10:20 PM • | Christopher Tepedino / Cointelegraph: US SEC Chair Paul Atkins says blockchains could enable novel securities use cases and “policymaking will no longer result from ad hoc enforcement actions” |
9:10 PM • | Abrar Al-Heeti / CNET: Galaxy S25 Edge hands-on: sturdy, thin design is a breath of fresh air, and many specs match the S25, but the 3,900 mAh battery is down from the S25's 4,000 mAh |
8:55 PM • | Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal: Theom, which helps businesses safeguard and track sensitive data, raised a $20M Series A led by Wing VC, after an oversubscribed $16.4M seed in late 2022 |
8:40 PM • | Bloomberg: Samsung unveils the $1,100+ Galaxy S25 Edge, which is 5.8mm thick and weighs 163g, making it 30% thinner and 25% lighter than the S25 Ultra, arriving on May 30 |
7:50 PM • | Lauren Goode / Wired: In the age of deepfakes, some people are using tactics like asking rapid-fire questions or sharing code words with each other to verify identity online |
6:50 PM • | Emma Roth / The Verge: Ticketmaster says it will now show the full price of a ticket up front, ahead of the US FTC's ban on junk fees, which goes into effect on May 12 |
5:30 PM • | Colin Campbell / Axios: E-commerce logistics startup Cart.com raised $50M at $1.6B valuation, says it is on track to cross $500M in revenue in 2025, and plans more acquisitions |
5:27 PM • | Ari Levy / CNBC: Coinbase will join the S&P 500, replacing Discover Financial Services, effective before trading on May 19; COIN jumps 10%+ |
5:26 PM • | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: GM names Aurora co-founder and CPO Sterling Anderson as VP of global product and chief product officer, a newly created position at GM, starting on June 2 |
4:00 PM • | New York Times: Sources: the US government is considering a sale of hundreds of thousands of US AI chips to the UAE's G42, and is set to sign a deal with Saudi Arabia's Humain |
3:40 PM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google is updating its “G” icon for the first time in 10 years, with its four colors now blending together on a gradient |
2:55 PM • | Bloomberg: CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz disclosed last month that he had gifted $1B+ worth of CrowdStrike stock to undisclosed recipients, cutting his voting power to 2.5% |
2:35 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Google's Gemma models passed 150M downloads and 70K+ variants on Hugging Face, after launching in February 2024; Llama passed 1.2B downloads in April 2025 |
2:30 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is planning an AI-powered battery management mode for iOS 19 that analyzes how a person uses their phone and makes adjustments to conserve energy |
2:10 PM • | Ateev Bhandari / Reuters: American Bitcoin, a bitcoin miner backed by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, says it will list on the Nasdaq via an all-stock merger with Gryphon Digital Mining |
1:40 PM • | Kritika Lamba / Reuters: Chegg reports Q1 subscribers down 31% YoY to 3.2M, and will lay off 248 employees, or ~22% of its staff, to cut costs as students keep turning to AI tools |
1:15 PM • | PYMNTS.com: Financial guidance service Stash raised a $146M Series H, has 1.3M paying subscribers, and its recently launched Money Coach AI has had 2.2M user interactions |
1:06 PM • | Axios: President Trump issues an EO to cut the de minimis tariff on China shipments to 54% from 120%, with the $100 minimum flat fee set to remain, effective May 14 |
12:50 PM • | Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Amazon says Prime Video's ad tier now reaches 130M+ US customers and the company plans AI-powered tools for advertisers on Amazon including contextual ad copy |
12:16 PM • | Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Perplexity is in advanced talks to raise $500M led by Accel in a round that values it at $14B, up from $9B in November 2024 |
10:06 AM • | Financial Times: Saudi Arabia launches Humain, a multibillion-dollar AI company chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the main vehicle to drive the kingdom's AI strategy |
9:45 AM • | Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: Senator Tom Cotton introduces a bill to mandate that AI chip makers use geo-tracking tech to comply with export rules, taking effect six months after it passes |
8:10 AM • | Reuters: Chinese government data: Chinese shipments of foreign-branded cellphones, including iPhones, dropped by 49.6% YoY to 1.887M units in March 2025 |
7:45 AM • | Steven Scheer / Reuters: Tel-Aviv based quantum computing startup Classiq raised a $110M Series C led by Entree Capital, taking its total funding since its 2020 founding to $173M |
7:20 AM • | Dominic Preston / The Verge: Honor unveils a free AI image-to-video generator powered by Google's Veo 2, first in the Honor 400 and 400 Pro, which ship from May 22; Google limits Veo 2 use |
7:05 AM • | New York Times: The Trump administration appears more interested than Biden's was in striking AI chip deals in the Middle East, where Trump has deep financial and business ties |
6:35 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank and OpenAI's $100B Stargate investment hits snags on tariff fears; talks with dozens of lenders started earlier in 2025 have yielded no deals |
6:14 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: Apple considers raising prices for its fall iPhone lineup, a step it is seeking to couple with new features and design changes, without blaming tariffs |
6:00 AM • | Financial Times: How India aims to become a regional data center hub, leveraging its low energy prices and AI-skilled workforce; the power grids' capacity is a major challenge |
4:20 AM • | Financial Times: The US and China agree to a deal to lower tariffs for the next 90 days, a sign of easing tensions; the US plans to cut tariffs on Chinese goods from 145% to 30% |
3:55 AM • | Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: A profile of Genshin Impact creator HoYoverse, which is exploring new game genres as its titles begin to cannibalize each other and its revenue declined in 2024 |
1:30 AM • | Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: Cairo-based Nawy, Africa's largest proptech platform, which combines property listings with brokerage services, raised a $52M Series A led by Partech Africa |
12:50 AM • | Alex Wilkins / New Scientist: A look at Foresight, an AI model trained on anonymized NHS data from 57M people in England, which could help predict diseases or forecast hospitalization rates |
11:05 PM • | Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: Broadcom is sending cease-and-desist letters to owners of VMware perpetual licenses with expired support contracts, to push them to buy VMware product bundles |
9:30 PM • | Karissa Bell / Engadget: Meta brings its Account Status feature to Threads, letting users see when the company has removed or demoted their posts or handed out other account penalties |
9:00 PM • | Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Alibaba researchers detail ZeroSearch, a technique that allows LLMs to develop advanced search capabilities via simulation, claiming it cuts costs by up to 88% |
8:00 PM • | Chris Cameron / New York Times: Trump threatens to end the Digital Equity Act, a Biden-era law aimed at expanding high-speed internet access, calling it “racist” and “totally unconstitutional” |
7:30 PM • | Reinhardt Krause / Investor's Business Daily: Cloudflare reports Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to $479.1M, vs. $469.3M est., and forecasts Q2 revenue of $500M to $501M, vs. $500.4M est.; NET jumps 5%+ |
6:30 PM • | Washington Post: Senate hearing: Sam Altman says that requiring government approval to release AI would be “disastrous” for the US' lead in AI, a reversal from his 2023 comments |
5:30 PM • | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: US SEC filing: Sterling Anderson, CPO and co-founder of self-driving truck startup Aurora, is resigning effective June 1, and will leave the board on August 31 |
5:15 PM • | Helene Braun / CoinDesk: Coinbase Q1: revenue up 23% YoY to $2B, vs. $2.1B est., net income down 94% YoY to $66M, trading volume up 26% YoY to $393B, and $0.24 EPS, vs. $1.93 est. |
4:40 PM • | MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: Affirm reports Q3 revenue up 36% YoY to $783M, vs. $783M est., GMV up 36% YoY to $8.6B, above $8.2B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; AFRM drops 5%+ |
4:35 PM • | Akash Sriram / Reuters: Lyft reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.45B, vs. $1.47B est., and increases its share buyback program to $750M after activist pressure; LYFT jumps 20%+ |
4:30 PM • | Samantha Subin / CNBC: Palantir's valuation hit $281B after its shares closed up 7.85% on May 8, surpassing Salesforce and joining the top 10 largest US tech companies by market cap |
4:23 PM • | Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Pinterest reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $855M, vs. $847M est., MAUs up 10% YoY to 570M, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; PINS jumps 10%+ |
3:45 PM • | Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: A US judge sentences Celsius founder and former CEO Alex Mashinsky to 12 years in prison, after he pleaded guilty to commodities fraud and misleading investors |
3:25 PM • | Paige Smith / Bloomberg: Memo: the US CFPB discontinues its order designating the supervision of Google Payment, saying the Biden-era decision is “an unwarranted use” of its powers |
3:15 PM • | Fortune: Sources: Meta is talking to crypto firms about introducing stablecoins for managing payouts, and in January 2025 hired a VP of product with crypto experience |
3:05 PM • | Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg: Senate Democrats block the Genius Act for stablecoins after Republicans rebuffed barring Trump and others from profiting off of crypto ventures while in office |
2:30 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Meta says it will start testing video ads on Threads with a “small number” of advertisers, and “Reels trending ads”, which will be shown next to trending Reels |
1:45 PM • | Chris Vallance / BBC: The Wikimedia Foundation says it is taking legal action to challenge the UK's Online Safety Act, saying it could threaten the safety of its volunteer editors |
1:35 PM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google rolls out AI-powered defenses to help combat scams on Chrome, including by using Gemini Nano, its on-device LLM, in Enhanced Protection mode on desktop |
1:00 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple aims to have TSMC mass produce a chip for its smart glasses, with greater power efficiency and multi-camera control, by end of 2026 or in 2027 |
12:55 PM • | Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: A federal judge in Florida dismisses most claims against celebrities who endorsed FTX, ruling that they were “uninformed” and “reckless” but not fraudulent |
12:50 PM • | Paul Sandle / Reuters: The UK says the Digital Services Tax remains unchanged under the trade deal agreed between the US and the UK, both of which will work on a “digital trade deal” |
12:20 PM • | Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: Robert Fergus, who co-founded FAIR with Yann LeCun in 2014, will lead Meta's Fundamental AI Research lab, succeeding Joelle Pineau |
12:15 PM • | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Sales automation startup Clay lets staff with 1+ year of tenure sell shares in a tender led by Sequoia at a $1.5B valuation, up from $1.25B in January 2025 |
11:55 AM • | Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: Bitcoin jumps above $100,000 for first time since February 2025, after President Trump announced a US-UK trade agreement; ether, dogecoin, and solana rose 9%+ |
11:40 AM • | Ernie Smith / Fast Company: An interview with Gumroad CEO Sahil Lavingia about working as an unpaid contractor for DOGE, moving the Gumroad code base to the MIT license, and more |
10:45 AM • | Washington Post: Analysis: 67K+ new or small-time crypto investors bought the $TRUMP memecoin but 80% of them bought near the coin's peak and saw their holdings' value nosedive |
9:41 AM • | Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: Coinbase agrees to acquire Dubai-based Deribit, the world's biggest trading platform for BTC and ETH options, for ~$2.9B, split as $700M in cash and 11M shares |
9:02 AM • | David Wallace-Wells / New York Times: Q&A with Bill Gates on closing the Gates Foundation on December 31, 2045, donating ~$200B, President Trump, Elon Musk, AI drug discovery, AI advances, and more |
8:40 AM • | Victoria Kennedy / Eurogamer.net: Palworld developer Pocketpair says a 2024 update was due to “ongoing litigation” and a new update is “yet another compromise”, as it disputes Nintendo's claims |
8:15 AM • | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Match says it will cut 13% of its staff and reports Q1 revenue down 3% YoY to $831M, above est., and paying users down 5% to 14.2M, below est.; MTCH drops 9.6% |
7:55 AM • | Reuters: SMIC reports Q1 revenue up 28.4% YoY to $2.2B, vs. $2.3B est., profit up 161.9% YoY to $188M, vs. $222.4M est., and says H2 has “opportunities and challenges” |
7:45 AM • | Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: The LockBit ransomware gang has suffered a data breach, with 59,975 BTC addresses and 4,442 negotiation messages leaked, and posted on its dark web site |
7:30 AM • | Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Shopify reports Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to $2.36B, above $2.34B est., and GMV up 23% YoY to $74.75B, as investors struggle to determine the trade war's impact |
7:10 AM • | Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press: Nintendo reports FY 2024-25 revenue down 30% YoY to ~$8B, profit down 43% YoY to ~$1.9B, and says the Switch has 128M+ players globally eight years after launch |
6:25 AM • | Bloomberg: Analysis: ~66% of US data center projects built or in development since 2022 are in areas with high water stress, with five states having 72% of new facilities |
6:10 AM • | Dana Hull / Bloomberg: Memphis says xAI is using Tesla's 150MW Megapack batteries to shore up its Colossus supercomputer; xAI spent ~$230M on them from January 2024 to February 2025 |
5:55 AM • | Andrew Webster / The Verge: Rockstar says its second Grand Theft Auto VI trailer was “captured entirely in-game from a PlayStation 5, comprised of equal parts gameplay and cutscenes” |
5:40 AM • | Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says Reddit will work with “various third-party services” to verify a user's humanity, after an unauthorized AI persuasion experiment |