Google's AI Overviews are failing to provide search summaries for specific command-style terms including "disregard", "ignore", and "skip" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Reddit stock fell 5%+ on Friday after Meta launched a standalone app for online forums, called Forum; Reddit's stock is now down almost 40% this year (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
Google rolls out a Google Wallet redesign, including "dynamic quick access" for favourites, a "View more" floating action button, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
Sources: OpenAI generated about $5.7B in revenue in Q1, nearly $1B more than Anthropic (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
August Robotics, which makes autonomous robots for construction and industrial applications, raised $30M led by Big Pi Ventures (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
OpenAI says an internal general-purpose reasoning model has disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a central problem in discrete geometry posed in 1946 (OpenAI)
Google says it is testing new ad formats in search results and AI Mode, including Conversational Discovery ads, Highlighted Answers, and AI-powered Shopping ads (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)
Spotify launches a "Verified by Spotify" badge for podcasts to help "authenticate creator identity", after releasing it for music in April (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)
Seagate shares drop 9%+, leading a group-wide sell-off after comments from its CEO raised concerns it won't be able to meet demand fueled by the AI buildout (CJ Haddad/CNBC)
Cursor releases Composer 2.5, saying it's better at sustained work on long-running tasks and follows complex instructions more reliably; it's built on Kimi K2.5 (Cursor)
Source: Shein is acquiring DTC clothing retailer Everlane, which focuses on sustainability and "radical transparency", in a $100M deal (Lauren Sherman/Puck)
Analysis: 34 leading AI startups are generating ~$80B in annualized revenue, up 112% from six months ago, with Anthropic and OpenAI capturing 89% of the revenue (The Information)
Grafana says hackers have accessed its GitHub environment and demanded a ransom to prevent the release of its codebase; Grafana refused to pay (The Hacker News)
Analysis: mass adoption of smartphones and social media may be a primary driver of declining birthrates globally, in part by reducing in-person socializing (John Burn-Murdoch/Financial Times)
Vietnam's government, which once saw video games as a social risk, named gaming as one of its key cultural industries in 2025 and now promotes them at expos (Bloomberg)