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The NYSE partners with Securitize to develop the Digital Trading Platform, an alternative 24/7 trading system for tokenized stocks and ETFs on a blockchain (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)

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Kleiner Perkins raised $3.5B for two new funds, allocating $1B to its 22nd early-stage fund and $2.5B to a growth-stage fund, taking its AUM to $21B+ (Caroline Hyde/Bloomberg)

Russian space startup Bureau 1440 says it launched 16 broadband internet satellites, an early operational step in a low-Earth orbit network set to rival SpaceX (Anthony Halpin/Bloomberg)

How Palantir became a flashpoint on the US campaign trail due to its ICE work, ahead of the midterms; six lawmakers publicly refuse any further Palantir funds (Financial Times)

Amazon says its AWS region in Bahrain has been "disrupted" due to drone activity in the area amid the US-led Iran war, marking the second disruption in a month (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

Xiaomi reports Q4 revenue up 7.3% YoY to ~$17B, narrowly above est., its slowest growth since 2023, as EV sales failed to make up for slumping smartphone demand (Bloomberg)

In a Kleiner podcast interview, DOD official Emil Michael says he will "never forget" nor "forgive" Uber investors that ousted him and Travis Kalanick in 2017 (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

European VC firm Hummingbird raised $800M to find "misfit" founders, taking its total assets to ~$2B, after backing Kraken and AI vibe coding startup Lovable (Financial Times)

London-based Revolut reports 2025 revenue up 46% YoY to £4.5B, pretax profit up 54% YoY to £1.7B, and customers up nearly 33% YoY, as it moves to become a bank (Elena Vardon/Wall Street Journal)

Filing: SK Hynix plans to spend ~$8B on cutting-edge EUV lithography chipmaking tools from ASML through 2027, as it competes with Samsung to supply DRAM and HBM (Bloomberg)

Q&A with Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra, who apologized for Grammarly's Expert Review feature, on impersonation, attribution, compensating creators, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Filing: OpenAI petitions the UK CMA to include AI chatbots with a search function in Google's mandated Chrome and Android default search engine choice screens (James Titcomb/Telegraph)

US Senators Warren and Banks urge suspending Nvidia AI chip export licenses to China and Southeast Asia, following Supermicro co-founder Wally Liaw's indictment (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)

Sources: Nintendo plans to cut its Switch 2 production this quarter by 33%, from 6M to 4M units, after weaker-than-expected holiday demand, especially in the US (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)

Chinese media: Alibaba's DAMO Academy unveils XuanTie C950, a 5nm, 3.2 GHz server chip, and claims it is "the highest performing RISC-V CPU in the world" (Reuters)

Japan's Sakana AI launches Sakana Chat, its first consumer chatbot, marking a shift from its business focus as competition to localize generative AI intensifies (Tsubasa Suruga/Nikkei Asia)

Munich-based Interloom, which aims to capture tacit knowledge for AI agents from businesses' operational records, raised a $16.5M seed led by DN Capital (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

SoftBank says its loan-to-value ratio, a measure of net debt against the value of its holdings, could exceed its 25% limit, as it commits another $30B to OpenAI (David Keohane/Financial Times)

How Nvidia became the AI industry's most powerful financier, investing billions in startups and supporting customers who couldn't otherwise afford its chips (Wall Street Journal)

UK-based Internet Watch Foundation says it identified 8,029 AI-generated images and videos of realistic child sexual abuse in 2025, up 14% from 2024 (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

The US State Department launches the Bureau of Emerging Threats to tackle current and future threats, including cyberattacks and AI weaponization by adversaries (Shannon K. Kingston/ABC News)

Bengaluru-based Swish, which offers a 10-minute food delivery service, raised a $38M Series B at a $139M post-money valuation, bringing its total raised to $54M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Jury deliberations begin in New Mexico's Meta lawsuit over child safety risks, after both sides delivered closing arguments, following six weeks of testimony (Morgan Lee/Associated Press)

Microsoft hires a group of AI researchers from the Allen Institute for AI, including former CEO Ali Farhadi, who stepped down on March 12 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

The US FCC is banning imports of new foreign-made consumer routers over security concerns; China is estimated to control 60%+ of the US market for home routers (David Shepardson/Reuters)

A new version of iPhone exploit kit DarkSword has been posted on GitHub; iVerify co-founder Matthias Frielingsdorf says the exploits "will work out of the box" (TechCrunch)

Anthropic rolls out a computer use feature for Claude Cowork and the Claude Code desktop app, in research preview on macOS for Pro and Max subscribers (Blake Stimac/CNET)

Crunchyroll is investigating a breach after hackers claimed they accessed a support agent's account and stole the personal information of ~6.8M users (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Drone delivery startup Zipline raised an additional $200M, including from Paradigm, bringing Zipline's Series H, originally announced in January, to $800M (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

Kalshi announces new guardrails to preemptively block politicians, athletes, and others from trading in their relevant markets (Nathan Bomey/Axios)

Meta hires the team behind Dreamer, which lets users create AI agents, including Hugo Barra, former Stripe CTO David Singleton, and designer Nicholas Jitkoff (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

The US plans to create a voluntary consortium of countries to invest $4T to secure supply chains for chips, energy, and minerals; the US will contribute $250M (New York Times)

Doc: Kalshi and Polymarket CEOs are investing in a VC fund, led by two early Kalshi employees, that is raising up to $35M to back prediction market startups (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

Q&A with Jensen Huang, who says "we've achieved AGI", on running Nvidia, AI scaling laws, OpenClaw, future of coding, data centers in space, China, and more (Lex Fridman)

Polymarket unveils insider trading rules: no bets on stolen confidential info, illegal tips, or events whose outcomes the user can influence as an insider (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Apple announces WWDC 2026 for June 8-12, which will be an online event free for developers, with an in-person event at Apple Park on June 8 (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Sources: Apple is preparing to introduce ads in its Maps app, allowing retailers and brands to bid for ad slots against search queries (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Norwegian startup Lace, which is building a form of lithography that uses a helium atom beam instead of light to create chip designs, raised a $40M Series A (Reuters)

Doctronic, which became the first company to use AI to write prescription refills through a pilot launched in Utah, raised $40M led by Abstract and Lightspeed (Brian Gormley/Wall Street Journal)

Gimlet Labs, which says it is the first "multi-silicon inference cloud" for running AI workloads across diverse types of hardware, raised an $80M Series A (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Interviews with Sundar Pichai and other Google executives on being blindsided by ChatGPT's launch, Gemini, Pichai's vision of useful AI everywhere, and more (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)

Source: OpenAI is in talks to buy 5 GW of electricity by 2030 from Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion; Altman has stepped down as Helion's board chair (Ina Fried/Axios)

Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus review: unbelievable app performance, big price cut, and improvements over the 265K, but mediocre at gaming and large power demands (Jake Roach/Tom's Hardware)

Canal+, ITV, Sky, and other broadcasters urge the EU to designate smart TV operating systems such as Android TV and Amazon Fire OS as gatekeepers under the DMA (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

London-based luxury ride-hailing app Wheely launches in NYC, aiming to compete with Uber Elite; Wheely reports ~1,250 corporate accounts and ~100K active riders (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Sources: OpenAI is offering private equity firms a guaranteed minimum return of 17.5% and early access to new models to secure JVs, beating Anthropic's terms (Reuters)

Sources: EA is selling a $15B debt package to fund its $55B take-private deal led by Saudi Arabia's PIF, including nearly $700M in projected annual cost savings (Bloomberg)

Leonid Radvinsky, the reclusive billionaire owner of OnlyFans parent company Fenix, died at 43 from cancer; he acquired a majority stake in OnlyFans in 2018 (Olivia Solon/Bloomberg)

OpenAI hires Dave Dugan, a former top ad executive at Meta, to lead ad sales, reporting to COO Brad Lightcap; Dugan stepped down as a Meta VP earlier in March (Suzanne Vranica/Wall Street Journal)

AI chip company Kandou AI raised $225M from SoftBank, Synopsys, and others at a $400M valuation after pivoting from consumer hardware to AI infrastructure (Nino Paoli/Bloomberg)