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Some retail traders are training AI agents to buy and sell assets on their behalf, as exchanges like Polymarket and Bybit roll out agent-friendly interfaces (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

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The US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand publish guidance on orgs' use of agentic AI systems, saying many give AI more access than can be safely monitored (Greg Otto/CyberScoop)

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The gender gap in AI use may be a matter of visibility more than usage, as data suggests women face more judgment for using AI and are less likely to admit it (Issie Lapowsky/Bloomberg)

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The FBI warns of rising cyber cargo theft, where attackers hack freight brokers' accounts and dupe carriers; 2025 cargo theft losses in N. America rose 60% YoY (Pierluigi Paganini/Security Affairs)

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Meta acquires a startup Assured Robot Intelligence to bolster its robotics team, which is working on humanoid hardware and the underlying AI that powers it (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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A bug in popular cPanel, WHM, and WP Squared software has reportedly been exploited since Feb.; CISA it gives a 9.8 CVSS score, tells agencies to patch by May 3 (Jonathan Greig/The Record)

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Experts say supply chain attacks compromised SAP and Intercom npm packages, plus the PyPI package Lightning, in a campaign that calls itself Mini Shai-Hulud (Jessica Lyons/The Register)

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Fun, which builds fiat and crypto payment rails for platforms like Polymarket and Aave, raised a $72M Series A in January, co-led by Multicoin and SignalFire (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

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Sources: Coatue formed Next Frontier in 2025 to buy land for data centers; Next Frontier has a JV with neocloud Fluidstack that has raised $5.7B via junk bonds (Wall Street Journal)

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The US Navy awards Domino Data Lab a contract worth up to $100M for AI software that teaches underwater drones to identify new mines in the Strait of Hormuz (Mike Stone/Reuters)

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Sources: Peter Thiel's Founders Fund raised $6B for a fund to invest in later-stage companies, marking its largest haul ever; $4.5B comes from limited partners (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)

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Tim Cook says that the Mac Studio and the Mac mini, which many are buying for AI and agentic tools, "may take several months to reach supply demand balance" (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

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Amazon debuts "Join the chat", an AI-powered feature that lets users ask questions about products and get conversational audio responses generated in real time (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

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The DOD strikes deals with AWS, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle, and Reflection AI to use their AI tools on classified military networks "for lawful operational use" (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

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Cloud computing provider Nebius agrees to acquire Eigen AI, which optimizes the performance of chips that run AI inference tasks, for ~$643M in stock and cash (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

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Apple CFO Kevan Parekh says that "the iPhone 17 family is now the most popular lineup in our history" and "we believe we gained market share during the quarter" (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

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China's EV makers are competing on in-car AI features; ByteDance says its Doubao AI is used in 7M+ cars across 145 models, including from Mercedes, Audi, and VW (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

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Researchers detail CopyFail, a now-patched Linux vulnerability that lets unprivileged users gain admin access, as many distributions have yet to apply the fixes (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

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Sources: Huawei expects AI chip revenue to hit ~$12B in 2026, up 60%+ from $7.5B in 2025, as orders for its Ascend 950PR chip surge and Nvidia stalls in China (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)

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Musk v. Altman: OpenAI lawyers claim Shivon Zilis, a longtime Musk employee and mother to four of his children, acted as a covert liaison between him and OpenAI (Wired)

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The persistent idea that AI disruption could create a permanent underclass signals how much collateral damage AI companies will tolerate in their pursuit of AGI (Jasmine Sun/New York Times)

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US Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Dave McCormick introduce a bill banning members of the legislative and executive branches from trading on prediction markets (Jason Beeferman/Politico)

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Apple forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates, with sales expected to rise between 14% and 17%, and says memory expenses will climb "significantly higher" in Q3 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Intel's stock jumped 114% in April, hitting a record on April 24 and lifting its market cap past $470B, closing out the chipmaker's best month on record (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)

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Western Digital reports Q3 revenue up 45% YoY to $3.34B, vs. $3.25B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates; WDC drops 7%+ after hours (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)

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Sandisk reports Q3 revenue up 251% YoY to $5.95B, vs. $4.72B est., consumer revenue below est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above est.; SNDK drops 5%+ after hours (Britney Nguyen/MarketWatch)

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The US Senate unanimously passed a rule barring senators from trading on prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket, amid rising concern over insider trading (Dan Mangan/CNBC)

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Alphabet's stock climbed 10% on Thursday and 34% in April, its best month since 2004; Meta's stock plunged 8.5% on Thursday, its steepest drop since October (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

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Sources: Meta HR chief Janelle Gale told employees she can't rule out further layoffs; Zuckerberg said AI automation is not the driving factor behind them (Business Insider)

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Twilio reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.41B, vs. $1.34B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; TWLO jumps 17%+ after hours (Reinhardt Krause/Investor's Business ...)

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Atlassian reports Q3 revenue up 32% YoY to $1.79B, vs. $1.69B est., and raises its annual revenue forecast; TEAM jumps 17%+ after hours (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)

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Tim Cook says iPhone sales, which slightly missed Q2 estimates, were held back by chip supply constraints, as "demand was off the charts" (Reuters)

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Apple reports Q2 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, and more, grew 16.3% YoY to $30.98B, beating estimates of $30.4B (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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Apple Q2: iPhone up 22% YoY to $56.99B, vs. $57.21B est., Mac up 6% to $8.4B, iPad up 8% to $6.91B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories up 5% to $7.9B (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

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Apple reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to $111.18B, vs. $109.66B est., net income up 19% to $29.6B, and authorizes an additional $100B share buyback program (Apple)

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Roblox reports Q1 bookings up 43% YoY to $1.7B, vs. $1.73B est., and DAUs up 35% to 132M, below analysts' estimates of 143.8M; RBLX drops 16%+ after hours (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

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Roku reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $1.25B, ad revenue up 27% to $613M, subscription revenue up 30%, raises 2026 profit guidance; ROKU jumps 8%+ after hours (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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Reddit reports Q1 revenue up 69% YoY to $663M vs. $611M est., DAUq up 17% to 126.8M, above est., forecasts Q2 revenue above est.; RDDT jumps 13%+ after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

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North Korea-linked hackers stole ~$577M across the Drift Protocol and KelpDAO hacks in April, accounting for 76% of total crypto hack losses so far in 2026 (TRM Insights)

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Filing: Meta says it might be forced to withdraw its apps from New Mexico if a judge orders it to adopt the state's proposed safety features (Thomas Barrabi/New York Post)

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Google is rolling out Gemini to cars that have Google built in, replacing Google Assistant, starting with English in the US (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

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Musk v. Altman: the judge told Musk's lawyer she did not want talk of AI's existential threat seeping into the trial, focusing instead on OpenAI's founding (New York Times)

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Musk v. Altman: when asked whether xAI has distilled OpenAI models, Elon Musk says the claim is "partly" true (Wired)

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Meta sells $25B of investment-grade bonds after investors placed $96B in orders; Meta sold $30B of corporate bonds in October 2025 (Bloomberg)

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Sources: KKR has secured $10B+ to launch Helix Digital Infrastructure, a company led by ex-AWS CEO Adam Selipsky that will develop and operate AI infrastructure (Bloomberg)

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Standard Intelligence, which is developing computer use AI models, raised $75M led by Sequoia and Spark at a $500M post-money valuation (Rocket Drew/The Information)

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Anthropic's Claude Security, formerly Claude Code Security, is in public beta for Enterprise users; the Opus 4.7-powered tool can scan code for vulnerabilities (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)

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Live Updates: Elon Musk Faces Contentious Questions at OpenAI Trial (New York Times)

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The US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously endorses a bipartisan child safety bill requiring AI companies like OpenAI and Meta to implement age verification (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)

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Cybersecurity analysis: GPT-5.5 reaches a similar level of performance as Mythos Preview and is the second model to solve a multi-step cyberattack simulation (AI Security Institute)

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