A hack of Instructure's Canvas locked out students at schools and universities across the US in the middle of finals period; some US colleges postponed exams
Schools and universities across the country are recovering from an outage that knocked down Canvas, an online platform that manages exams …
Sources: Apple and Intel have reached a formal deal in recent months for Intel to manufacture some chips for Apple devices; INTC closes up 13.93%
The iPhone maker and U.S. silicon giant will work together on chips for Apple devices. The Trump administration pushed for the deal.
EU warns that VPNs are being used to bypass online age-verification systems, calling their use “a loophole in the legislation that needs closing”
The European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) has warned that virtual private networks (VPNs) are increasingly being used …
Sony reports a $765M impairment loss due to Marathon developer Bungie's underperformance during its FY ending March 31, 2026; Sony acquired Bungie in early 2022
Extracting value. — Sony has reported a $765 million impairment loss due to underperformance of Marathon developer Bungie during its last financial year.
FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecoms, including VoIP providers, to verify user identities before activating service, raising privacy fears
The era of the anonymous phone number could be ending. On April 30, the Federal Communications Commission unanimously approved …
LayerZero apologizes for Kelp DAO exploit response, says single-verifier setup was deficient; Dune: in April, ~47% of LayerZero OApps had the same default setup
Quick Take — LayerZero published a blog post Friday apologizing for poor communication in the three weeks since the $292 million Kelp DAO exploit.
Anthropic details how it improved Claude's safety training after finding agentic misalignment in older models, such as Opus 4 blackmailing engineers
Last year, we released a case study on agentic misalignment. In experimental scenarios, we showed that AI models from many different …
Sales of PC motherboards are expected to fall 25%+ YoY in 2026, as PC users delay their upgrades amid AI-driven price surges for memory, storage, and processors
Fewer people are buying parts and building new PCs from scratch. … Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled …
Sources: WH is preparing to order US agencies to partner with AI companies on cybersecurity; the EO wouldn't require pre-release model testing by the government
The Trump administration is preparing to order US agencies to partner with artificial intelligence companies to protect networks …
GM agrees to pay $12.75M to resolve a California investigation into claims that it illegally sold the location and driving data of OnStar subscribers to brokers
GM (GM.N) has agreed to pay $12.75 million to resolve a California investigation into allegations that the Detroit automaker illegally sold …
NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said Tuesday that the later release 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first vehicle …
OpenAI president Greg Brockman's journal has emerged as a star witness in the Musk v. Altman trial; Brockman says he stopped writing about OpenAI in it in 2023
The journal of OpenAI president Greg Brockman is now a character in the company's battle with the world's richest man …
Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI firms met with Hindu, Sikh, and Greek Orthodox leaders to draft principles on how to infuse models with ethics and morality
As concerns mount over artificial intelligence and its rapid integration into society, tech companies are increasingly turning …
Honeywell's Quantinuum files for a US IPO, reporting a $136.6M net loss on revenue of $5.2M for the three months ended March 31; sources: it could raise $1.5B+
Quantinuum Inc., a quantum computing company backed by Honeywell International Inc., filed for a US initial public offering …
Sources: ByteDance plans to increase its 2026 capex to more than $30B, up at least 25% from a preliminary plan, amid the AI boom and rising memory chip costs
TikTok owner ByteDance is ramping up its spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure, boosting its planned capital expenditure …
Instructure says its Canvas edtech platform has been restored after disabling it amid a data extortion attack claimed by ShinyHunters
Cyberattacks on schools and public institutions are becoming more frequent and more sophisticated. Protecting students, educators, and sensitive information must be a top priority. 🧵Bruno J. Navarro...
Nintendo says it will increase the price of the Switch 2 globally on September 1, from $450 to $500 in the US, and the price of the original Switch in Japan
Trump Media and Technology Group reports Q1 net sales up 6% YoY to $871,200 and a $405.9M net loss; DJT is down 35% so far in 2026 for a market cap of ~$2.47B
Akamai says it struck a seven-year cloud computing deal with a “leading frontier model provider”; sources: the deal was with Anthropic and is worth $1.8B
Anthropic PBC has signed a $1.8 billion computing deal with cloud services provider Akamai Technologies Inc. to meet surging demand …
Palo Alto Networks says in its testing, three weeks of frontier AI-assisted analysis matched a full year of manual penetration testing, with broader coverage
For the last several months, we have had early, unbounded access to the latest frontier AI models.
A profile of Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao, who tends to take a conservative approach to revenue projections and has chosen to raise less money than is available
Krishna Rao is navigating unprecedented growth, compute constraints and the idiosyncratic Amodeis
How SpaceMob, an online community of ~50,000, has fueled a meme-stock-like rally in satellite networking company AST, which is up ~6,000% over a 22-month period
Championed by a guru known simply as the Kook, the satellite company AST has become one of the world's most expensive stocks.
Source: Mistral AI and TML's founding member Devendra Chaplot, who was considered a marquee hire when he joined xAI in March, exited xAI after roughly a month
Cursor is already starting to make its presence known at SpaceX's AI unit, just weeks after Elon Musk's firm got an option to buy the coding startup for $60 billion.
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google's enterprise push with PE firms poses a new competitive threat to India's IT industry, as services become increasingly automatable
On Wall Street, the announcements sounded like the next phase of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom: frontier model companies …
Sources: Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug discovery company spun out of Google DeepMind, is in advanced talks to raise $2B+ led by Thrive Capital
Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug discovery company spun out of Alphabet Inc.'s Google DeepMind, is in advanced discussions to raise …
The FCC says foreign-made routers and drones can now receive software updates at least until 2029, extending its earlier 2027 cutoff
Beijing-based humanoid robotics company Robotera raised over $200M led by SF Group, after raising ~$146M in March at a ~$1.47B valuation
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde expressed skepticism over the need for euro-pegged stablecoins, saying they could hamper the ECB's work
Impressions of China's AI ecosystem after visiting many leading AI labs there, and the similarities and differences in working on LLMs in China and the West
OnlyFans agrees to sell a ~16% stake to Architect Capital for $535M in a deal that values the company at about $3.15B
Cloudflare reports Q1 revenue up 34% YoY to $639.8M and plans to cut 1,100+ jobs as it architects its company “for the agentic AI era”; NET closes down 23.62%
OpenAI launches three voice models in the API: GPT-Realtime-2 with GPT-5-class reasoning, GPT-Realtime-Whisper for transcription, and GPT-Realtime-Translate
Sources: Cerebras plans to raise its IPO price range from $115-$125 per share to $125-$135 after drawing orders for more than 20x the number of shares available
Cerebras Systems Inc. is set to increase the price range of its initial public offering as soon as Monday …
French prosecutors escalate an investigation into Elon Musk and X, focused on alleged algorithmic manipulation and sexual deepfakes, to a criminal probe
Sony reports Q4 revenue up 8% YoY to ~$19.4B, above ~$18.4B est., ~$1.06B operating profit, below ~$1.7B est., and forecasts FY 2027 net profit up 13% to ~$7.4B
PlayStation CEO lays out plan to use AI for future game developmentCris Tolomia /Yahoo Finance:Sony FY2025 earnings: profit forecast, PS5 sales, share buybackKyodo News:Nintendo expects fall in FY 202...