Techmeme

Goldman Sachs: Alphabet and Amazon generated "other income" totaling $53B in Q1, or ~60% of their Q1 income; $49B was due to equity stakes in private companies (Robin Wigglesworth/Financial Times)
Sources: OpenAI and Broadcom discuss terms for Broadcom to finance initial custom chip production for ~$18B, conditioned on Microsoft buying ~40% of the chips (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
Anthropic researchers detail natural language autoencoders, which convert LLM activations, the numbers encoding a model's thoughts, into natural language text (Anthropic)
Sources: Ramp told investors it is raising $750M co-led by Iconiq Capital and GIC at a valuation of $40B+ before the investment, up from $32B in November 2025 (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
EU legislators reach a deal to postpone restrictions on high-risk AI until December 2027 and to exempt the use of AI in industrial applications from the AI Act (Pieter Haeck/Politico)
While Anthropic will use the Colossus 1 data center, which has a really bad environmental record, xAI retains the larger Colossus 2 for its own AI training (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
Sources: AirPods with cameras reached an advanced testing stage; the cameras will feed data to Siri to help answer questions, rather than take photos or video (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
OpenAI launches three voice models in the API: GPT-Realtime-2 with GPT-5-class reasoning, GPT-Realtime-Whisper for transcription, and GPT-Realtime-Translate (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
OpenAI launches Trusted Contact, an optional safety feature for ChatGPT that lets adult users assign an emergency contact for mental health and safety concerns (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
Elon Musk says SpaceX reserves "the right to reclaim the compute" from Anthropic if its "AI engages in actions that harm humanity" (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)
Filing: OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky's wife assumed significant control of OnlyFans holding company Fenix in March following the death of Radvinsky (Bloomberg)
AWS unveils Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments and partners with Coinbase and Stripe to enable AI agents to execute transactions using stablecoins (RT Watson/The Block)
Meta challenges Ofcom in UK High Court over the Online Safety Act, which calculates levies based on global, not UK, revenue, in a case scheduled for October (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
Nova Intelligence, which is building agentic AI for SAP ahead of a 2030 migration, raised a $31.5M Series A led by Chemistry, taking its total funding to $40M+ (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
Tessera Labs, which uses AI agents to automate enterprise IT migrations and ERP transformations, raised a $60M Series A led by a16z at a $320M valuation (Anna Tong/Forbes)

Wired

How to Disable Google's Gemini in Chrome
Why the Hantavirus Cruise Ship Outbreak Isn’t Likely to Become a Global Crisis
How I Fixed My Webcam Lighting for Zoom Calls (2026)
ChatGPT Has 'Goblin' Mania in the US. In China It Will 'Catch You Steadily'
Best Last-Minute Mother’s Day Deals on Mom-Approved Gifts (2026)
One of DOGE's Young Engineers Is Now Running a Defense Tech Startup
Diabetes Detection Needs Better Tools. They’re on the Way
Google Is Rebranding the Fitbit App to ‘Google Health’
Google Ditches the Screen With the New Fitbit Air (2026)
Sleep Number ComfortNext Lux Smart Bed: Redefining Support
Best Printers for Any Home-Office Need (2026): Brother, HP, and More
Best Bug Spray (2026), Tested and Reviewed
Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web
This Reggae Band Is in a Nightmare Battle Against AI Slop Remixes
11 Best Sunscreens, WIRED Tested and Reviewed
Bottom G Wants You to Know He’s More Than Just ‘Gay Andrew Tate’
There Is No Evidence the Trump Assassination Attempts Were Staged. People Still Believe They Were
Everyone Should Travel With a Pair of Cheap Wired Headphones (2026)
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Elon Musk’s Last-Ditch Effort to Control OpenAI: Recruit Sam Altman to Tesla
A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool
Trump’s Team Wants Him to Accept an Iran Deal He’s Already Rejected
Anthropic Gets in Bed With SpaceX as the AI Race Turns Weird
Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows
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Apple Will Pay $250 Million to Settle Lawsuit Over Siri’s AI Features
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Hasan Piker, Self-Described ‘Ayatollah of Woke,’ Wants AI to Die
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Engadget

The Lexus TZ is a quieter, upscale take on the Highlander EV
I'm already dreading Apple's camera-equipped AirPods
Perplexity opens up its Personal Computer AI assistant to all Mac users
Amazon Luna's May lineup includes Guardians of the Galaxy and the Resident Evil 2 remake
Valve will open reservations on May 8 for the second wave of Steam Controllers
Cozy city builder Town to City leaves early access on May 26
The Ploopy Bean is a travel-friendly mouse with a ThinkPad-style nub
Teenage Engineering just released a stereo mixer that physically connects to its EP-series samplers
Spotify now lets AI agents like OpenClaw generate personal podcasts
Qualcomm reveals two new affordable phone chips with Smooth Motion UI tech
Angry Birds and FIFA International Soccer join the World Video Game Hall of Fame
Spotify's AI-powered personal DJ expands to more languages and countries
Google is turning the Fitbit app into a unified portal for your health and fitness data
The survival horror game Hollowbody launches for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S on June 5
The Google Fitbit Air is an AI-infused take on Whoop wearables
DJI's Osmo Mobile 8P gimbal has a detachable screen remote
HP EliteBoard G1a review: It's a desktop in a keyboard! But it's not for you
RGG's Stranger Than Heaven game arrives this winter
Samsung says its Galaxy Watch can predict fainting with 'high accuracy'
A Star Fox remake is heading to Switch 2 on June 25

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