| 11:40 PM • | Los Angeles Times: A look at challenges LA faces as it tries to remain a major tech hub; CB Insights: VC funding of startups in LA totaled $6.9B in 2023, down 73% from 2021 |
| 10:50 PM • | Julia Love / Bloomberg: A profile of Alphabet's moonshot X lab, as it carves out a path in which projects spin off as independent startups, after years of debate and experimentation |
| 10:20 PM • | Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Volvo partners with Aurora Innovation to unveil Volvo VNL Autonomous, a self-driving truck which Aurora plans to use for freight hauling in the next few months |
| 9:05 PM • | Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Samsung Electronics names Young-Hyun Jun as the head of its semiconductor arm, replacing co-CEO Kye-Hyun Kyung, who will oversee its business planning team |
| 8:10 PM • | Mike Scarcella / Reuters: US v. Google: Google has preemptively paid damages to the US government, an unusual move aimed at avoiding a jury trial in the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit |
| 6:57 PM • | Kat Tenbarge / NBC News: Scarlett Johansson says she declined an offer to voice ChatGPT and was “shocked, angered” that Sam Altman would pursue Sky, a voice “so eerily similar” to hers |
| 6:35 PM • | Cory Weinberg / The Information: Sources: Anduril has had early discussions to raise ~$1.5B at a $12.5B+ valuation, and told investors it roughly doubled revenue to about $500M last year |
| 6:10 PM • | Samantha Cole / 404 Media: The FBI has arrested a man on criminal charges for allegedly producing and distributing AI-generated images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct |
| 5:50 PM • | Hannah Ellis-Petersen / The Guardian: Meta approved 14 AI-manipulated Facebook ads during India's election with known slurs against Muslims; civil groups submitted and then pulled the ads as a test |
| 5:40 PM • | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Zoom reports Q1 revenue up 3.2% YoY to $1.14B, vs. $1.13B est., enterprise revenue up 5.3% YoY to $665.7M, and a Q2 sales forecast in line with estimates |
| 5:15 PM • | David Heaney / UploadVR: LG denies reports it canceled its partnership with Meta, three months after the companies agreed to develop XR devices, says it's “controlling its pace” |
| 5:10 PM • | Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: Impressions of Windows 11 AI features Recall, Live Captions, and Cocreator, and a chat with Satya Nadella on how the Copilot+ PC push will outperform MacBooks |
| 5:05 PM • | Douglas MacMillan / Washington Post: Documents: cops in Austin and San Francisco, where police are banned from facial recognition, asked other towns to run photos of suspects through their systems |
| 4:55 PM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: Truth Social's parent company, the Trump Media and Technology Group, reports $771K in Q1 revenue, a net loss of $327.6M, and an operating loss of $12.1M |
| 4:21 PM • | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: DOJ announces the arrest of a Taiwanese national at JFK Airport who allegedly owned Incognito Market, a dark web site used by 200K+ to buy $100M+ worth of drugs |
| 4:00 PM • | Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple releases iOS 17.5.1 and iPadOS 17.5.1 and says the bug allowing some deleted photos to reappear has now been fixed |
| 3:30 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft's new push for Windows PCs with Arm chips promises better emulation for non-native apps and Qualcomm chips that can best an M3 in a MacBook Air |
| 3:27 PM • | Lawrence Bonk / Engadget: Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Samsung, and Lenovo joined Microsoft in debuting laptops featuring Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite or Plus chips and a dedicated Copilot key |
| 2:35 PM • | Brandon Hill / Tom's Hardware: Snapdragon X Windows Copilot+ PCs get official, starting at $1,099 — Acer, Dell, HP, and Lenovo are all onboard, with some models promising “multi-day battery life” |
| 2:17 PM • | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Jolla, maker of Android variant Sailfish OS, details plans for a privacy-focused AI device, Jolla Mind², coming this fall for €699 and a €9.99/mo. subscription |
| 2:17 PM • | PCWorld: Dell debuts a Dell XPS 13 with Snapdragon X Elite, the first time the XPS 13 has not had Intel, alongside new Dell Latitude and Inspiron PCs with Qualcomm chips |
| 2:00 PM • | David Pierce / The Verge: Microsoft debuts the new $1,000+ Surface Pro with optional OLED display and 5G, up to 90% faster than last gen, a Flex keyboard with haptic feedback, and more |
| 2:00 PM • | Jane Zhang / Bloomberg: Sensor Tower: ByteDance's Doubao AI chatbot iOS app had almost 9M downloads this year through April, vs. 8M for Baidu's Ernie Bot; Doubao has 4M+ MAUs in China |
| 1:46 PM • | Wes Davis / The Verge: Microsoft debuts the 13.8" and 15" Surface Laptop with new Qualcomm chips, up to 22 hours of battery, Wi-Fi 7, support for three 4K external monitors, from $999 |
| 1:28 PM • | Umar Shakir / The Verge: Microsoft unveils Recall for Windows 11, an AI-powered search tool for Copilot+ PCs that keeps track of users' actions and gives them an explorable timeline |
| 1:22 PM • | Kris Holt / Engadget: Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs as a new class of AI-capable Windows PCs with at least 40 TOPs of NPU performance, with several OEMs and chipmakers on board |
| 1:06 PM • | Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: UK's autonomous vehicle legislation becomes law, paving the way for first driverless cars by 2026 and clarifying who is liable in self-driving crashes |
| 12:58 PM • | The Verge: A recap of everything announced at Microsoft's Surface and Windows AI event |
| 12:50 PM • | Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: A look at Satya Nadella's approach to pushing AI at Microsoft, as the company bets big on OpenAI and in-house models, but also on G42, Mistral, Figure, others |
| 12:45 PM • | Alexandra S. Levine / Forbes: Child predators are flocking to AI-generated images of children on TikTok and Instagram, raising questions about how to handle the suggestive, fake images |
| 12:35 PM • | Matt Marshall / VentureBeat: Inflection AI, which had ~70 staffers follow Mustafa Sulyman and leave for Microsoft in March, debuts a new leadership team and says it has 18 months of runway |
| 12:10 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Appfigures: ChatGPT's iOS and Android apps hit $4.2M in net revenue from May 13 through May 17, as net revenue grew 22% the day of the GPT-4o launch |
| 11:30 AM • | MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: NY AG announces a $2B settlement with crypto lender Genesis, after claiming Genesis misled investors about its Gemini Earn program, leading to $1B+ in losses |
| 11:28 AM • | Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: The CAA partners with Veritone to build a storage system for A-list artists to store their digital assets and get compensated for the use of their AI likeness |
| 10:45 AM • | Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Sundar Pichai about Google I/O announcements, AI Overviews' high clickthrough rates, competing with OpenAI, future of search, AI advancements, and more |
| 10:10 AM • | Austin Carr / Bloomberg: AltStore developers detail the significant hurdles facing those looking to open third-party iOS app stores in Europe; AltStore has had 100K+ downloads in the EU |
| 9:50 AM • | Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein resigns, to be replaced by Goldman Sachs' head of strategy for asset and wealth management, Peter Mintzberg, on August 15 |
| 9:30 AM • | Chae-Yeon Kim / KED Global: LG ends XR partnership with Meta; Amazon emerges as new partner |
| 8:40 AM • | Financial Times: PE firm EQT is in advanced talks to buy video game services company Keywords Studios for £2.2B, or £25.5 per share, a 70%+ premium on Friday's close |
| 8:15 AM • | Sophie Shulman / CTech: CyberArk acquires machine identity management company Venafi from Thoma Bravo in a deal valued at around $1.54B; Thoma Bravo bought Venafi for $1.15B in 2020 |
| 7:20 AM • | Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: Neuralink gets US FDA approval to implant its brain chip in a second person; source: FDA signed off on proposed fixes like embedding wires deeper into the brain |
| 6:15 AM • | Reuters: Apple announces discounts of up to $318 on its Tmall site in China between May 20 and May 28 on select iPhone models amid competition from Huawei and others |
| 5:45 AM • | Bloomberg: OpenAI pulls ChatGPT's Sky voice after users said it sounded like Scarlett Johansson, saying it is an actress' voice and wasn't chosen to be an “imitation” |
| 5:05 AM • | Jimmy Vielkind / Wall Street Journal: How Nvidia co-founder Curtis Priem is trying to make New York a quantum computing hub, including putting a quantum computer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| 2:15 AM • | Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: A look at Snap's shift towards investing aggressively in AI and AR after revamping its ad business, as it tries to adapt to changing social media habits |
| 12:05 AM • | David Keohane / Financial Times: An interview with Kokusai Electric CEO Fumiyuki Kanai on KKR's role in the Japanese chip equipment maker's IPO, becoming an advocate for PE in Japan, and more |
| 11:35 PM • | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Fay, which connects registered dietitians with insurance providers and patients, emerges from stealth with $25M in funding from General Catalyst and Forerunner |
| 11:20 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Snowflake is in talks to acquire Reka AI, which builds LLMs for businesses, for over $1B; report: Reka was valued at ~$300M in a 2023 funding round |
| 11:10 PM • | Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: Ann Arbor-based Voxel51, which is developing a visual AI platform to reduce the failure rate of AI projects, raised a $30M Series B led by Bessemer |
| 9:30 PM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Analyst briefing: Microsoft will launch its Cobalt 100 chips, announced in November 2023, to Azure clients as a public preview at its Build conference next week |
| 9:05 PM • | Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post: Youth advocacy group Encode Justice unveils 22 policy recommendations to ensure AI protects the “lives, rights, and livelihoods” of young people by 2030 |
| 6:00 PM • | Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Apple previews Vehicle Motion Cues, which adds animated dots to iPhone and iPad screens to reduce motion sickness for passengers using them in moving vehicles |
| 4:55 PM • | Reuters: OpenAI and Reddit partner to bring Reddit content to OpenAI tools including ChatGPT via Reddit's Data API and to add AI features to Reddit |
| 4:35 PM • | Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: Take-Two announces a fall 2025 release date for GTA VI, reports Q4 bookings down 3% YoY to $1.35B, and lowers its FY 2025 bookings forecast from $7B+ to $5.55B+ |
| 4:17 PM • | Wall Street Journal: DOJ charges five people for allegedly duping 300+ US companies into hiring North Korea-linked remote IT workers and helping fund the country's nuclear program |
| 4:10 PM • | Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: AI coding startup Replit, which raised $220M+ and was last valued at $1B, lays off 30 employees, or 20% of its staff, and pivots to enterprise sales |
| 4:05 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: X rolls out a revamped version of its Communities feature, which lets users network around topics of interest, including improved discovery tools and search |
| 3:30 PM • | Cory Weinberg / The Information: Figma is letting staff and early investors sell up to $900M of shares in a tender at a $12.5B valuation, down ~38% from Adobe's $20B acquisition proposal |
| 2:30 PM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: TikTok is testing 60-minute videos, which would let media companies post full TV show episodes and put TikTok in even more direct competition with YouTube |
| 1:30 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Sigma Computing, which offers cloud data analytics tools, raised a $200M Series D at a $1.5B valuation, up 60% from 2021, bringing its total funding to $581M |
| 1:00 PM • | Jessica Mathews / Fortune: How GM is scrambling to save Cruise, which has become a liability after one of its automated vehicles hit and dragged a pedestrian 20 feet in October 2023 |
| 12:25 PM • | Mariella Moon / Engadget: Google updates its accessibility apps: Lookout, to use a phone to recognize objects, a text-free mode in Look To Speak, and adds Maps wheelchair data on desktop |
| 12:20 PM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google launches a Gemini add-on for educational institutes via Workspace, available in Gemini Education and Education Premium tiers in English for users over 18 |
| 12:15 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Meta starts testing TweetDeck-style customizable feeds on Threads that are stacked in a column interface on the web, available to selected users |
| 12:05 PM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: Disney, Fox, and WBD unveil the name of their sports streaming venture: Venu Sports, which is set to debut in fall 2024 |
| 11:55 AM • | Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: Sony Music sends letters to 700+ AI companies, developers, and music streaming platforms warning over the “unauthorized use” of Sony's content in training AI |
| 11:25 AM • | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Server CPU designer Ampere announces that its AmpereOne chip family will grow to 256 cores by next year; Ampere will work with Qualcomm on cloud AI accelerators |
| 11:15 AM • | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Israel-based Agora, which develops real estate investment management software, raised a $34M Series B, bringing its total funding to $63M |
| 11:00 AM • | Anna Tong / Reuters: Vercel, which develops the Next.js framework, raised a $250M Series E led by Accel at a $3.25B valuation, and says it recently exceeded $100M in annual revenue |
| 10:20 AM • | Kylie Robison / The Verge: Hugging Face, which is “profitable, or close to profitable”, commits $10M in free shared GPUs to help small developers, academics, and others create AI apps |
| 8:30 AM • | Bloomberg: Blackstone agrees to buy a majority stake in Israeli enterprise software company Priority Software, which has 17K clients and 500+ staff, at an $800M valuation |
| 7:45 AM • | Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: A profile of Noland Arbaugh, who was paralyzed after an accident in mid-2016 and became the first person to receive Neuralink's brain implant in January 2024 |
| 7:30 AM • | Associated Press: Senate hearing: US DNI Avril Haines says foreign adversaries will again seek to influence the upcoming elections, harnessing AI to spread disinformation |
| 7:10 AM • | Jez Corden / Windows Central: Microsoft's decisions, like Start Menu ads, closing studios, porting AAA games to PS5, and seemingly pulling back on Surface show a short-term financial focus |
| 6:55 AM • | Sarah Zheng / Bloomberg: JD.com reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY to ~$36B, above ~$35.8B est., and net income up 13.9% YoY to ~$984M, after ramping up shopping perks to attract customers |
| 6:40 AM • | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Google releases an emergency Chrome update to patch the third zero-day vulnerability exploited within a week, and the seventh zero-day fix in 2024 so far |
| 6:25 AM • | Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Baidu reports Q1 revenue up 1% YoY to ~$4.4B, above ~$4.35B est., the slowest growth in over a year, and net income down 6% YoY to ~$755M, above ~$554M est. |
| 6:10 AM • | Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: The EU opens a formal DSA investigation into Meta, to assess if Facebook, Instagram, and its other apps were reinforcing “rabbit hole” effects and other issues |
| 5:50 AM • | Timmy Shen / The Block: Chinese police in the Sichuan province dismantle an underground bank that used USDT for foreign currency exchanges worth $1.9B+, mainly to smuggle medicine |
| 5:30 AM • | Daniel Zuidijk / Bloomberg: Ubisoft falls ~15% after warning that Q1 net bookings will be ~€275M, below €376M est., and reporting a €401M adjusted operating income in FY 2024 |
| 5:15 AM • | Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: ElevenLabs quietly launches ElevenLabs Reader: AI Audio, its first consumer app to read web pages, PDFs and other documents aloud in 11 different voices |
| 4:15 AM • | Brendan I. Koerner / Wired: An undercover investigation details the low-wage work of “OnlyFans chatters”, contracted to masquerade as creators while swapping DMs with their subscribers |
| 2:55 AM • | Mallory Culhane / Politico: US lawmakers are watching to see whether Colorado's bill for regulating AI, modeled on Connecticut's now derailed bill, can withstand the tech lobby pressure |
| 2:30 AM • | Harry McCracken / Fast Company: An interview with Apple's Greg Joswiak and John Ternus on the new iPad lineup, the M4 chip, why the iPad and Mac both matter, the iPad as an “AI PC”, and more |
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