Tech

Delivery Hero says founder Niklas Östberg plans to step down as CEO by March 2027, as the German food delivery group faces mounting activist investor pressure (www.ft.com)
2 days ago Germany

Spotify celebrates its 20th anniversary with a Wrapped-like experience that features “never-before-shared data” going back to when users first joined Spotify (www.theverge.com)
2 days ago Spotify

AI voice startup Vapi raised a $50M Series B led by Peak XV, a source says at a $500M post-money valuation, after Amazon chose Vapi to handle 100% of Ring calls (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago Amazon Startup AI

Arts and Cultural Engagement 'Linked To Slower Pace of Biological Aging' (science.slashdot.org)
2 days ago

Amazon launches Amazon Now, its 30-minute delivery service, in dozens of US cities including Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Philadelphia, and Seattle, after pilots (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago Amazon Seattle

Sea reports Q1 revenue up 47% YoY to $7.1B and net income up 6% YoY to $428M, both above est., after warding off rivals in Southeast Asia's e-commerce market (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago Asia Southeast Asia

Shai Hulud attack ships signed malicious TanStack, Mistral npm packages (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2 days ago

SAP fixes critical vulnerabilities in Commerce Cloud and S/4HANA (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2 days ago

Get rid of unwanted ads with AdGuard, now $11 through 5/17 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2 days ago

JD.com reports Q1 revenue up 4.9% YoY to $46.5B, above ~$45.8B est., and adjusted net profit down 42% YoY to $1B, amid a fierce food delivery battle in China (www.wsj.com)
2 days ago China

YouTube is shifting its creator monetization strategy by acting as a matchmaker between creators and sponsors, as Netflix and TikTok increasingly woo creators (www.nytimes.com)
2 days ago YouTube Netflix

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the EU will take action against “addictive design” on TikTok and Instagram, including “endless scrolling” (www.cnbc.com)
2 days ago Instagram

Sources: Anthropic officials refused a Chinese think tank's request to change its stance and allow Beijing to access Mythos at a meeting in Singapore last month (www.nytimes.com)
2 days ago China Singapore

eBay rejects GameStop's $56B takeover offer, saying the unsolicited bid is “neither credible nor attractive”, in a letter from eBay Chairman Paul Pressler (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago eBay

Amp, which aims to buy excess computing capacity from data center operators to sell to startups, universities, and more, raised $1.3B from a16z and others (www.nytimes.com)
2 days ago Startup

Sources: Jensen Huang was not invited to travel with President Trump on his China trip, a potential setback to Nvidia; Huang expressed his willingness to join (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago Trump China Nvidia

Sources: the Trump administration is quietly debating whether to ban Chinese “cellular modules”, as the US FCC pushes measures to reduce Beijing's threats (www.ft.com)
2 days ago Trump China Ban

Human Rights Watch: at least six EU member states, including Bulgaria and Denmark, have sold surveillance tech to 24+ countries known for violating human rights (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago

Source: Microsoft Israel's GM leaves after an internal probe into alleged unethical use of Azure by Israel's MOD; Microsoft France will manage Microsoft Israel (en.globes.co.il)
2 days ago France Israel Microsoft

Instructure reaches 'agreement' with ShinyHunters to stop data leak (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2 days ago

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Testifies In OpenAI Trial (yro.slashdot.org)
2 days ago Microsoft

A Hollywood writer recounts working as an “AI trainer” for companies like Mercor, as AI gig work becomes the “new waiting tables” for entertainment workers (www.wired.com)
2 days ago AI

Top 10 Famous Minds Changed by Psychedelics (listverse.com)
2 days ago

Instructure reached a deal with hackers who breached its Canvas platform to return stolen data and destroy copies, without disclosing what it gave in exchange (www.nytimes.com)
2 days ago

Sources: some Amazon employees are using in-house OpenClaw-like tool MeshClaw for unnecessary tasks to inflate AI token use after Amazon set weekly AI targets (www.ft.com)
2 days ago Amazon AI

The US House Oversight Committee launches a probe into potential conflicts in Sam Altman's personal investments; letter: several GOP AGs call for an SEC review (www.wsj.com)
2 days ago Republican

A Data Center Drained 30 Million Gallons of Water Unnoticed (news.slashdot.org)
2 days ago

AppMagic: Grok downloads fell to ~8.3M in April, from a high of 20M+ in January; Recon Analytics says Grok paid adoption in the US remains nearly flat YoY in Q2 (www.wsj.com)
2 days ago

Source: new revenue sharing terms cap OpenAI's payments to Microsoft at $38B; they previously could have totaled $135B through 2030 if long-term goals were met (www.theinformation.com)
2 days ago Microsoft

10 Little-Known Unsettling Urban Legends (listverse.com)
2 days ago

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