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Kodiak AI raises $100M at a steep discount, sending its stock tumbling 37%
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Disney looking to make a unified ‘super app,’ report says
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Voi founders’ new AI startup Pit has become the latest rising star out of Stockholm
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Hackers deface school login pages after claiming another Instructure hack
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Gusto hits $1B revenue, a figure that brings it closer to public markets
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OpenAI introduces new ‘Trusted Contact’ safeguard for cases of possible self-harm
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Tesla Model Y is first car to meet new US driver assistance safety benchmark
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Perplexity’s Personal Computer is now available to everyone on Mac
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Elon Musk’s lawsuit is putting OpenAI’s safety record under the microscope
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Bumble is getting rid of the swipe, CEO says
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Tome, another Goodreads book-tracker rival, shuts down
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Could Lovable’s automatic 10% pay raise be the cure for toxic cultures?
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Hackers hack victims hacked by other hackers
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Kalshi doubles valuation in 5 months, hitting $22B
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Jeff Bezos rep leaves Slate Auto’s board
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How Anthropic’s Mythos has rewritten Firefox’s approach to cybersecurity
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Google’s $9.99-per-month AI health coach launches May 19
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Google unveils Whoop-like screenless Fitbit Air
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Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27: A shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100K
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Police arrest SMS blaster crew that sent malicious messages to thousands across Toronto
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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 (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
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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 (Ignacio Gonzalez/Bloomberg)
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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 (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
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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 (CNBC)
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Goldman Sachs: Alphabet and Amazon generated "other income" totaling $53B in Q1, or ~60% of their Q1 income; $49B was due to equity stakes in private companies (Robin Wigglesworth/Financial Times)
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Sources: OpenAI and Broadcom discuss terms for Broadcom to finance initial custom chip production for ~$18B, conditioned on Microsoft buying ~40% of the chips (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
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Anthropic researchers detail natural language autoencoders, which convert LLM activations, the numbers encoding a model's thoughts, into natural language text (Anthropic)
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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 (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
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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 (Pieter Haeck/Politico)
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While Anthropic will use the Colossus 1 data center, which has a really bad environmental record, xAI retains the larger Colossus 2 for its own AI training (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
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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 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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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 (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
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OpenAI launches Trusted Contact, an optional safety feature for ChatGPT that lets adult users assign an emergency contact for mental health and safety concerns (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
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Elon Musk says SpaceX reserves "the right to reclaim the compute" from Anthropic if its "AI engages in actions that harm humanity" (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)
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Filing: OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky's wife assumed significant control of OnlyFans holding company Fenix in March following the death of Radvinsky (Bloomberg)