In a video and a letter signed “Sam & Jony”, Altman and Ive say io, founded in 2024 by Ive, Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey, and Tang Tan will develop new products
Update! It's this: — openai.com/sam-and-jony/ Emma Jacobs / @emmavj : Your dad introducing his new partner — openai.com/sam-and-jony/ Kate Knibbs / @knibbs : but what are they actually making????...
OpenAI acquires io, Jony Ive's secretive AI startup, for nearly $6.5B in stock; Ive and LoveFrom will remain independent but take over design for all of OpenAI
OpenAI will acquire the AI device startup co-founded by Apple Inc. veteran Jony Ive in a nearly $6.5 billion all-stock deal …
Google is tapping its users' data to give its AI models an advantage over OpenAI and Anthropic, starting with its opt-in “Gemini with personalization” feature
Google is slowly giving Gemini more and more access to user data to ‘personalize’ your responses.
Leaked recording: Sam Altman told his staff that OpenAI aims to ship 100M AI “companion” devices meant for everyday life, and to release the first by late 2026
Idea is a 'chance to do the biggest thing we've ever done as a company here,' Altman told OpenAI employees Wednesday
Microsoft says it is reducing “politically focused emails” internally and externally; workers cannot send emails mentioning “Palestine”, “Gaza”, or “genocide”
Employees discovered that emails with a variety of terms related to Gaza and Palestine have been blocked internally.
Signal says its desktop app will block Windows from taking screenshots of it by default due to Recall's privacy risks; users can enable screenshots in settings
Signal Messenger is warning the users of its Windows Desktop version that the privacy of their messages is under threat by Recall …
Kuo: Ive and Altman's device could be larger than Humane's AI pin, may connect to smartphones and PCs to use their computing and display capabilities, and more
Supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is mostly known for Apple rumors, and now says users might be able to wear OpenAI's future device around their neck.
Sources: OpenAI owned a 23% stake in io from a 2024 deal, so it is now paying ~$5B to fully acquire it; the OpenAI Startup Fund also invested in io in 2024
OpenAI buys Ive's “io” in San Francisco as Google holds their i/o conference down in mountain view right at this moment (also apple stock dropped ~2 percent this morning on the acquisition news) Ben N...
Google DeepMind says Gemini Diffusion, an experimental text diffusion model demoed at Google I/O and available by waitlist, generates 1,000-2,000 tokens/second
Our state-of-the-art, experimental text diffusion model Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt : Google Doubles Down on AI: Veo 3, Imagen 4 and Gemini Diffusion Push Creative Boundaries Matthias Bastian / The De...
Q&A with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and Google co-founder Sergey Brin on AI frontier models, scaling data centers, reasoning, DeepThink, AGI, and more
Google co-founder Brin says “anybody who's a computer scientist should not be retired right now. They should be working on AI."
Bitcoin reached a new all-time high on May 21, surpassing $110K and breaking its January 2025 record, after slumping to $74K in April 2025 amid macro concerns
WATCH NOW — Bitcoin rose to a new all-time high on Wednesday, breaking its January record.
A security researcher finds an exposed Elastic database with 184M records, including login credentials for Apple, Meta, Google, and others; its owner is unknown
A trove of breached data, which has now been taken down, includes user logins for platforms including Apple, Google, and Meta.
Nansen: the 220 winners of President Trump's May 22 dinner contest spent $394M on the $TRUMP token, with the top seven spending $10M+ each and a third $1M+ each
In total, the 220 winners of the contest to attend the dinner spent $394 million on Trump's official cryptocurrency.
Q&A with legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto on Super Nintendo World, redesigning Donkey Kong, growing Pikmin, enhancing games for the Switch 2, and more
“What's important is to be able to create something new.” — In May of 2015, Nintendo officially announced plans to partner …
io's device could be Ive's antidote to the smartphone obsession but it faces challenges, including overcoming people's reluctance to buy “yet another device”
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Two new books on OpenAI and the AI industry bust Sam Altman's myths around OpenAI, and highlight the pursuit of power behind the do-gooder rhetoric
Two timely and myth-busting books show that the AI boom is driven by the pursuit of power, wealth and hubris
Kraken plans to offer tokenized versions of 50+ stocks and ETFs, including Apple and Tesla stocks, to customers in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia
The platform will offer overseas customers tokenized versions of more than 50 stocks and ETFs — Kraken, the cryptocurrency exchange …
Sources: the US DOJ recently told Google it is examining whether Google structured an agreement with Character.AI to avoid formal government merger scrutiny
Antitrust enforcers have recently told Google they're examining whether it structured an agreement with the company known as Character.AI …
M&S CEO Stuart Machin says hackers accessed the UK retailer's systems using social engineering tactics via a third-party supplier, putting M&S “on its backside”
Hackers gained access via third-party supplier to perpetrate attack that put M&S ‘on its backside’
Microsoft researchers and others detail Aurora, an AI weather model they say makes accurate 10-day forecasts faster and at smaller scales than many other models
A Microsoft model can make accurate 10-day forecasts quickly, an analysis found. And, it's designed to predict more than weather.
A US district judge rules Google and Character.AI must face a Florida woman's lawsuit claiming Character.AI's chatbots caused her 14-year-old son's suicide
Judge Says Free Speech Defense Not Acceptable Eugene Volokh / Reason : Court Allows Lawsuit Over Character.AI Conversations That Allegedly Caused 14-Year-Old's Suicide to Go Forward Adi Robertson / Th...
A New York jury convicts Braden John Karony, the former CEO of crypto company SafeMoon, of conspiracy to defraud the US, money laundering, and wire fraud
A New York jury found Braden John Karony, the former CEO of cryptocurrency company SafeMoon, guilty of three felony charges after less than a day of deliberation.
OpenAI updates its Responses API for building agentic applications to include remote MCP server support, image generation and Code Interpreter tools, and more
OpenAI is rolling out a set of significant updates to its newish Responses API, aiming to make it easier for developers and enterprises …
Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun unveils the Xring O1, a Xiaomi-made 3nm chip that will power three devices, including the Tablet 7 Ultra, in a bid to compete with Apple
The 5-meter long vehicle's top model can go 760 kilometers on a single charge and hit 100 km/h in 3.23 seconds …
A profile of Bill Zanker, who sources say has been instrumental in marketing $TRUMP and organizing the President Trump dinner for the memecoin's top 220 holders
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg :
Amazon introduces AI shopping experts, an audio feature that summarizes product details, customer reviews, and more, on select products for some US customers
Amazon is adding another AI twist to its shopping app with an audio feature that provides highlights and insight about certain products.
Lenovo reports Q4 revenue up 23% to $16.98B, vs. $15.6B est., and net profit down 64% YoY to ~$90M, below $225.8M est., reflecting AI and PC market competition
The Chinese company reported net income of $90 million for the March quarter versus projections for more than $200 million …
OpenAI partners with G42 and others to build a 1-gigawatt AI data center in Abu Dhabi called Stargate UAE, its first large-scale project outside the US
Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal :
AT&T agrees to acquire Lumen's consumer fiber business for $5.75B, in an all-cash deal expected to close in H1 2026; LUMN jumps 13%+
Milana Vinn / Reuters :
The US House passes the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a budget bill that would ban states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years; the bill now heads to the Senate
The United States House of Representatives early Thursday narrowly passed a budget bill that, if enacted, would ban states …
How SpaceX's Starlink moved quickly to solidify its lead in the satellite internet business, as its competitors face production and launch capacity bottlenecks
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Amazon plans to sell Nike products directly for the first time since 2019, when Nike stopped selling through Amazon due to lingering counterfeit issues
and raising prices Jordan Valinsky / CNN : Nike is raising prices - and returning to Amazon Yahoo Finance : Nike on Amazon, Tesla vs. BYD, Snowflake: Trending Tickers Mackenzie Tatananni / Barron's On...
Snowflake reports Q1 product revenue up 26% YoY to $996.8M, vs. $966M est., and forecasts Q2 product revenue above estimates; SNOW jumps 6%+
Brody Ford / Bloomberg :
Sources: Telegram told investors ahead of a ~$1.5B bond offering that revenue reached $1.4B in 2024, up from $343M in 2023, and net profit reached $540M in 2024
Messaging app's finances are booming even as chief Pavel Durov fights French case over alleged content failings X: @ft X: @ft : According to people familiar with the matter, the bumper earnings were s...
Zoom reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.17B, in line with expectations, Enterprise revenue up 6% YoY to $704.7M, and raises its FY 2026 forecast above estimates
Juby Babu / Reuters :
China is catching up with the US in AI, robotics, and other sectors, driven by an R&D spending rise, hitting $500B in 2024, up 3x since Xi took office in 2012
Beijing is racing ahead in advanced technology, including in robots, satellites and AI—and in some cases is catching up with the U.S. X: @jchengwsj X: Jonathan Cheng / @jchengwsj : The Fortress That C...
Slash, which provides banking services for specific sectors like crypto and marketing, raised a $41M Series B at a $370M valuation led by Goodwater Capital
Leo Schwartz / Fortune :
Running app Strava raised new funding at a $2.2B valuation including debt, up from $1.5B after raising $110M in November 2020, and nears $500M in ARR
Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal :
Marcos Galperin, founder and CEO of Latin American e-commerce giant MercadoLibre, will step down in late 2025 and be replaced by commerce head Ariel Szarfsztejn
Andre Romani / Reuters :
FTC v. Meta: Meta rested its case on May 21 after four days of arguments, including that it faces hefty competition and helped build Instagram and WhatsApp
And So Are We ”: Meta is even trickier. We think of it as a social media company—but it's far more than that. In last week's FTC antitrust trial, The Verge reported that Meta is in the midst of an i...
NYC-based Siro, which offers AI-powered coaching for sales reps, raised a $50M Series B led by SignalFire, bringing its total raised to $75M
Today, I'm proud to share that we've raised a $50 million Series B, led by SignalFire … Cailen DSa : Thrilled for our portfolio company, Siro on expanding their war chest — a $50m Series B from existi...
Digital physical therapy provider Hinge Health raised $437M in its US IPO, after the company and its backers sold 13.7M shares at $32 each, the top of its range
Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg :
Analysis: since 2023, US states enacted 120+ deepfake-related laws, with 26 passed in 2025 alone; California passed eight deepfake bills in September 2024
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times :
An overview of major streamers' revenues, subscriber churn, cancellation rates, shares of US TV viewing time, and shares of US sports TV rights deals since 2023
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How animation startup Toonstar uses its AI tools to make animated content up to 90% cheaper than traditional methods; its YouTube series has 30M weekly viewers
Brooks Barnes / New York Times : Bluesky: @patrickleger Bluesky: Patrick Leger / @patrickleger : AI has finally solved how to make shit animation faster 👍
Takeaways from Computex 2025: little focus on consumer AI, Chinese AI and chip advances loom large, Intel and Nvidia courting Taiwanese partners, and more
Bloomberg :
Inside the making of ASML's High NA: the latest-gen EUV machine costs $400M+, has four modules, is assembled in the Netherlands, and five units have shipped
Katie Tarasov / CNBC :
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