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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

Sao Paulo-based Enter, which uses AI to handle litigation for companies like Airbnb, raised $100M led by Founders Fund at a $1.2B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-6 AI Airbnb

Intel stock jumps 12%+, hitting a new all-time high, on a report that Apple has had early-stage talks with Intel about enlisting Intel's chipmaking services (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-6 Intel Apple

Dutch quantum processor company QuantWare raised a $178M Series B from Intel, In-Q-Tel, and others to build KiloFab, a dedicated quantum manufacturing facility (tech.eu)
2026-5-5 Intel Manufacturing Netherlands Quantum

The US Commerce Department's CAISI says Google, Microsoft, and xAI join OpenAI and Anthropic in granting early access to evaluate models prior to public release (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-5 Google Microsoft

Meta says it will expand Instagram teen account safeguards to 27 EU countries, and plans to roll them out on Facebook in the US, ahead of the UK and EU in June (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-5 Facebook Instagram

Shopify reports Q1 revenue up 34% YoY to $3.2B, above est., GMV up 34% YoY to $100B, and forecasts weaker Q2 revenue growth; SHOP falls 11%+ pre-market (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-5 Shopify

Google now offers up to $1.5 million for some Android exploits (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-5 Android Google

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