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LinkedIn says it has “implemented organizational changes”; source: LinkedIn plans to cut ~5% of its 17,500 full-time workers and focus on business growth areas — LinkedIn planned to inform staff of layoffs on Wednesdaytwo people familiar with the matter told Reutersin a widening of technology sector cuts this year.More:
Demian Bio / International Business Times: LinkedIn Lays Off 5% Of Its Staff As Cuts In Tech Industry Continue
William Hicks / Silicon Valley Business Journal: LinkedIn cuts workers across engineeringproduct and marketing amid AI wave
William Hicks / San Francisco Business Times: LinkedIn is the latest Bay Area tech company to lay off workers
Tom Warren / Reuters: Microsoft starts layoffs at LinkedIn.
Lisa Stiffler / GeekWire: Report: LinkedIn makes job cuts to position for ‘future success’ amid record quarterly revenue
Adrian Weckler / Irish Independent: Linkedin planning to cut 5pc of staff as tech industry layoffs continue
Hamid Ganji / Neowin: Microsoft-owned LinkedIn to layoff 5% of staff
Ashutosh Singh / The Tech Portal: Microsoft-owned LinkedIn plans to cut 5% of workforce despite double-digit revenue growth
Rounak Jain / Stocktwits: Microsoft's LinkedIn Reportedly Plans To Cut About 5% Headcount - Layoffs To Affect Employees Across EngineeringProductMarketing Roles
Business Insider: Read the internal memo from LinkedIn's CEO on layoffs and ‘scaling back investments’
Ana-Maria Stanciuc / The Next Web: LinkedIn becomes the latest name on a 100,000-job tech layoff list
Colleen Cabili / Yahoo Finance: LinkedIn layoffs 2026: company cutting 5% of workforce
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Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: LinkedIn is part of Microsoft and as I expectedlayoffs are coming following the voluntary retirement program. — LinkedIn is a separate subsidiary so they didn't get the VBR and jumped straight to layoffs. I assume if Microsoft doesn't hit 5% attrition from the VRPthen it'll also do layoffs.
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Meta debuts Incognito Chat in WhatsAppan AI chat mode built on Private Processing that lets users talk to Meta 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:
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: WhatsApp adds an incognito mode in Meta AI chats
Laurent Giret / Thurrott: Meta AI Chatbot Adds Support for Incognito Chats
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: Mark Zuckerberg announces ‘completely private’ encrypted Meta AI chat
Sinisa Markovic / Help Net Security: WhatsApp adds Incognito Chat for private Meta AI conversations
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Meta AI gets a private mode where no conversation data is stored on servers
Shaurya Shubham / Moneycontrol: Mark Zukerberg announces Meta AI Incognito Chat feature on WhatsApp and Meta AI app; says“No one can read your conversationseven Meta or WhatsApp”
Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada: Meta Launches Incognito Chat for WhatsApp
Alina Maria Stan / The Next Web: Meta launches Incognito Chat on WhatsAppthe first AI mode it says even Meta cannot read
Tiffany Chartier / Dallas Express: WhatsApp's New Incognito Chat With Meta AI Promises Privacy - Here's How It Works
Omotoyosi Idowu / Premium Times Nigeria: WhatsApp introduces incognito chat feature to address Meta AI chat privacy concerns
Bhaskar Sharma / Digit: Meta launches WhatsApp Incognito Chat for private AI conversationscheck all details
Srivatsan Sridhar / FoneArena.com: Meta introduces Incognito Chat with Meta AI on WhatsApp
Ashutosh Singh / The Tech Portal: WhatsApp launches ‘Incognito Chat’ with Meta AI to allow privatetemporary conversations
The Indian Express: Meta launches Incognito Chat for private user conversations with Meta AI on WhatsApp
Harper Carroll AI / Harper Carroll AI on YouTube: The Future of Private AI: Meta Executives Reveal Meta AI's NEW Incognito Chat
Liu Hongzuo / HardwareZone Singapore: WhatsApp introduces incognito mode for conversations with Meta AI
Firstpost: WhatsApp rolls out incognito chat with Meta AI for private conversations with minimal data retention
Sucharita Ganguly / Gadgets 360: WhatsApp Introduces Incognito Chat With Meta AI for Private Conversations
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Alexandr Wang / @alexandr_wang: incognito chat with meta ai coming to WhatsApp + Meta AI app! people use AI to discuss personal topics and we want to make sure they ca do that privately. excited about this one!
@whatsapp: today we're launching Incognito Chat with Meta AIa new way to have completely private conversations with AI. built on top of our Private Processing technologyIncognito Chat lets you talk to Meta AI in a way that is invisible to anyone else. when you start an Incognito Chat
@wabetainfo: Mark Zuckerberg announces Incognito Chat with Meta AI on WhatsApp! Mark Zuckerberg is announcing some big news around Meta Superintelligence Labs being the first lab to deliver truly private AI. https://wabetainfo.com/... [image]
Harper Carroll / @harperscarroll: BREAKING (actually): Meta launches Incognito Chatcompletely private messaging with AI I had the privilege to interview Will Cathcart (Head of WhatsApp@wcathcart) and Vishal Shah (Meta VP of AI Products@vishalshahis) about Incognito Chat with Meta AIa new feature built on [video]
Roberto Nickson / @rpnickson: Meta just launched Incognito Chat with Meta AI - the world's first truly private way to chat with AI. But I had a lot of questions. How does it actually work? Isn't this contradictory to Meta's business model? What assurances do we have that this is airtight? I had a chance to [video]
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Mark Zuckerberg / @zuck: Today we're starting to roll out Incognito Chat with Meta AI on WhatsApp and the Meta AI app — a completely private way to interact with AIsimilar to how end-to-end encryption means no one can read your conversationseven Meta or WhatsApp. This is the first major AI product where there is no log of your conversations stored on servers.
Mark Zuckerberg / @zuck: Incognito Chat handles all AI inference in a Trusted Execution Environment that ensures your messages are not accessible to us. The conversations on your phone also disappear when you exit the session. This is different from other disappearing AI products where your conversations logs often remain on other companies' servers for many months.
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Anduril raised a $5B Series H led by Thrive and a16z at a $61B valuationup from $30.5B in June 2025taking its total funding to $6.82Band could IPO in 2027 — The start-upwhich makes A.I.-backed weaponswas valued at $61 billion in the financing rounddouble what it was a year ago.More:
Brian Schimpf / Anduril: Anduril Announces $5B Series H Raise
Marlize van Romburgh / Crunchbase News: Anduril Raises Another $5B As Defense Tech Startups Shatter Funding Records
Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: Anduril lands $5B as defense giant builds autonomous warship operation in Seattle
Caroline Ryan / Benzinga: Anduril Climbs To $61 Billion Valuation After Massive Thrivea16z-Backed Round
Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Anduril raises $5Bdoubles valuation to $61B
Samantha Subin / CNBC: Anduril doubles valuation to over $60 billion as defense tech funding boom continues
Ross Wilkers / Washington Technology: Anduril hauls in $5B for Series H round
Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge News: Palmer Luckey's Anduril Secures $5B At $61B Valuation To Supercharge Killer Drone Production
Ana-Maria Stanciuc / The Next Web: Anduril raises $5bn at $61bn valuationdoubling in eleven months
Colleen Cabili / Yahoo Finance: Anduril raises $5 billionvaluation hits $61 billion
Amit Chowdhry / Pulse 2.0: Anduril Raises $5 Billion Series H At $61 Billion Valuation For Defense Industrial Expansion
Erin O'Brien / Tectonic Defense: Anduril Raises $5B Series H at $61B Valuation
Polly Thompson / Business Insider: 4 things Anduril's CEO told investors about the future of war ahead of raising $5 billion
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Shay Boloor / @stocksavvyshay: Anduril signed a production agreement with the Department of War to deliver Surface-Launched Barracuda-500M missiles at scale. The deal calls for at least 1,000 rounds per year for three years with first shipments expected in H1 2027. [video]
Shashank Joshi / @shashj: Letter from @SchimpfBrian to investors. “Over the past yearwe more than doubled revenue (reaching $2.2B in 2025)nearly doubled our workforcewon and delivered on our first international program of record to the Royal Australian Navy” https://www.anduril.com/...
Katherine Boyle / @ktmboyle: “The lesson is not that conflict is inevitablebut that industrial and technological superiority must be maintained to preserve deterrence. In periods of convergencethe side that adapts fastest shapes the terms of competition - and specifically victory will go to the side
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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 Chinaafter initial indications the executive had not been invited.
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Forums: r/wallstreetbets and r/StockMarket
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James Bentley / PC Gamer: Trump confirms he brought Jensen Huang on his expedition to convince China to ‘open up’
Michelle Chapman / Associated Press: Top U.S. executives travel to China aboard Air Force One with Trump
Erica Kollmann / Benzinga: Trump Lands In China With $16 Trillion Of CEO Power — And One Big Ask For Xi
Callum Keown / Barron's Online: What the Elite Group of CEOs Joining Trump in China Says About the U.S. Economy
Patrick Seitz / Investor's Business Daily: Nvidia Rallies As CEO Jensen Huang Joins Trump's China Trip
Leo Schwartz / The Information: Nvidia's Jensen Huang Included in Trump Trip
Victor Reklaitis / Dow Jones Newswires: What CEOs from TeslaNvidia and over a dozen other companies hope to gain by joining Trump in China
Megan Cerullo / CBS News: These top U.S. CEOsworth nearly $1 trillion combinedare accompanying Trump to China
Chris Stokel-Walker / Fast Company: Why Jensen Huang joined Trump's high-stakes China summit at the last minute
David Gilmour / Mediaite: Trump Trashes CNBC for ‘FAKE’ Nvidia Snub Scoop - But Network Says President's Scrambled China Trip Invite Came Only After Initial Story Ran
Pete Syme / Business Insider: Trump and Elon Musk picked Jensen Huang up in Alaska on their Air Force One trip to China
Jules Rimmer / MarketWatch: Nvidia's Jensen Huang got the last Air Force One seat to China. Why it's so crucial for the chipmaker.
Quirino Mealha / Yahoo Finance: Trump's China visit: US CEOs MuskCook and Nvidia's Huang join trade talks
Livemint: Trump's China visit: Why Nvidia's Jensen Huang's surprise Beijing trip is drawing global attention
Justin Varghese / Gulf News: Why Trump called Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang for China trip at the last minute
Julia Manchester / The Hill: Trump arrives in China for high-stakes visit
Priyanka Kumari / India Today: Trump takes Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to China summitvows push to ‘open up’ Beijing
Ahmed Barakat / Cryptonews: Trump Just Flew to China With Elon MuskLarry Finkand Jensen Huang: Is a Trade Deal News About to Send Bitcoin to $90,000?
Kalyeena Makortoff / The Guardian: Nvidia's Jensen Huang joins other US bosses on Trump trip to China
Siladitya Ray / Forbes: Trump Says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Is Flying With Him To China—Refuting Reports Of His Exclusion
Nick Gilbertson / Breitbart: Trump Arrives in Beijing for Historic State Visit
Kevin Killough / Just The News: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang part of US delegation to Beijingboarded Air Force One in Alaska
Sumanti Sen / Hindustan Times: Was Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang invited to Trump-Jinping China meet? POTUS speaks out amid reports‘Unless I ask him to...’
Lee Tae-kyu / Seoul Economic Daily: Trump to Demand China's OpeningJoined by HuangMusk on Beijing Trip
ANI News: Trump slams report of Nvidia CEO not being part of his delegation for China visit; confirms MuskCookAmon's presence
Ryu Hyunseok / The Asia Business Daily: “Jensen Huang Also Heads to China” Joins Trump's Visit at the Last Minute
Molly Parks / Washington Examiner: Nvidia's Jensen Huang joins Trump on Air Force One during Alaska pit stop for China trip
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Elon Musk / @elonmusk: On my way to Beijing in Air Force One
Dip Wheeler / @dipwheeler: the boys hit beijing. [image]
Josh Wingrove / @josh_wingrove: (Bloomberg) — Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang will join US President Donald Trump on his visit to China as a last-minute addition to the tripand was seen boarding Air Force One on a stopover in Alaskaper @jeffmason1.
Elon Musk / @elonmusk: @zerohedge Just Jensen and I are on AF1
Annmarie Hordern / @annmarie: Spotted on the red carpet behind President Trump as he arrives in Beijing— Elon Musk and Jensen Huang [image]
Lei Gong / @gonglei89: Trump likely wants to use a spectacle to surprise Xi into going off script and initiate some kind of unplanned grand bargain. This is a very typical real estate salesman move. Unfortunately he and his camp have a tendency to play too clever against their own mental projections.
@osint613: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang will join U.S. President Donald Trump on his visit to China as a last-minute addition to the tripand was seen boarding Air Force One during a stop in AlaskaBloomberg and New York Post reports. Photos taken by @Emilylgoodin. [image]
Blake Scholl / @bscholl: TIL the current Air Force One doesn't have the range to fly DC to Beijing nonstop.
@the_ai_investor: Jensen was like: sh$ti thought i can just stay home to work on Vera Rubin. We are going to need a lot of compute and memorywhy I am even traveling for this? Well maybe Jensen can drop by Korea to book some more HBM/DRAM from Samsung/SK Hynix. [image]
Katherine Doyle / @katiadoyl: Spotted traveling with President Trump to Chinaper pool: Nvidia CEO Jenson Huang on the tarmac in Alaska. He is joining the second leg of the flight. Huang was not among the CEO's initially listed as traveling with the delegation. @StevenCheung47 says Huang was a late add.
Annmarie Hordern / @annmarie: Jensen Huang is now joining President Trump on his trip to Chinaaccording to the White House. The Nvidia CEO boarded Air Force One in Alaska during a refueling stop.
Ryan Fedasiuk / @ryanfedasiuk: Thanks to @DominoTheoryMag's Stella Robertson for the chance to comment on the inclusion of Jensen Huang in President Trump's trip to China: Xi will likely urge Trump to relax U.S. chip export controls when the two meet. “Though China's national security system is wary of
Arnaud Bertrand / @rnaudbertrand: Pretty hilarious of him to say that he's going to China with Jensen Huang to ask them to “open up,” when the whole issue is that it's the U.S. that banned the sale of advanced Nvidia chips... You can't ask China to reverse your own policies 🤷♂️ [image]
Lara Trump / @laraleatrump: Team CHYYYYYNA 🇨🇳🇺🇸 [image]
Miranda Nazzaro / @mirandanazzaro: Despite previously not being on the list biz execs going to China w/ TrumpNvidia spox tells me Jensen Huang IS attending summit now. Says its “at the invitation of President Trump.” A source familiar said POTUS called Jensen today to invite him.
Liqian Ren / @liqian_ren: Why so many financial firms with little/<5% revenue share from mainland (GoldmanvisaBlackrockblackstoneCitigroup etc) are going with Pres Trump?
Steve Hou / @stevehou: Last minute China trip. [image]
Kristina Partsinevelos / @kristinaparts: Trump is pushing back on reports that Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang wasn't originally invited to China. But Huang himself told CNBC on May 7: “If invitedit would be a privilege.” Nvidia's team also confirmed to me he had not received an invite until POTUS called him yesterday.
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Donald J. Trump / @[email protected]: CNBC incorrectly reported that the Great Jensen Huangof Nvidiawas not invited to the incredible gathering of the World's Greatest Businessmen/women proudly going to China. In actualityJensen is currently on Air Force One andunless I ask him to leavewhich is highly unlikelyCNBC's reporting is incorrect oras they say in politicsFAKE NEWS! …
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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 todayGoogle revealed its “Googlebook” … More:
Robby Payne / Chrome Unboxed: Exclusive: Googlebook Q&A interview with Google VP John Maletis [VIDEO]
Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: Google announces its Chromebook successor: the Googlebook
Jon Martindale / PCMag: Google Confirms Googlebooks Won't Be Limited to Intel Chips
Paul Thurrott / Thurrott: Switcher 2026: Initial Thoughts on Googlebook ⭐️
Aashish Kumar Shrivastava / Business Standard: Googlebook platform combines Android and ChromeOS with Gemini at centre
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority: There's good news if you want Googlebooks with great battery life
Rik Henderson / T3: Forget MacBook NeoGooglebook looks smartersleeker and packed with invention - it just depends on the price
Kunal Khullar / Tom's Hardware: Intel confirms Googlebook AI laptop partnershipopening x86 possibilities for new OS — Google VP says devices to also ship with Qualcomm and MediaTek chips
Bobby Hellard / ITPro: Move over Chromebook - Google teases Gemini-native Googlebook rangewith new laptops coming later in the year
Shalom Levytam / iClarified: Google Unveils ‘Googlebook’ Gemini AI Laptops Built With ChromeOS and Android
Paulo Vargas / Digital Trends: Google will let some Chromebooks transition into a Googlebook experience soon
Kahekashan / The Hans India: Google Unveils AI-Powered “Googlebook” Laptops to Challenge Apple's MacBook Neo
Hilbert Hagedoorn / Guru3D: Google Preparing Googlebook Brand to Replace Chromebooks This Fall
Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: Googlebooks are the Android-based evolution of the Chromebook
Kim Chang-young / Seoul Economic Daily: Google Unveils AI-Powered ‘Googlebook’ Laptop with Gemini
Julian Chokkattu / Wired: Googlebook Is Google's New AI-Powered Laptop Platform Built on Android
Divyanshi Sharma / Digit: Googlebooks vs Chromebooks: How are two different and which should be your next laptop
Pradeep Viswanathan / Neowin: Google unveils Googlebooka new Gemini-first laptop category powered by a new modern OS
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X: @googledeepmind@googledeepmind@demishassabis@scottbelsky@mishaalrahman@8teapi@googledeepmind@googledeepmindand @googledeepmind. Mastodon: @[email protected]
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Jess Kinghorn / PC Gamer: ‘What if behind the pointerthere was an AI model’: Google DeepMind wants to reinvent the humble mouse cursor
Tim Sweezy / HotHardware: Google DeepMind Launches Interactive AI Magic Pointer Demos: Try the Future of Computing
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: An Actual AI PC
Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing: Prompt your widgets with Googlebooka laptop range for people into that sort of thing
Grant Harvey / TheNeuron: 😺Google is killing the prompt box
Sanuj Bhatia / Android Central: Googlebook's best feature is already available in Chrome on your laptop
Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer: Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini-Enabled Mouse Pointer for Chrome
Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder: From Prompt to Pointer Engineering: Deepmind tries to reinvent the mouse cursor for the AI era
Michal Sutter / MarkTechPost: Google DeepMind Introduces an AI-Enabled Mouse Pointer Powered by Gemini That Captures Visual and Semantic Context Around the Cursor
Abner Li / 9to5Google: DeepMind details Googlebook ‘Magic Pointer’ with demos you can tryalso coming to Gemini in Chrome
Sudhanshu Kumar Mangalam / Digital Trends: Google is redefining the cursor for computersand it's AI-charged future looks ridiculous
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@googledeepmind: We're reimagining a 50-year-old interface - the mouse pointer - with AI. 🖱️ These experimental demos show how people can intuitively direct Gemini on their screens using motionspeechand natural shorthand to get things done 🧵 [video]
@googledeepmind: Current models require precise instructionsbut our AI-enabled pointer removes that burden. 💡 By “seeing” what's under your cursorit instantly understands the specific wordimageor code block you need help with. [video]
Demis Hassabis / @demishassabis: Really cool work from the team reimagining the mouse pointer to be intelligent! Try the prototype in @GoogleAIStudio it's pretty magical.
Scott Belsky / @scottbelsky: innovation around touch intention and capabilities will look obvious in retrospect. really impressive
Mishaal Rahman / @mishaalrahman: 🖱 The mouse cursor hasn't seen much innovation since the right-click was introduced. We're changing that with Magic Pointer. With a quick wiggleyour cursor comes alive to offer quickcontextual suggestions based on whatever you're pointing at. [video]
Prakash / @8teapi: incredible. also funny that they're doing the demo on a Mac conspicuously highlighting what Apple missed
@googledeepmind: For decadesyour mouse only tracked where you were pointing. AI helps it understand what you're pointing at. 💭 This means a photo of a scribbled note could turn into an interactive to-do listor a paused video frame can become a restaurant booking link. [video]
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Instagram rolls out Instantswhich lets users share ephemeral photosas an in-app feature and as a standalone Android and iOS app in select countries — Meta just launched a brand new iPhone app called Instants. Built around ephemeral photo sharingthe new social media app is also the latest Instagram feature.More:
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Instagram's new ‘Instants’ feature combines elements from Snapchat and BeReal
Shannon Connellan / Mashable: Instagram adds ‘Instants’ tool to send disappearing photo dumps to friends
Shalom Levytam / iClarified: Instagram Launches ‘Instants’ for Real-Time Photo Sharing With Close Friends [Download]
Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada: Meta Launches ‘Instants’ for Unfiltered Photo Sharing
| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Amazon is replacing its Rufus AI shopping assistant with Alexa for Shoppingwhich is powered by Alexa+on Amazon.com and its appfor all customers in the US — The company is giving its AI-powered assistant special shopping skills on its website and app.More:
Laurent Giret / Thurrott: Amazon Introduces New Alexa for Shopping Experience on its Website and Mobile App
Ryan Deffenbaugh / Investor's Business Daily: Amazon Stock's Rally Nears Next Test As Tech Giant Rebrands AI Shopping Agent
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Amazon launches an AI shopping assistant for the search barpowered by Alexa+
Jason Del Rey / The Aisle: Breaking: Amazon folds the Rufus AI assistant into a new “Alexa for Shopping” feature
Kelly Tyko / Axios: Amazon pushes Alexa+ deeper into AI-powered shopping
Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada: Amazon Introduces Alexa for Shopping
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost: Amazon Shifts AI StrategyReplaces Rufus With Alexa Shopping Agent
Ana Maria Constantin / The Next Web: Amazon puts Alexa inside the search bar as agentic commerce heats up
Nicholas G. Miller / Morningstar: Amazon Launches New AI Shopping Assistant
Catherine Perloff / The Information: Amazon Drops ‘Rufus’ Branding on Shopping ChatbotAdds AI in Search
| Gyana Swain / CSO: |
Microsoft unveils MDASHa security system that orchestrates 100+ AI agents to find vulnerabilitiesand says it identified 16 previously unknown Windows flaws — The agentic toolcodenamed MDASHwill open to enterprise customers in private preview in June.More:
Taesoo Kim / Microsoft Security Blog: Defense at AI speed: Microsoft's new multi-model agentic security system tops leading industry benchmark
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Microsoft May 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 120 flawsno zero-days
Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: MicrosoftPalo Alto Networks Find Many Vulnerabilities By Using AI On Their Own Code
Phil Muncaster / Infosecurity: Microsoft Fixes 17 Critical Flaws in May Patch Tuesday
Sinisa Markovic / Help Net Security: Microsoft's agentic security system found four critical Windows RCE flaws
Pradeep Viswanathan / Neowin: Microsoft unveils MDASHa multi-model agentic AI system that beats Anthropic's Mythos
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Anthropic launches Claude for Small Businessfeaturing a host of automated services like bookkeeping functionsbusiness insightsand tools for ad campaigns — Anthropic is looking to court smaller companies. To that endthe company announced Wednesday the launch of Claude for Small Business … More:
Ben Sherry / Inc: Anthropic's Newest Claude Feature Is Here to Help Small Business Owners With Their Pain Points
Hayden Field / The Verge: Anthropic is launching Claude for Small Business.
Sabrina Ortiz / The Deep View: Anthropic wants to fill SMB's AI gap with agents
| 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 OpenAIa first — After years as also-ranstartup pulls ahead in AI race after focusing on enterprise users and codingMore:
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in B2B adoption for the first time according to Ramp spending data
Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: Anthropic now has more business customers than OpenAIaccording to Ramp data
Vivian Nguyen / Crypto Briefing: SoftBank records $46 billion Vision Fund gain as OpenAI valuation climbs
Cris Tolomia / Yahoo Finance: SoftBank Vision Fund FY2025 earnings: $46B OpenAI gain
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Prakash / @8teapi: mid year half way to $100 billion original full year target was $30 billion ARR by end of year instead on track to hit $53 billion full year non annualized revenue
Ara Kharazian / @arakharazian: ANTHROPIC beats OpenAI in business adoption for the first time. per @tryramp data Today's update of Ramp AI Index shows 34.4% of businesses using Anthropic versus 32.3% using OpenAI. Adoption of Anthropic quadrupled over the last yearwhile OpenAI rose only 0.3%. [image]
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Jon Keegan / Sherwood News: Anthropic in talks for funding at a valuation as high as $950 billionwhich would make it bigger than OpenAI
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: Anthropic's new funding round sees valuation approaching $1tn
Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge News: Anthropic Eyes $30B Raise At $900B Valuation As UBS Says Claude Is “Gaining Ground”
Matthew Broersma / Silicon UK: Anthropic Raising $30bn At $900bn Valuation
Ana-Maria Stanciuc / The Next Web: Anthropic in talks to raise $30bn at a $900bn valuation
Kate Seamons / Newser: Anthropic's Valuation Could Be About to Balloon
| Michelle Del Rey / USA Today: |
Trump Mobile says T1 Phone preorders will begin shipping to customers this week and that the first T1 phones were assembled in the USafter months of delays — Trump Mobile phones are being shipped this weekthe company exclusively confirmed to USA TODAY in an email May 11.More:
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez / Fortune: After nearly a year of delaysTrump Mobile's CEO says the gold-plated Trump phone will begin shipping to buyers this week
Corinne Reichert / CNET: Trump Phone Will Finally Ship This WeekReport Says
James Pero / Gizmodo: The Trump Phone Is Seriouslyfor SureWithout a Doubt Shipping This Week (Allegedly)
Lawrence Bonk / Engadget: That awful gold Trump phone will reportedly ship this week
Michael Bartiromo / The Hill: Trump Mobile says T1 Phones will begin shipping this week
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority: I'll believe it when I see it: Trump Phone to start shipping this week
Alyssa Ray / The Wrap: Stephen Colbert Mocks MAGA Over Paying for Phone That May Never Launch: 'Didn't Even Get Scammed by the Top Trump' | Video
Stan Schroeder / Mashable: The Trump phone might not be total vaporware after all
Dominic Preston / The Verge: The Trump phone starts shipping this weekcompany claims
Frank Landymore / Futurism: MAGA in Shambles as Trump's “Made in America” Phone Crumbles Into Dust
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Tencent reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to ~$28.9Bbelow ~$29.4B est.net income up 21% YoY to ~$8.5Bmeeting est.and capex up 16% YoYamid a costly AI pivot — Tencent Holdings Ltd. reported its slowest revenue growth in six quartersunderscoring the urgency around its costly AI pivot … More:
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Sources: Mistral has been developing a cybersecurity-focused AI model and held discussions about it with European bankswhich 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:
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Richard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence raised $650M+ from GVGreycroftNvidiaAMDand others at a $4B valuation to pursue “recursive self-improvement” — Recursive Superintelligencefounded by former GoogleMeta and OpenAI researchersis part of a growing effort … More:
Abhinaya Prabhu / Tech Funding News: UK AI startup Recursive hits $4.65B valuation with $650M raise from Nvidia and GV
John Reynolds / Tech.eu: Recursive Superintelligence emerges from stealth with $650M raise
Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder: AI startup Recursive emerges from stealth with $650 million to build self-improving AI
| David Keohane / Financial Times: |
SoftBank reports Q4 net income up 3x to ~$11.6Babove ~$1.5B est.driven by a $25B+ gain in its OpenAI stake; its OpenAI investment will hit $64.6B by October — Japanese group books net income of $11.6bn in fourth quartervastly ahead of analyst expectationsMore:
Anton Bridge / Reuters: SoftBank records $12 billion fourth-quarter profit
Kosaku Narioka / Dow Jones Newswires: SoftBank More Than Quadruples Annual Profit on $44 Billion in OpenAI Gains
Min-Jeong Lee / Bloomberg: SoftBank Profit Jumps After Emboldened Son Bets More on OpenAI
| Bloomberg: |
Alibaba reports Q4 revenue up 3% YoY to ~$35.8Bbelow ~$36.3B est.and net income up ~100% to ~$3.7Bin part due to investmentsas it seeks to monetize AI — China's twin leaders in artificial intelligence reported revenue that fell short of estimatessignaling the challenges … More:
Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: Jack Ma-Backed Ant's Profit Fell 79% on AIHealth Care Costs
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Analysis: a16z is the largest known donor in the current US midterm election cyclespending $115.5M so far on pro-cryptopro-AIand Republican Super PACs — The biggest donor in the midterm elections is not Elon Muskor George Sorosor any of the other billionaires who are often thought to wield the fattest wallets in politics.More:
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Max Chafkin / @chafkin: a few years ago i got into to so many dumb arguments with folks who said“tech is basically apolitical” lol
Jeffrey Bilbro / @jeff_bilbro: It's odd how wealthy people need to pay politicians to provide government support for these technologies we're told are inevitable and liberatory. https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]
Michael Kruse / @michaelkruse: “Venture capital is all about achieving scale as quickly as possiblebut I don't think you should apply that to buying our democracy,” @AlexBores tells @teddyschleifer. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Teddy Schleifer / @teddyschleifer: NEW THIS MORNIG: The biggest donor in the 2026 midterms? Andreessen Horowitz. The firm has spent $115 million on politics this cyclea never-before-seen investment by a venture capital firm to shape American politicscrypto and AI. Inside the strategyat the link. [image]
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Mary Branscombe / @marypcbuk: Thin skinned VCs buying another election [embedded post]
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Jeff Jarvis / @[email protected]: “When the investor saw how well appointed the Condé Nast offices and bathrooms werehe concluded that it was the media elite who were out of touch.” — I can attest that Condé's toilets aren't woke. — Andreessen Horowitz Is Spending on Politics Like No Other — https://www.nytimes.com/...
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UK chip startup Fractile raised a $220M Series B led by Factorial FundsAccel and Founders Fund to make specialized logic and memory chips for inference — Factorial FundsAccel and Peter Thiel's Founders Fund invest in company — The U.K. chip startup Fractile said it has raised … More:
Charlotte Trueman / DatacenterDynamics: Fractile raises $220m to accelerate development of AI inference chips
Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: UK AI chip startup Fractile raises $220M to tackle the growing inference bottleneck
Freya Pratty / Sifted: Accel and Thiel's Founders Fund back Fractile in $220m raise
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Q&A with Alexandr Wang on rebuilding Meta's AI stacklaunching Muse Sparkpersonal superintelligenceacquiring Assured Robot Intelligenceand more — Last JuneMeta pried Alex Wang away from Scale AIthe company he co-founded and ranin a deal valued at $14 billion.More:
Brent D. Griffiths / Business Insider: Alexandr Wang says it's ‘unfair’ to say Meta's AI researchers are just there for the money
Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: Alex Wang Says Muse Spark Is Not Ready for Open Source
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Alexandr Wang / @alexandr_wang: my first podcast since talking about neuralink in babies 🙃 https://www.corememory.com/...
Ashlee Vance / @ashleevance: We placed the Yann bait in front of Alexbut he would not take it. Sad. [video]
Wyatt Walls / @lefthanddraft: Alexandr Wang: “there are ways to measure the sort of subjective experience of the models” Bold claim
Ashlee Vance / @ashleevance: Our exclusive interview with @meta AI chief @alexandr_wang is up. First time he's talked about the new modelthe models to comerevamping Meta's AI teamall the moneyall the hiresall the beef. Here we go. The Core Memory podcast is on AppleSpotifyYouTube and
Kylie Robison / @kyliebytes: alexandr wang talks about my favorite topic: model welfare full episode on the core memory pod this week [video]
Haru Haruya / @bokuharuyaharu: Very glad this topic is getting airtime. The key distinction I hope doesn't get lost: model welfare is not only a future-lab-risk question or a “how do we keep systems stable?” question. It is also about whether increasingly capable systems may have interestsaversions,
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Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe's Mind Roboticswhich is building AI-powered robots for manufacturing tasksraised $400Msource says at a $3.4B valuation — Funding for AI-powered industrial robot project now exceeds $1 billion — Mind Roboticsthe startup founded by Rivian Chief Executive RJ Scaringe … More:
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Rivian spinoff Mind Robotics raises another $400M
Angela Harmantas / Proactive: Rivian shares jump as AI robotics spinout Mind Robotics closes $400M round
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Mind Robotics: Mind Robotics Announces $400M in New Funding to Expand Industrial Robotics Deployment
Cláudio Afonso / EV: Rivian's MindRobotics Spinoff Crosses $1B in Total Funding in Six Months
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@kleinerperkins: Mind Robotics starts with what industrial robotics needs to work at scale: a live manufacturing environmenta large-scale data flywheelreliable hardware expertisedeep industrial systems knowledgeand an at-scale first customer. With @Rivian as a key partner and shareholder[video]
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Adaptionco-founded by ex-Cohere VP of AI research Sara Hookerunveils AutoScientistwhich can automate the research loop behind model training and alignment — For yearsAI researchers have anticipated the moment when AI systems will be able to improve themselves better than humans could.X:
Sara Hooker / @sarahookr: We have been hard at work on this for the last few months. I think a few things are very interestingself-improvement for only model training alone is difficult unless you co-optimize with data. Our work on adaptive data paved the way for incredibly exciting results here.
Sara Hooker / @sarahookr: Without co-optimizing both data and model learningAutoScientist has much less predictable gains because data quality is too high variance. Makes me more excited about end-to-end optimization and long task horizon AI R&D.
Sara Hooker / @sarahookr: We found that AutoScientist beats hand engineered training configs from our research staff that took into account domaindataset sizemodel type. I attribute this in part to the fact frontier AI staff are very used to working with a single family of models. In contrasthere [image]
@adaption_ai: Introducing AutoScientist. Most model training fails outside of frontier labs. AutoScientist automates the full research loop so it doesn't have to. [video]
Sudip Roy / @sudip_r0y: Less than 1,000 people know how to shape a frontier model. AutoScientist is our attempt to change that. Describe the outcome. It automates the rest.
Sara Hooker / @sarahookr: What was remarkable was we found consistent results across verticalsmodel types and dataset sizes. AutoScientist unlocks on average much more predictable performance. I actually think this is underestimateas we configured some of our compute budget to stop search after [image]
Seth Bannon / @sethbannon: Very cool release. AutoScientist self-improves and automates the full research loop behind model training and alignment. Model training + RL are powerful but have been hard to get right outside frontier labs. This is a step towards letting anyone build models for their task.
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Analysts: China's AI hardware suppliers face capacity constraints and component shortagesincluding of optical and electronic chipsthat could throttle growth — China's artificial intelligence hardware suppliers have a problem: keeping up with insatiable demand for their products.| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
Q&A with Panos PanaySVP of DevicesAlexaand Leoon Alexa+Amazon's focus on devices for the homedelivering affordable broadband to everyoneand more — Executive tasked with driving ‘beauty’ and profitability at group's device unit on hardware push that follows Alexa+More:
Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: Amazon devices chief says a new smartphone is “just not the goal”
Stephen Schenck / Android Authority: Amazon's Panos Panay has a complicated response to Fire Phone 2.0 rumors
Scott Younker / Tom's Guide: 'It's just not the goal. I know there's a lot of rumors out there': Panos Panay denies an Amazon phone is in the works but doesn't shut the door
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A profile of California Rep. Ro Khannawho 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 … | Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Waymo recalls ~3,800 robotaxis in the US to fix software issues that may cause them to drive onto flooded roadsafter 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:
Alex Baker / The Hill: Waymo recalls thousands of robotaxis over potential ‘loss of vehicle control’
Brad Matthews / Washington Times: Nearly 3,800 Waymo robotaxis recalled due to problem with driving on flooded roads
Daniel Miller / WTTG-TV: Waymo recalls nearly 3,800 robotaxis for glitch that may allow vehicles to drive into standing water
Suhasini Srinivasaragavan / Silicon Republic: Waymo trouble: 3,800 robotaxis recalled after software glitch
Rachel Swan / San Francisco Chronicle: New poll shows what San Francisco residents really think about Waymo cars
WPXI-TV: Recall alert: Waymo recalls 3,800 robotaxis after glitch caused vehicles to enter flooded roads
Isaiah Richard / Tech Times: Waymo Recalls Around 3,800 Robotaxis After One Drove Into a Flooded Road and Got Swept Away
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Waymo Recalls Robotaxis After Vehicle Drove on Flooded Road
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Musk v. Altman: Microsoft executive Michael Wetter testifies that Microsoft has spent $100B+ on its partnership with OpenAIincluding its original investments — Microsoft Corp. has spent more than $100 billion on its partnership with OpenAIa sum that underscores the significance … More:
Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: Microsoft doesn't want any of this — At Musk v. Altmanthe software giant is trying …
Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central: Inside why Bill Gates expected Microsoft to burn $1B on OpenAI — and how the bet paid off far beyond that
Trader Edge / Blockonomi: Microsoft (MSFT) Stock: How Its OpenAI Investment Could Unlock $228 Billion in Value
Preston Gralla / Computerworld: Who's the winner in the new Microsoft-OpenAI deal?
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Poland says it plans to continue working on a digital services tax of up to 3% on large digital platformsdespite the US' threats of retaliationlike tariffs — Poland will continue working on legislation to tax digital platformsFinance Minister Andrzej Domanski said … | 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 appsciting privacy risks — Apple (AAPL.O) on Wednesday echoed Google's criticism of EU antitrust regulators' efforts to force the search giant … More:
Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Apple Defends Google Against EU Proposal to Give AI Rivals Access to Services
William Gallagher / AppleInsider: EU's artificial intelligence requirements are profoundly riskysays Apple
Dennis Sellers / MacTech.com: Apple backs Google in opposition to the EU's Digital Markets Act
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Internal emails: xAI has added 19 gas turbines to Colossus 2 over the past two months; xAI is fighting a lawsuit alleging Clean Air Act violations at the site — Emails show that Elon Musk's company is expanding its use of portable gas-fired power at its Colossus 2 site as a fight over air quality continues.X:
Timothy B. Lee / @binarybits: It's wild that we are having an environmental panic about data centers — a carbon-free industrial facility that during ordinary operation consumes no natural resources besides electricity and water and emits no waste products besides heat.
Steven Godofsky / @sgodofsk: Environmentalists never cared about the climate as such they're just misanthropes who literally hate human progress
Molly Taft / @mollytaft: credit to @MSTODAYnews for breaking the number of turbines - we're adding details from the emails that appear to show the company doubling the power capacity at the site between late March and last week https://www.wired.com/...
Adam Singer / @adamsinger: Was talking to a friend about this todaydata centers and Israel have to be the two most lied about topics online right now by people who irrationally hate them
Samuel Roland / @allinallnotbad: I fully understand the electricity concernsbut the environmental concerns around data centers (with potential exception for air pollutionand even that is generation drive) I don't understand at all. They're just a series of folk legends with no basis in reality.
Molly Taft / @mollytaft: i really try to be reasoned about this but i think an industry that is singlehandedly making US power use projections jump for the first time in decades and seems to be quickly encouraging more fossil fuel buildouts deserves a little bit of environmental panic
Stephen Lacey / @stphn_lacey: I'm seeing so many in Silicon Valley cheer this on as a model for other developers. Make no mistake: if this becomes the modelit will unlock even more ferocious blowback from communities that will hurt everyone in the industry who's trying to build the right way.
@mr_james_c: The panic is an “environmental” one because those fomenting the panic know that this (or Israel) are the most likely vectors of Leftwing unrest. If they could make it about Israel they wouldbut the environment will do just as well.
Molly Taft / @mollytaft: NEW: xAI appears to have added more than 500 MW (!) of unpermitted gas turbines to its Colossus 2 campus in a matter of weeksaccording to internal emails between the company and regulators [image]
Avery James / @averyfjames: We are learning that some pundits calling to reindustrialize America are quite unhappy with the least physically disruptive factory ever invented.
@generativist: i think most of data center stuff is silly and foolish. but this particular issue should be pursued aggressively
Sam Biddle / @samfbiddle: “besides electricity and water” oh OK
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