| 11:35 PM • | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Fay, which connects registered dietitians with insurance providers and patients, emerges from stealth with $25M in funding from General Catalyst and Forerunner |
| 11:20 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Snowflake is in talks to acquire Reka AI, which builds LLMs for businesses, for over $1B; report: Reka was valued at ~$300M in a 2023 funding round |
| 11:10 PM • | Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: Ann Arbor-based Voxel51, which is developing a visual AI platform to reduce the failure rate of AI projects, raised a $30M Series B led by Bessemer |
| 9:30 PM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Analyst briefing: Microsoft will launch its Cobalt 100 chips, announced in November 2023, to Azure clients as a public preview at its Build conference next week |
| 9:05 PM • | Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post: Youth advocacy group Encode Justice unveils 22 policy recommendations to ensure AI protects the “lives, rights, and livelihoods” of young people by 2030 |
| 6:00 PM • | Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Apple previews Vehicle Motion Cues, which adds animated dots to iPhone and iPad screens to reduce motion sickness for passengers using them in moving vehicles |
| 4:55 PM • | Reuters: OpenAI and Reddit partner to bring Reddit content to OpenAI tools including ChatGPT via Reddit's Data API and to add AI features to Reddit |
| 4:35 PM • | Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: Take-Two announces a fall 2025 release date for GTA VI, reports Q4 bookings down 3% YoY to $1.35B, and lowers its FY 2025 bookings forecast from $7B+ to $5.55B+ |
| 4:17 PM • | Wall Street Journal: DOJ charges five people for allegedly duping 300+ US companies into hiring North Korea-linked remote IT workers and helping fund the country's nuclear program |
| 4:10 PM • | Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: AI coding startup Replit, which raised $220M+ and was last valued at $1B, lays off 30 employees, or 20% of its staff, and pivots to enterprise sales |
| 4:05 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: X rolls out a revamped version of its Communities feature, which lets users network around topics of interest, including improved discovery tools and search |
| 3:30 PM • | Cory Weinberg / The Information: Figma is letting staff and early investors sell up to $900M of shares in a tender at a $12.5B valuation, down ~38% from Adobe's $20B acquisition proposal |
| 2:30 PM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: TikTok is testing 60-minute videos, which would let media companies post full TV show episodes and put TikTok in even more direct competition with YouTube |
| 1:30 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Sigma Computing, which offers cloud data analytics tools, raised a $200M Series D at a $1.5B valuation, up 60% from 2021, bringing its total funding to $581M |
| 1:00 PM • | Jessica Mathews / Fortune: How GM is scrambling to save Cruise, which has become a liability after one of its automated vehicles hit and dragged a pedestrian 20 feet in October 2023 |
| 12:25 PM • | Mariella Moon / Engadget: Google updates its accessibility apps: Lookout, to use a phone to recognize objects, a text-free mode in Look To Speak, and adds Maps wheelchair data on desktop |
| 12:20 PM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google launches a Gemini add-on for educational institutes via Workspace, available in Gemini Education and Education Premium tiers in English for users over 18 |
| 12:15 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Meta starts testing TweetDeck-style customizable feeds on Threads that are stacked in a column interface on the web, available to selected users |
| 12:05 PM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: Disney, Fox, and WBD unveil the name of their sports streaming venture: Venu Sports, which is set to debut in fall 2024 |
| 11:55 AM • | Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: Sony Music sends letters to 700+ AI companies, developers, and music streaming platforms warning over the “unauthorized use” of Sony's content in training AI |
| 11:25 AM • | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Server CPU designer Ampere announces that its AmpereOne chip family will grow to 256 cores by next year; Ampere will work with Qualcomm on cloud AI accelerators |
| 11:15 AM • | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Israel-based Agora, which develops real estate investment management software, raised a $34M Series B, bringing its total funding to $63M |
| 11:00 AM • | Anna Tong / Reuters: Vercel, which develops the Next.js framework, raised a $250M Series E led by Accel at a $3.25B valuation, and says it recently exceeded $100M in annual revenue |
| 10:20 AM • | Kylie Robison / The Verge: Hugging Face, which is “profitable, or close to profitable”, commits $10M in free shared GPUs to help small developers, academics, and others create AI apps |
| 8:30 AM • | Bloomberg: Blackstone agrees to buy a majority stake in Israeli enterprise software company Priority Software, which has 17K clients and 500+ staff, at an $800M valuation |
| 7:45 AM • | Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: A profile of Noland Arbaugh, who was paralyzed after an accident in mid-2016 and became the first person to receive Neuralink's brain implant in January 2024 |
| 7:30 AM • | Associated Press: Senate hearing: US DNI Avril Haines says foreign adversaries will again seek to influence the upcoming elections, harnessing AI to spread disinformation |
| 7:10 AM • | Jez Corden / Windows Central: Microsoft's decisions, like Start Menu ads, closing studios, porting AAA games to PS5, and seemingly pulling back on Surface show a short-term financial focus |
| 6:55 AM • | Sarah Zheng / Bloomberg: JD.com reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY to ~$36B, above ~$35.8B est., and net income up 13.9% YoY to ~$984M, after ramping up shopping perks to attract customers |
| 6:40 AM • | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Google releases an emergency Chrome update to patch the third zero-day vulnerability exploited within a week, and the seventh zero-day fix in 2024 so far |
| 6:25 AM • | Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Baidu reports Q1 revenue up 1% YoY to ~$4.4B, above ~$4.35B est., the slowest growth in over a year, and net income down 6% YoY to ~$755M, above ~$554M est. |
| 6:10 AM • | Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: The EU opens a formal DSA investigation into Meta, to assess if Facebook, Instagram, and its other apps were reinforcing “rabbit hole” effects and other issues |
| 5:50 AM • | Timmy Shen / The Block: Chinese police in the Sichuan province dismantle an underground bank that used USDT for foreign currency exchanges worth $1.9B+, mainly to smuggle medicine |
| 5:30 AM • | Daniel Zuidijk / Bloomberg: Ubisoft falls ~15% after warning that Q1 net bookings will be ~€275M, below €376M est., and reporting a €401M adjusted operating income in FY 2024 |
| 5:15 AM • | Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: ElevenLabs quietly launches ElevenLabs Reader: AI Audio, its first consumer app to read web pages, PDFs and other documents aloud in 11 different voices |
| 4:15 AM • | Brendan I. Koerner / Wired: An undercover investigation details the low-wage work of “OnlyFans chatters”, contracted to masquerade as creators while swapping DMs with their subscribers |
| 2:55 AM • | Mallory Culhane / Politico: US lawmakers are watching to see whether Colorado's bill for regulating AI, modeled on Connecticut's now derailed bill, can withstand the tech lobby pressure |
| 2:30 AM • | Harry McCracken / Fast Company: An interview with Apple's Greg Joswiak and John Ternus on the new iPad lineup, the M4 chip, why the iPad and Mac both matter, the iPad as an “AI PC”, and more |
| 1:30 AM • | Sheena Vasani / The Verge: Microsoft unveils the Proteus Controller, a $299 modular game controller kit for disabled Xbox and PC gamers by peripheral company ByoWave, shipping in the fall |
| 1:15 AM • | Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal: Grab raises its annual forecast for adjusted EBITDA to $250M-$270M, up from $180M-$200M, after its Q1 net loss narrowed to $104M from $244M in Q1 2023 |
| 1:05 AM • | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Consumer protection groups across the EU file coordinated complaints against Temu, accusing the e-commerce platform of a raft of breaches related to the DSA |
| 1:00 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Source: Microsoft is asking about 700 to 800 employees involved in its China-based AI and cloud computing operations to consider relocating to other countries |
| 12:30 AM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: YouTube formally launches YouTube Select Creator Takeovers, to let advertisers buy out the inventory on channels representing the top 1% of YouTube content |
| 12:05 AM • | Associated Press: In the first high-level AI talks in Geneva, the US raised concerns about China's “misuse of AI” while China chided the US over “restrictions and pressure” on AI |
| 10:55 PM • | Paige Smith / Bloomberg: Visa rolls out tech to share more data on customers' preferences based on their shopping history with retailers via proprietary “tokens” |
| 10:00 PM • | Susie Violet Ward / Forbes: Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signs a bill protecting bitcoin rights, ensuring the right to self-custody, transact, and mine bitcoin, effective November 1, 2024 |
| 9:30 PM • | Sarah Emerson / Forbes: Bolt co-founder Ryan Breslow settles with investor Activant Capital, ending a lawsuit that accused Breslow of saddling the company with $30M in personal debt |
| 8:55 PM • | Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: Stability AI has talked to at least one potential buyer in recent weeks about a sale; it lost $30M+ in Q1 and owes ~$100M to cloud providers and others |
| 8:20 PM • | Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Arizona's AG sues Amazon, accusing the company of being a monopoly and deceiving consumers in violation of state laws, similar to complaints brought by the FTC |
| 7:10 PM • | Kristin Robinson / Billboard: Spotify received a cease-and-desist letter from the National Music Publishers' Association over its use of lyrics in its videos feature, remix tool, and more |
| 6:50 PM • | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google One's VPN service will no longer be available as of June 20, 2024; Pixel 7 devices and Pixel Fold will get a built-in VPN via an update on June 3, 2024 |
| 6:10 PM • | Lewis Empson / What Hi-Fi?: Sony unveils the £1,299 Xperia 1 VI, with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset, a 6.5-inch OLED Full HD+ display, and 7.1x optical zoom lens, and the £349 Xperia 10 VI |
| 5:45 PM • | Todd Shields / Bloomberg: AT&T and satellite provider AST SpaceMobile announce an agreement to provide a space-based broadband network direct to cell phones; the deal runs through 2030 |
| 5:15 PM • | Bloomberg: Microsoft's carbon emissions grew 29.1% from 2020 to 2023, as its push to be the global leader in AI puts its goal to be carbon negative by 2030 in peril |
| 4:55 PM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: Palo Alto Networks is buying IBM's QRadar cloud security software assets and moving customers to its own platform; IBM will adopt Palo Alto products internally |
| 4:25 PM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: Cisco reports Q3 revenue down 13% YoY to $12.7B, vs. $12.53B est., net income down 41% YoY to $1.89B, and forecasts FY 2024 revenue above estimates |
| 4:01 PM • | Andrew Heinzman / How-To Geek: Google announces Android 14 for TV, with new energy modes, accessibility features including color correction, picture-in-picture for some TV models, and more |
| 3:40 PM • | Dan Robinson / The Register: VMware makes its Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro desktop hypervisor products free for personal use |
| 3:30 PM • | CNBC: Netflix says its ad tier has 40M MAUs, up from 23M in January 2024, and plans to launch its own ad platform and no longer partner with Microsoft for that tech |
| 3:10 PM • | Rachel Graf / Bloomberg: A US judge rules Tesla must face claims over misleading buyers on self-driving; Tesla faced accusations since 2016 after saying new cars had “full self-driving” |
| 2:40 PM • | Wes Davis / The Verge: Some iPhone owners say the iOS 17.5 update, which Apple released on May 13, is resurfacing photos they had deleted; iOS beta testers pointed to the same bug |
| 2:20 PM • | Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: The US DOJ indicts two brothers for allegedly stealing $25M in crypto via an exploit of the MEV-Boost software used by some Ethereum validators |
| 1:40 PM • | Lawrence Bonk / Engadget: Google unveils Android for Cars updates: new apps including Max, Peacock, and Angry Birds for select car models, Google Cast for Android Automotive OS, and more |
| 1:25 PM • | Allison Johnson / The Verge: Google announces Android theft protection features, like Theft Detection Lock, which detects motion indicating theft, and Private Space, to hide sensitive data |
| 1:20 PM • | Victoria Song / The Verge: Google says Wear OS 5 will consume 20% less battery life and offer more useful watch face complications, and that Wear OS' user base grew 40% over the past year |
| 1:10 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google unveils a threat detection service coming to Android that uses on-device AI to detect malware, analyzing apps' use of sensitive permissions and services |
| 11:50 AM • | Mark Hachman / PCWorld: Intel debuts Thunderbolt Share, a new specification and app to connect two PCs, letting users transfer data at 40Gbps+, control another PC, sync files, and more |
| 11:35 AM • | Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: The FBI seizes BreachForums' hacking forum, which the group used to leak and sell stolen corporate data to other cybercriminals, and its Telegram channel |
| 11:25 AM • | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber plans to work with local fleets to add US shuttle bus services to and from airports, concert venues, and sports stadiums, for a fraction of UberX's cost |
| 11:15 AM • | Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Google opens API access to its Google Home platform, letting Android and iOS developers join a waitlist to access 600M+ Matter or Works with Google Home devices |
| 10:50 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Networking infrastructure startup Alkira, which lets users virtualize hybrid cloud assets, raised a $100M Series C led by Tiger, for $176M in total funding |
| 10:35 AM • | Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: London-based PolyAI, which makes AI voice assistants for call centres, raised $50M led by Hedosophia, with money from Nvidia and others, at a $500M+ valuation |
| 10:25 AM • | David Pierce / The Verge: Anthropic hires Instagram and Artifact co-founder Mike Krieger as its chief product officer, after the startup released an iOS app for its Claude chatbot |
| 10:15 AM • | Cherlynn Low / Engadget: Apple unveils accessibility features, like Eye Tracking, to let users with physical disabilities control iPads or iPhones with their eyes, and Music Haptics |
| 10:10 AM • | Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Netflix strikes a three-year deal with the NFL to stream two new Christmas Day games this season, and “at least one game” in 2025 and in 2026 |
| 10:00 AM • | Ben Smith / Semafor: Billionaire tech critic Frank McCourt says he is preparing a “people's bid” to buy and rebuild TikTok so users “own and control their identity and their data” |
| 9:50 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Weka, which offers a parallel file system and data management tools for AI and HPC, raised a $140M Series E led by Valor Equity at a $1.6B post-money valuation |
| 9:30 AM • | RT Watson / The Block: Immutable Games launches Guild of Guardians, its flagship mobile fantasy RPG that let players win GOG tokens, NFTs, and more; Immutable raised $200M in 2022 |
| 8:50 AM • | Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon made its debut pitch at the Upfronts annual ad sales event on May 14, competing with major media networks and highlighting its push beyond digital ads |
| 8:25 AM • | Rachael Levy / Reuters: Sources: Neuralink's disclosure last week that tiny wires inside its first patient's brain had pulled out of position is an issue it has known about for years |
| 8:15 AM • | Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: Humanity Protocol, a blockchain-based identity system that uses scans of people's palms, raised a $30M seed led by Kingsway Capital at a $1B valuation |
| 8:00 AM • | Srishti Jaswal / Rest of World: As India's elections run from April 19 to June 1, a look at the BJP's vast WhatsApp operations, including using the app to campaign free from public scrutiny |
| 7:45 AM • | New York Times: Bipartisan US Senators release a long-awaited plan for AI, calling for spending $32B annually by 2026 on R&D, creating a federal data privacy law, and more |
| 7:30 AM • | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Kentucky-based PayHOA, a bootstrapped startup that offers software for self-managed homeowner associations, raised a $27.5M Series A and reports 652K+ users |
| 7:15 AM • | Reuters: A US federal court orders Elon Musk to testify again in an SEC investigation into his $44B Twitter takeover; the SEC sued Musk in October 2023 to testify |
| 7:00 AM • | University of Oxford: A study of 2,414,294 people in 168 countries between 2006 and 2021 finds 84.9% of associations between internet connectivity and wellbeing were positive |
| 6:30 AM • | Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi: Apple letting iPads run macOS would require major trade-offs, and enabling touch on Macs would lead to “a lot of flakey software that doesn't really work” |
| 6:10 AM • | Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: TSMC SVP Kevin Zhang says ASML's high-NA EUV machines, which cost €350M each, are too expensive, and the A16 node, due in late 2026, won't need to use them |
| 5:50 AM • | Reuters: Sources and documents: Chinese chipmaker CXMT and others are in the early stages of making high bandwidth memory chips, a major step in China's chip plans |
| 5:35 AM • | Bloomberg: Yemen is holding back repairs on the key AAE-1 internet cable in the Red Sea during a criminal investigation into the cable owners' alleged Houthi militia ties |
| 5:20 AM • | Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: AWS details its European “sovereign cloud”, designed to enable greater data residency, starting in Germany in 2025, and plans to invest €7.8B in Europe by 2040 |
| 5:05 AM • | Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk: Insiders detail the crypto industry's lobbying efforts ahead of the 2024 US elections, as crypto-focused PACs shape the outcome of some key congressional races |
| 3:35 AM • | Olivia Solon / Bloomberg: Raspberry Pi announces plans for an IPO in London, reporting $265.8M revenue and $43.5M adjusted EBITDA in 2023, and is reportedly seeking a ~$630M valuation |
| 3:15 AM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google releases Project IDX, its next-gen AI-centric browser-based IDE, in open beta, and says that 100,000+ developers tried the service in invite-only phase |
| 2:40 AM • | Casey Newton / Platformer: The arrival of AI search bodes ill for everyone who relies on web search to have their business discovered, their blog post read, or their journalism funded |
| 2:35 AM • | Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg: USDC issuer Circle, which confidentially filed for a US IPO in January, plans to shift its legal base from Ireland to the US, and may face more onerous taxes |
| 2:10 AM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Adam Mosseri says Threads “recently rolled out” its own fact-checking program after piggybacking on Instagram and Facebook's network for a few months |
| 2:05 AM • | Josh Ye / Reuters: Huawei is revamping its retail strategy and aggressively opening flagship stores in China, opening four such stores between December 2023 and February 2024 |
| 1:55 AM • | Nikkei Asia: Foxconn's Sharp shifts its focus to consumer electronics and AI after exiting TV display production, and is looking to sell its camera and chip device units |
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