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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Google launches the Google Fitbit Air, a $100 Whoop-like screenless wearable with Gemini-powered features like Google Health Coach, available from May 26 — The Whoop-like wearable that Google teased in March has just been unveiled. Called the Google Fitbit Air, it's a screenless device …
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LinkedIn: Noah Presler, Sandeep Waraich, and Emmanuel Abolarin
| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
| Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: |
More: TechCrunch, The Keyword, 9to5Google, CNET, iPhone in Canada, Digital Trends, TechRadar, Trusted Reviews, and Droid Life
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LinkedIn: Aditi Misra, Lee Levin, Rishi Chandra, Brennan Browne, Marek Gaj, and Dimitrios Antos. Bluesky: @wowbaggert
Forums: r/AmazfitHelioStrap, r/Android, r/GooglePixel, and r/google
| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla says Anthropic's Mythos Preview and other AI models helped it identify and ship 423 Firefox security bug fixes in April, compared to 31 a year earlier — When Anthropic unveiled its new Mythos model in April, it also delivered a stern warning to anyone developing software.| Ignacio Gonzalez / Bloomberg: |
Cloudflare reports Q1 revenue up 34% YoY to $639.8M, plans to cut 1,100+ jobs as it shifts to an “agentic AI-first operating model”; NET drops 13%+ after hours — Cloudflare Inc. plans to cut more than 1,100 jobs globally as it accelerates its shift to an agentic AI-first operating model.
More: Cloudflare, cloudflare.net, CNBC, San Francisco Business Times, The Information, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Post, Barron's Online, Business Insider, The Straits Times, Dow Jones Newswires, Benzinga, and The Stack
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Forums: r/CloudFlare, r/BetterOffline, r/webdev, and r/technology
| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
Kalshi raised $1B led by Coatue at a $22B valuation, its third round in seven months after raising $1B and $300M+, and hits $178B in annualized trading volume — The platform for betting on sports, politics, the weather and more has raised $1 billion and sees big financial firms as a key source of growth.| Isabelle Lee / Bloomberg: |
Block reports Q1 revenue up 5% YoY to $6.1B, vs. $5.9B est., and raises its 2026 gross profit forecast above estimates; XYZ jumps 7%+ after hours — Block Inc. offered a sunnier outlook for profits and growth on Thursday after orchestrating a severe round of job cuts related to artificial intelligence …
More: Block, PYMNTS, Investing.com, The Block, SiliconANGLE, MarketWatch, and Reuters
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
OpenAI launches three voice models in the API: GPT-Realtime-2 with GPT-5-class reasoning, GPT-Realtime-Whisper for transcription, and GPT-Realtime-Translate — OpenAI has just released three new realtime voice models that it says will “unlock a new class of voice apps for developers.”
More: OpenAI, Gizmodo, The New Stack, TechCrunch, TestingCatalog, iClarified, Reuters, The Decoder, Neowin, Inc, and The Tech Portal
Forums: r/singularity, r/accelerate, and r/OpenAI
| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
French prosecutors escalate an investigation into Elon Musk and X, focused on alleged algorithmic manipulation and sexual deepfakes, to a criminal probe — French cybercrime authorities have escalated an investigation of Elon Musk and his social network X to a criminal probe, the Paris prosecutor's office said Thursday.
More: Wall Street Journal, Washington Examiner, Gizmodo, France 24, Yahoo News, and Associated Press
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Airbnb reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $2.68B, vs. $2.62B est., Nights and Seats Booked up 9% to 156.2M, vs. 155.77M est., lifts 2026 revenue growth guidance — Airbnb reported mixed first-quarter results after the bell on Thursday and warned of regional weakness spurred by the war in Iran.
More: Barron's Online, Dow Jones Newswires, The Information, Bloomberg, Proactive, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, and Airbnb
| Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal: |
Lyft reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.65B, vs. $1.63B est., gross bookings up 19% to $4.95B, vs. $4.91B est., and rides up 8.5% to 236.9M, vs. 241.2M est. — The company's revenue climbed 14% to $1.65 billion in the first quarter — Lyft logged higher revenue in its latest quarter as rides grew …
More: Lyft, Barron's Online, Yahoo Finance, and Reuters
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Nvidia and data center operator IREN announce a deal to deploy up to 5 GW of AI infrastructure; Nvidia can invest $2.1B into IREN; IREN jumps 9%+ after hours — IREN shares surged in extended-trading on Thursday before giving back nearly all of the gains after the data center operator announced …
More: SiliconANGLE, Nvidia Newsroom, Capital Brief, Data Center Knowledge, Bloomberg, Benzinga, The Block, MarketWatch, Reuters, Investor's Business Daily, and Sherwood News. Forums: r/nvidia
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: AirPods with cameras reached an advanced testing stage; the cameras will feed data to Siri to help answer questions, rather than take photos or video — Apple Inc. has reached the late stages of development for new AirPods with built-in cameras, a significant milestone for what will likely …
More: The Verge, Digital Trends, Macworld, Android Authority, Mashable, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, iClarified, Moneycontrol, AppleInsider, and PetaPixel
X: @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
CoreWeave reports Q1 revenue up 112% YoY to $2.08B, vs. $1.97B est., a $99.4B revenue backlog, forecasts Q2 revenue below estimates; CRWV drops 8%+ after hours — CoreWeave shares tumbled 10% in extended trading on Thursday after the AI infrastructure provider issued light revenue guidance …
More: SiliconANGLE, The Information, CoreWeave, MarketWatch, and Benzinga
Forums: r/CRWV and r/wallstreetbets
| CNBC: |
Coinbase reports Q1 revenue down 31% YoY to $1.41B, vs. $1.52B est., and a loss of $1.49 per share, vs. a $0.27 profit est.; COIN drops 4%+ after hours — Coinbase posted lower-than-expected results for the first quarter as crypto prices fell, weighing on one of the companies' major revenue drivers — spot trading in digital assets .
More: Coinbase, PYMNTS, Reuters, The Block, The Information, Crypto Briefing, and CoinGape
| Pieter Haeck / Politico: |
EU legislators reach a deal to postpone restrictions on high-risk AI until December 2027 and to exempt the use of AI in industrial applications from the AI Act — Deal marks first significant delay of digital rules amid pressure from the U.S. — Restrictions on high-risk uses …
More: European Commission, CCIA, The Next Web, DeviceSecurity.io, and Eunews
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
OpenAI launches Trusted Contact, an optional safety feature for ChatGPT that lets adult users assign an emergency contact for mental health and safety concerns — The feature expands existing teenage safety options to anyone over 18. … OpenAI is launching an optional safety feature …
More: OpenAI, Bloomberg Law, Gizmodo, and TechCrunch
LinkedIn: Niharika Bedekar, Robbie Torney, Chris Lehane, and Jake Brill
| RT Watson / The Block: |
AWS unveils Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments and partners with Coinbase and Stripe to enable AI agents to execute transactions using stablecoins — Quick Take — Amazon Web Services has partnered with Coinbase and Stripe to enable AI agents to execute transactions using stablecoins.
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X: @coinbase and @brian__foster
LinkedIn: Neetika Bansal, Darryl R., David Sanz Gil, Beth Fatusin, Nilesh Dusane, and Chris Ibbitson
| The Information: |
Sources: AI model builder Core Automation, founded in March by Jerry Tworek, aims to raise $300M-$500M at a $4B valuation after raising $100M at a $1B valuation — Nvidia's investment spree in startups that use its AI chips has stoked traditional venture capital firms' interest in those companies.| Zoe Tillman / Bloomberg: |
A US judge blocks DOGE's termination of $100M in National Endowment for the Humanities grants, saying ChatGPT prompts used to decide the cuts were ill-defined — A US judge blasted the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency project for relying on artificial intelligence tools …
More: Associated Press, ABC News, RedState, Washington Post, and Inside Higher Ed
| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
Spotify launches Save to Spotify, a command-line tool that allows AI agents to upload AI-generated audio summaries and personal podcasts to a user's account — A new command-line tool lets AI agents save audio alongside your other podcasts. … Save to Spotify is a new command-line tool … | Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Ramp told investors it is raising $750M co-led by Iconiq Capital and GIC at a valuation of $40B+ before the investment, up from $32B in November 2025 — The financing target represents a more than 30% increase from six months ago — The corporate card and expense management startup Ramp …
More: TechCrunch and PYMNTS
| Anna Heim / TechCrunch: |
Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI unveils GENE-26.5, its first model, which can control robotic hands that it designed in-house to do tasks like cooking — Genesis AI, a startup that raised a $105 million seed round to build foundational AI for robotics, has unveiled its first model …
More: Digit and Genesis AI
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| Anissa Gardizy / The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI and Broadcom discuss terms for Broadcom to finance initial custom chip production for ~$18B, conditioned on Microsoft buying ~40% of the chips — When OpenAI and chip designer Broadcom announced last fall that they would make custom artificial intelligence chips together, they positioned it as a done deal.
More: Marcus on AI. X: @amir, @anissagardizy8, @zephyr_z9, @edzitron, and @amir. Bluesky: @jessefelder.com
| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Elon Musk says he spent time with Anthropic employees “to understand what they do to ensure Claude is good for humanity”; earlier, he called Anthropic “evil” — In an unexpected turn, the two companies signed a deal for Anthropic to use computing resources from Elon Musk's xAI.
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Forums: r/Anthropic and Slashdot
| Elon Musk / @elonmusk: |
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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.5-Cyber, a security-focused variant of the model, in a limited preview capacity to vetted cybersecurity teams — The capabilities of the new models have sparked an urgent debate in Silicon Valley and the White House about how to keep them out of the hands of bad actors.Sponsor Posts
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