Image created with GPT Image 1. Image prompt: Dressed in a triple-breasted power suit of obsidian wool lined with financial charts printed on silk, a Black mogul struts the carpet dragging a briefcase-cape that unfurls into a Wall Street ticker rewritten with Afrobeat titles; mood lit in crisp cool tones, shoulder-padded dominance framed in tight vertical crop.

LinkedIn’s new AI tools help job seekers find smarter career fits – Fast Company
https://www.fastcompany.com/91329471/linkedins-new-ai-tools-help-jobseekers-find-better-fit-roles

OpenAI agrees to buy Windsurf for about $3 billion, Bloomberg News reports | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-agrees-buy-windsurf-about-3-billion-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-05-06/

Anduril to acquire Ireland’s Klas to bolster AI warfare systems | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/anduril-acquire-irelands-klas-bolster-ai-warfare-systems-2025-05-05/

OpenAI has now agreed to buy Windsurf formerly Codeium for about $3 billion, its largest acquisition yet. Bloomberg first broke the news of talks several weeks ago. Win for Kleiner, General Catalyst, Greenoaks. Scoop with @rachelmetz https://x.com/Katie_Roof/status/1919547270913048804

Scoop: OpenAI is in talks to acquire AI code editor Windsurf for $3 billion. w/ @rachelmetz & @shiringhaffary https://x.com/KateClarkTweets/status/1912569653777301816

OpenAI Reaches Agreement to Buy Windsurf for $3 Billion – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-06/openai-reaches-agreement-to-buy-startup-windsurf-for-3-billion?embedded-checkout=true

OpenAI Restructuring: Microsoft (MSFT) Is Key Holdout of Plan – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-05/microsoft-said-to-be-key-holdout-for-openai-restructuring-plan?embedded-checkout=true

OpenAI said it will convert its existing for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation—but keep the non-profit in control with a majority stake over the PBC. The move came after pressure from ex-employees and a long legal battle with Elon Musk https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1919656417780248613

For example, searching “best vintage shops for mid-century modern furniture. I’m trying to find a coffee table or record cabinet” will give you relevant local options with descriptions, images, ratings, live pricing, availability and more. This all is powered by Google’s https://x.com/rmstein/status/1917976694377574711

A message from Bret Taylor, Chair of the OpenAI Board of Directors, and a letter from @sama about our structure. https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1919453166979957115

Evolving OpenAI’s Structure | Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43897772

Shopping We’re experimenting with making shopping simpler and faster to find, compare, and buy products in ChatGPT. ✅ Improved product results ✅ Visual product details, pricing, and reviews ✅ Direct links to buy Product results are chosen independently and are not ads. https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1916947243044856255

Mastercard gives AI agents ability to shop on your behalf | Financial Post https://financialpost.com/news/retail-marketing/e-commerce-solutions/mastercard-ai-agents-shop-on-your-behalf

2/ @Saboo_Shubham_ built a Customer Support Voice RAG Agent using Firecrawl and OpenAI Agents SDK. 📞 It can bring any documentation or knowledge base to life in just a few minutes. https://x.com/AtomSilverman/status/1919066828862530007

Anthropic to Buy Back Employee Shares at $61.5 Billion Valuation — The Information https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-buy-back-employee-shares-61-5-billion-valuation

One mistake a lot of companies struggle with is they want to hire an “AI leader” to solve their problems with AI. Yes, lots of experts know traditional machine learning AI, but there are no GenAI leaders who have years of experience. We are all figuring it out at the same time.” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1917955953216926079

Shopify Magic and Sidekick: AI for Commerce – Shopify https://www.shopify.com/magic

MARK ZUCKERBERG: “WE BUILT A NEW THING FOR YOU” “There’s almost 1 billion people using Meta AI across our apps now, so we made a new standalone Meta AI app for you to check out. Meta AI is designed to be your personal AI. You open the app and you can talk to it about whatever https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1917247516107772296

Introducing Le Chat Enterprise, the most customizable and secure agent-powered AI assistant for businesses, making AI a real leverage for competitiveness. – Integration with your company knowledge (starting with Gmail, Google Drive, Sharepoint…) – Ability to add frequently used https://x.com/MistralAI/status/1920119929828761855

Day 3 of Building in Public Anyone using ChatGPT while browsing homes on Zillow, Redfin, or Trulia? I built a Chrome extension that turns ChatGPT into your personal real estate agent right on your browser sidebar. What can it do? 👇🧵 https://x.com/lamp1billion/status/1914124018170667144

Github 👨‍🔧: Get your documents ready for gen AI → Parses multiple document formats like PDF, DOCX, XLSX, HTML, and images. → Features advanced PDF understanding: page layout, reading order, table structure, code, formulas, image classification. → Uses a unified https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1919320664781332876

I built a Customer Support Voice RAG Agent using Firecrawl and OpenAI Agents SDK. It can bring any documentation or knowledge base to life in just a few minutes. 100% Opensource Code with step-by-step tutorial. https://x.com/Saboo_Shubham_/status/1908708028993728941

3/ The Next Generation of Payments Is Here!  @Razorpay becomes India’s first payment gateway with an Official MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server, designed for an AI-first world. https://x.com/AtomSilverman/status/1920168570954137795

The Next Generation of Payments Is Here! Today, Razorpay becomes India’s first payment gateway with an Official MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server, designed for an AI-first world. Here is how it works 👇 https://x.com/Razorpay/status/1916117747718672593

AI has opened a new era in venture capital, according to Forerunner founder Kirsten Green | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/video/ai-has-opened-a-new-era-in-venture-capital-according-to-forerunner-founder-kirsten-green/

Wave 8 is here! It’s a big one, so this week we’ll be rolling it out in 3 parts. Day one of Wave 8 focuses on Teams & Enterprises: 📄Windsurf Reviews 📂Knowledge Base 💬Conversation Sharing 🚀Teams Deploys 📊Improved Analytics for Cascade 👥Enterprise + Teams Self Serve Update https://x.com/windsurf_ai/status/1919820747037392982

Anysphere, which makes Cursor, has reportedly raised $900M at $9B valuation | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/04/cursor-is-reportedly-raising-funds-at-9-billion-valuation-from-thrive-a16z-and-accel/

Rewriting Pre-Training Data Boosts LLM Performance in Math and Code Introduces two openly licensed datasets: 1. SwallowCode (≈16.1 billion tokens) refines Python snippets from The-Stack-v2 2. SwallowMath (≈2.3 billion tokens) enhances Finemath-4+ by removing boilerplate, https://x.com/iScienceLuvr/status/1920056647822532752

san francisco is a ghost city. an inherent ephemerality in every friendship: nobody is here to set down roots. a startup fails, an opportunity blinks, a friend disappears back across the globe forever. everyone’s imported, ready dip out just as fast as they came in.” / X https://x.com/willdepue/status/1919282493498278231

11x CEO Hasan Sukkar steps down | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/05/11x-ceo-hasan-sukkar-steps-down/

When we use generative AI for work, there are two ever-present risks: hallucinations/confabulations and deskilling. For each of my AI use cases, I try to make sure I know how I’m avoiding those risks. Specifically: * AI is helpful despite being error-prone if it is faster to” / X https://x.com/random_walker/status/1919359709062033850

Musk’s xAI joins TWG Global, Palantir for AI push in financial sector | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/musks-xai-joins-twg-global-palantir-ai-push-financial-sector-2025-05-06/

Baidu debuted Turbo versions of ERNIE 4.5 and X1, with faster speed and lower cost 4.5 Turbo comes at 11c and 44c per million I/O tokens (0.2% of GPT-4.5). X1 Turbo tops DeepSeek R1 & V3, coming at 14c/55c per million I/O tokens https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1919060425770942619

Llama-Nemotron: Efficient Reasoning Models NVIDIA introduces the Llama-Nemotron series of models, an open family of heterogeneous reasoning models that deliver exceptional reasoning capabilities, inference efficiency, and an open license for enterprise use. “As of April 2025, https://x.com/iScienceLuvr/status/1919234521171693844

Meta Enters The Token Business, Powered By Nvidia, Cerebras And Groq https://www.forbes.com/sites/karlfreund/2025/04/29/meta-enters-the-token-business-powered-by-nvidia-cerebras-and-groq/

Introducing Mistral Medium 3: our new multimodal model offering SOTA performance at 8X lower cost. – A new class of models that balances performance, cost, and deployability. – High performance in coding and function-calling. – Full enterprise capabilities, including hybrid or https://x.com/MistralAI/status/1920119463430500541

AI coding platform Windsurf launched its Wave 8 update, focusing on enterprise and teams with: —GitHub app to review PRs and edit titles —Docs-connected context awareness engine —Cascade conversation sharing —Team deploys —Refreshed analytics https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1920018883085250724

Google launches Google for Startups Accelerator: AI for Nature https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/entrepreneurs/ai-nature-climate-accelerator-nonprofits-speciesnet/

OpenAI tried to acquire Cursor at $300M ARR but they chose to say no and raise at $10B. Then they offered Windsurf $3B as they hit $100M ARR. The model labs clearly want to buy breakout apps built on them.” / X https://x.com/deedydas/status/1915083513189298620

Evolving OpenAI’s structure | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/evolving-our-structure/

Supabase created the ChatGPT of databases. You can build and launch databases, create charts, see visuals of your DB, generate sample data, and more. 100% open source. https://x.com/LiorOnAI/status/1919830786653741366

30% cost savings and improved operational efficiency are on the menu @HelloFresh.🍴 Leveraging @Snowflake to get a unified view of their data and real-time analytics has enabled HelloFresh to get better insight into their customer journey, and optimize supply chain operations to https://x.com/RamaswmySridhar/status/1917982790282559946

⟪Humanoid⟫ is working with major UK retailers to pilot their humanoid robots in real-world scenarios. The company intends to begin mass production within five years.” / X https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1918005939594240471

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