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May 4, 2026, 10:15 AM
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Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
GameStop makes an unsolicited ~$56B offer to buy eBay after building a ~5% stake, offering $125/share in cash and stock, a ~20% premium on May 1's closing price  —  EBay said Monday its board and financial advisers would review GameStop's unsolicited proposal
Bloomberg:
eBay's stock jumps 6%+ to ~$111, below GameStop's $125/share acquisition offer, in a sign investors see hurdles to completing a deal; GameStop's stock drops ~4%  —  Meme Stock GameStop Pitches $56 Billion eBay Takeover  —  Video Player is loading.  —  Unmute  —  Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 36.28% Playback Rate
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Anthropic is finalizing a deal for a $1.5B JV with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Hellman & Friedman, and others to sell AI tools to PE-backed companies  —  Anthropic, Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman each expected to invest around $300 million; Goldman Sachs also an investor
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  —  Nvidia-rival Cerebras is seeking a valuation of as much as $26.62 billion in its U.S. initial public offering …
Seth Fiegerman / Bloomberg:
Source: OpenAI has raised over $4B at a $10B pre-money valuation for The Deployment Company, a new joint venture to help businesses adopt OpenAI tools  —  OpenAI has raised more than $4 billion for a new joint venture that will focus on helping businesses adopt its artificial intelligence software …
More: The Decoder
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”  —  US export restrictions bite. … Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that the company's market share of AI accelerators in China has now dropped to 0%.
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  —  Global lenders explore private deals and risk transfers to cut exposure to AI boom  —  Banks are hunting for new ways …
More: The Decoder.  LinkedIn: Chris Adams and Mark Butcher
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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  —  In the world's fastest aging society, artificial intelligence is being used to make care calls to older adults who live alone and to fight dementia.
More: Newser
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes:
A profile of music AI startup Suno, valued at $2.45B, has 2M+ paying users, and had $300M annualized revenue in February, as it fights record labels and artists

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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 changesFind
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Bloomberg:
eBay's stock jumps 6%+ to ~$111, below GameStop's $125/share acquisition offer, in a sign investors see hurdles to completing a deal; GameStop's stock drops ~4%Find
41 minutes ago
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”Find
44 minutes ago
Seth Fiegerman / Bloomberg:
Source: OpenAI has raised over $4B at a $10B pre-money valuation for The Deployment Company, a new joint venture to help businesses adopt OpenAI toolsFind
84 minutes ago
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 N47Find
1½ hours ago
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 declineFind
2½ hours ago
Deborah Sophia / Reuters:
Amazon debuts Supply Chain Services, which lets companies use its logistics network to move, store, and deliver everything from raw materials to final productsFind
4 hours ago
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From Mediagazer

Rebecca Davis O'Brien / New York Times:
Sources: the US EEOC is poised to sue the NYT over a white male employee's allegation that he was denied a sought-after promotion because of his race and gender

Seb Joseph / Digiday:
A look at Baller League, a six-a-side indoor soccer league of creator-managed teams streaming free on YouTube and Twitch and averaging 4M+ views on match day

Reuters:
FIFA faces a broadcast crisis for the 2026 World Cup; a Reliance-Disney JV offered just $20M for India rights, and FIFA has yet to announce a China deal

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Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Apple's handling of vibe coding apps draws complaints from startups like Replit and Anything, which say Apple is applying App Store rules erratically
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