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A weekslong selloff in government bonds intensified, threatening to drive up borrowing costs across the globe and knocking some momentum out of what had been a furious stock rally. The S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow fell 0.7%, 0.8% and 0.6%, respectively.
Regulators are scrutinizing for any impropriety a flurry of oil trades timed for moments before Trump postponed strikes on Iran’s energy infrastructure.
The son of fashion chain Mango’s billionaire founder was arrested by Spanish police and accused of playing a role in his father’s death.
A revolt against artificial intelligence is heating up as parents, workers, graduates and voters at large take issue with the industry’s claims for the technology.
Alphabet’s Google is supercharging its Gemini artificial-intelligence model to become more competitive in the era of agentic AI.
Andrej Karpathy, an OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla executive, joined Anthropic’s pretraining team.
Blue Owl co-founder Doug Ostrover recently sold the last of his stake in the Washington Commanders football team.
Home Depot reported lower fiscal first-quarter profit and the company’s chief financial officer said homeowners continue to pull back on big improvement projects.
Stellantis said it would start producing a new range of electric vehicles to serve the affordable small-car market in Europe.
Trump’s agreement with the federal government he runs expanded to end all pending tax audits of him and his businesses, according to a document posted by the Justice Department.
The U.S. seized a sanctioned Iran-linked tanker in the Indian Ocean as Trump threatened to resume military strikes on Iran.
The Senate advanced a resolution to limit Trump’s ability to wage war in Iran without congressional approval, with Sen. Cassidy among those voting yes.
Rep. Massie of Kentucky, a Trump antagonist on the Epstein files and other issues, lost his Republican primary to a candidate backed by the president.
Trump endorsed Texas Attorney General Paxton for Senate over incumbent Cornyn, inserting himself into a hotly contested GOP primary.
The two teenagers who gunned down three people at a mosque in San Diego appear to have been radicalized online, authorities said
Circle cofounder Sean Neville's Catena Labs which lets users set financial guardrails for AI agents raised a $30M Series A and applies for a US bank charter
Prelude which helps companies with digital onboarding raised a $20M Series A led by podcaster Harry Stebbings' 20VC bringing its total funding to $27M
Cloud provider Railway says Google Cloud temporarily suspended its account without cause; in 2024 GCP deleted the account of an Australian pension fund
S. "Soma" Somasegar who led Microsoft's Developer Division for 12 years as part of his 27-year tenure at the company before leaving in 2015 has died at age 59
London-based Primer which helps e-commerce merchants connect and manage multiple payment providers raised a $100M Series C led by Sofina
Kickstarter retracts stricter rules on mature content after creator backlash and says it adopted the tougher rules because of its payment processor Stripe
Russia's Sberbank says it hopes to use Chinese chips to power its flagship GigaChat AI model as sanctions continue to block the country's access to hardware
Sam Altman says OpenAI offered to invest $2M in tokens in each startup in the current YC batch; a source says the offer is in exchange for equity via SAFE
Document and sources: China banned Nvidia's RTX 5090D V2 chip aimed at gamers and animators while Jensen Huang was visiting China with Donald Trump last week
GitHub confirms breach of 3800 internal repositories after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension; TeamPCP claimed responsibility
An analysis based on current valuations of OpenAI and Anthropic suggests $370B of philanthropic assets tied to the two AI companies are poised to become liquid
Q&A with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg on launching the legal AI startup in 2022 how AI could shake up law firm business models legal AI competition and more
Two research papers describe how Google's Co-Scientist and nonprofit FutureHouse's AI tools can succeed at drug-retargeting tasks by forming hypotheses
Three precedent-setting court rulings in China have said that employers replacing workers with AI is voluntary cost-cutting that does not justify mass layoffs
Sources: Nvidia's business development group not its VC arm NVentures has led much of its $90B dealmaking push across 145 companies over the past 16 months
Sources: an attack exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in Huawei router software caused a three-hour nationwide telecoms outage in Luxembourg in 2025
Vietnam introduces Decree 142 to implement its AI law requiring companies to classify AI models by risk level label deepfakes and disclose chatbot use
Filing and sources: PE firm Hg has spun out 500M worth of assets from its 19B software group Visma whose London IPO remains shelved amid the "SaaSpocalypse"
SkyeChip becomes the first Malaysian chip design company to IPO on the Bursa Malaysia exchange surging 300%; the company was valued at $397M at its IPO price
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
Singapore announces a National AI Partnership with Google and an MoU with OpenAI which will set up an AI lab and commit $234M to the city-state's AI ecosystem
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
Berlin-based bunch an AI-native platform for managers and institutional investors to manage the entire fund lifecycle raised a 30.1M Series B led by Portage
GitHub says it's investigating "unauthorized access" to its internal repositories and there's no proof of customer data outside its repositories being impacted
Q&A with Google SVP James Manyika on AI's ability to automate tasks versus occupations his optimism about the labor market despite AI-driven layoffs and more
Sources: a draft White House EO would create a "voluntary framework" for AI companies to give government agencies early access to models before public release
The Take It Down Act a law requiring social networks to remove nonconsensual intimate images within 48 hours of reporting or face fines took effect on May 19
Gemini 3.5 Flash costs $1.50 per 1M input tokens and $9 per 1M output tokens 3x the price of Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 6x the price of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Boston-based CircuitHub which manufactures circuit boards based on customers' requirements raised a $28M Series A led by Plural
Google unveils Continue On a new feature in Android 17 that will let users move tasks between Android devices similar to Apple's Handoff feature
Google updates Project Genie its interactive world builder with Street View integration and expands access to the tool to AI Ultra subscribers globally
Trump signs an EO calling on regulators and the Fed to review policies that could support fintech growth including expanding fintech access to payment accounts
On-demand manufacturing startup SendCutSend raised $110M co-led by Sequoia Paradigm and Stripe co-founders Patrick and John Collison valuing it at $1B
Google announces updates to Flow and Flow Music: Gemini Omni support mobile apps the ability to create custom tools like a video resizer or shaders and more
Discord says voice and video calls outside of stage channels are now end-to-end encrypted by default after launching its encryption protocol in September 2024
Google debuts Gemini for Science a set of experimental tools that help researchers generate hypotheses conduct testing and understand scientific literature
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
Sources: Zyphra which trains and runs inference for its open-weight models on AMD hardware is raising a $500M Series B at a valuation of at least $5B
Threat actors published 600 malicious versions to npm as part of the Shai-Hulud supply chain campaign; most of the affected packages are in the @antv ecosystem
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
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
Analog Devices agrees to buy Empower Semiconductor which makes chips used to regulate voltage for $1.5B in cash
Google adds a conversational search feature to YouTube and rolls out the new Gemini Omni model in YouTube Shorts Remix and the Create app
OpenAI introduces Guaranteed Capacity a new offering that lets customers guarantee access to OpenAI's compute through one- to three-year commitments
Meta begins laying off 8000 employees or 10% of staff in a push to become an AI-first company; another 7000 workers will be reassigned to AI initiatives
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed the nation's first law banning prediction market sites from operating in the state; the CFTC has sued Minnesota in response
Sources: Google DeepMind has reached a $100M deal to hire 20 researchers from Contextual AI including CEO Douwe Kiela and license its technology
Google unveils Pics an AI image editor in Workspace that lets users edit specific elements and modify text rolling out this summer to AI Pro and Ultra users
Ocean which uses AI agents to detect email attacks raised a $20M Series A led by Lightspeed following an $8M seed in 2024
Sundar Pichai announced at Google I/O that Gemini 3.5 Pro will launch next month; attendees groaned at the model coming out later than they expected
Hands-on with Google and Samsung's Android XR smart glasses from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster and with XReal's Project Aura all set to arrive this fall
Google unveils Universal Cart a shopping assistant that works "across merchants" built on the Universal Commerce Protocol rolling out in the US today
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
Demis Hassabis says companies looking to replace developers with AI may be due to a "lack of imagination and a lack of understanding" of the future
Google's web-based AI Studio now lets users build native Android apps; Google says the apps are for personal use only for now and publishing is on the roadmap
Google introduces Antigravity 2.0 featuring an updated desktop app that lets users orchestrate multiple agents alongside an Antigravity CLI tool and SDK
Google says Gemini's MAUs grew to 900M across 230 countries up from 400M at I/O 2025 and launches Neural Expressive a new design language for Gemini
OpenAI adds support for Google's SynthID watermarks in AI images and previews a public portal to let users verify if an image was generated by OpenAI's tools
Google teases Android Halo which makes an AI agent's status visible via "subtle communication" at the top of the phone screen coming later this year
Google says it is expanding access to CodeMender an "AI agent for code security" it debuted in October by inviting select groups of experts to test the API
Google launches the Gemini Omni multimodal model saying it can "create anything from any input" starting with video generation for Google AI subscribers
Google announces Gemini Spark a "24/7 personal AI agent" that is powered by Gemini 3.5 and supports integrations with Google Workspace apps including Gmail
Google restructures its AI plans introducing a $100/month AI Ultra plan for developers and cutting the top-tier Ultra subscription from $250 to $200/month
Google overhauls its search box letting users ask longer queries upload photos and videos and use Gemini 3.5 Flash-powered agents to automate searches
Google rolls out Gemini 3.5 Flash its "strongest agentic and coding model yet" for tackling long-horizon agentic tasks in the Gemini app and Search's AI Mode
Sundar Pichai says Google is now processing 3.2 quadrillion tokens per month up from 480T tokens per month a year ago and 9.7T tokens per month two years ago
Google unveils conversational features for Gmail Docs and Keep letting users ask natural language questions rolling out to AI Pro and Ultra subs this summer
Spotify launches a "Verified by Spotify" badge for podcasts to help "authenticate creator identity" after releasing it for music in April
A livestream of the Google I/O 2026 keynote
A live blog of the Google I/O 2026 keynote where the company is set to announce the "latest AI breakthroughs and updates" in Gemini Android and more
Roku launches a creator hub with licensed creator content and programming from partners like Peacock and HBO Max alongside new FAST channels from top creators
Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to help launch a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pre-training research; he helped found OpenAI and worked at Tesla
Sources: Apple Chief Hardware Officer Johny Srouji is reorganizing hardware development to integrate silicon teams with product creation and speed up their work
Polymarket partners with Nasdaq to launch markets tied to private company milestones including IPO timing valuations earnings and secondary market activity
NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange partners with financial infrastructure company Ornn to launch USD-denominated futures contracts for computing power
Relay which builds banking and money management software for small businesses raised $50M; it previously raised $51.5M including a $32.2M Series B in 2024
Yahoo Finance launches AlphaSpace a customizable research dashboard with an AI assistant for subscribers of its $479.40/year or $39.95/month Gold plan
Andrej Karpathy says he has joined Anthropic as the "next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative"
Plex says the price for the Lifetime tier of its Plex Pass plan will increase from $249.99 to $749.99 in July
Radar which helps retailers like American Eagle manage inventory and cut back on theft and lost merchandise raised a $170M Series B at a $1B valuation
Viktor which is developing an AI agent that operates like a virtual coworker embedded inside Slack or Microsoft Teams raised a $75M Series A led by Accel
Microsoft says it plans to bring Snapdragon X2 chips to the new Surface Pro and Laptop later in 2026; sources say the delay is due to component availability
Microsoft unveils three Intel-based business laptops: a $1950 Surface Pro in 13" a $1950 Surface Laptop in 13.8" and 15" and $1300 Surface Laptop in 13"
Unframe which customizes AI apps for enterprises via pre-built modular components raised a $50M Series B led by Highland Europe for $100M in total funding