Techmeme

SAP to acquire Dremio, an open data lakehouse provider, and Prior Labs, which it pledges to invest €1B in over four years, hoping to create a frontier AI lab (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
Katie Haun raises $1B for two funds split between early and later-stage investments, looking at startups blending financial services, AI, and alternative assets (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
Bret Taylor's Sierra, which sells AI customer service agents, raised a $950M Series E led by Tiger and GV at a $15.8B post-money valuation, up from $10B in 2025 (Kate Rooney/CNBC)
Trump's World Liberty Financial countersues Tron founder Justin Sun, alleging defamation, contract violations, and more (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
The jury-less bench trial phase of Meta's child safety case in NM begins today to determine if Meta's actions were a public nuisance and warrant product changes (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
eBay's stock jumps 6%+ to ~$111, below GameStop's $125/share acquisition offer, in a sign investors see hurdles to completing a deal; GameStop's stock drops 6%+ (Bloomberg)
Filing: Elon Musk texted Greg Brockman about settling days before trial; after being denied, he said Brockman and Altman "will be the most hated men in America" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
Source: OpenAI has raised $4B+ at a $10B pre-money valuation for The Deployment Company, a new joint venture that will aim to help businesses adopt OpenAI tools (Seth Fiegerman/Bloomberg)
Enzo Health, whose AI tools help home health and hospice agencies automate tasks like patient intake and documentation review, raised a $20M Series A led by N47 (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)
How AI tools such as SuperBrain and Naver's Talking Buddy are helping South Korea's elderly ease loneliness, detect emergencies, and slow cognitive decline (Choe Sang-Hun/New York Times)
Amazon debuts Supply Chain Services, which lets companies use its logistics network to move, store, and deliver everything from raw materials to final products (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)
Instructure reported a data breach on April 30; ShinyHunters adds Instructure to its victims list, claiming it has 3.65TB of data from nearly 9,000 institutions (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)
Jensen Huang said Nvidia's market share of AI accelerators in China has "now dropped to zero" and that the US' export policy "has already largely backfired" (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
Cerebras seeks a valuation of up to $26.62B in its US IPO, aiming to raise $3.5B by selling 28M shares at $115 to $125 apiece in its second attempt to go public (Reuters)
Legislators and experts criticize the EU's €20B sovereign compute data center plan, questioning whether there is demand and the plan's reliance on Nvidia GPUs (Pieter Haeck/Politico)

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Engadget

How to watch Xbox's Stranger Than Heaven showcase
Instagram is testing optional 'AI creator' labels
Amazon opens up its logistics networks to any business
Sony will soon settle a PlayStation Store class action lawsuit for $7.8 million
GameStop submits $56 billion offer to buy eBay
Ask.com has shut down, marking the official farewell to the Internet's favorite butler
Lego is releasing a Sega Genesis set complete with little controllers
OpenAI introduces AI-generated pets for its Codex app
Tesla starts selling Chinese-made Model 3s in Canada at the EV's lowest price ever
Meta acquires robotics AI startup as it makes the push into humanoid machines
Undead co-op shooters, gorgeous hack-and-slash action and other new indie games worth checking out
AI performances and screenplays won't be eligible for Oscars
Apple appears to have discontinued its cheapest Mac mini
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Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and NVIDIA will provide AI tech to Pentagon
Engadget Podcast: Is the Valve Steam Controller worth $100?
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