportedly been exploited since Feb.; CISA it gives a 9.8 CVSS score, tells agencies to patch by May 3 |
| 1:20 PM • | Jessica Lyons / The Register: Experts say supply chain attacks compromised SAP and Intercom npm packages, plus the PyPI package Lightning, in a campaign that calls itself Mini Shai-Hulud |
| 1:00 PM • | Ben Weiss / Fortune: Fun, which builds fiat and crypto payment rails for platforms like Polymarket and Aave, raised a $72M Series A in January, co-led by Multicoin and SignalFire |
| 10:45 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: Coatue formed Next Frontier in 2025 to buy land for data centers; Next Frontier has a JV with neocloud Fluidstack that has raised $5.7B via junk bonds |
| 10:10 AM • | Mike Stone / Reuters: The US Navy awards Domino Data Lab a contract worth up to $100M for AI software that teaches underwater drones to identify new mines in the Strait of Hormuz |
| 10:00 AM • | Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: Sources: Peter Thiel's Founders Fund raised $6B for a fund to invest in later-stage companies, marking its largest haul ever; $4.5B comes from limited partners |
| 8:50 AM • | Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Amazon debuts “Join the chat”, an AI-powered feature that lets users ask questions about products and get conversational audio responses generated in real time |
| 8:50 AM • | Juli Clover / MacRumors: Tim Cook says that the Mac Studio and the Mac mini, which many are buying for AI and agentic tools, “may take several months to reach supply demand balance” |
| 7:50 AM • | Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: The DOD strikes deals with AWS, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle, and Reflection AI to use their AI tools on classified military networks “for lawful operational use” |
| 6:55 AM • | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Cloud computing provider Nebius agrees to acquire Eigen AI, which optimizes the performance of chips that run AI inference tasks, for ~$643M in stock and cash |
| 6:45 AM • | Michael Acton / Financial Times: Apple CFO Kevan Parekh says that “the iPhone 17 family is now the most popular lineup in our history” and “we believe we gained market share during the quarter” |
| 5:00 AM • | Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: China's EV makers are competing on in-car AI features; ByteDance says its Doubao AI is used in 7M+ cars across 145 models, including from Mercedes, Audi, and VW |
| 1:30 AM • | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers detail CopyFail, a now-patched Linux vulnerability that lets unprivileged users gain admin access, as many distributions have yet to apply the fixes |
| 12:10 AM • | Zijing Wu / Financial Times: Sources: Huawei expects AI chip revenue to hit ~$12B in 2026, up 60%+ from $7.5B in 2025, as orders for its Ascend 950PR chip surge and Nvidia stalls in China |
| 11:20 PM • | Wired: Musk v. Altman: OpenAI lawyers claim Shivon Zilis, a longtime Musk employee and mother to four of his children, acted as a covert liaison between him and OpenAI |
| 10:50 PM • | Jasmine Sun / New York Times: The persistent idea that AI disruption could create a permanent underclass signals how much collateral damage AI companies will tolerate in their pursuit of AGI |
| 10:05 PM • | Jason Beeferman / Politico: US Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Dave McCormick introduce a bill banning members of the legislative and executive branches from trading on prediction markets |
| 9:25 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates, with sales expected to rise between 14% and 17%, and says memory expenses will climb “significantly higher” in Q3 |
| 8:35 PM • | Katie Tarasov / CNBC: Intel's stock jumped 114% in April, hitting a record on April 24 and lifting its market cap past $470B, closing out the chipmaker's best month on record |
| 7:55 PM • | Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: Western Digital reports Q3 revenue up 45% YoY to $3.34B, vs. $3.25B est., net income up 320% YoY to $3.17B, and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates |
| 7:50 PM • | Britney Nguyen / MarketWatch: Sandisk reports Q3 revenue up 251% YoY to $5.95B, vs. $4.72B est., $3.62B net income, $820M in consumer revenue, below est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above est. |
| 6:45 PM • | Dan Mangan / CNBC: The US Senate unanimously passed a rule barring senators from trading on prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket, amid rising concern over insider trading |
| 6:40 PM • | Annie Palmer / CNBC: Alphabet's stock climbed 10% on Thursday and 34% in April, its best month since 2004; Meta's stock plunged 8.5% on Thursday, its steepest drop since October |
| 5:50 PM • | Business Insider: Sources: Meta HR chief Janelle Gale told employees she can't rule out further layoffs while Zuckerberg said AI automation is not the driving factor behind them |
| 5:20 PM • | Reinhardt Krause / Investor's Business Daily: Twilio reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.41B, vs. $1.34B est., net income up 350% YoY to $90.1M, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; TWLO jumps 15%+ |
| 5:00 PM • | Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: Atlassian reports Q3 revenue up 32% YoY to $1.79B, vs. $1.69B est., net loss up 39% YoY to $98.39M, and raises its annual revenue forecast; TEAM jumps 20%+ |
| 4:55 PM • | Reuters: Tim Cook says iPhone sales, which slightly missed Q2 estimates, were held back by supply constraints for advanced chips, as “demand was off the charts” |
| 4:50 PM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: Apple reports Q2 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, and more, grew 16.3% YoY to $30.98B, beating estimates of $30.4B |
| 4:45 PM • | Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Apple Q2: iPhone up 22% YoY to $56.99B, vs. $57.21B est., Mac up 6% YoY to $8.4B, iPad up 8% YoY to $6.91B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories up 5% to $7.9B |
| 4:41 PM • | Apple: Apple reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to $111.18B, vs. $109.66B est., net income up 19% YoY to $29.58B, and China revenue up 28% YoY to $20.5B, vs. $18.9B est. |
| 4:35 PM • | Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: Roblox reports Q1 bookings up 43% YoY to $1.7B, vs. $1.73B est., net loss up 15% YoY to $248M, and DAUs up 35% YoY to 132M, below 143.8M est.; RBLX drops 15%+ |
| 4:30 PM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: Roku reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $1.25B, ad revenue up 27% YoY to $613M, subscription revenue up 30% YoY to $519M, and raises its 2026 profit guidance |
| 4:25 PM • | Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Reddit reports Q1 revenue up 69% YoY to $663M, vs. $611M est., DAUq up 17% YoY to 126.8M, above est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above est.; RDDT jumps 10%+ |
| 3:45 PM • | TRM Insights: North Korea-linked hackers stole ~$577M across the Drift Protocol and KelpDAO hacks from January to April, accounting for 76% of total crypto hack losses YTD |
| 3:15 PM • | Thomas Barrabi / New York Post: Court filing: Meta says it might be forced to withdraw its apps from New Mexico if a state judge orders it to adopt the state's proposed safety features |
| 3:10 PM • | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Google rolls out Gemini to cars that have Google built in, replacing Google Assistant, starting with English in the US; cars with Google first arrived in 2020 |
| 2:45 PM • | New York Times: Musk v. Altman: the judge told Musk's lawyer she did not want talk of AI's existential threat to seep into the trial, and to focus instead on facts about OpenAI |
| 2:30 PM • | Wired: Musk v. Altman: when asked whether xAI has distilled OpenAI models, Elon Musk says the claim is “partly” true |
| 2:20 PM • | Bloomberg: Meta sells $25B of investment-grade bonds, after investors placed $96B in orders for its securities; Meta sold $30B of corporate bonds in October 2025 |
| 2:00 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: KKR has secured $10B+ to launch Helix Digital Infrastructure, a company led by ex-AWS CEO Adam Selipsky that will develop and operate AI infrastructure |
| 1:40 PM • | Rocket Drew / The Information: Standard Intelligence, which is developing computer use AI models, raised $75M led by Sequoia and Spark at a $500M post-money valuation |
| 1:25 PM • | Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: Anthropic's Claude Security, formerly Claude Code Security, is in public beta for Enterprise users; the Opus 4.7-powered tool can scan code for vulnerabilities |
| 1:05 PM • | New York Times: Live Updates: Elon Musk Faces Contentious Questions at OpenAI Trial |
| 12:30 PM • | Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: The US Senate Judiciary Committee endorses a child safety bill requiring AI companies to implement age verification, bar AI companions for minors, and more |
| 12:15 PM • | AI Security Institute: Cybersecurity analysis: GPT-5.5 reaches a similar level of performance as Mythos Preview and is the second model to solve a multi-step cyberattack simulation |
| 11:55 AM • | Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: Serverless inference platform Featherless.ai raised a $20M Series A co-led by AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures; the startup supports over 30,000 open models |
| 11:35 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: X says it has begun a “phased rollout” of its rebuilt ad platform, which it says will have more modern “retrieval and ranking systems” powered by AI |
| 11:10 AM • | Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings agrees to acquire Ohio gas plant operator Long Ridge Energy & Power for $1.5B including debt, to power its AI data center expansion |
| 10:55 AM • | Krystal Scanlon / Digiday: Meta introduces Meta Ads AI connectors in open beta, letting advertisers use their preferred third-party AI tools to create, manage, and analyze campaigns |
| 10:45 AM • | Ina Fried / Axios: JuliaHub, which aims to use agentic coding tools to design complex products such as cars and airplanes, raised a $65M Series B led by Dorilton Capital |
| 10:35 AM • | Cloudflare: Cloudflare says AI agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, start paid subscriptions, register domains, and deploy apps on behalf of users |
| 10:30 AM • | Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg: Sources: the NSA has been testing Anthropic's Mythos model to find vulnerabilities in Microsoft products and widely used software from other companies |
| 10:10 AM • | Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Norway-founded humanoid robotics startup 1X opens a new 58,000-square-foot factory in Hayward, California, where it aims to build 100K robots by the end of 2027 |
| 9:50 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: US officials are preparing a wide-ranging AI policy memo that outlines rules for national security agencies, including avoiding relying on one vendor |
| 9:40 AM • | Tim Culpan / Culpium: Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron earnings show increased DRAM prices, not shipments, indicating a focus on revenue over helping clients get the products they need |
| 9:30 AM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Spotify rolls out a Verified by Spotify badge to identify human artists; criteria include artist presence on and off platform and consistent listener activity |
| 9:25 AM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: Netflix rolls out a vertical video feed in its own Clips tab in Australia, Canada, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Africa, the UK, and the US |
| 9:20 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: the EU is drafting a revised Chips Act II, set for late May, that would grant it power to invest directly in large, cross-border manufacturing projects |
| 9:11 AM • | Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: Casa, which uses lidar scanners and AI to catalog homes and manage proactive maintenance alongside human workers, raised $27M, including a $20M Series A |
| 9:02 AM • | Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal: Sources: London-based DAZN agrees to acquire ViewLift, which builds tech for streaming services for 15 professional US sports teams and others, for ~$100M |
| 8:55 AM • | Bloomberg: Polymarket partners with Chainalysis to deploy a detection model to “surface patterns consistent with insider knowledge in prediction markets” and other tools |
| 8:25 AM • | Patrick Sykes / Bloomberg: Iran's internet blackout, which costs an estimated $80M per day in economic damage, is dividing its military and civilian government, which opposes the measure |
| 8:10 AM • | Mia Sato / The Verge: Instagram is expanding its recommendation restrictions beyond Reels to photos and carousels, targeting accounts that post unoriginal content like tweet roundups |
| 7:45 AM • | Financial Times: Study: long-shot Polymarket bets on military action, defined as $2,500+ wagers at odds of 35% or less, have a ~52% average win rate, vs. 25% for political bets |
| 7:30 AM • | Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Netomi, which builds AI for enterprise customer service, raised $110M led by Accenture Ventures and signs a deal to bring its platform to Accenture clients |
| 7:15 AM • | Laura J. Nelson / Wall Street Journal: Sergey Brin-backed Building a Better California says two ballot countermeasures to the proposed wealth tax are on track to qualify for the November ballot |
| 7:00 AM • | OpenAI: OpenAI says its models, starting with GPT-5.1, “increasingly mentioned goblins, gremlins, and other creatures”, leading to prompt instructions to mitigate it |
| 6:45 AM • | Reuters: Sources: strong AI demand in China nearly doubles prices for Nvidia's B300 servers to ~$1M each, as a crackdown on chip smuggling dries up black market supply |
| 6:30 AM • | Kim Jaewon / Nikkei Asia: Samsung projects that the memory shortage will worsen in 2027 as customers are already placing orders for next year, leading to a wider supply gap than in 2026 |
| 6:15 AM • | Bloomberg: How Kosovo's tech industry, driven by local companies like business outsource provider SPEEEX, is helping cut youth unemployment and changing Pristina's skyline |
| 6:00 AM • | Gabe Gurwin / GameSpot: Sony confirms some digital PS4 and PS5 games require owners to do a one-time online license check “to confirm the game's license”, likely to combat refund scams |