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- Waymo suspends freeway rides and pauses its Atlanta operations, as it updates software to improve performance around construction zones and flooded roadways (Reuters) [2d]
- Adobe, Canva, and CapCut announce Gemini integrations to let users access the companies' image and video editing tools within the Gemini app (James Peckham/PCMag) [2d]
- ElevenLabs, which aims to build an all-in-one AI voice app, licensed 200K human-voiced audiobooks from major publishers, available in ElevenReader for $11/mo. (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Source: Cursor reached $3B in annualized revenue in late April and now has 3,000+ customers paying at least $100K each for its software on an annualized basis (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Spotify closes up 13% after announcing new features and 2030 guidance, forecasting a compound annual growth rate in the mid-teens and gross margins of 35%-40% (Samantha Subin/CNBC) [2d]
- Zoom reports Q1 revenue up 5.5% YoY to $1.24B, vs. $1.22B est., AI Companion paid users up 184%, forecasts FY 2027 revenue above est.; ZM jumps 8%+ after hours (Brody Ford/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Take-Two reports Q4 bookings flat YoY at $1.58B, forecasts FY 2027 bookings below est., reiterates GTA VI's November 19 launch date; TTWO jumps 6%+ after hours (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters) [2d]
- Workday reports Q1 revenue up 13% YoY to $2.54B vs. $2.52B est., and lifts its full-year forecast, saying its AI strategy is working; WDAY jumps 9%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC) [2d]
- Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Meta, accusing WhatsApp of marketing its services as secure but failing to "deliver on those promises" by accessing encrypted messages (Ryan Autullo/Bloomberg Law) [2d]
- Meta joins TikTok, Snap, and YouTube in settling with a Kentucky school district to avoid a trial over claims the platforms were designed to addict kids (Erin Mulvaney/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Sources: Starbucks shut down an AI program for automating inventory counts, nine months after deploying it, after it frequently miscounted and mislabeled items (Waylon Cunningham/Reuters) [2d]
- Modal Labs, which offers a serverless cloud platform to build AI apps and run AI inference, raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation, up from $1.1B in 2025 (Deepa Seetharaman/Reuters) [2d]
- Gavin Newsom signs an EO mandating state agencies work with the AI industry and others to study subsidies for companies that don't replace workers with AI (Cecilia Kang/New York Times) [2d]
- Sources: OpenAI generated about $5.7B in revenue in Q1, nearly $1B more than Anthropic (Sri Muppidi/The Information) [2d]
- Sources: the EU will propose temporarily lifting sanctions, imposed in April, on a major Chinese semiconductor supplier after automakers warned of shortages (Alberto Nardelli/Bloomberg) [2d]
- August Robotics, which makes autonomous robots for construction and industrial applications, raised $30M led by Big Pi Ventures (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE) [2d]
- Apple plans to broadcast an MLS game on Saturday shot entirely on 15 iPhone 17 Pros, the first major live sports event to be captured using only smartphones (Todd Spangler/Variety) [2d]
- Source: smart ring maker Oura filed confidentially for a US IPO, set for later in 2026; SF- and Finland-based Oura had an $11B valuation in September 2025 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Spotify and UMG plan to let Premium users create AI covers and remixes using music from participating UMG artists as a paid add-on, without giving a launch date (Jem Aswad/Variety) [2d]
- London Mayor Sadiq Khan blocks the Met police's £50M Palantir deal to automate intelligence analysis, citing a "clear and serious breach" of procurement rules (Robert Booth/The Guardian) [2d]
- Spotify partners with Live Nation to launch Reserved, a new feature that sets aside tickets for the most dedicated fans, starting with Premium users in the US (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter) [2d]
- Spotify says it has 1M+ subscriptions to Audiobook+, which is on track for $100M in ARR, and unveils an ElevenLabs-powered audiobook self-publishing tool (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Spotify Labs launches Studio, a NotebookLM-like desktop app to generate private, AI-powered podcasts, in research preview across 20+ markets (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Crypto exchange Blockchain.com confidentially files for a US IPO; the UK-based company founded in 2011 was once valued at $14B (Logan Hitchcock/Decrypt) [2d]
- Note: the White House postpones a planned ceremony this afternoon for Trump to sign a new EO on AI and cybersecurity; major tech CEOs were invited to attend (Ashley Gold/Axios) [2d]
- Federal records: Grok was utilized in only 3 of 400+ publicly identified federal AI use cases in 2025, behind 234 for ChatGPT, 33 for Gemini, 26 for Claude (Reuters) [2d]
- Waymo suspends operations in Atlanta and San Antonio as its robotaxis struggle with flooded roads and says it has yet to develop a "final remedy" for flooding (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Hark, founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock to build AI-powered devices, raised a $700M+ Series A led by Parkway Venture at a $6B post-money valuation (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Sources: Anthropic is in talks to rent servers powered by Microsoft-designed chips; source: Anthropic has steadily increased its Azure usage since November 2025 (The Information) [2d]
- Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman's unnamed enterprise services JV buys Fractional AI, its first deal; sources say Fractional ends its OpenAI deal (Preeti Singh/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Flipper unveils the Flipper One, a pocketable open Arm Linux computer with similar performance to a Raspberry Pi 5, and welcomes feedback to get it market-ready (Mark Tyson/Tom's Hardware) [2d]
- I've looked through Samsung's Memorial Day sale — it includes OLED TVs from $1,099, a record-low Galaxy S26 Ultra deal, and $1,700 off appliances [2d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, May 22 (game #810) [2d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, May 22 (game #1076) [2d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Friday, May 22 (game #1579) [2d]
- Score a premium Intel Core i9 Laptop for only $510 ahead of Memorial Day — and the CPU inside the Hasee X5 almost rivals the Apple M5 in the MacBook Pro [2d]
- China unveils 'world's first' underwater data center — 2,000 server facility is powered by offshore wind, and cooled by the sea, making it one of the most efficient around [2d]
- Nvidia really doesn't seem to care about gaming GPUs anymore — the company won't even bother to break down graphics sales in its big investor reports [2d]
- High-end hi-fi company YBA has made what it claims is the world's first "transportable" CD player for SACDs — it's got the audiophiles in the office very excited, but it's not exactly a handheld model to slip in your jacket pocket [2d]
- 'A true engineering feat': Silicon-based qubits have a clear advantage in race to million-qubit quantum computer thanks to tech that made Nvidia AI GPUs possible [2d]
- The biggest surprise from Google I/O 2026? Poll reveals majority of Android fans are most excited for Android XR and Gemini Spark— but we’re still waiting to hear more about Googlebooks and the Google Smart speaker [2d]
- I found a lot of cheap Memorial Day business laptops on Amazon — here are the only ones worth buying under $600 from Dell, Lenovo, and HP [2d]
- Dell launches record-shattering server with 9.8PB of flash storage in just 2U — paving the way for massive $75 million 200PB+ AI data center racks [2d]
- Every single iPad is on sale for Memorial Day — here’s which models I’d recommend (and which I’d avoid) as an Apple expert [2d]
- What is the release date for Marshals: A Yellowstone Story episode 13 on CBS and Paramount+? [2d]
- Android users beware — this huge fraud scam campaign hit millions of victims around the world, make sure you're not next [2d]
- Zendesk expands AI agents across ChatGPT, Gemini, voice and messaging [2d]
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 finally gets a release date, as well as confirmation of year one content, and fans who preorder the Commander Edition can play 3 days early [2d]
- Secretlab expands its Warhammer 40,000 collection with the new Titan Evo and skins Dark Angels Editions ahead of the launch of Dawn of War 4 [2d]
- Redditor warns they 'almost started a fire' when metallic watch strap made contact with Steam Controller's charging puck [2d]
- Trust me, this HP laptop Is the best you can buy under $300 right now — the 17z has an AMD Ryzen 5 7430U CPU that's almost as fast as the Apple M2 [2d]
- A heatwave is coming — and I recommend this Shark FlexBreeze HydroGo at its lowest-ever price to help you face it without breaking a sweat [2d]
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt lead quest designer recalls the moment he suggested that one character be killed off, says the team's reaction was 'wide eyes and silence' — 'The weight of it is exactly what the act needs' [2d]
- I've found the 12 best early Memorial Day Apple deals to buy right now — AirPods, iPads, MacBooks, and more from $99 [2d]
- Nvidia tells users to update GPU drivers now or face possible attack — here's what we know [2d]
- Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced creative director says the team 'expanded' Edward Kenway's story and the theme of 'greed' in new content — 'I won't spoil too much of it for you, but we thought that that was a strong juxtaposition to who he is' [2d]
- Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced creative director says the modernized combat system has been upgraded to make varied tools flow better — 'We were inspired by early fan-made combo videos from the original' [2d]
- Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced perfectly captures the spirit of the original, but benefits from some much-needed upgrades [2d]
- Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced creative director reveals there is 'probably almost nothing' left of the original code in the remake — 'Almost everything had to be rebuilt' [2d]
- 'I got chills': Dolby Atmos brought Audible books and Rocket Man to life in a way that whisked me to another time and place [2d]
- Summer is fast approaching, gamers — that means those leather chairs won't cut it, and it's exactly why I recommend this mesh office chair [2d]
- Spotify will now reserve concert tickets for artists' biggest fans — the service is standing against Ticketmaster battles and scalpers by launching its own ticket priority system so you can automatically benefit if you really love a musician [2d]
- It's official: Warhorse Studios is officially working on a new open-world Lord of the Rings RPG alongside 'a new Kingdom Come adventure' [2d]
- Spotify's huge new podcast makeover means you can now ask in-depth questions about the episodes you’re listening to, which sounds great — but the new 'generated' Personal Podcast feature will be more controversial… [2d]
- 12 products for keeping cool at work [2d]
- Top arcade game maker leaks nearly 19 million user records via WeChat mini app [2d]
- I could probably generate hundreds of Gemini images before hitting the limit — but the new AI meter still changed my behavior [2d]
- Mullvad to patch VPN fingerprinting issue to stop your activity from being tracked across servers [2d]
- 18 content creator upgrades in Amazon's massive Memorial Day sale — and this gear is perfect for your home studio setup [2d]
- Zendesk becomes the latest to adopt MCP to futureproof customers in the AI-first era [2d]
- No need to wait for Memorial Day — you can get a 55-inch LG OLED TV for an incredible price of $799.99 right now [2d]
- Margo's Got Money Troubles ending explained: who wins the custody battle, that shocking betrayal, and more from the Apple TV comedy series [2d]
- Russian researcher claims state-backed MAX app secretly records users and monitors VPNs [2d]
- European Law enforcement forces pull the plug on this free VPN in massive cybercrime crackdown —here's all we know [2d]
- Looks like Google TV could get Wii-style pointy controls, just like my LG TV's Magic Remote that drives me and my kids mad [2d]
- GitHub confirms breach — thousands of internal repositories hit after employee installs malicious VS Code extension [2d]
- 'A Turtle in a shiny plastic shell': Bizarre $270 Amazon laptop pairs 16GB of RAM with a tech Stone Age CPU — so slow your smartphone's probably faster [2d]
- With SynthID, Google is cleaning up the AI mess it helped make, but Omni power makes it clear we'll never get ahead of generative AI fiction [2d]
- Discord just made your voice and video calls more private and secure than ever — but age verification privacy concerns haven't been dispelled [2d]
- VPN deal of the week: here's the VPN I recommend for the last weekend of the Premier League 2026 — it's great with streaming services, keeps your online data secure, and has apps for every streaming device imaginable [2d]
- Ubisoft confirms new Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Ghost Recon games are in the works and will launch by March 2029, alongside the 'first playable Generative AI experience' [2d]
- De’Longhi's new Pinguino air conditioner will keep you cool in any room, and it's launched just in time for the UK's early summer heat [2d]
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- This $60 Magnet Changed How I Use My iPhone [2d]
- Eufy Brings Local AI Agents to Home Security, the First I've Seen Without a Subscription [2d]
- Anker's New Liberty 5 Pro Series Earbuds Are All-Around Great, but Do One Thing Incredibly Well [2d]
- The SpaceX Starship V3 Set for Liftoff Today: What to Know [2d]
- ADT Announces Yet Another DIY Home Security Line, Now With AI Features [2d]
- Disney Already Facing Lawsuit Over Controversial Facial Scanning at Theme Parks [2d]
- Waitlist for the Luna Band, a Screenless Fitness Tracker Unveiled at CES, Is Now Open [2d]
- Live Q&A With the Trump Phone: All Things Mobile Live video [2d]
- Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for May 22, #1798 [2d]
- Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for May 22, #1076 [2d]
- Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for May 22, #810 [2d]
- Firefox's Free VPN Adds More Servers in More Countries [2d]
- If You Use Google Chrome, Your Device May Have Secretly Downloaded a 4GB AI Model [2d]
- Spotify and Universal Music Group Strike a Deal for AI-Powered Remix and Cover Song Tool [2d]
- 'Dutton Ranch': How to Watch Episode 3 of the 'Yellowstone' Sequel Series [2d]
- Fitness-Tracking Strava App Upgrades Its Strength Training Feature [2d]
- An Upcoming MLS Match on Apple TV Will Be Shot Entirely on the iPhone 17 Pro [2d]
- Warhammer 40,000 Boltgun 2 Preview: More Action, but Still a Doom Clone [2d]
- Google's Latest Stuff Explained in Human Terms video [2d]
- Spotify Offers Advance Concert Tickets to Premium Users [2d]
- Russian Hackers Are Inside American Home Routers. The FBI Has a 5-Step Fix [2d]
- Motorola Razr Plus 2026 Review: It Doesn't Feel Very 'Plus' to Me [2d]
- Netflix Makes It Easier to Search for Accessible Movies and TV Shows [2d]
- Razr 2026 Review: The Most Affordable US Flip Phone Is Still Solid, Just Pricier [2d]
- How to Make Your Phone Last Years Longer (and Save Yourself a Fortune) [2d]
- Anker Soundcore Nebula P1i Projector Review: Huge Ears, Bright Image, Affordable Price [2d]
- I'm a Pro Photographer, and Oppo's Find X9 Ultra Is a Stunning Camera Phone [2d]
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