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PayPal agrees to forgo ~$30M in transaction fees to end a DOJ probe into allegations that the company adopted unlawful preferences for minority-owned businesses (www.wsj.com)
2 days ago

London-based blockchain analytics company Elliptic raised $120M led by One Peak Partners at a $670M valuation; the platform screens 1B+ transactions per week (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago Blockchain London

OpenAI stands to hold ~$2.6B in combined CoreWeave and Cerebras stock that it acquired by committing to buy cloud services and chips, and to lend Cerebras money (www.theinformation.com)
2 days ago

Microsoft says it is investigating a Mistral AI PyPI package v2.4.6 compromise; the attack is likely part of the Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack (www.tomshardware.com)
2 days ago Microsoft AI

SAP invests in German workflow automation platform n8n at a $5.2B valuation, up from $2.5B after an October 2025 equity raise, and agrees to embed n8n's tools (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago Germany Equity

Delivery Hero says founder Niklas Östberg plans to step down as CEO by March 2027, as the German food delivery group faces mounting activist investor pressure (www.ft.com)
2 days ago Germany

Spotify celebrates its 20th anniversary with a Wrapped-like experience that features “never-before-shared data” going back to when users first joined Spotify (www.theverge.com)
2 days ago Spotify

AI voice startup Vapi raised a $50M Series B led by Peak XV, a source says at a $500M post-money valuation, after Amazon chose Vapi to handle 100% of Ring calls (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago Amazon Startup AI

Arts and Cultural Engagement 'Linked To Slower Pace of Biological Aging' (science.slashdot.org)
2 days ago

Amazon launches Amazon Now, its 30-minute delivery service, in dozens of US cities including Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Philadelphia, and Seattle, after pilots (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago Amazon Seattle

Sea reports Q1 revenue up 47% YoY to $7.1B and net income up 6% YoY to $428M, both above est., after warding off rivals in Southeast Asia's e-commerce market (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago Asia Southeast Asia

Shai Hulud attack ships signed malicious TanStack, Mistral npm packages (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2 days ago

SAP fixes critical vulnerabilities in Commerce Cloud and S/4HANA (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2 days ago

Get rid of unwanted ads with AdGuard, now $11 through 5/17 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2 days ago

JD.com reports Q1 revenue up 4.9% YoY to $46.5B, above ~$45.8B est., and adjusted net profit down 42% YoY to $1B, amid a fierce food delivery battle in China (www.wsj.com)
2 days ago China

YouTube is shifting its creator monetization strategy by acting as a matchmaker between creators and sponsors, as Netflix and TikTok increasingly woo creators (www.nytimes.com)
2 days ago YouTube Netflix

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the EU will take action against “addictive design” on TikTok and Instagram, including “endless scrolling” (www.cnbc.com)
2 days ago Instagram

Sources: Anthropic officials refused a Chinese think tank's request to change its stance and allow Beijing to access Mythos at a meeting in Singapore last month (www.nytimes.com)
2 days ago China Singapore

eBay rejects GameStop's $56B takeover offer, saying the unsolicited bid is “neither credible nor attractive”, in a letter from eBay Chairman Paul Pressler (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago eBay

Amp, which aims to buy excess computing capacity from data center operators to sell to startups, universities, and more, raised $1.3B from a16z and others (www.nytimes.com)
2 days ago Startup

Sources: Jensen Huang was not invited to travel with President Trump on his China trip, a potential setback to Nvidia; Huang expressed his willingness to join (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago Trump China Nvidia

Sources: the Trump administration is quietly debating whether to ban Chinese “cellular modules”, as the US FCC pushes measures to reduce Beijing's threats (www.ft.com)
2 days ago Trump China Ban

Human Rights Watch: at least six EU member states, including Bulgaria and Denmark, have sold surveillance tech to 24+ countries known for violating human rights (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago

Source: Microsoft Israel's GM leaves after an internal probe into alleged unethical use of Azure by Israel's MOD; Microsoft France will manage Microsoft Israel (en.globes.co.il)
2 days ago France Israel Microsoft

Instructure reaches 'agreement' with ShinyHunters to stop data leak (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2 days ago

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Testifies In OpenAI Trial (yro.slashdot.org)
2 days ago Microsoft

A Hollywood writer recounts working as an “AI trainer” for companies like Mercor, as AI gig work becomes the “new waiting tables” for entertainment workers (www.wired.com)
2 days ago AI

Top 10 Famous Minds Changed by Psychedelics (listverse.com)
2 days ago

Instructure reached a deal with hackers who breached its Canvas platform to return stolen data and destroy copies, without disclosing what it gave in exchange (www.nytimes.com)
2 days ago

Sources: some Amazon employees are using in-house OpenClaw-like tool MeshClaw for unnecessary tasks to inflate AI token use after Amazon set weekly AI targets (www.ft.com)
2 days ago Amazon AI

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