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Claude authors more than 80% of code merged at Anthropic as its engineers are reportedly placed inside the NSA for offensive cyber work. OpenAI wants mandatory cyber evaluations led by CAISI instead.
Filing: SpaceX aims to raise $75B in its IPO, selling 555.6M shares for $135 each, which would value it at almost $1.77T, eclipsing Aramco's $29.4B IPO in 2019
SpaceX is seeking to raise $75 billion in an initial public offering that would be the biggest of all time, as Elon Musk's rocket, satellite …
Google releases Gemma 4 12B, an 11.95B-parameter unified, encoder-free open multimodal model that can run locally on devices with 16GB of VRAM or unified memory
While many AI open source model providers are pursuing larger and more powerful models, Google is still giving attention to the smaller, more local side of the market.
OpenAI diverges from Trump's AI EO in a new policy paper, proposing cyber risk evaluations for advanced AI systems be mandatory and led by CAISI, not the NSA
OpenAI's new proposal comes as its CEO Sam Altman descends on Washington for a series of Wednesday meetings with White House officials …
In an SITC report, UK lawmakers call on the government to end a £330M NHS deal with Palantir and disclose more details of a military contract with the company
British members of parliament are calling on the government to end a major deal with Palantir Technologies Inc. and disclose …
Alphabet upsized its equity raise to $84.75B, including $35B in underwritten public offerings, up from a planned $30B; a source says it contacted ~75 investors
$35 billion — That's how much stock Google parent Alphabet ended up selling this week in underwritten public offerings …
Apple says users in Texas must confirm they are 18 years or older or get parental consent to create an Apple Account from June 4, after an appeals court ruling
Apple today said App Store rules in Texas are changing due to the enforcement of SB 2420, a law that adds age assurance requirements for app marketplaces and developers.
CrowdStrike reports Q1 revenue up 26% YoY to $1.39B, above $1.36B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue of ~$1.44B, above $1.43B est.; CRWD drops 10%+
CrowdStrike narrowly beat Wall Street's fiscal first-quarter estimates after the bell on Wednesday, but shares slid 10% following the report.
A look at AI consciousness debates; LLM conversations are cleverly disguised examples of sentence continuation, but that doesn't deny how impressive LLMs can be
Anthropic is regarded as a giant among AI companies, but perhaps what it really excels in is anthropomorphism.
Cybersecurity company Calif says it used Codex to discover HTTP/2 Bomb, a remote DoS exploit affecting web servers like Nginx, Apache HTTPD, and Microsoft IIS
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a remote denial-of-service exploit that affects major web servers, including NGINX …
Broadcom reports Q2 revenue up 48% YoY to $22.19B, below $22.27B est., and forecasts AI semiconductor revenue of $16B in Q3, below $16.36B est.; AVGO drops 10%+
Broadcom (AVGO.O) missed Wall Street expectations for second-quarter revenue on Wednesday, as increased competition …
Anthropic details its progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications, and says 80%+ of the code merged into its codebase is authored by Claude
Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications. — For most of AI's history, humans drove every step in its development cycle.
Public First: 26% of Americans support increased data center construction, the lowest share among 15 large countries, such as Brazil, Japan, the UK, and Canada
Americans are far more likely to oppose the construction of AI data centres than citizens of other big economies …
Meta introduces Meta Business Agent, an AI agent that lets businesses on WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger answer customer questions, close sales, and more
For years, WhatsApp has been a communication layer for businesses of all sizes around the world.
Cloudflare acquires VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ frameworks, and says the projects will stay open source
VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare. As part of this change, all team members of VoidZero are joining Cloudflare, too.
A study of Waymo robotaxi data for 13.8M trips from August 2023 to December 2025: the share of miles driven with a passenger on board climbed from 36% to 56%
The age of robotaxis, long the preserve of science fiction, is now a reality, at least in a handful of American cities.
Moderators of the r/biohackers subreddit claim that peptide companies are spamming their forum to get AI chatbots to scrape their posts and change their answers
Peptide companies have been doing AI-engine optimization by spamming the biohackers subreddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google.
Centralized control over online platforms not only leads to enshittification, but to “despotification”; decentralized protocols bring back democratic ideals
In January 2011, somewhere in the crush of bodies in Cairo's Tahrir Square, a man held up a handwritten sign.LinkedIn:Mike Masnick.
Quantinuum raised $1.68B in an upsized US IPO, selling 28M shares for $60 each, priced above its marketed range of $53 to $55, valuing the company at $15.6B
Quantinuum Inc., a quantum computing company backed by Honeywell International Inc., raised $1.68 billion in its upsized US initial public offering …
Sources: Anthropic has embedded around half a dozen forward-deployed engineers within the NSA to help the agency deploy Mythos for offensive cyber operations
Arrangement comes as AI lab is locked in legal battle with Pentagon over Claude model — Anthropic is helping …
Two House lawmakers unveil bipartisan AI legislation that would override some state AI laws and require top AI developers to implement risk-management plans
But it's the proposal to preempt state rules on AI developers that has drawn the fiercest attacks from AI safety advocates and tech critics in both parties.
Quantinuum closed up 0.63% in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday, with a market value of $15.7B, after raising $1.68B in an upsized IPO
Quantinuum closed little changed in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday, bringing its market value to $15.7 billion. — Shares opened trading at $68 per share, hitting a session high of $71.35 a share.
US SEC filing: Vanguard marks down Ola Consumer's valuation to ~$70.3M; Ola, which faces intense competition from Uber and Rapido, was valued at $7.3B in 2021
US-based asset management firm Vanguard has sharply marked down the valuation of ride-hailing company Ola Cosumer to approximately $70.3 million …
Bengaluru-based grocery delivery startup FirstClub raised a $55M Series B co-led by Peak XV and Sofina at a $255M valuation, up from $120M in September 2025
In a quick-commerce market obsessed with speed, Indian startup FirstClub has convinced investors that quality may be a fresh opportunity …
In a letter to Utah Senate President, Kevin O'Leary says he will cut a 40,000-acre AI data center project in Utah by roughly half, after backlash from lawmakers
A proposed Utah data center that would have been almost three times the size of Manhattan will be drastically scaled back after pressure from lawmakers.
TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company won't be able to fulfill the demand led by US customers even as more capacity comes online in the US over the next few years
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s global chip supply will fall short of AI-fueled demand for years to come …
Amazon unveils its next-gen Proteus warehouse robot, adding AI-powered language capabilities that let workers assign it tasks, rolling out in Europe in H1 2027
The company insists its robot investments are designed to support, not replace, warehouse workers.
CoinGecko: Hyperliquid-linked HYPE token is up ~180% YTD, lifting its market value above $16B and pushing it into the top 10 digital assets by market cap
As billions of dollars leave Bitcoin and Ether funds, money is flowing into a corner of crypto that promises something investors …
Current and former employees detail Amazon's e-commerce struggles in India, where local rivals have challenged the company more than anywhere outside of China
More than a decade after entering the country, the company is battling Walmart's Flipkart and other incumbents.
OpenAI updates ChatGPT memory with a “more capable and compute-efficient” architecture and a summary page that lets users review and steer what it remembers
Improving memory synthesis in ChatGPT to optimize for freshness, continuity and relevance. — Loading...
Corporate spending management platform Ramp raised $750M at a $44B valuation led by Iconiq, Singapore's GIC, and the OTPP, taking its total funding to $3B
Ramp, a corporate spending management platform, has raised $750 million in a new funding round at a $44 billion valuation …
Canada unveils its AI strategy that it says will help create 250,000 jobs by 2031, with a CA$500M tech fund to invest in homegrown AI startups
Canada unveiled a new artificial intelligence strategy on Thursday that it says will help create 250,000 jobs by 2031 and includes a new C$500 million …
Unsealed 2020 lawsuit: ex-IBM VP of threat intelligence alleges that IBM and AT&T concealed foreign cyber breaches to maintain eligibility for federal contracts
International Business Machines Corp. and AT&T Inc.'s computer systems were repeatedly breached by foreign hackers …
Google now lets big creators and publishers in the US claim and customize dedicated Search profiles to aggregate their content from multiple platforms
Big creators and publishers can claim dedicated Search profiles that let them highlight everything they do online.
Robinhood plans to route some 2026 soccer World Cup bets to Rothera, shifting away from Kalshi as it seeks to diversify its prediction markets providers
Robinhood Markets Inc. is kickstarting a shift away from its longstanding prediction markets partner Kalshi Inc., using the World Cup to road test its own infrastructure.
A deep dive into the case for data centers in space, as SpaceX prepares to go public: Elon Musk's claims, the wider debate, power supply issues, costs, and more
Space DC Total Cost of Ownership Explained. Unpacking constraints from Terrestrial DCs and Chip Production.
Sources: Benchmark raised $2B across two new funds, including a $1.25B fund for late-stage bets, its first growth fund after decades of focusing on new startups
After a late-stage bet on Cerebras delivered big returns, Benchmark decided to raise its first-ever growth fund
Internal docs from lawsuits by 1,400 school districts show how social media companies targeted kids: Meta paid “teen ambassadors”, Snap sent school-hour alerts
Internal documents show how tech giants grabbed children's attention throughout the day, a strategy that schools say has undermined education.
Supabase, which provides backend tools for building AI apps, raised a $500M Series F led by GIC at a $10B pre-money valuation, up from $5B in October 2025
Vibe coding needs infrastructure. Supabase is trying to provide it. — The startup, which makes back-end tools …
Taiwan's and South Korea's stock market capitalizations overtake India's, as investors favor markets with companies positioned to benefit from the AI boom
Exchanges in Taiwan and South Korea have overtaken India's in the past week as the two countries' chipmakers surge
Foxconn says it will work with Intel to jointly develop and deploy next-gen AI infrastructure, including server racks with Intel Xeon processors and AI chips
Foxconn (2317.TW) said on Thursday it will work with U.S. chipmaker Intel (INTC.O) to jointly develop and deploy next-generation AI infrastructure …
SpaceX wins a property tax exemption for its planned $55B Terafab chip facility in Texas, despite Texans threatening legal action, amid local opposition to AI
Elon Musk's Terafab plant sparks fierce opposition and threat of legal action from residents of Texas county
Sources: OnePay, a fintech app backed by Walmart and valued at $4B+, now has 6M MAUs and $50B in annualized payments, both double its figures from 2025
Backed by the retailer and Ribbit Capital, OnePay is reaching beyond its initial customer base to take on banks.LinkedIn:Paige SmithLinkedIn:Paige Smith:Since launching in 2021, OnePay, the fintech ba...
SCOTUS sides with the FCC in its clash with wireless carriers, upholding the agency's in-house system for levying fines for regulatory violations
The U.S. Supreme Court backed the Federal Communications Commission's system for levying fines, ruling on Thursday against wireless carriers AT&T …
Founders Fund launches a TV-style game show featuring A-list founders and investors, including Sam Altman and Palmer Luckey, playing a game of Mafia
Do people want to watch the likes of Sam Altman, Trae Stephens & Palmer Luckey compete in a party game? We'll soon find out. — ∙ Paid
The EU Commission unveils its tech sovereignty package, including the EU's Cloud and AI Development Act, in a bid to reduce its reliance on US tech companies
Meta's Oversight Board says Meta's account deactivations lack due process, violations are flagged without clarity, and there's little support for appeals
Meta's Oversight Board, the independent governing body that makes policy recommendations to the tech company, said Thursday …
Coinbase and Better fund the first Fannie Mae-backed mortgage that uses bitcoin as collateral, with a nationwide rollout planned in the coming months
Quick Take — Coinbase and Better have funded the first Fannie Mae-backed mortgage using bitcoin as collateral, with a nationwide rollout planned in the coming months.
Sam Altman says he has no plans to put money into the 2026 US midterms; OpenAI has tried to distance itself from the Greg Brockman-backed Leading the Future PAC
OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman says he has no plans to make any financial contributions toward this year's US elections …
Revolut co-founder and CTO Vlad Yatsenko plans to step down in July, to be replaced by Head of Technology Donato Lucia; Yatsenko was Revolut's first employee
Revolut Ltd.'s chief technology officer, Vlad Yatsenko, and Chief Executive Officer Nik Storonsky's early partner, is stepping down from his position at the digital bank in July.
Amazon announces new visual search features, including displaying AI-generated images of products within its app based on users' search queries
In what may be one of the more questionable uses of AI to date, Amazon announced on Wednesday that it will display AI-generated images …
Poke, which lets users access AI agents via text message, becomes the first AI agent approved for Apple's Messages for Business platform
Poke, a startup that turns using AI agents into something as simple as sending a text message, has become the first AI agent approved to run on Apple's Messages for Business platform.
Flourish, which is building Cortex AI, a brain-like synthetic intelligence system that uses less power than LLMs, raised $500M, including $100M from Jeff Bezos
With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons under the microscope.
Apple plans to open an Apple Developer Center in Berlin in 2026, its first center in Europe and fifth globally, offering in-person developer access and sessions
Google unveils five AI data center water commitments, including becoming water positive by 2030, local infrastructure investments, and transparency about usage
Q&A with Satya Nadella on Microsoft's competitive position, MAI models, OpenAI, the software business, GitHub Copilot, Project Solara, data centers, and more
An interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about figuring out Microsoft's role in AI, the relationship with OpenAI, Capex …
Kirkland & Ellis, the world's highest-grossing law firm, agrees to a multiyear deal with Palantir to develop an AI tool to help advise PE firms on raising funds
Kirkland & Ellis has agreed a multiyear deal with Palantir to develop AI technology to help it advise private equity groups …
London- and NY-based Airspeed, which aims to use AI agents to replace sales software like traditional CRM dashboards, raised a $20M Series A led by DN Capital
Airspeed, the London and New York-based agentic AI startup formerly known as Glyphic, has raised a $20 million Series A to build what it calls the …
Sources: Meta has repeatedly delayed Muse Spark API's release from April due to bugs and infrastructure needs; Meta now says it plans to release the API in June
The shifting timeline is a setback for Meta's ability to monetize its massive investments in building frontier AI models
The US and other Five Eyes nations warn that China is flooding online job platforms with fake profiles and offers targeting government and military personnel
Alibaba says it is opening Qwen to third-party AI agents, starting with KFC, Mixue, and others, and Qwen's app serves 100M+ daily lifestyle services engagements
In its latest bid to dominate China's next-generation digital gateway, Alibaba Group Holding is opening its Qwen AI assistant to major brands …
France secured €110B+ of proposed AI and data center investments this week, amounting to ~10 GW of new computing capacity, equivalent to ~10 nuclear reactors
Investors warn approvals and local opposition could slow France's massive data centre build-out
Meta is spinning off Supernatural into an independent company, Supernatural Health, after earlier saying the VR fitness game would stop getting new content
Meta says Australia's proposed 2.25% tax on domestic revenue for tech giants that don't sign news licensing deals violates the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement
Meta is alerting Instagram users whose accounts were taken over using Meta AI chatbot; some hackers claim to still be able to exploit Meta AI chatbot
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are among the signatories on a public letter urging improved tracking of synthetic DNA that could be used in AI-developed bioweapons
Sources: Brian Chesky is starting a new AI lab and considering a focus on user interaction and design; he will remain Airbnb CEO and will not be the lab's CEO
Airbnb Inc. Chief Executive Officer Brian Chesky is starting a new artificial intelligence lab, according to several people familiar …
Liftoff Mobile raised $437M in its US IPO, selling 19M shares for $23 each, above its marketed range of $20 to $22, valuing the company at $3.83B
Nvidia acquires Kumo, which sells predictive AI software to enterprises, a source says for $400M+; PitchBook says Kumo raised $37M at a $250M valuation in 2022
Nvidia has bought Kumo AI, a five-year-old startup that sells predictive AI software to enterprises, for more than $400 million, said a person with knowledge of the deal.
How AI tools from Harvey, Legora, and Anthropic are challenging legal tech incumbents like Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis, which are upgrading their products
Incumbents are upgrading products, while emphasising authoritative content and expertise that legal teams can trust
Honeycomb, which offers an AI-powered insurance platform for multi-unit residential properties, raised $40M led by Zeev, bringing its total funding to $95M
Itai Ben-Zaken might be one of the only insurance tech founders who doesn't need investors' money—but he'll still take it.
Google releases macOS versions of AI Edge Gallery, which lets users run open models on their devices, and AI Edge Eloquent, an on-device voice dictation app
Google DeepMind's latest open model, Gemma 4 12B, is designed to bring agentic, multimodal intelligence directly to your laptop.
Arizona Public Service, the state's largest utility, proposes a 45% electricity-rate increase for data centers to ensure “that they are paying their fair share”
State's largest utility is proposing a 45% electricity-rate increase for data centers and a 14.5% hike for households.
A profile of Anthropic as it prepares to go public and broaden access to Mythos, amid criticism that commercial pressures forced it to cut corners on AI safety
Can the AI company hold on to its ethical founding principles as it strides to market with its most powerful and unnerving tool yet?
Wordsmith, whose AI tools help in-house lawyers draft contracts, handle legal questions, and more, raised a $70M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M
Applied Materials plans to expand its Southeast Asia workforce by 25% in 2026, hiring ~1,000 workers mainly in Singapore at its key chip packaging equipment hub
KUALA LUMPUR — U.S. semiconductor equipment maker Applied Materials is aiming to expand its total workforce in Southeast Asia …
Robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete short physical tasks in April, raised $400M led by Radical Ventures at a $2B valuation
The company raised $400 million in a funding round led by Radical Ventures — Generalist AI, a robotics startup …
Leading the Future, the pro-AI super PAC backed by Greg Brockman, appears to be linked to multiple sockpuppet accounts, including a purported anti-AI activist
Boston-based software monitoring startup Coralogix raised a $200M Series F at a $1.6B post-money valuation, up from $1B+ after a $115M Series E in June 2025
GitLab cuts 350 staff, or ~14% of its workforce, pivoting “to be the trusted enterprise platform for software creation in the AI era”, and exits 22 countries
Analysis: 10 Trump officials, including special envoy Steve Witkoff, reported holding stakes in SpaceX or xAI collectively worth $9.9M+, ahead of SpaceX's IPO
But It Just Posted a $4.28 Billion Quarterly LossLinkedIn:Alex Dryden, CFA:All 10 of the largest companies in the S&P 500 could soon be tech and AI firms... SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI are all repor...
Challenger: US tech companies announced cuts of 38,242 jobs in May, the most since August 2024, taking 2026's total so far to 123,653 cuts, up 65%+ YoY
US technology companies in May announced the most job cuts in nearly two years as they ramp up spending on artificial intelligence.
Sources: Lila Sciences, which uses AI tools to speed up the rate of scientific discovery, is in talks to raise a $2B Series B at an expected valuation of ~$8.5B
Artificial intelligence research startup Lila Sciences Inc. is in talks to raise about $2 billion at an expected valuation …
Town, which is developing personalized AI assistants that connect to users' email and calendar, raised a $55M Series A led by a16z
Nearly 40% of Alphabet's planned ~$85B in equity offerings for AI will go toward covering tax obligations tied to employee equity awards, amid the AI talent war
It seems 40% of this money will go towards stock based compensation of workers. This is a very different direction from doing layoffs to pay for AI.