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Filing: Zoom's stake in Anthropic is worth ~$1.27B based on a February round which valued Anthropic at $380B; Zoom invested an additional $46M in recent months (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-23

Sources: the SEC has delayed the release of a plan for an “innovation exemption” that would allow crypto firms to trade tokenized versions of US stocks (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-23

Sources: DeepSeek execs told potential investors in its ongoing $10B round that it will prioritize groundbreaking AI research over short-term commercialization (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-22 AI

Sources: Nintendo asked partners and suppliers to assemble ~20M Switch 2 consoles by March 2027, ~20% above the 16.5M public sales outlook issued in early May (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-22 Nintendo

Sources: Bungie plans a significant number of layoffs as it ends development on Destiny 2 and has no new project lined up for the game's development team (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-22 Layoffs

ElevenLabs, which aims to build an all-in-one AI voice app, licensed 200K human-voiced audiobooks from major publishers, available in ElevenReader for $11/mo. (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-22 AI

Source: Cursor reached $3B in annualized revenue in late April and now has 3,000+ customers paying at least $100K each for its software on an annualized basis (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-22

Zoom reports Q1 revenue up 5.5% YoY to $1.24B, vs. $1.22B est., AI Companion paid users up 184%, forecasts FY 2027 revenue above est.; ZM jumps 8%+ after hours (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-22 AI

Sources: the EU will propose temporarily lifting sanctions, imposed in April, on a major Chinese semiconductor supplier after automakers warned of shortages (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-22 China

Source: smart ring maker Oura filed confidentially for a US IPO, set for later in 2026; SF- and Finland-based Oura had an $11B valuation in September 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-22 IPO Finland

Hark, founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock to build AI-powered devices, raised a $700M+ Series A led by Parkway Venture at a $6B post-money valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-22 AI

Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman's unnamed enterprise services JV buys Fractional AI, its first deal; sources say Fractional ends its OpenAI deal (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-21 AI

Taiwan is seeking to detain three people for forging documents to export Nvidia-powered Super Micro servers to China, Hong Kong, and Macau, breaking US rules (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-21 China Hong Kong Taiwan Nvidia

SpaceX S-1: Valor Equity Partners founder Antonio Gracias, a longtime Elon Musk ally, controls a 7.3% stake in SpaceX, the second-largest holder after Musk (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-21 Elon Musk Equity SpaceX

Analysis: Samsung could distribute ~$26.6B to chip employees, or ~$340K each for its 78,000 staff, as a bonus in early 2027 as part of a last-minute union deal (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-21 Samsung

Sources: Manus' co-founders are in talks to raise $1B+ to buy back the Chinese-founded company, after Beijing ordered Meta to unwind its $2B acquisition (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-21 China

SpaceX files publicly for its IPO, choosing Nasdaq to make its debut under the symbol SPCX (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-21 IPO SpaceX

An interview with Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff about plans for Tinder, including a redesign, AI features, live events, and group dating to win over Gen Z (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-21 Interview AI

Socket, which helps companies safeguard open-source code against hackers, raised $60M led by Thrive Capital at a $1B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-21

Exa, which offers a search engine that is designed for AI agents, raised $250M led by a16z at a $2.2B valuation, up from $700M in September 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-20 AI

Owl & Co. report: the podcast industry generated $9.2B in sales globally in 2025, up 23% YoY; 73% of the growth in the US came from video-related revenue (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-20

Alibaba's T-Head unveils the Zhenwu M890 AI chip for training and inference, saying it is particularly suited for agentic tasks, and plans annual upgrades (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-20 Alibaba AI

Samsung Electronics rejects a labor union-accepted mediation proposal, raising the prospect of a workers' strike; a general work stoppage will proceed on May 21 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-20 Samsung

Sources detail growing concerns inside SoftBank over Masayoshi Son's $60B+ bet on OpenAI, which some fear concentrates too much capital into a single company (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-20

Sources: SpaceX expects to proceed with its acquisition of Cursor 30 days after its public trading debut, which is expected to occur on June 12 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-20 SpaceX

Roblox authorizes its first share buyback program, aiming to repurchase up to $3B of its stock, including $1B over the next year; RBLX is down ~45% YTD (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-20

Sources: Google DeepMind has reached a ~$100M deal to hire 20+ researchers from Contextual AI, including CEO Douwe Kiela, and license its technology (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-20 Google AI

At a hearing, two of three judges of a federal appeals court appeared skeptical of Anthropic's bid to block the DOD from designating it a supply-chain risk (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-20

Sources: Apple Chief Hardware Officer Johny Srouji is reorganizing hardware development to integrate silicon teams with product creation and speed up their work (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-20 Apple

NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange partners with financial infrastructure company Ornn to launch USD-denominated futures contracts for computing power (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-20

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