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Microsoft remains the biggest holdout among investors in OpenAI’s restructuring, and is seeking assurance that changes will protect its $13.75B stake
OpenAI reaches an agreement to buy Windsurf, an AI coding tool formerly known as Codeium, for about $3B; the deal has not yet closed
Recraft, whose image model Recraft V3 beat OpenAI’s DALL-E and Midjourney on the Artificial Analysis benchmark last year, raised a $30M Series B led by Accel
Databricks is in advanced talks to acquire startup Neon, a maker of a serverless open-source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres, for about $1B
Nvidia launches open-source transcription model Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-V2, topping the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard with a word error rate of 6.05%
General Atlantic is in advanced talks to buy a minority stake in Blackstone-backed Liftoff; the deal would value the mobile app marketing firm at $4B+
Hasan Sukkar, the founder of AI startup 11x, which has raised $70m+ to date, steps down as CEO; CTO Prabhav Jain has been named the new CEO
Google has quietly launched 100 Zeros, a film and TV production initiative aiming to promote a positive view of tech and drive adoption of its products
Tel Aviv-based eToro Group says it’s targeting a $4B valuation in a Nasdaq IPO, aiming to raise $500M, after pausing plans last month amid market volatility
Meta AI brings more privacy risks than ChatGPT and Gemini, building a Memory file including the user’s sensitive personal info, like fertility and payday loans
Researchers warn that open-source Go serialization tool easyjson, owned by Russia’s VK Group and used by the US DOD and others, poses a national security risk
Anysphere, maker of AI coding tool Cursor, raised $900M at a $9B valuation, up from $2.5B in January 2025, led by Thrive; a16z and Accel also invested
The internet’s biggest deepfake porn site, Mr. Deepfakes, says it is shutting down because a “critical service provider has terminated service permanently”
The US risks losing its edge as the top destination for AI talent, as the 12-month rolling average of AI talent entering in 2025 equals the number leaving
The UAE will introduce AI to the 2025-2026 public school curriculum, including ethical awareness and foundational concepts, from kindergarten to the 12th grade
As Microsoft hikes Xbox game prices, 2025’s three highest-reviewed games on Metacritic so far—Clair Obscur, Blue Prince, and Split Fiction—are all budget titles
Huawei is building a chip production line in Shenzhen and is the key player behind three Guanlan plants, as satellite imagery shows rapid development
Polygon Labs spinout Miden, a zero-knowledge proof-based blockchain project focused on high scalability, raised a $25M seed led by a16z Crypto, 1kx, and Hack VC
Rhode Island-based Utilidata, which develops AI-enabled smart meters and grid control devices with Nvidia chips for energy utilities, raised a $60.3M Series C
Starlink use rose by 35% above average in Spain and Portugal on April 28, as a widespread electricity outage exposed vulnerabilities in telecoms networks
London-based Navro, which develops APIs to enable businesses to send and receive international payments with various payment options, raised a $41M Series B
Berlin-based Pliant, whose platform combines physical and virtual credit cards with automation tools to streamline corporate spending, raised a $40M Series B
Abu Dhabi-based AI group G42 set up a US company to boost its presence in the country, as the UAE plans to invest tens of billions of dollars in the US
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