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Big tech moves on a different timescale than the news cycle wants you to believe. Product launches, leadership shakeups, antitrust filings, platform shifts — most of what gets coverage is theater. The actual story is usually downstream of an org-chart change you didn't see, an SDK update buried on a docs page, or a quiet revenue line in a 10-Q. Owl Post pulls signal from all of it: what shipped, what broke, who's hiring (or quietly not), and which platform shifts are real instead of performative.

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Nvidia paid Groq $20 billion and took its top engineers. Now Groq is raising $650 million for what’s left.

Groq is raising $650 million from existing investors to fund its inference cloud business, Axios reported. The raise comes six months after Nvidia struck a $20 billion not-acqui-hire that paid out Groq’s investors in cash, took several senior engineers, and licensed Groq’s hardware technology. The same investors who were cashed out in December have now […] This story continues at The Next Web

thenextweb.comMay 30, 2026

Nvidia paid Groq $20 billion and took its top engineers. Now Groq is raising $650 million for what’s left.

Parloa turns its $350 million war chest into a partnership web spanning SAP, Microsoft, and OpenAI

Parloa, the Berlin-founded AI agent management platform, has announced a wave of strategic partnerships with SAP, Microsoft, OpenAI, Five9, and Epic as it deploys the $350 million it raised in its January 2026 Series D round. The company, which builds AI agents for enterprise customer service, has also surpassed $50 million in annual recurring revenue with […] This story continues at The Next Web

thenextweb.comMay 30, 2026

Developers won’t work without AI anymore. The research says it might be making them worse.

In February 2026, AI research lab METR tried to repeat a groundbreaking study measuring how much time developers take to complete tasks with and without AI. It could not. Developers refused to participate because they would not work without AI, even for a limited number of tasks in a research setting. The original 2025 study […] This story continues at The Next Web

thenextweb.comMay 30, 2026

Dell’s shares soar 35% as US computer maker taps into AI fervour

Rally is the latest sign of Wall Street’s exuberance over companies linked to artificial intelligence

ft.comMay 29, 2026

Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation

A public spat between Microsoft and an independent security researcher reopens a long-running debate over who is responsible for securing software.

techcrunch.comMay 29, 2026

Open-source security is a mess - IBM and Red Hat bet $5 billion and 20,000 engineers can fix it

Project Lightwell is an AI‑powered initiative to find and fix vulnerabilities in open-source software at an industrial scale. Here's what we know so far.

zdnet.comMay 29, 2026

After using this Windows laptop for work and play, I'm wondering why I still need my PC tower

The MSI Raider 16 Max HX combines powerful current-gen hardware with a revamped cooling system and a stunning 240Hz OLED screen.

zdnet.comMay 29, 2026

TikTok owner ByteDance is reportedly developing its own custom AI CPUs — company looks to ease China's dependence on US chipmakers

TikTok owner Bytedance reportedly developing its own custom CPUs in a bid to reduce costs and dependence from US chipmakers

tomshardware.comMay 29, 2026

Microsoft teases new Surface hardware and ‘a new era of PC’

I pondered the other day what's next for Microsoft's Surface PC lineup, and it looks like we're about to find out. Windows and Surface chief Pavan Davuluri has just teased "something new is coming for developers," complete with a mysterious image of what looks like a curved display edge. Davuluri notes that whatever is coming is "not a new OS version," so that rules out the potential for Windows 12 to be announced at Microsoft's Build developer conference next week. Separately, the Windows account on X posted a similar cryptic tweet, promising "a new era of PC" with coordinates pointing to where Computex is hosted in Taipei. Something new … Read the full story at The Verge.

theverge.comMay 29, 2026

ChargePoint partners with Powers Parts to fix the charging and support gap hitting electric transit fleets

ChargePoint and Powers Parts, a national distributor of electric vehicle components and fleet replacement parts, have announced a partnership to sell ChargePoint charging hardware, software, and fleet management services directly to transit agencies across North America. The deal targets operators running E2 and ZX5 electric buses built by PhoenixEV, the company that acquired Proterra’s transit bus […] This story continues at The Next Web

thenextweb.comMay 29, 2026

I've used Gemini in Android Auto for 2 months now, and it's transformed my daily drive in 4 ways

Gemini has made voice control in my car fun and useful, and I'm still discovering new ways to use it.

zdnet.comMay 29, 2026

Dutch Uptmz acquired by Aizy to build one AI ad platform across Google, Microsoft and Meta

The year-old Dutch startup is folding in a seven-year-old performance-marketing platform, betting that customers want AI, automation and human specialists in one place. Most startups spend their first year trying to survive. Aizy has spent its first year buying a company older than itself. The Breda-based AI-marketing firm announced that it has acquired Uptmz, a […] This story continues at The Next Web

thenextweb.comMay 29, 2026

Intel and 3DGS back a $3.3bn glass-substrate plant in India’s Odisha

The fight over who makes the world’s chips is increasingly a fight over the parts of a chip nobody photographs. India has just landed one of them. Intel and 3D Glass Solutions have signed an agreement to build a roughly $3.3 billion substrate-manufacturing plant in the eastern state of Odisha, the government announced on Friday. […] This story continues at The Next Web

thenextweb.comMay 29, 2026

iOS 27 Rumor: Siri Could Become Apple’s Answer to ChatGPT

iOS 27 could bring a rebuilt Siri, Dynamic Island AI search, chatbot-style tools, and deeper AI features across iPhone apps.

techrepublic.comMay 29, 2026

An Indian court says Google can be liable for selling rivals a brand’s name

The Delhi High Court held that letting competitors bid on the trademark ‘Hindware’ as an ad keyword is infringement, and that Google’s safe-harbour shield does not cover it. The business of search advertising rests on a quiet assumption: that a platform can auction off any word, including someone else’s brand name, and treat the legal […] This story continues at The Next Web

thenextweb.comMay 29, 2026

Amazon unveils 'Resilient Network Graphs' data center network that cuts hardware by 69% and boosts throughput by 33% — now the default for most AWS workloads

AWS has revealed RNG, a new random-graph-based data center network that delivers 33% higher throughput, cuts network power consumption by 40%, uses 69% fewer devices, and is already the default architecture for most AWS workloads.

tomshardware.comMay 29, 2026

Autodesk buys MaintainX for $3.6bn to push from design into operations

Autodesk has spent four decades selling the software that engineers and architects use to design buildings, factories and machines. With its latest acquisition, it is buying its way into what happens after those things are built. The company has agreed to acquire MaintainX, a maintenance and operations platform, for about $3.6 billion in cash. The […] This story continues at The Next Web

thenextweb.comMay 29, 2026

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Nvidia paid Groq $20 billion and took its top engineers. Now Groq is raising $650 million for what’s left.

Parloa turns its $350 million war chest into a partnership web spanning SAP, Microsoft, and OpenAI

Developers won’t work without AI anymore. The research says it might be making them worse.

Dell’s shares soar 35% as US computer maker taps into AI fervour

Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation

Open-source security is a mess - IBM and Red Hat bet $5 billion and 20,000 engineers can fix it

After using this Windows laptop for work and play, I'm wondering why I still need my PC tower

TikTok owner ByteDance is reportedly developing its own custom AI CPUs — company looks to ease China's dependence on US chipmakers

Microsoft teases new Surface hardware and ‘a new era of PC’

ChargePoint partners with Powers Parts to fix the charging and support gap hitting electric transit fleets

I've used Gemini in Android Auto for 2 months now, and it's transformed my daily drive in 4 ways

Dutch Uptmz acquired by Aizy to build one AI ad platform across Google, Microsoft and Meta

Intel and 3DGS back a $3.3bn glass-substrate plant in India’s Odisha

iOS 27 Rumor: Siri Could Become Apple’s Answer to ChatGPT

An Indian court says Google can be liable for selling rivals a brand’s name

Amazon unveils 'Resilient Network Graphs' data center network that cuts hardware by 69% and boosts throughput by 33% — now the default for most AWS workloads

Autodesk buys MaintainX for $3.6bn to push from design into operations

Acer’s answer to the MacBook Neo is a $699 laptop with Intel chips and 8GB of RAM

Kiwibit’s AI-powered bird feeder is my new backyard buddy

Acer just announced a new budget laptop with Qualcomm's Snapdragon C chip

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Nvidia paid Groq $20 billion and took its top engineers. Now Groq is raising $650 million for what’s left.

Parloa turns its $350 million war chest into a partnership web spanning SAP, Microsoft, and OpenAI

Developers won’t work without AI anymore. The research says it might be making them worse.

Dell’s shares soar 35% as US computer maker taps into AI fervour

Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation

Open-source security is a mess - IBM and Red Hat bet $5 billion and 20,000 engineers can fix it

After using this Windows laptop for work and play, I'm wondering why I still need my PC tower

TikTok owner ByteDance is reportedly developing its own custom AI CPUs — company looks to ease China's dependence on US chipmakers

Microsoft teases new Surface hardware and ‘a new era of PC’

ChargePoint partners with Powers Parts to fix the charging and support gap hitting electric transit fleets

I've used Gemini in Android Auto for 2 months now, and it's transformed my daily drive in 4 ways

Dutch Uptmz acquired by Aizy to build one AI ad platform across Google, Microsoft and Meta

Intel and 3DGS back a $3.3bn glass-substrate plant in India’s Odisha

iOS 27 Rumor: Siri Could Become Apple’s Answer to ChatGPT

An Indian court says Google can be liable for selling rivals a brand’s name

Amazon unveils 'Resilient Network Graphs' data center network that cuts hardware by 69% and boosts throughput by 33% — now the default for most AWS workloads

Autodesk buys MaintainX for $3.6bn to push from design into operations

Acer’s answer to the MacBook Neo is a $699 laptop with Intel chips and 8GB of RAM

Kiwibit’s AI-powered bird feeder is my new backyard buddy

Acer just announced a new budget laptop with Qualcomm's Snapdragon C chip

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