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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

Bradley Olson / Wall Street Journal: 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 — E

Robert Hart / The Verge: 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 — Shift says a ‘magic hat’ wi

Evan Halper / Washington Post: Allegations that China is behind US data center protests draw criticism from allies of the AI industry, who say the industry and politicians are in denial — Claims that

Bloomberg: BYD announces the Xuanji A3 chip, which it calls China's most powerful chip for ADAS and the centerpiece of its new laptop-sized central computing platform — BYD Co., the world's largest el

Pritam Biswas / Reuters: Coinbase and Kalshi introduce perpetual crypto futures, marking the first time the contracts will be available to US investors via domestic, regulated exchanges — Cryptocurren

CJ Haddad / CNBC: 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 Techno

ElevenLabs: ElevenLabs launches Dubbing v2, which it says preserves the original speaker's emotion, tone, and pacing across 90+ languages while staying synced to content — Today we're launching Dubbin

Diana Novak Jones / Reuters: 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

Reuters: Former Tesla data labelers say FSD relies on laborious mapping for hazards; crash data analysis shows Tesla exaggerates FSD's safety via flawed methodology — Tesla says its Full Self-Driving

Reece Rogers / Wired: 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” — Google's new AI

Bloomberg: How massive bonuses for Samsung's employees in the memory division have sparked debate over how companies and governments should share profits from the AI boom — Payouts at Samsung have rai

Jyoti Mann / The Information: 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 Pl

Nathan Bomey / Axios: Kalshi plans to offer perpetual futures contracts, saying it will be “the first company in American history to offer” them, to be “fully regulated” by the CFTC — Kalshi announced

Martin Coulter / Sifted: London-based Inherent, which aims to combine human scientific research with AI to produce innovations, emerges from stealth with $50M led by Index Ventures — London-based Inhe

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: MediaTek says it has started to use Intel Foundry's advanced chip packaging in addition to TSMC's, as the mobile chip designer bets on AI demand for growth — TAIPEI — Me

Chris Metinko / Axios: 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 — Canals raised a 35 mill

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Microsoft faces backlash after a blog post implied criminal referral and legal action against security researcher Nightmare Eclipse over public bug disclosu

Maria Curi / Axios: OpenAI says it has briefed the White House on its new biodefense program, which uses GPT-Rosalind to help develop biodefense and pandemic preparedness tools — OpenAI is launching a

Danny Park / The Block: Paxos says the US SEC has approved its registration as a clearing agency, allowing it to provide clearing and settlement services for eligible transactions — Quick Take — Paxos

Barratt Dewey / Tectonic Defense: Picogrid, which is building a hardware and software integration layer for military systems, raised a $45M Series A led by Bessemer — Picogrid is proving that teamwork

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Samsung says it has started shipping its first 12-layer HBM4E samples to major clients; SK Hynix said in April that it aimed to ship HBM4E samples in H2 2026 — Samsung Electron

Samantha Subin / CNBC: 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 — SentinelOne share

The Information: Sources: ByteDance has partnered with chipmaker InnoStar to develop an AI inference chip modeled after Groq's LPUs, which are built to run AI models at low cost — TikTok owner ByteDan

Sebastian Herrera / Fortune: Sources: Microsoft is working on an app that will include GitHub Copilot, Copilot chat, Copilot Cowork, and a new agentic workflow tool called Autopilot — Microsoft needs

Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX is currently targeting an IPO valuation of at least 1.8T, down from a previous 2T+ target, after consultations with advisers and investors — SpaceX is currently targeting a

Meir Orbach / CTech: Sports Illustrated rights holder Minute Media lays off 12% of staff and reverses its ~$200M deal to buy VideoVerse, an AI platform to extract sports highlights — The unicorn says

Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia: Tencent bets on smaller AI models in the race with Chinese rivals, as EVP Dowson Tong says AI now contributes 20%+ of its revenue and 95%+ of new internal code — HONG KONG —

Financial Times: UK Chief Secretary to the Treasury Lucy Rigby warns that rejecting AI in public services means choosing “decline”, vowing to prioritize its Whitehall rollout — Newly appointed chief s

Sana Pashankar / Bloomberg: 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 contrac

PCMag: 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, accord

Kate Park / TechCrunch: Xcena, whose MX1 chip performs data orchestration and KV cache management directly within memory modules, raised a 135M Series B at a 570M valuation — Every time you ask ChatGP

Jake Angelo / Fortune: AI researchers ran 15-day simulations of worlds governed by different AI models: Claude Sonnet 4.6 recorded no crimes, while Gemini 3 Flash had the most at 683 — Imagine a world

Claude: Anthropic adds dynamic workflows to Claude Code, enabling hundreds of subagents to run in parallel for complex engineering tasks such as framework migrations — Early access users and teams ins

New York Times: Anthropic raised a 65B Series H at a 965B post-money valuation, overtaking OpenAI's 852B valuation, and says its revenue run rate crossed 47B this month — Anthropic raised 65 billion i

Madison Mills / Axios: Anthropic says it expects Mythos-class models to be available to all customers “in the coming weeks” following the development of stronger safeguards — Anthropic released Claude

Wall Street Journal: As Google plans to build a $15B AI data center hub in India's Visakhapatnam, locals and rights groups are raising concerns over “extremely high” water stress — Developing-world na

Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: Asana acquires StackAI, a no-code platform for building AI agents, for 75M as part of Asana's broader AI pivot; PitchBook: StackAI raised ~20M — Asana has acquired the wo

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Autodesk agrees to buy MaintainX, a company focused on maintenance tools, in an all-cash deal that values MaintainX at 3.6B — Engineering software maker Autodesk Inc. has agree

Lauren Goode / Wired: AWS is rolling out Resilient Network Graphs, a “quasi-random” networking architecture that uses a flat mesh design, and says it accelerates information flows — The tech giant say

Jaimie Ding / Associated Press: California AG Rob Bonta sues 23andMe, alleging it failed to protect sensitive user data in a 2023 breach that affected ~7M people across the US — California's attorney

Paul Sandle / Reuters: Dealroom: London overtakes Paris to reclaim its position as Europe's leading tech hub, and now ranks fourth globally; London startups raised $17.7B in 2025 — London has reclaime

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Dell reports Q1 AI server revenue up 757% YoY to 16.1B and raises its FY 2027 AI server revenue forecast to 60B, up from its prior projection of $50B — Dell Technologies

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Dell reports Q1 revenue up 88% YoY to 43.84B, vs. 35.43B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue above estimates; DELL jumps 38%+ after hours — Dell reported its fastest pace of reven