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Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage, alongside novelist Scott Turow, file a class-action copyright lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg (www.nytimes.com)
10 days ago Zuckerberg

Dutch quantum processor company QuantWare raised a $178M Series B from Intel, In-Q-Tel, and others to build KiloFab, a dedicated quantum manufacturing facility (tech.eu)
10 days ago Intel Manufacturing Netherlands Quantum

Sources: China targets 70%+ of silicon wafers used by its chipmakers to be made domestically by 2026; chipmakers see an unspoken mandate to use local 12" wafers (asia.nikkei.com)
10 days ago China

Vimeo data breach exposes personal information of 119,000 people (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
10 days ago

RadixArk, led by former xAI employee Ying Sheng, raised a $100M seed at a $400M valuation to make AI inference more efficient via its open-source SGLang engine (www.wsj.com)
10 days ago AI

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announces the company is cutting ~700 jobs, or ~14% of its global workforce, to reduce costs, saying “AI is changing how we work” (www.reuters.com)
10 days ago AI Coinbase

The US Commerce Department's CAISI says Google, Microsoft, and xAI join OpenAI and Anthropic in granting early access to evaluate models prior to public release (www.bloomberg.com)
10 days ago Google Microsoft

a16z crypto raised $2.2B for its fifth fund, down from its record $4.5B Fund 4 in May 2022, taking its total capital raised across five funds to ~$9.8B (www.theblock.co)
10 days ago

Sources: the Trump administration is discussing an EO to form an AI working group that would examine AI oversight procedures, like vetting models before release (www.nytimes.com)
10 days ago Trump AI

Meta says it will expand Instagram teen account safeguards to 27 EU countries, and plans to roll them out on Facebook in the US, ahead of the UK and EU in June (www.reuters.com)
10 days ago Facebook Instagram

Shopify reports Q1 revenue up 34% YoY to $3.2B, above est., GMV up 34% YoY to $100B, and forecasts weaker Q2 revenue growth; SHOP falls 11%+ pre-market (www.bloomberg.com)
10 days ago Shopify

Google now offers up to $1.5 million for some Android exploits (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
10 days ago Android Google

Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index: a survey of 20K AI users finds 65% fear falling behind, but only 13% report being rewarded for workplace AI experimentation (www.geekwire.com)
10 days ago Microsoft AI

Zyg, an AI startup by ironSource's founders to automate business functions, raised $60M led by Accel at a $500M valuation, two months after exiting stealth (www.bloomberg.com)
10 days ago Startup AI

How Microplastics Are Likely Helping To Heat Up the Planet (news.slashdot.org)
10 days ago

Meta is using AI on Facebook and Instagram to detect under-13 users by analyzing bone structure, height, and visual cues, but says it's “not facial recognition” (www.theverge.com)
10 days ago Facebook AI Instagram Facial Recognition

This open-box Microsoft Surface SE drops nearly 50% to just $190 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
10 days ago Microsoft

Investigation: an inheritance dispute over an ex-LG chair's estate prompts a criminal complaint over how the dynastic South Korean chaebol family divides assets (www.nytimes.com)
10 days ago Korea Asset

Crypto exchange Bullish agrees to acquire Equiniti, a UK-based financial services outsourcing business, from Siris Capital in a $4.2B deal, set to close in 2027 (www.bloomberg.com)
10 days ago

PayPal reports Q1 net revenue up 7% YoY to $8.4B, total payment volume up 11% YoY to $464B, active accounts up 1% to 439M, and seeks $1.5B+ in cost savings (www.bloomberg.com)
10 days ago

Source: YC owns ~0.6% of OpenAI, which was seeded by a YC offshoot called YC Research in 2016; at OpenAI's current $852B valuation, the stake is worth $5B+ (daringfireball.net)
10 days ago

Nscale agrees to spend €695M on infrastructure in Portugal in an expansion of its Microsoft partnership, supplying 66K+ Nvidia Rubin GPUs from late 2027 (www.bloomberg.com)
10 days ago Microsoft Nvidia Portugal

Karakurt extortion gang ‘cold case' negotiator gets 8.5 years in prison (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
10 days ago

Letter: UK-based Google DeepMind workers voted to unionize with the Communication Workers Union and Unite in April, representing 1K+ staff, amid the US DOD deal (www.theguardian.com)
10 days ago Google

In Q1, the iPhone 17 was the world's best-selling smartphone, with 6% of global sales; the iPhone 17 Pro Max and 17 Pro were 2nd and 3rd, and Galaxy A07 was 4th (counterpointresearch.com)
10 days ago iPhone

CloudZ malware abuses Microsoft Phone Link to steal SMS and OTPs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
10 days ago Microsoft

Global chip sales hit $298.5B in Q1 2026, up 25% from Q4 2025, and March sales were up 79.2% YoY to $99.5B, driven by strong sales in Asia and the Americas (www.semiconductors.org)
10 days ago Asia 4Q

Vodafone plans to take full ownership of its VodafoneThree joint venture with Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison, which agrees to sell its 49% stake for £4.3B (www.wsj.com)
10 days ago Hong Kong

ScarCruft hackers push BirdCall Android malware via game platform (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
10 days ago Android

Q&A with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on his plan to make Uber an everything app, Uber's AI integrations, investing in autonomous cars, and more (www.theverge.com)
10 days ago Uber AI Autonomous Car

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