The Denominator
Five sovereign tech programs from five different countries produced news in a single week. The capital going in is at historic highs. The independence coming out is at historic lows. The ratio — money in, sovereignty out — has collapsed against a denominator nobody in 2015 had to budget against: one year of US hyperscaler capex.
Sam Altman reflects on the attack on his house, OpenAI's success, personal regrets, and advocates for de-escalating rhetoric and tactics in the AI industry
Here is a photo of my family. I love them more than anything. — Images have power, I hope. Normally we try to be pretty private …
Amazon Luna is dropping support for game purchases and third-party game stores and subscriptions; previously purchased games will be accessible until June 10
The Luna game-streaming service is getting an overhaul, with Amazon pulling the plug on game purchases and hosting third-party game stores and subscriptions.
Sources: Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and other banks are testing Anthropic's Mythos model internally; JPMorgan Chase is the only bank named in Project Glasswing
Wall Street banks are starting to test Anthropic PBC's Mythos model internally as Trump administration officials encourage them to use it to detect vulnerabilities.
The US CFTC says a district court judge granted its request for a temporary restraining order barring Arizona from continuing its criminal case against Kalshi
A federal judge on Friday blocked Arizona from continuing its criminal case against prediction market Kalshi …
Sources: Anthropic met with Christian leaders in March to seek input on Claude's moral and spiritual development and if it could be considered a “child of God”
The artificial intelligence company asked religious leaders for guidance on building a moral chatbot. — Summary
An investigation details Webloc, an ad-based geo surveillance system providing access to a constantly updated stream of records from up to 500M mobile devices
Location data collected from mobile apps and digital advertising can reveal habits, interests and almost any other aspect of someone's life.
OpenAI says a GitHub workflow used to sign its macOS apps downloaded a malicious Axios library on March 31, but no user data or internal system was compromised
OpenAI said Friday that it found evidence that one of its internal tools downloaded a compromised update from a recently infected, legitimate open-source software library.
Tesla says Dutch regulators approved the use of its full self-driving software, marking the first regulatory sign-off for the feature in Europe
Tesla (TSLA.O) on Friday said Dutch regulators had approved the use of its driver assistance software which handles most driving tasks on highways …
Survey of 6,698 people across six EU countries: around 84% said they don't trust US tech companies with their personal data; 93% don't trust Chinese companies
Europe is rolling out measures to keep data local and reduce reliance on foreign tech. — More than 8 in 10 Europeans …
Google says Polymarket bets “briefly appeared in Google News in error”, after the bets appeared alongside news articles in the “For You” section
Links to bets on world events were appearing alongside legitimate news organizations.
Japan approves an additional $4B in subsidies to Rapidus to bankroll the chipmaker's work for Fujitsu, taking the total state investment and fees to $16.3B
Japan approved ¥631.5 billion ($4 billion) in additional subsidies to quicken Rapidus Corp.'s entry into the high-stakes AI chipmaking arena …
Court filing: OpenAI says Elon Musk's recent amendments to his OpenAI lawsuit are a “legal ambush”, calling them “legally improper and factually unsupported”
OpenAI says Elon Musk has suddenly changed direction on what he's seeking in his lawsuit against the startup in a …
Microsoft unveils plans to streamline the Windows Insider program, offering a simplified channel structure, moving between channels without wiping PCs, and more
How AI is transforming golf: optimizing course operations, virtual assistants handling tee time bookings, and AI instructor apps improving player performance
From reserving a tee time to fending off turf disease, artificial intelligence is putting the game under an algorithmic microscope
YouTube raises YouTube Premium's prices in the US: Lite is $1 more at $8.99/month, Individual is $2 more at $15.99/month, and Family is $4 more at $26.99/month
Source: federal prosecutors have subpoenaed Reddit to appear before a grand jury, to provide personal data on an anonymous user who criticized ICE
Indian IT giant TCS reports Q4 sales up 9.7% YoY to $7.63B, net profit up 12.2% to $1.48B, both above est., and says new AI models did not hurt services demand
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS.NS) reported better-than-expected quarterly results on Thursday and said that new artificial intelligence models …
France says it plans to move government computers running Windows to Linux, to further reduce its reliance on US technology, without providing a timeline
San Francisco police arrested a suspect for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home and also making threats outside OpenAI's headquarters
An attacker allegedly threw a molotov cocktail at the OpenAI CEO's residence before making threats outside of the startup's headquarters.
Analysis: Trump's World Liberty Financial used 5B of its WLFI tokens to borrow $75M from a platform its adviser co-founded; WLFI falls to an all-time low
Trump hails Palantir's “great war fighting capabilities”, days after short seller Michael Burry said the company will lose to AI startups; PLTR is down ~25% YTD
Report: Canada's Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha are in talks to merge; the German government would be willing to become a key customer of a combined company
A wave of top AI researchers returned from the US to China in the past year, driven by better pay, quality of life, and a more restrictive US immigration system
Engineers and scientists return for better pay and quality of life as US grows more hostile — In the hushed corridors …
Sources: three senior executives who helped launch OpenAI's Stargate initiative are leaving the company and joining Meta
Three key players in OpenAI's massive effort to set up hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of artificial intelligence data center capacity are joining Meta Platforms Inc. …
Alat, a $100B Saudi Arabia PIF-backed electronics manufacturing fund, has removed CEO Amit Midha; sources say it has dropped plans to invest in chip production
The Scoop — Know More — Notable — THE SCOOP — Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund has dismissed Alat CEO Amit Midha …
Blackstone files for an IPO of a new data center acquisition vehicle to buy already-built and leased properties, and, sources say, plans to raise ~$2B
Ramp data: 30.6% of US businesses paid for Anthropic's tools in March, up from 24.4% in February; OpenAI's US business adoption remained nearly flat MoM at ~35%
Divergence reflects company's recent rapid growth owing to strong interest in its Claude Code products
CoreWeave says it has signed a multiyear deal with Anthropic, including a variety of Nvidia chips at data centers in the US; it now has 43 active data centers
UK activist investor Palliser has built a stake in Ajinomoto, urging it to raise prices for its ABF, a key material used to form advanced chipmaking substrates
Hong Kong grants its first stablecoin issuer licenses to HSBC and Standard Chartered from a pool of 36 applicants; they are set to issue stablecoins in H2 2026
Waymo and Waze launch a pilot program to send pothole data collected by robotaxi sensors to the Waze for Cities platform and Waze app, starting in five markets
Google rolls out end-to-end encryption for Gmail on Android and iOS devices for enterprise users, letting them read and compose emails without additional tools
Jury deliberations began Friday in the Live Nation antitrust trial, after state attorneys general continued to pursue the case even as the US DOJ settled
Google News is showing Polymarket bets alongside news articles in the “For you” section; in tests, Polymarket bets also appeared on the Google News homepage
Sources: Cisco is in talks to acquire Tel Aviv-based Astrix Security, which sells software to monitor and secure AI agents, for between $250M and $350M
Sources: a week before Mythos release, JD Vance and Scott Bessent questioned Amodei, Altman, and others about AI model security and responding to cyber attacks
Vice President JD Vance and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent last week questioned leading tech CEOs about the security …
Documents: Amazon is working on “Project Houdini”, which aims to cut the time it takes to construct data centers by preassembling core server rooms into modules
Sources: US National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross is leading an effort to identify security vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure that AI could exploit
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