Tech

Legislators and experts criticize the EU's €20B sovereign compute data center plan, questioning whether there is demand and the plan's reliance on Nvidia GPUs (www.politico.eu)
2026-5-4 Nvidia

An analysis of 1.6M Polymarket accounts since November 2022: 0.1% of users take 67% of profits, with the highest-frequency traders seeing the most success (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-4

A profile of William Savitt, Sam Altman's lead lawyer against Elon Musk, who represented Twitter against Musk in 2022 and helped OpenAI's for-profit transition (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-5-4 Twitter Elon Musk

Chinese state media: AI-generated Chinese microdramas to be worth $3B+ in 2026, out of a $14B+ total microdrama market, boosted by tools like Seedance 2.0 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-4 China AI

Roblox Blames Age-Verification Rollout for Lowered Growth. Stock Tumbles 22% (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-4

Sources: some lenders are exploring private deals to sell their data center debt, and some banks are seeking to offload their Oracle-linked loans at a discount (www.ft.com)
2026-5-4 Oracle

Sources: SoftBank plans to make lithium- and cobalt-free data center batteries in Japan as soon as FY2027, as Japan tries to cut its reliance on Chinese metals (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-5-4 China Japan

China's Linkerbot, which holds 80%+ of global dexterous robotic hands market, raised a Series B+ at a $3B valuation and seeks a $6B valuation in its next round (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-4 China Robot

Sources: Anthropic is finalizing a deal for a $1.5B JV with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Hellman & Friedman, and others to sell AI tools to PE-backed companies (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-4 AI Goldman

NetHack 5.0 Released (games.slashdot.org)
2026-5-4

Apple's handling of vibe coding apps draws complaints from startups like Replit and Anything that iOS App Store rules for their apps are applied erratically (www.ft.com)
2026-5-4 IOS Startup Apple

How music streaming services are adapting to the rise of AI-generated music by labeling, deranking, and demonetizing tracks, using AI detection tools, and more (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-4 AI

OpenAI Introduces AI-Generated Pets for Its Codex App (idle.slashdot.org)
2026-5-4 AI

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen says he is making an unsolicited ~$56B offer to buy eBay and will take the offer to shareholders if the company is not receptive (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-4 eBay

AI Cameras are Being Deployed Across the Western US for Early Detection of Wildfires (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-4 AI

A profile of music AI startup Suno, valued at ~$2.5B with 2M+ paying users and $300M annualized revenue as of February, as it battles record labels and artists (www.forbes.com)
2026-5-4 Startup AI

Carbon Pollution Is Making Food Less Nutritious, Risking the Health of Billions (science.slashdot.org)
2026-5-4

Instructure confirms data breach, ShinyHunters claims attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-4

Robots Are Building Clay Homes In Texas Using Dirt From the Ground (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-4 Robot Texas

A look at Atlassian and Twilio earnings beats, with early signs of Atlassian's AI response success and Twilio becoming a picks-and-shovels layer for AI agents (www.saastr.com)
2026-5-4 AI Atlassian

It's Goodbye Time for Jeeves and Ask.com - Relics of Yesterday's Internet (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-4

Former Nintendo Executive Says Amazon Once Requested 'Illegal' Price Discounts (games.slashdot.org)
2026-5-4 Amazon Nintendo

Analysis: Asian suppliers account for ~90% of Nvidia's production costs, up from 65% in 2025, as latest wave of collaborations shifts from chips to physical AI (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-4 AI Nvidia

Microsoft Defender wrongly flags DigiCert certs as Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-4 Microsoft

ChatGPT Became So Obsessed With Goblins That OpenAI Had to Intervene (slashdot.org)
2026-5-4

South Africa's Draft AI Policy Withdrawn Due to 'Fictitious' AI-Generated Citations (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-4 AI Africa South Africa

JLL: Japan's $23B data center market is set to grow ~50% by 2030, with 90% of sites concentrated in densely populated regions, prompting pushback from residents (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-5-4 Japan

Ransomware Is Getting Uglier As Cybercriminals Fake Leaks and Skip Encryption Entirely (it.slashdot.org)
2026-5-4

Telegram Mini Apps abused for crypto scams, Android malware delivery (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-4 Android

How Amazon's expansion into fashion helped Jeff Bezos enter fashion's inner circle, as he and Lauren Sánchez Bezos become underwriters for this year's Met Gala (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-3 Amazon Jeff Bezos

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