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- Source: AI inference provider Baseten is in talks to raise $1B at a post-money valuation of $11B, up from $5B after its $300M Series E announced in January (The Information) [3d]
- OpenAI hires ServiceNow CMO Colin Fleming as CMO for its business segment; he succeeds Kate Rouch, who stepped down earlier this year to focus on her health (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek) [3d]
- US cybersecurity company Zscaler reports Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to $850.5M, above $835.4M est., and forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; ZS drops 18%+ after hours (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters) [3d]
- Sources: Bond Capital is leading a new investment for AI startup Suno, which would value it at ~$5B, up from $2.45B last fall; Suno is expected to raise $250M+ (Axios) [3d]
- Charter confirms a data breach after ShinyHunters claimed to steal 40M customer records from Charter's Salesforce instance and threatened to leak the data (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer) [3d]
- Micron hit a $1T market value for the first time on Tuesday as shares jumped 19%, driven by demand for its memory chips in the AI race (Samantha Subin/CNBC) [3d]
- London-based Perceptic, which says its end-to-end AI platform for drug development is being used by top pharmaceuticals, raised a $12M seed led by Accel (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune) [3d]
- Q&A with Sundar Pichai about reshaping the information ecosystem with Search changes, putting AI agents in everything, when AI will replace him as CEO, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge) [3d]
- Nvidia officially retires its GeForce Control Panel app after 20 years, following the porting of all of its major features to the Nvidia app (Tom Warren/The Verge) [4d]
- Human Archive, which trains robots using first-person video from 1,000+ camera-equipped caps worn by Indian home services workers, raised $8.2M from YC and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) [4d]
- SpaceX filing: X's ad revenue was $1.8B in 2025, $1.7B in 2024, and $2.3B in 2023, below Twitter's $4B in 2021; X and Grok now have 6.3M active paid subscribers (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter) [4d]
- American Airlines picks SpaceX's Starlink for in-flight Wi-Fi on more than 500 planes; SpaceX already has contracts with United Airlines, Southwest, and others (Leslie Josephs/CNBC) [4d]
- Sources: Qualcomm reached a deal with ByteDance to supply millions of ASICs for AI data centers to support AI agents in the Doubao chatbot; QCOM jumps 5%+ (Ian King/Bloomberg) [4d]
- Filing: Monzo reports its "refer a friend" payouts grew 40% YoY to £29.5M for the 12 months ending March 2026, as part of a broader £143M marketing spend (Financial Times) [4d]
- China executes a man called Xu Yao for killing Yoozoo Games founder Lin Qi in 2020; Lin reportedly sidelined Xu, who helped land the 3 Body Problem Netflix deal (Koh Ewe/BBC) [4d]
- How AI startups like Altur are using chatbots to help automate debt collection; YC incubated six debt collection and settlement startups in the past six years (Kate Knibbs/Wired) [4d]
- Dropbox founder Drew Houston is stepping down as CEO after 19 years to become executive chairman, replaced by Ashraf Alkarmi, who is SVP and GM of Dropbox Core (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) [4d]
- Google Fitbit Air review: slim, comfortable, and stylish, robust tracking, seven-day battery life, and cheaper than Whoop, but can only be worn on the wrist (Max Buondonno/The Shortcut) [4d]
- The Dutch government blocks the acquisition of authentication IT supplier Solvinity by US-based Kyndryl, citing "a possible risk to the public interest" (Pieter Haeck/Politico) [4d]
- Spain says it is blocking Polymarket and Kalshi as a precautionary measure while it probes possible gambling law violations over the next three to four months (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal) [4d]
- Spotify launches a library of over 650 narrated long-form magazine articles in English for Premium users; free users can buy articles "individually for $1.99" (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) [4d]
- OpenRouter raised $113M led by CapitalG, a source says at a $1.3B valuation, and now processes 25T tokens across 400+ models weekly, up from 5T six months ago (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times) [4d]
- Atlanta-based e-commerce logistics company Stord raised a $250M Series F led by Strike at a $3B valuation, up from $1.5B after a $200M Series E in May 2025 (Julie Bort/TechCrunch) [4d]
- SEC filing: Quantinuum is seeking to raise $1.05B in its US IPO, marketing ~21M shares for $45 to $50 each, giving it a $12.7B valuation at the top of the range (Carmen Reinicke/Bloomberg) [4d]
- No new articles in the Past 12 Hours.
- Corsair's Pro lineup is the company’s answer to the growing demand for AI workstations and servers [3d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, May 27 (game #815) [3d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Wednesday, May 27 (game #1584) [3d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, May 27 (game #1081) [3d]
- Watching the World Cup is the one time I’d use motion smoothing on a TV — for streaming movies, I avoid this setting like the plague [3d]
- Get ready for more bill rises — study warns data centers could hike power costs in some states over 50% by 2030 [3d]
- Quote of the day by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: "Software is eating the world, but AI is going to eat software" — A prophetic statement predicting the impending death of software [3d]
- Acer ProDesigner PE160WUT review: A high-res, high-refresh OLED portable monitor let down by its anti-glare display [3d]
- OpenAI will now let your company pay to ensure 'guaranteed capacity' for up to three years [3d]
- Every organization is pouring money into AI right now, and almost none of them know what their people are actually doing with it': Study reveals employees are using their personal AI accounts at work, raising a whole host of issues [3d]
- Microsoft's unexpected MacBook Neo challenger might be a budget laptop you've never heard of before [3d]
- Hackers claim to be selling 340 million stolen OnlyFans records — but experts are already skeptical on how serious hack is [3d]
- I just watched a Chinese robot make the worst eggs I've ever seen and I'm a little less worried about robots taking our jobs [3d]
- Bosgame P4 Ultra review: Nothing here convinces me that AMD Zen 3 is sufficiently exciting for the current mini PC market [3d]
- The 4.5-star-rated Google Pixel Watch just fell back to its Black Friday price on Amazon [3d]
- 4 great tools to produce your own PDF bookazine [3d]
- ‘They choose not to buy because they want to develop their own’: China just refused to buy a single Nvidia AI chip as Trump’s plan backfires [3d]
- Windows 12 at Build 2026: What to expect [3d]
- Kash Patel's 'BasedApparel' website is apparently hosting ClickFix malware [3d]
- What is the release date for Hacks season 5 episode 10 on HBO Max? [3d]
- Apple’s Fitbit Air-rivaling AI health coach is delayed, new report claims, and that’s bad news for fitness fans [4d]
- ‘Social media should be treated like tobacco’: health experts say the internet is just as bad as smoking for under-16s as UK government edges closer to introducing ban [4d]
- ‘Spotify Connect destroys Apple Music at this specific thing’: Apple Music fans still can’t believe the platform is behind on continuity features — but that’s not the only thing that’s getting under their skin [4d]
- Absolute Anonymity: This VPN allows cash payments and costs the same every month, forever [4d]
- Custom drone makers hit 453mph to (unofficially) break the record for fastest drone on earth — and hand-made sawtooth carbon fiber propellors made all the difference [4d]
- Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred is one of the best expansions I've ever played — here's why [4d]
- Warhorse promises that Middle-earth RPG is a 'passion project' that 'will be a living world' with a 'strong narrative focus' [4d]
- 'Technology is never neutral': the Pope says the quiet part out loud, and it's time we accept that AI and tech's failures — and dangers — are human-made [4d]
- 'I'm delighted to be wrong': Sam Altman says AI won't lead to a 'jobs apocalypse' - but admits he was 'pretty wrong' on the social and economic implications it is having [4d]
- I spent a long weekend with the GoPro Mission 1 Pro — it survived heat, sea, sand and a couple of drops, but you need to respect its limits [4d]
- The UK's online safety consultation ends today — here's what it could mean for VPNs [4d]
- Leaked Samsung Galaxy S26 FE case images point to the most minor design change —and Samsung fans aren't happy [4d]
- Surfshark launches new ‘Antiscam Hub’ for iOS users, rolling 5 security features into a single in-app experience [4d]
- The Currys bank holiday sale isn't over yet — save up to 40% with 21 best deals on TVs, appliances, laptops, headphones, and more [4d]
- Trump Mobile probing second major data leak — additional breach allegedly exposes personal info of 27,000 pre-order customers [4d]
- Fans mourn what would have been GTA 6's launch today — 'My girl surprised me with $100 today and thought GTA 6 was coming out tomorrow' [4d]
- What to look for in an enterprise-grade smart dash cam [4d]
- The latest MacBook Air has just got a surprise new record-low price at Amazon — our favorite laptop now rivals the MacBook Neo for value [4d]
- Camp Snap’s upgraded screen-free retro compact camera hits the right notes, and I love how affordable it is [4d]
- NordVPN wins crucial legal battle in Spain over La Liga piracy fines [4d]
- Marketing doesn’t have a data problem: it has an action problem [4d]
- 9 portable air conditioners that are still in stock after this weekend's sweat-fest — plus our top tips on how to choose and use one [4d]
- Reported ransomware incidents are just the tip of the iceberg [4d]
- Dutton Ranch fans are already hoping one unhinged character 'doesn't survive' first season of Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone spinoff series — but for the 'dumbest reason' [4d]
- 'You can really tell how long a game has been in development' — 007 First Light features a cameo of an internet star who went viral years ago [4d]
- Could AI-powered dash cams save businesses millions in legal fees? [4d]
- Observability was built for humans. AI agents need something different [4d]
- The Pope just warned AI could create ‘new forms of dehumanization’ — and his message feels aimed straight at Big Tech [4d]
- Ghost CMS flaw hijacked to target hundreds of websites with ClickFix attacks — here's how to stay safe [4d]
- 'It's something we've never done before': Logitech's newest flagship mouse and keyboard comes with something you might never expect - a cushion [4d]
- What is the release date for The Four Seasons season 2 on Netflix? [4d]
- 007 First Light delivers a blockbuster Bond origin story packed with spycraft, stealth and explosive action set pieces [4d]
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