The Primary
The two labs that brand themselves as opposites — acceleration versus safety — spent six months building mirror-image political machines. On May 30 they aimed them at each other inside Democratic primaries. The competition over models had quietly become a competition over who writes the rules.
Coinbase and Kalshi introduce perpetual crypto futures, marking the first time the contracts will be available to US investors via domestic, regulated exchanges
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase (COIN.O) and prediction markets platform Kalshi said on Friday they are introducing perpetual crypto futures …
The DOD's $9.7B contract with Dell has raised eyebrows as a potential payback for Michael and Susan Dell's $6.25B donation to 25M US children's Trump Accounts
Michael Dell bought into President Donald Trump's second term early. Now his hardware company, Dell Technologies …
Microsoft faces backlash after a blog post implied criminal referral and legal action against security researcher Nightmare Eclipse over public bug disclosures
After a security researcher published a series of unpatched bugs in Microsoft products, along with code to exploit them …
After hitting their annual AI budget in months or seeing their AI bills double or triple due to “tokenmaxxing”, some companies are rationing or tracking AI use
Executives are scrambling to track returns on AI investments as the bill for massive computing needs comes due
What to expect at Computex 2026: AI chips, budget PCs competing with the MacBook Neo, Nvidia entering laptop SoC market with the rumored N1X chip, and more
The theme for Computex 2026, according to organizer TAITRA, is “AI Together.” Sure, it sounds a little like a tech-industry group hug.
Google's keyword ad practices face renewed criticism after the Delhi High Court ruled against Google in a trademark dispute involving Indian company Hindware
A recent Indian court ruling against Google's keyword advertising practices has gained fresh attention after founders said competitors …
Antenna: bundles make up 33% of new major streaming service subscriptions in the US, and 28% of all subscriptions, up from just 10% of new subscriptions in 2024
Warner Bros. and Disney have been fierce rivals for decades. But like other entertainment companies, they both struggled …
BlackBerry's stock is up more than 160% over the past three months, as the company's QNX division positions its automotive software as an OS for robots
History suggests that BlackBerry does extremely well when 1) it's considered to be pioneering a transformative technology, or 2) there's widespread retail enthusiasm for stocks.
SoftBank pledges to invest up to €75B in AI computing clusters in France, first leading a €45B investment to build 3.1GW of capacity by 2031 in Hauts-de-France
Masayoshi Son places France at the centre of his global AI ambitions — SoftBank has pledged to invest up to €75bn …
Internal memo: Meta plans to start testing an AI pendant in 2027, release new AI glasses next month, start a “Wearables for Work” unit for enterprises, and more
Meta Platforms plans to start testing an AI pendant in the next year as part of an ambitious roadmap …
US Space Force says SpaceX won a $4.16B contract to build a space-based tracking network as part of President Trump's Golden Dome defensive shield
SpaceX has won a contract for more than $4 billion to build satellites to track foreign aircraft and missiles as part of President Donald Trump's Golden Dome defensive shield.
How Schneider Electric is using AI in call centers and manufacturing to complement employees' work and boost productivity, rather than to replace them
For many chief executives, success in adopting artificial intelligence is measured by the number of jobs they can eliminate.
China's tech boom is creating a new kind of tech tourism where visitors pay for curated robotaxi rides and tours of EV factories and AI and robotics companies
Foreign visitors are flocking to China's factories and AI startups in search of the next technological breakthrough.
Sources detail AI companies' engagement with US FERC as the energy regulator readies a June proposal to speed up data center connections to regional power grids
“The hyperscalers, when they do come speak to us, they don't speak FERC,” Swett said. “Their complaints about the utilities …
A look at the nasty fight between Anthropic-backed super PAC Public First and OpenAI-backed Leading the Future to sway midterms, especially Democratic primaries
One super PAC is allied with Anthropic. The other is tied to OpenAI. They're both spending millions to influence this year's elections.
PitchBook: VC investment in global robotics and physical AI jumped to $26B in 2025 from $4.2B in 2019, and has already topped $23B as of May 20 this year
Investors bet big on infrastructure and ‘physical AI,’ enticed by prospect of revenue opportunities
A profile of OpenAI President Greg Brockman, who is overseeing product in his new role and has become an important ambassador for AI to the Trump administration
After years in the shadow of better-known co-founders, Greg Brockman is stepping into the spotlight. He and his wife Anna are also Silicon Valley super-donors.
Anthropic cuts its list of unauthorized secondary market sellers from eight to four after the initial notice caused panic and pushback from investors
Anthropic PBC updated its warning about secondary markets for its shares, cutting the number of unauthorized platforms by half …
Filing: a Kentucky school district secured ~$27M in settlements from Meta, Snap, TikTok, and YouTube in a social media harms lawsuit; Meta paid the most, at $9M
A Kentucky school district secured approximately $27 million in settlements from social media companies over claims they fueled …
Picogrid, which is building a hardware and software integration layer for military systems, raised a $45M Series A led by Bessemer
Massive bonuses for Samsung's memory division employees have sparked a debate in Korea over how companies and governments should share profits from the AI boom
Payouts at Samsung have raised questions over how to share the windfall from the AI boom. — A second-tier port city …
Anthropic adds dynamic workflows to Claude Code, enabling hundreds of subagents to run in parallel for complex engineering tasks such as framework migrations
Sources: Microsoft is working on an app that will include GitHub Copilot, Copilot chat, Copilot Cowork, and a new agentic workflow tool called Autopilot
Memory chip makers are leveraging their newfound power to secure long-term agreements, a move set to reshape the industry's business model and stabilize prices
Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix are cheap despite their $1 trillion valuations if long-term contracts stabilize the sector
Miami-based Canals, which uses AI to help distributors automate workflows across sales, customer service, and more, raised a $35M Series A led by Base10
SentinelOne's stock closes down 8% after the company announced plans to lay off 8% of its workforce and forecasted Q2 and FY revenue guidance below estimates
ElevenLabs launches Dubbing v2, which it says preserves the original speaker's emotion, tone, and pacing across 90+ languages while staying synced to content
Former Tesla data labelers say FSD relies on laborious mapping for hazards; crash data analysis shows Tesla exaggerates FSD's safety via flawed methodology
AI startup Shift launches a free home cleaning service in NYC to record first-person video with a camera-equipped cap and use it to train robots
Hands-on with Gemini Spark beta rolling out to AI Ultra subs: planned a birthday party from emails and calendar, but called a live-in boyfriend a “close friend”
A BBC Question Time episode featured a panel with AI-generated historical figures like Churchill, intended to show AI images' “hyper-real and persuasive” nature
Filing shows Shanghai-based MiniMax has begun preparations for a Chinese IPO; the AI company listed in Hong Kong in January and says its ARR has reached $300M
Dell stock closed up 32.81%, its best day ever, after reporting its fastest pace of revenue growth for any period since returning to the public market in 2018
Shares of Dell Technologies closed 32.76% higher on Friday, wrapping its best day ever after the company reported its fastest pace …