One Rule
In December 2025 the Trump White House signed the "One Rule" executive order, designed to keep the federal government out of AI model review and to sue states that imposed their own. On May 4 the same administration was sourced as drafting an executive order to vet AI models before release.
GameStop makes an unsolicited ~$56B offer to buy eBay after building a ~5% stake, offering $125/share in cash and stock, a ~20% premium on May 1's closing price
EBay said Monday its board and financial advisers would review GameStop's unsolicited proposal
Anthropic announces a JV with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Hellman & Friedman that aims to sell AI tools to companies; sources: the JV is worth ~$1.5B
Anthropic, Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman each expected to invest around $300 million; Goldman Sachs also an investor
Filing: Elon Musk texted Greg Brockman about settling days before trial; after being denied, he said Brockman and Altman “will be the most hated men in America”
Two days before Elon Musk's multi-billion-dollar lawsuit against OpenAI was slated to head to trial …
Amazon debuts Supply Chain Services, which lets companies use its logistics network to move, store, and deliver everything from raw materials to final products
Amazon.com (AMZN.O) is opening the supply-chain network that has powered its operations for decades to other businesses …
Crypto stocks jump after lawmakers struck a compromise on the CLARITY Act to preserve stablecoin rewards under certain conditions; Circle's stock closed up ~20%
Shares of Circle surged after lawmakers over the weekend struck a compromise on the market structure bill known as the CLARITY Act …
Sources: Apple prepares a “Create a Pass” feature for iOS 27, which lets users take a QR code and generate a custom pass around it for concerts and other venues
Apple Inc. is preparing a new “Create a Pass” feature for its next major iPhone software update …
Cerebras seeks a valuation of up to $26.62B in its US IPO, aiming to raise $3.5B by selling 28M shares at $115 to $125 apiece in its second attempt to go public
Nvidia-rival Cerebras is seeking a valuation of as much as $26.62 billion in its U.S. initial public offering …
Trump's World Liberty Financial countersues Tron founder Justin Sun, alleging defamation, contract violations, and more
One of the Trump family's biggest early crypto backers is now a foe. In response to claims of fraud by billionaire Justin Sun, the Trump-backed crypto firm World …
Ex-iRobot CEO Colin Angle launches Familiar Machines & Magic and unveils Familiar, a dog-like, “emotionally intelligent” robot that reacts to owner's feelings
The inventor behind the world-famous robot vacuum is now designing robots that form an emotional bond with their owners
An analysis of 1.6M Polymarket accounts since November 2022: 0.1% of users get 67% of the profits, with the highest-frequency traders seeing the most success
A WSJ analysis shows a small number of accounts on Polymarket and Kalshi—often pros using data-driven algorithmic trading—take home most of the winnings
Bret Taylor's Sierra, which sells AI customer service agents, raised a $950M Series E led by Tiger and GV at a $15.8B post-money valuation, up from $10B in 2025
Artificial intelligence startup Sierra is raising nearly a billion dollars in a new funding round, CNBC has learned …
Jensen Huang said Nvidia's market share of AI accelerators in China has “now dropped to zero” and that the US' export policy “has already largely backfired”
US export restrictions bite. … Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that the company's market share of AI accelerators in China has now dropped to 0%.
SAP to acquire Dremio, an open data lakehouse provider, and Prior Labs, which it pledges to invest €1B in over four years, hoping to create a frontier AI lab
SAP said it will acquire Dremio, an open data lakehouse player, in a move that aims to use SAP Business Data Cloud combine SAP data with non-SAP data.
Nearly 20 US state-run health insurance exchanges include ad trackers that send user data like race and citizenship info to companies like Meta, TikTok, Google
Nearly all of the 20 state-run health insurance exchanges in the US have added advertising trackers that transmit user activity …
Sources: some lenders are exploring private deals to sell their data center debt, and some banks are seeking to offload their Oracle-linked loans at a discount
Global lenders explore private deals and risk transfers to cut exposure to AI boom — Banks are hunting for new ways …
Inside Palantir Foundation's Atlantic and Pacific Forum at Yale for invited students: State Dept. and Palantir staff share a vision of mixing AI and state power
At a quiet conference at Yale, the company and its allies sketched a vision for AI, state power, and how to mix the two.
Anthropic co-founder explains why there's a 60%+ chance of AI systems autonomously building their successors by 2029 and the consequences of automated AI R&D
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Katie Haun raises $1B for two funds split between early and later-stage investments, looking at startups blending financial services, AI, and alternative assets
Katie Haun, a former Andreessen Horowitz general partner and federal prosecutor who made her name investigating digital assets …
How “emotion AI”, the use of facial and sentiment analysis tools to track workers' moods, is seeping into white-collar jobs amid concerns over privacy and bias
The good news, for me at least, is that the computer thinks I have a nice personality.
Intel taps Alex Katouzian, an ex-Qualcomm EVP, to lead Client Computing & Physical AI group, and names Pushkar Ranade as CTO, after serving on an interim basis
Sources: the Trump administration is discussing an EO to create an AI working group to examine AI oversight procedures, including vetting models before release
The Trump administration, which took a noninterventionist approach to artificial intelligence, is now discussing imposing oversight …Forums:Hacker NewsForums:Hacker News:White House Considers Vetting ...
The jury-less bench trial phase of Meta's child safety case in NM begins today to determine if Meta's actions were a public nuisance and warrant product changes
Sources: more than two dozen prediction-market ETFs have been pushed back as the SEC seeks more information; they were originally expected to launch this week
Palantir reports Q1 revenue up 85% YoY to $1.63B, vs. $1.54B est., US government revenue up 84% to $687M, and US commercial revenue up 133% to $595M
Palantir Technologies (PLTR.O) beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter revenue on Monday, driven by rising demand for its data analytics software …
Former Trump and Biden AI advisers Dean Ball and Ben Buchanan urge bipartisan action on AI security risks, including tighter export controls and safety audits
Investment and tech firm Long Lake says it will buy corporate travel operator Amex GBT for $6.3B, citing AI's ability to modernize the business travel sector
eBay's stock jumps 5% to $109.33, below GameStop's $125/share acquisition offer, in a sign investors see hurdles to completing a deal; GameStop stock drops 10%
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Elon Musk agrees to pay $1.5M to settle SEC allegations that he cheated Twitter shareholders in 2022 by failing to disclose the 5%+ stake he had in the company
Elon Musk agreed to settle Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that he cheated Twitter shareholders out of millions …
Filing: Blackstone's data center acquisition vehicle seeks to raise as much as $1.75B in its IPO, and will target newly built data centers valued at $250M-$1.5B
Pinterest reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $1B, vs. $966M est., MAUs up 11% YoY to 631M, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; PINS jumps 17%+ after hours
Pinterest reported first-quarter earnings on Monday that beat on the top and bottom lines. Shares soared 17% after the report.
Duolingo reports Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to $292M, vs. $288.5M est., bookings up 14% to $308.5M, and expects slower growth in Q2; DUOL drops 12%+ after hours
Duolingo (DUOL.O) posted strong first-quarter results but signaled a more measured growth trajectory ahead, as the language-learning …
Source: OpenAI has raised $4B+ at a $10B pre-money valuation for The Deployment Company, a new joint venture that will aim to help businesses adopt OpenAI tools
OpenAI has raised more than $4 billion for a new joint venture that will focus on helping businesses adopt its artificial intelligence software …
Panthalassa, which aims to power floating data centers using energy generated by ocean waves, raised $140M led by Peter Thiel, source says at a $1B valuation
Instructure reported a data breach on April 30; ShinyHunters adds Instructure to its victims list, claiming it has 3.65TB of data from nearly 9,000 institutions
Apple's handling of vibe coding apps draws complaints from startups like Replit and Anything, which say Apple is applying App Store rules erratically
Music streaming services are adapting to the flood of AI-generated music by labeling, not recommending, and demonetizing tracks, using detection tools, and more
A profile of William Savitt, Sam Altman's lead lawyer against Elon Musk, who represented Twitter against Musk in 2022 and helped OpenAI's for-profit transition
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Cisco agrees to acquire Astrix Security, which helps companies monitor and control the permissions granted to AI agents, a source says for approximately $400M
Legislators and experts criticize the EU's €20B sovereign compute data center plan, questioning whether there is demand and the plan's reliance on Nvidia GPUs
How AI tools such as SuperBrain and Naver's Talking Buddy are helping South Korea's elderly ease loneliness, detect emergencies, and slow cognitive decline
Musk v. Altman: Greg Brockman testifies that his OpenAI stake is now worth ~$30B; a Musk attorney asks why he hasn't donated $29B to OpenAI's nonprofit arm
Despite Investing NothingCristian Dina /The Next Web:Musk tried to settle the OpenAI case two days before trial. Then he promised to make Brockman the most hated man in America.Colleen Cabili /Yahoo F...
Chinese state media: AI-generated Chinese microdramas will be worth $3B+ in 2026, out of a $14B+ total microdrama market, boosted by AI tools like Seedance 2.0
Enzo Health, whose AI tools help home health and hospice agencies automate tasks like patient intake and documentation review, raised a $20M Series A led by N47
Sources: SoftBank plans to make lithium- and cobalt-free data center batteries in Japan as soon as FY 2027, as Japan tries to cut its reliance on Chinese metals
Beijing-based Linkerbot, which holds 80%+ of the global market in dexterous robotic hands, raised a Series B+ at a $3B valuation and seeks a $6B valuation next
Musk v. Altman: Stuart Russell, Musk's only AI expert witness, warned of AI risks but his concerns about AI's existential threats were excluded by the judge
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