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Airbnb reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $2.68B, vs. $2.62B est., Nights and Seats Booked up 9% to 156.2M, vs. 155.77M est., lifts 2026 revenue growth guidance (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-8 Airbnb

Goldman Sachs: Alphabet and Amazon generated “other income” totaling $53B in Q1, or ~60% of their Q1 income; $49B was due to equity stakes in private companies (www.ft.com)
2026-5-8 Amazon Goldman Equity Alphabet

Microsoft Issues Warning About Linux 'Copy Fail' Vulnerability (it.slashdot.org)
2026-5-8 Linux Microsoft

Sources: OpenAI and Broadcom discuss terms for Broadcom to finance initial custom chip production for ~$18B, conditioned on Microsoft buying ~40% of the chips (www.theinformation.com)
2026-5-8 Microsoft

Google Unveils Screenless Fitbit Air, Google Health App To Replace Fitbit (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-8 Google

AWS unveils Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments and partners with Coinbase and Stripe to enable AI agents to execute transactions using stablecoins (www.theblock.co)
2026-5-8 Amazon AI Coinbase

Interview with Rishi Chandra, Google's VP for health and home, about shutting Google Fit by year's end, the rebranded Google Health app, Health Coach, and more (www.wired.com)
2026-5-8 Google Interview

Spotify launches Save to Spotify, a command-line tool that allows AI agents to upload generated audio summaries and personal podcasts to a user's account (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-8 AI Spotify

Google launches the $100 Fitbit Air, a Whoop-like screenless wearable, with Gemini-powered features like Google Health Coach, available May 26 (www.engadget.com)
2026-5-8 Google

Google rebrands Fitbit Premium as Google Health Premium, adding Gemini-powered coaching and other features, and raises its annual price from $79.99 to $99.99 (www.androidauthority.com)
2026-5-8 Google

Amazon plans to merge MX Player into Prime Video in India, combining free and paid streaming catalogs on a single platform over the next few months (variety.com)
2026-5-7 India Amazon

Microsoft Edge Stores Passwords In Plaintext In RAM (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-7 Microsoft

Google's AI Search Results Will Now Turn To Reddit For 'Expert Advice' (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-7 Google AI Reddit

Hackers abuse Google ads for GoDaddy ManageWP login phishing (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-7 Google

Google Chrome silently installs a ~4GB Gemini Nano model on desktop devices; Google says it has been offered since 2024 and users can remove it via settings (9to5google.com)
2026-5-7 Google Chrome

Google releases Multi-Token Prediction drafters for its Gemma 4 models, which use a form of speculative decoding to guess future tokens for faster inference (arstechnica.com)
2026-5-7 Google

Sources: Microsoft is considering delaying or dropping its 2030 goal of matching its hourly power use with renewable energy purchases, amid the data center boom (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-7 Microsoft Energy Renewable

Google DeepMind takes a minority stake in the maker of Eve Online, a multiplayer role playing game set in outer space, and plans to train its tech on the game (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-7 Google

Microsoft Gives Up On Xbox Copilot AI (games.slashdot.org)
2026-5-7 Microsoft AI Xbox

Google updates AI Mode and AI Overviews to add “a preview of perspectives” from firsthand sources like social media and Reddit, presented as “Expert Advice” (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-6 Google AI Reddit

Sources: in a reshuffle, LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky will lead Microsoft's new Work Experiences Group, including Teams, after 35-year veteran Rajesh Jha retired (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-6 Microsoft LinkedIn

OpenAI partners with Microsoft, AMD, Broadcom, Nvidia, and Intel researchers to detail the Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC) protocol to help scale compute (www.thedeepview.com)
2026-5-6 Microsoft Intel Nvidia AMD

Uber reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $13.2B, below $13.3B est., Gross Bookings up 25% YoY to $53.7B, trips up 20% YoY to 3.6B, and a $1B revenue UK tax law hit (www.ft.com)
2026-5-6 Uber Tax

Google has quietly shut down Project Mariner, its Chrome-browsing AI agent for completing tasks on users' behalf, after highlighting it onstage at I/O 2025 (x.com)
2026-5-6 Google AI Chrome Google I/O

Doc and sources: Google is testing an agent in the Gemini app, internally named Remy, that can integrate with Google services to take actions on a user's behalf (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-5-6 Google

Researchers report Amazon SES abused in phishing to evade detection (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-6 Amazon

Google DeepMind Workers Vote To Unionize Over Military AI Deals (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-6 Google AI

Source: Anthropic plans to spend about $200B on Google's cloud and chips over five years, representing 40%+ of the “revenue backlog” Google disclosed last week (www.theinformation.com)
2026-5-6 Google

Sources: Apple held exploratory talks with Intel and Apple executives visited a Samsung plant in Texas to explore producing core chips for its devices in the US (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-6 Intel Samsung Apple Texas

Memo: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma overhauls the group's leadership, including bringing over executives from Microsoft's CoreAI engineering unit where she worked before (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-6 Microsoft Xbox

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