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In February the Pentagon called Anthropic a supply chain risk. By May the Pentagon was deploying its model across the US government, the Vatican was launching Pope Leo's first encyclical with the co-founder, and the G20's Financial Stability Board was waiting on a briefing — every institution that tried to push Anthropic away, and every institution that didn't, reaching for the same company in the same month.
Grafana says “an unauthorized party” accessed its GitHub environment and demanded a ransom “to prevent the release of our codebase”; Grafana refused to pay
Grafana has disclosed that an “unauthorized party” obtained a token that granted them the ability to access the company's GitHub environment and download its codebase.
Musk v. Altman: the jury unanimously rejects Elon Musk's claims against Sam Altman, finding that the claims were filed outside of the statute of limitations
After less than two hours of deliberations, a jury rejected Elon Musk's claims against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, ending a dramatic chapter …
Samsung's shares closed up 3.88% after the company resumed talks with its union and a court partially granted an injunction against illegal union actions
Samsung Electronics Co.'s shares climbed more than 6% after its union signaled a willingness to negotiate and a local court granted …
Eric Schmidt faced loud boos during his University of Arizona commencement speech while discussing “rational” fears over the impact of AI and automation on jobs
- Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave the University of Arizona's commencement address this year.
Anthropic last week began letting Mythos users share cybersecurity threats with others who may face similar vulnerabilities, modifying its previous stance
How to restrict access while still allowing users to share threat information is a major challenge facing AI companies
Sony is hiking the starting price of one-month and three-month PlayStation Plus subscriptions in “select regions”, blaming “ongoing market conditions”
One-month and three-month PlayStation Plus subscriptions are getting more expensive.
Security researcher Peter G. Neumann, who criticized the industry's lax attitudes toward computer security and digital privacy, died on May 17 at the age of 93
For decades, he criticized the industry's lax attitudes toward both computer security and individual digital privacy. And he developed solutions.
Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin Depot, North America's largest bitcoin ATM operator, files for bankruptcy, blaming “increasingly stringent compliance obligations”
Bitcoin Depot, the largest bitcoin ATM operator in North America and publicly listed on Nasdaq, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Sources: US authorities in recent months have issued multiple information requests to Kalshi and Polymarket, many tied to wagers on events in Iran and Venezuela
Regulators are seeking information from Kalshi and Polymarket over wagers tied to political events and military operations
Source: Shein is acquiring SF-based DTC clothing retailer Everlane, which was founded on sustainability and “radical transparency” principles, in a $100M deal
The Millennial D.T.C. company built a global brand based on sustainability and radical transparency.
In his weekly Linux kernel post, Linus Torvalds says “AI tools are great” but duplicate bug reports have made the security list “almost entirely unmanageable”
Multiple researchers using the same tools to find the same bugs are creating ‘unnecessary pain and pointless work’
Strategy acquired 24,869 bitcoin for ~$2.01B at an $80,985 average price from May 11 to May 17, taking its holdings to 843,738 BTC, or 4%+ of the total supply
Quick Take — Strategy has purchased another 24,869 BTC for approximately $2.01 billion at an average price of $80,985 per bitcoin …
Microsoft says it's retiring Teams' Together Mode, debuted in 2020, and plans to simplify meeting layouts and focus on video quality, stability, and performance
The company wants to focus on improving video quality and performance instead of gimmicks.
Iranian media: Iran launches “Hormuz Safe”, a Bitcoin-backed insurance service for shipping companies transiting the Strait of Hormuz; ~1,500 ships are trapped
Iran has started a Bitcoin-backed insurance service for shipping companies that want to transit the Strait of Hormuz …
How the AI industry's intense pressure to keep up and its financial rewards are creating “walls of resentment” between Silicon Valley workers and their spouses
Are you married to a man who's obsessed with AI? I'm so, so sorry. — If i had to listen to another minute of my husband talking …
Analysis: the mass adoption of smartphones and social media may be a primary driver of declining birthrates globally, in part by reducing in-person socializing
The demographic landslide defining our era is gaining speed — and terrain. In more than two-thirds of the world's 195 countries …
After EV maker Fisker's collapse, ~4,000 car owners formed a nonprofit to keep their cars working by reverse-engineering software and building open-source tools
When Fisker Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June 2024, it left roughly 11,000 Ocean SUV owners holding the keys to vehicles …Forums:Hacker News,r/InterstellarKinetics, andSlashdotForums:Hacker...
In a town hall, PlayStation studio business CEO Hermen Hulst told staff that the company's narrative single-player games will now be PlayStation exclusive
SCOOP: PlayStation studio business CEO Hermen Hulst told staff in a town hall Monday morning that the company's narrative single-player games …
Pwn2Own Berlin 2026: participants earned a total of $1,298,250 for 47 vulnerabilities, with successful exploits of AI products like Codex, Cursor, and LM Studio
Participants demonstrated exploits for Windows, Linux, VMware, Nvidia, and AI products. … Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 has come to an end …
NextEra's $67B deal to buy Dominion, the largest utility merger in US history, signals a new era of utility consolidation to accommodate AI-driven power demand
Sources: Anthropic agrees to brief the Financial Stability Board on global financial system vulnerabilities found by Mythos, after a request by the FSB's Chair
US tech group will discuss capabilities of its new AI model with members of the Financial Stability Board
Internal memo: Meta is reassigning 7,000 workers to four new units focused on building AI tools, two days before it is set to lay off 10% of its workforce
The company announced the changes two days before it plans to lay off 10 percent of its work force, or about 8,000 employees.
A look at Apple's ongoing strategy of repurposing binned chips for cheaper devices; sources: Apple ordered more A18 Pros for the MacBook Neo amid its popularity
The company's popular, $599 Neo laptop is just one of dozens of Apple devices that use lower-performing processors
A college senior at Stanford describes how AI has changed classes: cheating using AI “has become omnipresent” with students “fudging just about everything”
Sources: Apple's revamped Siri may launch in beta, and will have an option to auto-delete chats; Apple plans to add Suggested Genmoji to iOS 27 and iPadOS 27
Sigma, which sells a cloud-native analytics platform that sits on top of data warehouses, raised an $80M Series E led by Princeville Capital at a $3B valuation
The round was led by Princeville Capital, with new strategic investors Databricks Ventures, ServiceNow Ventures, and Workday Ventures also participating.
Chinese chipmaker CXMT reports Q1 revenue up 719% YoY to ~$7.5B, net profit up 1,688% to $3.6B, and says Omdia ranks it No. 4 in DRAM with a 7.67% global share
Cursor releases Composer 2.5, saying it's better at sustained work on long-running tasks and follows complex instructions more reliably; it's built on Kimi K2.5
Composer 2.5 is now available in Cursor. — It's a substantial improvement in intelligence and behavior over Composer 2.
How gambling companies like FanDuel and DraftKings, as well as Meta and a16z's founders, are pouring millions into state-level election campaigns via super PACs
With Congress largely stalemated, companies turn to states to gain leverage over regulations.
The Vatican says Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah will join Pope Leo on May 25 to launch the pope's first encyclical, setting out his views on the AI age
Pope Leo XIV's launch of his first encyclical focusing on artificial intelligence next week will feature an unexpected guest: Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic.
Arkham: Iran's largest crypto exchange, Nobitex, processed $2.3B+ since 2023 via Tron and BNB Chain, including $23M+ since the Iran war started in February
Iran's Nobitex has processed at least $2.3 billion through Tron and BNB Chain, blockchain ledgers started by backers of the Trump family's World Liberty Financial.
Dust, which helps enterprises design and deploy specialized AI agents that work alongside humans, raised a $40M Series B led by Abstract and Sequoia
New York City-based GovWell, which uses AI to streamline government processes like permitting and licensing, raised a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners
A look at the new class of jobs created by AI companies: AI storytellers, forward deployed engineers, AI accelerators, AI philosophers, AI gig workers, and more
How Amazon, which took a measured tone on AI, went from an AI also-ran to a real contender, thanks to $200B in spending, a bet on custom chips, and savvy deals
The pieces are coming together for AWS's AI strategy, thanks to $200 billion in spending, custom chips and savvy deals
AI sales automation startup Monaco raised a $50M Series B led by Benchmark, bringing its total funding to $85M after raising a $25M Series A in February 2026
Publicis agrees to acquire LiveRamp, which allows companies to share and build new data sets and models that can power agentic frameworks, for $2.2B in cash
Baidu reports Q1 revenue down 1.1% YoY to ~$4.7B, above ~$4.5B est., and net income down 55% YoY to ~$506.6M, above ~$462.5M est., amid a slow AI payoff
First-quarter net profit fell 55% from a year earlier — Baidu recorded another sharp profit drop and a fourth straight quarter …
Anthropic acquires NYC-based Stainless, which generates SDKs from APIs, and plans to wind down its hosted products, after reportedly discussing a $300M+ deal
Anthropic announced Monday it has acquired Stainless, a startup founded by former Stripe engineer Alex Rattray whose software …
Sources: AI chip designer Tenstorrent has drawn takeover interest from Intel and Qualcomm; Tenstorrent could be valued at more than $5B in a potential deal
Artificial intelligence chip startup Tenstorrent Inc. is drawing early takeover interest from prospective buyers at a moment …
Companies running bug bounty programs are adding more stringent background checks and building AI agents to triage a flood of low-quality, AI-generated reports
‘Bug bounty’ programmes have seen a jump in spurious AI-generated submissions — Companies that pay hackers to find flaws in their software …
Seagate shares drop 6.87%, leading a group-wide sell-off after comments from its CEO raised concerns it won't be able to meet demand fueled by the AI buildout
Shares of memory chip maker Seagate slipped more than 8% Monday, leading a group-wide sell-off after comments from CEO Dave Mosley raised concerns …
Uber increases its stake in Delivery Hero to 19.5%, up from 7% in April, and says it “has no intent to acquire 30% or more” of Delivery Hero's voting rights
Uber Technologies Inc. has increased its stake in German food delivery company Delivery Hero SE, underscoring its ambitions …
Quebec-based telecom software startup Gaiia raised a CA$54.8M Series B led by JMI Equity, bringing its total funding to ~CA$90M from backers including YC
Steve Bannon and 60+ Trump allies sign a Humans First-led letter urging Trump to mandate government testing and approval of powerful AI models before release
Analysis: 34 top AI startups are generating nearly $80B in annualized revenue, up 112% from six months ago, with Anthropic and OpenAI currently capturing ~89%
X quietly limits users who didn't pay for verification to “50 original posts and 200 replies per day”, down from 2,400 posts per day
That's down from the previous 2,400 posts per day limit. — X has introduced some more incentive to get users to pay for “verification” …
Internal chats: in March, xAI offered employees $420 in exchange for completed tax filings as training data for Grok, but the bonuses haven't been paid out
Amazon's Alexa+ now produces AI-generated “podcasts” on various topics in the US, featuring chats between two AI “co-hosts”, using content from media outlets
Decart, which offers real-time generative video and GPU optimization tech, raised $300M at a ~$4B valuation, up from $3.1B after raising $153M in August 2025
Decart's valuation hits nearly $4 billion as investors pour capital into startups making AI computing more efficient
A CISA contractor maintained a now-offline GitHub repo that exposed credentials to AWS GovCloud accounts and CISA systems; CISA is investigating the situation
Sources: competition for Google's TPUs among its employees and researchers intensified as it prioritizes cloud customers and flagship AI products over research
Sources: DayOne, a spinoff of China's largest data center operator, GDS, plans a dual IPO in Singapore and New York, seeking to raise $5B at a ~$20B valuation
Developers say Chinese AI labs lead US rivals in video generation, as ByteDance and Kuaishou train models on vast short-form video libraries from their own apps
Ciridae, which is developing AI to streamline back-office operations for real-economy businesses, raised a $20M seed led by Accel, with a16z participating
Akamai is seeking to raise $2.6B in a convertible bond offering, and plans to use $350M of the offering to buy back its common stock from buyers of the bonds
Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk says the judge and jury “never actually ruled on the merits of the case, just on a calendar technicality” and he will file an appeal
Elon Musk /@elonmusk:
A profile of SAS CEO Jim Goodnight, the 83-year-old who co-founded the 50-year-old analytics firm and holds a ~67% stake worth $13.3B, as AI tests SAS' strategy
Cloudflare tests Mythos against 50+ repositories, highlights its ability to chain bugs into a single exploit, and details a vulnerability discovery harness
Grant Bourzikas /Cloudflare:
Polymarket and Kalshi continue to operate in India despite an April 25 government advisory, addressed to VPN providers, labeling prediction markets as “illegal”
Polymarket and Kalshi Inc. have been allowing customers in India to sign up and trade on their prediction markets …