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Spotify's AI strategy is a contradiction: It wants to make AI content while proving it's human

The company is introducing verified badges for human artists, AI-generated podcasts and remixes, creating confusion about what it actually wants

Google's search box is dead. What replaces it will reshape the internet

The company is abandoning 25 years of design to build an interface that answers questions by taking action on your behalf

Anthropic’s Code with Claude shows developers already shipping AI-written pull requests

Washington just became a quantum computing investor, and it is not pretending otherwise

The Trump administration's $2 billion equity-for-grants deal with nine quantum firms extends a pattern that started with Intel and is reshaping how the US funds strategic technology

Nokia launches AI Networking Innovation Lab

The Path raises $14.3 million seed led by Prime Movers Lab

The AI therapy startup co-founded by Tony Robbins and ex‑Calm employees secured $14.3 million in seed funding to scale its conversational mental‑health product.

At $5.5 trillion, Nvidia needs more than another blowout quarter

Revenue rose 85% to $82 billion, data centre sales nearly doubled and guidance cleared estimates by $4 billion. The stock fell anyway, for the fourth consecutive post-earnings report. The numbers are no longer the story.

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Samsung's chip workers just negotiated $340,000 bonuses and accidentally proved something about AI

The deal that averted the biggest strike in Korean corporate history suggests the most AI-proof job in tech is making the hardware that AI runs on

Trump administration prepares AI security order to require 90-day pre-release model sharing

The White House is preparing to create a voluntary framework obliging AI developers to share advanced models with the U.S. government 90 days before public release and to give early access to critical infrastructure operators, Reuters reported.

Tesla expands supervised Full Self-Driving to Lithuania

Tesla made its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) driver assistance software available in Lithuania, the second European country to approve its use.

OpenAI prepares to file for IPO within days as AI's blockbuster listing season takes shape

Sam Altman is targeting a September debut, with SpaceX's S-1 expected to land this week and Anthropic eyeing October. The three offerings could raise a combined $200 billion

Exa raises $250 million to build the search engine that AI agents use instead of Google

The five-year-old startup's valuation has tripled to $2.2 billion in eight months as investors pile into the infrastructure layer beneath agentic AI

Jack Dorsey to cut Block management layers to two or three to speed AI-driven change

Dorsey said he will reduce organisational layers from about five to two or three by the end of the year and recast managers as technical coaches

Goldman Sachs says AI stocks are behaving like defensive investments

Analysts identify persistent inflows and dip-buying over recent months as evidence that institutional investors are treating AI-linked companies as strategic, long‑term holdings rather than short‑term growth bets.

Nvidia and Google Cloud are building the on-ramp for the next wave of AI developers

Their joint developer community has hit 100,000 members in a year, and the new learning paths tell you where the industry thinks the demand is heading

Google wants an AI agent sitting inside every marketer's workflow

Ask Advisor connects Ads, Analytics, Merchant Center and Marketing Platform through a single Gemini-powered interface

Amazon will end support for Kindles made in 2012 or earlier

Amazon will stop allowing Kindles released in 2012 or earlier to download new books or receive software updates starting May 20, prompting longtime users to scramble for workarounds or to consider replacement devices.

Google redesigns the search box for the first time in 25 years and bets the whole thing on AI

AI Mode has crossed one billion monthly users. Now Gemini 3.5 Flash becomes the default and the search box itself gets rebuilt

Google unveils Gemini for Science

The platform is a collection of AI experiments and tools the company says are intended to speed up scientific discovery.

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Citadel Securities alumni raise $78 million to automate the part of finance that still runs on spreadsheets

Moment's Series C brings total funding to $134 million as Edward Jones, LPL Financial and Hightower sign on