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A study conducted in the Phoenix metro area finds that waste heat from data centers can raise air temperatures in downwind neighborhoods by as much as 4°F (Tech Xplore)
Paris-based Pivot, which develops AI tools for procurement and financial workflows, raised a $40M Series B co-led by Forestay Capital and Notion Capital (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
Bengaluru-based Scapia, which offers travel-focused co-branded credit cards and an app, raised $63M led by GC, a source says at a $500M+ post-money valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
X resolved a three-year dispute with Australia's eSafety regulator after a court upheld a fine against the company for inadequate disclosures on combating CSAM (Byron Kaye/Reuters)
Commure, which offers AI, revenue cycle management, and workflow automation tools for healthcare providers, raised $70M led by GC at a $7B post-money valuation (Paige Minemyer/Fierce Healthcare)
Ofcom says Meta, Snap, and Roblox will adopt stronger anti-grooming measures, while TikTok and YouTube "failed to commit to any significant changes" (Ofcom)
AMD says its Mac Mini-sized Ryzen AI Halo PC starts at $3,999 with Ryzen AI Max 300 chips, for pre-order in June, and unveils AI Max 400 chips, available in Q3 (Devindra Hardawar/Engadget)
Cohere releases Command A+, a sparse MoE open model built for agentic tasks, with 218B total and 25B active parameters, its first under the Apache 2.0 license (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
Jensen Huang said that Nvidia has "largely conceded" China's AI chip market to Huawei and should "expect nothing" regarding chip sale approvals to China (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)
Filing: SpaceX set aside $530M for potential litigation losses, including lawsuits involving Grok's "Spicy" mode, which it described as a "heightened risk" (Wired)
SpaceX S-1: Starlink had 10.3M subscribers in Q1 2026, a 105% increase YoY; SpaceX's "Connectivity" business, which is primarily Starlink, made $11.3B in 2025 (Michael Kan/PCMag)
Sources: the Pentagon is launching a task force to study how to safely deploy leading AI tools with hacking capabilities across Cyber Command and NSA missions (Politico)
SpaceX S-1: xAI plans to buy another $2.8B worth of turbines for its data centers, including a $2B deal for mobile gas turbines, the type it's being sued over (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
SpaceX S-1: xAI had a $6.4B operating loss on $3.2B in revenue in 2025; Grok and X had 550M MAUs combined as of March 2026, and 117M used Grok's AI features (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
SpaceX S-1: Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25B/mo. until May 2029 under their compute deal; Anthropic says it's expanding the deal to include Colossus 2 capacity (Ina Fried/Axios)

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Engadget

Samsung union suspends strike after reaching tentative deal on bonuses
Airbnb expands into hotel bookings and even grocery deliveries
Cuneflow's e-paper writing tablet uses AI to record and transcribe meetings
An hour-long PlayStation State of Play is set for June 2
XGIMI Titan Noir Max projector review: Excellent image quality, but short on features
AMD prices its Ryzen AI Halo PC at $3,999, unveils Ryzen AI Max 400 chips
Google says Gemini 3.5 Flash rivals 'large flagship models' for coding and agentic tasks
I/O 2026 is bringing more AI to Google Play
The Google AI Ultra plan now starts at $100 a month
Google's newest app is an AI-powered image editor
Google's Universal Cart will keep an eye on your shopping
Kansas City has bought more than 4,500 MacBook Neos for its students
Project Genie adds Google Street View integration and goes live for global AI Ultra users
Google's Circle to Search feature can tell you if an image was AI-generated
Google shoves more AI into Search, including a dynamic Search box and agentic features
Samsung and Google just teased their upcoming Android XR smartglasses at Google I/O
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Microsoft hired an analyst with an influential video game blog to fix Xbox
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