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Sources: China recently told tech companies, including ByteDance and Moonshot AI, to reject US capital without state approval, after Meta's Manus acquisition (Bloomberg)
Alibaba says its Qwen AI models will be integrated into BYD, Volkswagen, and other cars, letting users buy food and tickets via voice commands on select models (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
As part of the Cohere-Aleph Alpha deal, Aleph Alpha backer Schwarz Group plans to invest $600M in Cohere's Series E, which a source says is set to close in 2026 (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
Norway plans to ban children from using social media until they turn 16; the government says it will introduce a bill in parliament by the end of 2026 (Terje Solsvik/Reuters)
Canada's Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha agree to a merger deal valuing the combined group at ~$20B to work on sovereign AI; both governments support the deal (Financial Times)
EY survey of 18,000 people across 23 countries: ~49% of consumers have used AI over the past six months to support their savings and investment decisions (Emma Dunkley/Financial Times)
Tracxn: global edtech funding fell from $16.7B in 2021 to $2.6B in 2025, while the number of startups launched dropped from 10,491 in 2021 to just 645 in 2025 (Ananya Bhattacharya/Rest of World)
Sources: India is piloting 10 schemes to test whether its CBDC, the e-rupee, can deliver welfare payments more efficiently, as it looks to boost e-rupee usage (Reuters)
DeepSeek V4 Pro costs $1.74/1M input tokens and $3.48/1M output tokens, while V4 Flash costs $0.14/1M and $0.28/1M; both models are the cheapest in their class (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
Staffing experts say India's IT sector is seeing a rise in replacement hiring as companies adapt to Gen Z staff leaving jobs faster than previous generations (Tanya Pandey/The Economic Times)
Sources: Cursor hit $2.7B in annualized sales in March, up ~14x from a year ago, and reported a ~$900M loss in its last fiscal year on $770M in total revenue (The Information)
China's top market regulator says it is launching a six-month crackdown on the country's online ad sector, targeting malpractices including the misuse of AI (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
The AI boom has pushed the market cap of Shenzhen-listed Zhongji Innolight, a leading optical communications device maker, close to $146B, a record high (Bloomberg)
DeepSeek V4 Pro has 1.6T total parameters, its largest model by that metric, and V4 Flash has 284B parameters; both models have a context window of 1M tokens (South China Morning Post)
Huawei says its Ascend supernode based on the Ascend 950 AI chips will fully support DeepSeek V4, as DeepSeek launches a preview of its V4 model (Reuters)

Wired

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Engadget

Porsche's new Cayenne Turbo Coupé Electric can do 0-60 mph in 2.5 seconds
US soldier arrested for allegedly making over $400,000 on Polymarket with classified Maduro information
Claude can now connect to lifestyle apps like Spotify, Instacart and AllTrails
Microsoft is reportedly offering voluntary buyouts to up to 7 percent of its employees
Meta is downsizing by about 10 percent
Titanium Court mashes together genres and cultural references to tell a strange, funny tale
X is shutting down its Communities feature
Apple, Amazon join push for looser greenhouse emissions reporting
Apple TV's upcoming For All Mankind spinoff Star City oozes Cold War-era paranoia
Rivian begins production on the R2 electric SUV
Five Annapurna Interactive games get Switch 2 releases
Ubisoft has finally dropped a trailer for that Assassin's Creed: Black Flag remake
Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets
Turkey wants to ban social media for kids under 15
Meta will show parents the topics of their teens' AI conversations
2027 BMW i7 first look: A fantastically techy car for the 1 percent
DJI Lito 1 and Lito X1 drone review: High-quality aerial video at its most affordable
Musk pledges to fix 2019-2023 Teslas that can't fully self drive
Kalshi suspended three political candidates from its platform for insider trading
Ecco the Dolphin: Complete will combine remasters and a sequel into one package
NASA targets a September launch for its next big space telescope
France's national agency for managing IDs and passports suffered a data breach last week
Apple rolls out iOS 26.4.2 to fix a flaw that allowed the FBI to access push notifications
LG's first RGB TV starts at $5,000 and is available to pre-order today
Vampire Survivors developer Poncle is opening more studios and has over 15 projects in the works
Threads introduces 'live chats' for following live events
Control: Ultimate Edition is out for the iPhone and iPad
Here’s to the stable ones: In praise of Tim Cook
Xfinity Mobile now includes device protection and anytime phone upgrades
Hey Meta workers, are you getting paid for those keystrokes?
BMW's new i7 xDrive EVs will offer longer range and faster charging
Yoshi and the Mysterious Book preview: A choose-your-own-adventure even adults can love
Anker's 'Thus' chip brings AI to its headphones and other products
X finally adds custom timelines
Anthropic is investigating 'unauthorized access' of its Mythos cybersecurity tool
SpaceX and Cursor strike partnership that might end in a $60 billion acquisition
Mozilla says it patched 271 Firefox vulnerabilities thanks to Anthropic's Claude Mythos
Cash App now supports accounts for kids 6-12
YouTube is muting push notifications from channels you don't watch
AI company deletes the 3 million OKCupid photos it used for facial recognition training
Meta has misled users about scam ads on Facebook and Instagram, lawsuit says
New York Attorney General sues two prediction markets on illegal gambling allegations
Florida AG opens criminal investigation into OpenAI and ChatGPT
ChatGPT Images 2.0 is better at rendering non-Latin text
Netflix's Devil May Cry animated adaptation returns for a second season on May 12
Framework is building an eGPU kit for its Laptop 16
Framework launches the Laptop 13 Pro with Intel's new Panther Lake chips
Monterey Park, California has banned any data centers within its city limits
NASA's Curiosity Rover found promising organic chemicals on Mars
Silo's season 3 trailer takes us back to how it all began

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