Tech

Roblox authorizes its first share buyback program, aiming to repurchase up to $3B of its stock, including $1B over the next year; RBLX is down ~45% YTD (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-20

Analog Devices agrees to buy Empower Semiconductor, which makes chips used to regulate voltage, for $1.5B in cash (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-20

Google adds a conversational search feature to YouTube and rolls out the new Gemini Omni model in YouTube Shorts Remix and the Create app (www.androidcentral.com)
2026-5-20 Google YouTube

NextEra and Dominion's $67 Billion Mega-Merger Is All About the Data Centers (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-20

OpenAI introduces Guaranteed Capacity, a new offering that lets customers guarantee access to OpenAI's compute through one- to three-year commitments (openai.com)
2026-5-20

Discord rolls out end-to-end encryption on voice, video calls (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-20

Meta begins laying off 8,000 employees, or 10% of staff, in a push to become an AI-first company; another 7,000 workers will be reassigned to AI initiatives (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-20 AI

Google unveils Pics, an AI image editor in Workspace that lets users edit specific elements and modify text, rolling out this summer to AI Pro and Ultra users (www.engadget.com)
2026-5-20 Google AI

Sources: Google DeepMind has reached a ~$100M deal to hire 20+ researchers from Contextual AI, including CEO Douwe Kiela, and license its technology (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-20 Google AI

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed the nation's first law banning prediction market sites from operating in the state; the CFTC has sued Minnesota in response (www.npr.org)
2026-5-20 CFTC

OpenAI Co-Founder Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic (slashdot.org)
2026-5-20

Ocean, which uses AI agents to detect email attacks, raised a $20M Series A led by Lightspeed, following an $8M seed in 2024 (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-5-20 AI

Microsoft Self-Service Password Reset abused in Azure data theft attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-20 Microsoft

FBI: Americans lost over $388 million to scams using crypto ATMs in 2025 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-20 U.S. FBI

Sundar Pichai announced at Google I/O that Gemini 3.5 Pro will launch next month; attendees groaned at the model coming out later than they expected (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-5-20 Google Google I/O

Hands-on with Google and Samsung's Android XR smart glasses from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, and with XReal's Project Aura, all set to arrive this fall (www.wired.com)
2026-5-20 Android Google Samsung

Google unveils Universal Cart, a shopping assistant that works “across merchants”, built on the Universal Commerce Protocol, rolling out in the US today (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-20 Google

StanChart To Cut Over 7,000 Jobs, Boost AI To Replace 'Lower-Value Human Capital' (slashdot.org)
2026-5-20 AI

AdGuard VPN is $35 for 5 years in this deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-20 VPN

Google's web-based AI Studio now lets users build native Android apps; Google says the apps are for personal use only for now and publishing is on the roadmap (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-20 Android Google AI

Demis Hassabis says companies looking to replace developers with AI may be due to a “lack of imagination and a lack of understanding” of the future (www.wired.com)
2026-5-20 AI

Google introduces Antigravity 2.0, featuring an updated desktop app that lets users orchestrate multiple agents, alongside an Antigravity CLI tool and SDK (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-20 Google

At a hearing, two of three judges of a federal appeals court appeared skeptical of Anthropic's bid to block the DOD from designating it a supply-chain risk (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-20

Google says Gemini's MAUs grew to 900M+ across 230 countries, up from 400M at I/O 2025, and launches Neural Expressive, a new design language for Gemini (blog.google)
2026-5-20 Google Google I/O

Google restructures its AI plans, introducing a $100/month AI Ultra plan for developers and cutting the top-tier Ultra subscription from $250 to $200/month (www.zdnet.com)
2026-5-20 Google AI

OpenAI adds support for Google's SynthID watermarks in AI images, and previews a public portal to let users verify if an image was generated by OpenAI's tools (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-20 Google AI

Google launches the Gemini Omni multimodal model, saying it can “create anything from any input”, starting with video generation, for Google AI subscribers (venturebeat.com)
2026-5-20 Google AI

Google rolls out Gemini 3.5 Flash, its “strongest agentic and coding model yet”, for tackling long-horizon agentic tasks, in the Gemini app and Search's AI Mode (blog.google)
2026-5-20 Google AI

Google overhauls its search box, letting users ask longer queries, upload photos and videos, and use Gemini 3.5 Flash-powered agents to automate searches (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-20 Google

Google announces Gemini Spark, a “24/7 personal AI agent” that is powered by Gemini 3.5 and supports integrations with Google Workspace apps, including Gmail (www.engadget.com)
2026-5-20 Google AI

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