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OpenAI says two employee devices were impacted via a supply chain attack on TanStack but no user data or production systems were compromised (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
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Ian Crosby's Synthetic, which is building an AI bookkeeper, raised a $10M seed led by Khosla; Crosby founded Bench, which raised $100M+ and imploded in 2024 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
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Anthropic and the Gates Foundation pledge $200M to use AI in health and education initiatives; the foundation signed a similar, $50M deal with OpenAI in January (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)
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Razer updates the Blade 18 with an Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus chip, starting at $4000 with an Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti, up $500 from the comparable 2025 model (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
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Wirestock, which says it provides multi-modal data to six of the largest foundation AI labs, raised a $23M Series A, bringing its total funding to $26M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon sign an "agreement in principle" to form a joint venture that aims to end wireless dead zones in the US, without giving many details (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
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Motorola Razr Fold review: good performance and screen, great battery life, sharp cameras, and stylus support, but heavier than the Z Fold 7 and lackluster AI (Sam Rutherford/Engadget)
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Gallup: 71% of Americans oppose local AI data center construction, citing water and electricity issues, with opposition higher among Democrats than Republicans (Tim Craig/Washington Post)
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Klarna reports Q1 revenue up 44% YoY to $1.01B, above est., GMV up 33% YoY to $33.7B, customers up 20% YoY to 119M, and a $1M profit, vs. a $99M loss in Q1 2025 (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)
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Spotify says it will adopt Apple's HTTP Live Streaming tech later in 2026, helping Spotify creators distribute video podcast shows on Apple Podcasts and Spotify (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
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The UK CMA launches an antitrust investigation into Microsoft's business software dominance, focusing on its bundling of Windows, Word, Teams, and other apps (Reuters)
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Meta President Dina Powell McCormick went with President Trump on his China trip and met King Charles III in April, indicating she's Meta's new global emissary (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
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SMIC reports Q1 revenue up 11.5% YoY to ~$2.5B and net profit up 5% YoY to ~$197.4M, below $223.6M est., weighed down by higher operating expenses, up 30% YoY (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)
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As Meta prepares to lay off ~10% of its staff on May 20, sources say morale is low, and it moved 1,000+ engineers to an AI unit to build generative AI models (Wired)
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Blackstone Digital Infrastructure Trust raised $1.75B in its US IPO, selling 87.5M shares for $20 each, and plans to acquire data centers worth $250M to $1.5B (Subrat Patnaik/Bloomberg)
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