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DOJ Charges Google Employee With $1.2 Million Polymarket Bet On Search Term (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-29 Google

IBM plans to invest more than $10B in quantum computing over five years as it aims to build the first large-scale, error-free quantum computer by 2029 (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-29 IBM Quantum

YouTube launches new Premium podcast features, including an AI-powered recommendation tool, an “Auto speed” setting, and a new on-the-go listening mode (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-29 AI YouTube

Intel unveils its first dedicated handheld gaming chips, the Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme, featuring Xe3 GPU cores, arriving first in the Acer Predator Atlas 8 (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-28 Intel

YouTube adds a “custom feed” to its home page, letting users enter a prompt to create a constantly refreshed feed, available to signed-in users in the US (9to5google.com)
2026-5-28 YouTube

IBM and Red Hat commit $5B to establish a new model for open-source software, dubbed Project Lightwell, and will deploy 20,000 engineers, supported by AI (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-28 IBM AI

As Google plans to build a $15B AI data center hub in India's Visakhapatnam, locals and rights groups are raising concerns over “extremely high” water stress (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-28 India Google AI

UK researchers win access to Google's Willow quantum chip, which it says completes a calculation in five minutes that takes supercomputers 10 septillion years (www.bbc.com)
2026-5-28 Google Quantum

Swiggy CEO Sriharsha Majety says his company plans to stay out of the spending war as Amazon and Flipkart ramp up their quick commerce efforts across India (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-28 India Amazon

Trade Desk's market cap fell ~70% from a December 2024 peak as it contends with frustrated agency partners, competition from Google, and a new entrant, Amazon (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-28 Google Amazon

Filing: Amazon will acquire Apple's 20% stake in Globalstar as part of its acquisition of the satellite provider and create a subsidiary to conduct the merger (www.pcmag.com)
2026-5-28 Amazon Apple

The US DOD announces a $9.7B five-year deal with Dell to provide Microsoft 365, advanced cloud subscriptions, and on-premises licensing to the US military (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-28 Microsoft

US prosecutors charge Google engineer Michele Spagnuolo with using inside information to make $1.2M on Polymarket bets about Google's Year in Search results (abcnews.com)
2026-5-28 Google

Sources: Uber has increased its stake in Delivery Hero to ~37% by acquiring Aspex Management's 14.6% share at a €12B valuation, after a takeover offer last week (www.ft.com)
2026-5-28 Uber

YouTube To Automatically Detect, Label AI-Generated Videos (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-28 AI YouTube

Amazon MGM Studios announces the GenAI Creators' Fund, greenlights three AI animated series for Prime Video, and launches an AI production platform with AWS (variety.com)
2026-5-28 Amazon AI

Meta rolls out Plus plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp globally, will test $7.99/mo. and $19.99/mo. Meta AI plans, a $49.99/mo. creator plan, and more (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-28 Facebook AI Instagram WhatsApp

Amazon says it is making the “architecture, starter code, and learnings” from Alexa for Shopping available to third-party retailers, starting with Kate Spade (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-28 Amazon

YouTube makes its AI content labels more prominent on desktop and mobile, and will apply them automatically if it detects “significant photorealistic AI use” (variety.com)
2026-5-27 Mobile AI YouTube

Starlink and Amazon May Be Able To Buy Into EU Mobile Satellite Spectrum Plan (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-27 Amazon Mobile

Milan-based social travel startup WeRoad raised a $58M Series C led by Airbnb, taking its total funding to ~$100M, to expand into the US, starting in Austin (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-27 Startup Airbnb

Amazon says it invested £15B in the UK in 2025, including new sites and expanded studio facilities, keeping it on track to invest £40B over three years by 2027 (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-27 Amazon

Initial benchmarks show Nvidia's Vera CPU, which features 88 in-house-designed Olympus cores, packs a heavy-hitting punch, beating Intel's and AMD's x86_64 CPUs (www.phoronix.com)
2026-5-27 Intel Nvidia AMD

Permalink to Google I/O 2026 introduces the ‘Agentic Web' era with major Chrome updates (sdtimes.com)
2026-5-27 Google Chrome Google I/O

Uber, Lyft Drivers In Massachusetts Form First US Ride-Share Union (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-27 Uber

SpaceX filing: X's ad revenue was $1.8B in 2025, $1.7B in 2024, and $2.3B in 2023, below Twitter's $4B in 2021; X and Grok now have 6.3M active paid subscribers (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2026-5-27 Twitter SpaceX

China executes a man called Xu Yao for killing Yoozoo Games founder Lin Qi in 2020; Lin reportedly sidelined Xu, who helped land the 3 Body Problem Netflix deal (www.bbc.com)
2026-5-27 China Netflix

Google behind new tensions on Russia's Baltic border – Estonia (www.rt.com)
2026-5-27 Russia Google

Google Fitbit Air review: slim, comfortable, and stylish, robust tracking, seven-day battery life, and cheaper than Whoop, but can only be worn on the wrist (www.theshortcut.com)
2026-5-26 Google Battery

Spotify launches a library of over 650 narrated long-form magazine articles in English for Premium users; free users can buy articles “individually for $1.99” (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-26 Spotify

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