Sonali Basak / Bloomberg:
Sources: Adam Neumann's real estate startup Flow raised more than $100M from investors including a16z in a round that more than doubles its valuation to ~$2.5B  —  Adam Neumann, the former WeWork chief executive officer, raised more money for his new residential real estate company Flow …

Donald Trump will sign an executive order that will target online election fundraising platforms that may allegedly process foreign campaign donations – an action specifically aimed at curtailing the activities of ActBlue, the primary online fundraising platform for the Democratic Party.  Politico first reported that the executive order was imminent, was aimed at launching an […]

Google’s AI Overviews in Search now have “1.5 billion users per month,” CEO Sundar Pichai said in a statement as part of Alphabet’s Q1 2025 earnings. Google started to widely roll out AI Overviews last May. Despite some awkward suggestions found shortly after their launch, the company has continued to expand upon the tool with […]

Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
Alphabet reports Google Cloud Q1 revenue up 28% YoY to $12.26B, vs. $12.27B est., and says AI Overviews now has 1.5B users per month, up from 1B in October  —  Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube, reported stronger-than-expected first-quarter growth on Thursday after the bell.

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Alphabet says it surpassed 270M paid subscriptions, driven by YouTube and Google One, and reports YouTube Q1 ad revenue up 10.3% YoY to $8.93B, vs. $8.97B est.  —  YouTube continues to rake in money from advertisers worldwide, with the video giant's ad revenue reaching $8.93 billion …