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- Astrocade, which lets users create video games using natural language prompts, raised $56M, including a Series A and a Series B, and says it has ~5M MAUs (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune) [5d]
- Sources: Meta is building an OpenClaw-inspired agent internally called Hatch, to be powered by its Muse Spark model, and an agentic shopping tool in Instagram (Jyoti Mann/The Information) [5d]
- Sources: Alphabet sold its biggest-ever euro-denominated bonds, raising €9B, and its first Canadian dollar notes, raising CA$8.5B, months after raising $20B (Bloomberg) [5d]
- Kaspersky says Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, has been backdoored in a monthlong compromise that has pushed malicious updates (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica) [5d]
- EA reports Q4 net bookings up 3.6% YoY to $1.86B, vs. $2B est., weighed down by a post-launch drop-off in engagement for Battlefield 6 (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters) [5d]
- GlobalFoundries reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.63B, in line with est., and forecasts Q2 revenue and adjusted earnings above estimates; GFS closes up 9.28% (Patrick Seitz/Investor's Business Daily) [5d]
- Micron closes up 11% after announcing its highest-capacity SSD has started to ship, lifting its market cap past $700B for the first time; Sandisk closes up 12% (Lola Murti/CNBC) [5d]
- A US court sentences a Latvian national to 8.5 years for acting as a negotiator for Russia's Karakurt ransomware group (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer) [5d]
- Super Micro reports Q3 revenue up 123% YoY to $10.24B, vs. $12.33B est., forecasts Q4 revenue and adjusted profit above estimates; SMCI jumps 17%+ after hours (Juby Babu/Reuters) [5d]
- Match Group reports Q1 revenue up 4% YoY to $864M, vs. $855M est., as Tinder's new user registrations grew for the first time since 2024, up 1% (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg) [5d]
- Source: Anthropic plans to spend about $200B on Google's cloud and chips over five years, representing 40%+ of the "revenue backlog" Google disclosed last week (The Information) [5d]
- Apple reaches a $250M settlement in a CA federal court to resolve a false advertising class action lawsuit over the launch of a "personalized" Siri in 2024 (Michael Acton/Financial Times) [5d]
- AMD reports Q1 revenue up 38% YoY to $10.25B, Data Center revenue up 57% to $5.8B, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates, as AI chip demand stays strong (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters) [5d]
- Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says Xbox "will begin winding down Copilot on mobile and will stop development of Copilot on console" as part of a strategic shift (Jay Peters/The Verge) [5d]
- Sources: Meta is building agentic tools, including an OpenClaw-like assistant powered by its new Muse Spark AI model to help users create AI bots (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times) [5d]
- Musk v. Altman: on his second day of testimony, Greg Brockman said that OpenAI expects to spend $50B on computing in 2026, up from $30M in 2017 (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg) [5d]
- Musk v. Altman: Greg Brockman testified about tense negotiations with Musk in 2017, saying "he knows rockets, he knows electric cars" but "does not know AI" (Bloomberg) [5d]
- Subquadratic launches with a $29M seed and debuts SubQ, an LLM that uses a subquadratic sparse attention architecture to achieve a 12M-token context window (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE) [5d]
- Blitzy, which says its platform autonomously completes months of software development, raised $200M at a $1.4B valuation, bringing its total funding to $232M+ (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News) [5d]
- OpenAI rolls out a beta version of its new Ads Manager tool to advertisers in the US, making it easier for SMBs to buy ChatGPT ads on a cost-per-click basis (Sara Fischer/Axios) [5d]
- No new articles in the Past 6 Hours.
- Despite Previous Integration Failure, Etsy Launches Its App in ChatGPT [5d]
- 4 Electric Toothbrush Mistakes You Should Avoid for a Whiter Smile [5d]
- Apple's iPhone 17 Is the Best-Selling Phone for the First Quarter of 2026 [5d]
- Proposed Class Action Suit Claims Faulty Roku, TCL Software Updates 'Bricked' TVs [5d]
- Reddit Is Making Some Mobile Web Readers Log In or Use the App Instead [5d]
- I Played the New Lego Batman, a Whimsical Game That Takes the Dark Knight Seriously [5d]
- OpenAI Could Make 30 Million Phones Over the Next 2 Years, Report Says [5d]
- Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for May 6, #1782 [5d]
- Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for May 6, #1060 [5d]
- Apple Looking to Samsung and Intel for Chips Amid Shortages, Report Says [5d]
- US Travelers Can Now Use T-Mobile's Satellite Service in Canada and New Zealand [5d]
- Even More Authors, Publishers Sue Meta Over Copyright in AI Training: What's Different Now [5d]
- I Tried Burger King's Mandalorian and Grogu Menu, and This Is Not the Way [5d]
- Best Portable Monitor for 2026 [5d]
- Michael Saylor's Strategy signals potential bitcoin sale to fund dividends obligations [5d]
- Trust in crypto remains biggest barrier to adoption, say Consensus Miami 2026 panelists [5d]
- The world's entire economy will be tokenized, says Consensys’ Joseph Lubin [5d]
- It's transparency, not tech alone, that drives crypto adoption, panelists tell Consensus Miami [5d]
- Different voices in product, policy and hiring change crypto outcomes, panelists tell Consensus Miami [5d]
- AI agents are breaking web economics, but Cloudflare says x402 can help [5d]
- Kraken eyes IPO as it partners with MoneyGram to bridge crypto-to-cash gap [5d]
- State Street says institutions want improved blockchain security in wake of recent DeFi attacks [5d]
- Crypto's 'barbell': speculation and stablecoin payments drive adoption, Tempo's Romero says [5d]
- Citi exec says fragmented crypto systems risk repeating old banking problems [5d]
- Overseas demand for U.S. equities is growing, says Robinhood's Johan Kerbrart [5d]
- Crypto ETFs go mainstream as traditional finance locks in [5d]
- Self-directed investors power bitcoin ETF launch despite Morgan Stanley’s scale [5d]
- Kelp claims that LayerZero approved the setup it blamed for $292 million bridge hack [5d]
- Strategy posts $12.54 billion Q1 loss on declining bitcoin price [5d]
- Drift outlines a recovery plan for users after $295 million DPRK-linked exploit [5d]
- Tokenization won't disrupt banking rails but improve them, Wall Street executives say [5d]
- Bitcoin extends gains to $81,500 as tokenization push lifts Bullish, Galaxy, Centrifuge [5d]
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