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DefiLlama: investors pulled ~$14B from the DeFi sector after North Korea-linked hackers stole $290M from Aave in April, weeks after stealing $280M from Drift (Financial Times)
A medical student reverse-engineered AI tools used by medical colleges on suspicion they were filtering his applications, highlighting AI-driven hiring concerns (Todd Feathers/Wired)
Sources: DeepSeek is in talks to raise funds, and the Big Fund, China's biggest state-backed chip fund, is seeking to lead the investment at a ~$45B valuation (Financial Times)
Study: using weaker AI models to supervise a more capable model could prevent the stronger model from deliberately underperforming on benchmarks and evaluations (Emil Ryd/@emilaryd)
Accounting software company Visma's delayed IPO, coming amid "SaaSpocalypse" fears, is a major setback for private equity parent Hg, a software buyout giant (Financial Times)
Infineon expects data center revenue to grow from €1.5B in FY2026 to €2.5B in FY2027, as it and EU peers STMicro and NXP benefit from AI infrastructure demand (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
Security camera companies are embracing AI to give customers detailed descriptions of surveillance footage that are often spot on but can also be wildly wrong (Scott Calvert/Wall Street Journal)
Study: US schools with strict cellphone bans in class have not seen higher test scores on average so far, but students reported a greater sense of well-being (Dana Goldstein/New York Times)
Sources: Blue Origin outlines a new employee stock plan to quell staff unrest and make its incentives more competitive with SpaceX (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
Google quietly shuts down Project Mariner, its Chrome-browsing AI agent for completing tasks on users' behalf, after highlighting it onstage at I/O 2025 (Max Zeff/@zeffmax)
Germany-based eleQtron, which develops trapped-ion quantum computing processors using proprietary tech, raised a €57M Series A led by Schwarz Digits (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
Source: Alphabet is in talks with Blackstone, KKR, and EQT to give their portfolio companies AI model access, after OpenAI's and Anthropic's JVs with PE firms (The Information)
Nace.AI, which lets companies build specialized AI models tailored to their business' mission and language, raised a $21.5M seed led by Walden Catalyst (Chris Metinko/Axios)
Coupang reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to $8.5B and a net loss of $266M following a 2025 Korean customer data breach, its largest loss since Q4 2021 (The Korea Herald)
CRM software company Freshworks said it plans to cut 11% of its workforce, or ~500 jobs, as it deals with AI's impact; FRSH has dropped ~26% in 2026 (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)

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Valve releases design files for its out-of-stock Steam Controller
Apple will pay $250 million for failing to deliver its AI-powered Siri on time
Anthropic reportedly agrees to pay Google $200 billion for chips and cloud access
Xbox is ditching Microsoft's Copilot AI
Remakes of Myst and Riven are coming to PlayStation, Xbox and the Microsoft Store
Irish regulators are investigating whether Meta is using 'dark patterns' to steer people away from non-algorithmic feeds
Apple Intelligence will reportedly let you choose third-party AI models in iOS 27
Pennsylvania is suing Character.AI over chatbots that pretend to be licensed doctors
The next Call of Duty is not coming to PS4 (or presumably Xbox One)
Google Home gains more Gemini-powered camera features
The Steam Controller sold out super quickly and Valve is working on a restock
ChatGPT's new default model is more factual and better at personalization
Book publishers accuse Meta and Mark Zuckerberg of copyright infringement
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Google will livestream The Android Show: I/O Edition on May 12
Coinbase lays off nearly 700 workers in 'AI-native' restructuring
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