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Ben Weiss / Fortune: New York City-based Mecka AI, which trains robots with human data sourced from body sensors and iPhones, raised 60M, including a 25M Series A — Data is the oil of the AI boom—and

Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder: Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B-parameter MoE open model; Artificial Analysis: it's the smartest open US model but trails the Chinese model Kimi K2.6 — It

Aaron Holmes / The Information: Palo Alto Networks says Mythos found 24+ critical bugs using $1M+ in tokens; Anthropic subsidizes Mythos but some companies plan to boost their Mythos budgets — When Pa

@theallinpod: Q&A with Bill Gurley on Anthropic staffers believing “they can create God, and that by creating God, they are like this Prometheus kind of species”, and more — Bill Gurley: Anthropic Thi

Jordyn Holman / New York Times: Q&A with Brian Chesky on running Airbnb in “founder mode”, differences between “founder mode and hustle culture”, AI customer service, listing hotels, and more — The ho

Rohan Prabhu / Step Security Blog: Researchers find packages in the @redhat-cloud-services npm namespace shipped malware that harvests credentials for GitHub Actions, AWS, GCP, Azure, and others — Sev

The Information: Salesforce is acquiring CMS provider Contentful; source: Salesforce paid between 1B and 1.5B, a steep discount from Contentful's $3B valuation in 2021 — Salesforce is acquiring Conten

Kerry Flynn / Axios: Sekai, which lets users create mini apps through text prompts, raised a 20M Series A co-led by Khosla Ventures and Connect Ventures, after a 6M seed in 2025 — Sekai has raised a $

Financial Times: SoftBank becomes Japan's biggest company by market value after hitting an all-time high, overtaking Toyota, which has been the country's largest for 20+ years — Demand for AI stocks p

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Source: Salesforce has a stake in Anthropic worth ~5B; Salesforce first invested about 50M in an early 2023 round and has continually invested in rounds since — Salesforce Inc.

Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic plans to let the EU's cyber agency ENISA join Project Glasswing, giving it access to Mythos; EU officials went to the US to ask for access — Anthropic P

Tom Warren / The Verge: Sources: at Build, Microsoft plans to unveil a Copilot “super app”, a new reasoning AI model developed by Microsoft AI, and lots of Windows developer features — Build will incl

Zijing Wu / Financial Times: Sources: Tencent, which has fallen behind domestic rivals in AI models, plans to test an AI agent for WeChat with a small group of users before a phased rollout — Maker of

Hugh Son / CNBC: Startups from the pre-ChatGPT era face a reckoning in private markets; PitchBook: half of US unicorns haven't raised in three years, 220+ are “fallen unicorns” — Five years ago, ventu

Lucinda Shen / Axios: Stockholm-based Endra, which automates the design of plumbing and electrical wiring in new buildings, raised 50M led by a16z — Endra, a startup automating the design of plumbing

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Strava is adding a $11.99 monthly fee for developer API access and moving public profiles and fitness club listings behind authentication to combat AI scraping — AI companies

New York Times: Wirescreen analysis of 3,800 Chinese military procurement records finds 500+ instances since 2019 where the PLA sought Nvidia chips, including the A100 and A800 — An analysis of six ye

Simon Lock / TBIJ: Wise confirms it is under investigation by Belgian prosecutors over suspicions its accounts were used for money laundering involving €500M in transactions — Help change the world by

Reuters: A look at AMD CEO Lisa Su's and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's contrasting China playbooks, with Su keeping a lower profile; China accounts for ~20% of AMD's revenue — When AMD CEO Lisa Su arrived

Brent Crane / Bloomberg: A profile of Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin, who became CEO in 2024 and has overseen back-to-back years of revenue growth, with record gross bookings of $119B in 2025 — Atop the glo

Zack Abrams / The Block: A US court ordered Circle to blacklist Zama's cUSDC contract, freezing ~12.6M in funds, likely catching many in the “crossfire” of a civil suit against a DAO — Quick Take — A

Exponential View: AI adoption follows the J-curve path of general-purpose tech, like early US factory electrification, requiring years of investment before noticeable ROI gains — A framework to unders

Emily Glazer / Wall Street Journal: Bill Gates' carefully crafted public image has been eroded by revelations about his ties to Epstein; Gates was recently snubbed from Microsoft's CEO Summit — The bi

Nikkei Asia: China will implement new online food delivery regulations on June 1, requiring platforms to regularly verify businesses' identities, locations, and licenses — BEIJING/SHANGHAI — The Chine

Jacob Judah / Financial Times: Experts say ChatGPT, Gemini, and other Western AI models are turbocharging Iran's cyber operations, helping it develop malware and launch phishing attacks — Western AI m

Cailey Gleeson / Fierce Healthcare: NYC-based Garner Health, which uses data analytics to help 2.5M+ workers find physicians, raised a 100M Series E at a 2.74B valuation led by Index Ventures — Garner

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple delays iPhone-connected smart glasses to late 2027, aiming to disrupt the mid-tier 200-500 eyewear market the way it disrupted the watch market — Also: The late

Ina Fried / Axios: Sources: Microsoft and Nvidia will unveil the first Windows PCs powered by Nvidia SoCs, including devices from Surface and Dell, at Computex and Build 2026 — The company best known

Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: With Microsoft's GitHub Copilot shifting to token-usage billing on June 1, many developers bemoan massive cost increases and the end of flat-rate subscriptions — The golden a

Theodore Schleifer / New York Times: 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 —

Wall Street Journal: 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 t

John Koblin / New York Times: 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

Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: 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 it

Sean McLain / Wall Street Journal: As robotaxi companies attempt to scale in the US, they face increasing scrutiny and mounting criticism from drivers, law enforcement, and local governments — As auto

Luke Kawa / Sherwood News: 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 th

Kinling Lo / Rest of World: 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 vis

Bloomberg: 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 — China's MiniMax Group Inc. h

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: 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 Ind

Patricia Cohen / New York Times: 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

Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: 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 — M

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: 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 be

Financial Times: 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

Politico: 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 the

CNBC: 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

SemiAnalysis: Why “Dark Output”, the AI-generated economic value that is currently invisible to national statistics, may be one of the hardest measurement problems in history — Why AI's increasing out

Holly Bishop / The Independent: 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 — - BBC