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Wall Street Journal: Sources: US officials discussed the US taking stakes in major AI companies after Sam Altman pitched the idea in 2025; Altman met Bernie Sanders on Wednesday — The talks have been
@starlink: Starlink says that it has 12M+ “active customers” across 160+ countries, territories, and other markets, up from 9M in December 2025 — Starlink is connecting more than 12M active customers
Wall Street Journal: The largest US banks plan to launch a tokenized deposit network in 2027 to connect traditional payment rails with the infrastructure that digital assets run on — The new network c
Lauren Feiner / The Verge: The NY State legislature passes a one-year moratorium on new large data centers, the first statewide ban of its kind if Governor Kathy Hochul signs it into law — It could b
Reuters: Trump signs a national security memorandum seeking to “accelerate the use of AI across intelligence and warfighting domains in line with American values” — The White House said on Friday it w
James Gallagher / BBC: University of Cambridge researchers say they have developed the first vaccine with a key component entirely designed by AI and subsequently trialed it in humans — Artificial int
Noel Randewich / Reuters: US-traded chipmakers plunged on Friday, after Broadcom missed expectations; Nvidia fell 6.19%, Micron fell 13.25%, AMD fell 10.86%, and Broadcom 7.92% — U.S.-traded chipmaker
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: What to expect at WWDC 2026: an overhauled Siri, a Siri app, a slew of new AI capabilities, OS updates focused on reliability and responsiveness, and more — The iPhone maker w
Zoe Kleinman / BBC: An interview with Naomi Gleit, Meta's head of product who joined the company 20 years ago, on Zuckerberg's “unfair” reputation, AI agents' capabilities, more — When Naomi Gleit joi
Wired: Analysis: Meta discreetly added code for an unreleased “NameTag” face-recognition system for its AI glasses over multiple updates to the Meta AI app this year — Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered
Wall Street Journal: Anthropic calls for top AI labs to weigh slowing or temporarily pausing development, suggesting that self-improving AI systems may soon pose societal risks — The $1 trillion start
Anthropic: 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 recurs
Jennifer Hiller / Wall Street Journal: 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”
Nivedita Balu / Reuters: Canada unveils its AI strategy that it says will help create 250,000 jobs by 2031, with a CA500M tech fund to invest in homegrown AI startups — Canada unveiled a new artificia
Cloudflare: 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,
Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware: Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says agentic traffic is “growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time” — Bot (automated) vs. human HTTP
Yogita Khatri / The Block: 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
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Denver-based Scotch, which makes AI-powered payments tools for liquor retailers, raised a 20M Series A from VMG Partners, following a 10M seed in 2024 — Scotch, an
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: Elon Musk petitioned the FTC in May to end its 2022 order restricting Twitter's data use, claiming Twitter no longer exists as X merged with xAI and then SpaceX — Criti
Tom Dotan / Newcomer: 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
Jay Peters / The Verge: 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 publi
Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: 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 m
John Ainger / Bloomberg: 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 U
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / New York Times: Internal docs from lawsuits by 1,400 school districts show how social media companies targeted kids: Meta paid “teen ambassadors”, Snap sent school-hour al
Mike Butcher / Pathfounders: 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, t
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: 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 B
OpenAI: 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 Cha
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: 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
Financial Times: 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 mor
Ben Thompson / Stratechery: 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
CNBC: 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
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: 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
Dina Bass / Bloomberg: 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
Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: 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 Ch
John Kruzel / Reuters: 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
Financial Times: 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
Bloomberg: 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
NOTUS: Sources: US officials have held talks with AI companies about the government acquiring shares; Sam Altman first pitched the concept directly to Trump in 2025 — Senior U.S. officials have held p
Isabelle Lee / Bloomberg: S&P Dow Jones rejected proposals to expedite S&P 500 eligibility for mega-cap IPOs such as SpaceX, which remains ineligible until one year after going public — S&P Dow Jones
CJ Haddad / CNBC: 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 infrastru
Politico: 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 preemp
Bloomberg: 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 Mac
Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal: AI market research platform AlphaSense raised 350M from Vitruvian, Accenture, and others at a 7.5B valuation, up from 4B in 2024, ahead of a possible IPO — Firm rai
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: AI music startup Suno raised 400M led by Bond at a 5.4B valuation, up from 2.45B after raising 250M in November 2025, and passed 2M subscribers in February — Suno Inc., a start
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Alibaba releases Qwen3.7-Plus, a multimodal proprietary model with a 1M-token context window, costing $2 per 1M tokens, 60% less than text-only Qwen3.7-Max — However, like
Mike Butcher / Pathfounders: Apoha, which is developing a “Liquid State Intelligence” data layer to measure molecules in the real world, emerges from stealth with 36M led by Singular — Apoha has emerg
Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple says users in Texas must confirm they are 18 years or older or obtain parental consent to create an Apple Account starting June 4, after a court ruling — Apple today sai
Reuters: Broadcom reports Q2 revenue up 48% YoY to 22.19B, vs. 22.27B est., and forecasts Q3 semiconductor revenue from AI below estimates; AVGO drops 12%+ after hours — Broadcom (AVGO.O) missed Wall
Samantha Subin / CNBC: CrowdStrike reports Q1 revenue up 26% YoY to 1.39B, vs. 1.36B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue of about 1.44B, vs. 1.43B est.; CRWD drops 9%+ after hours — CrowdStrike narrowly be
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Current and former Meta employees detail Alexandr Wang's efforts to revive Meta's AI edge, as Muse Spark boosts confidence despite lagging rivals in coding — Muse Spar
Aditya Kalra / Reuters: Doc: Apple agreed in May to submit the financials of its India business to the country's antitrust body as part of an investigation over alleged market abuses — Apple has agree
Jennifer Maas / Variety: ESA and YouGov: 212.3M people in the US between the ages of 5 and 90 play video games every week, up 3% from 2025; the average age of players rises to 37 — Two-thirds of Ameri
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Europol and international law enforcement agencies dismantle nine organized crime groups and arrest 29 in a crackdown on illegal streaming, removing 27K URLs — Europe
Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: Filing: SpaceX aims to raise 75B in its IPO, selling 555.6M shares at 135 each, which would value the company at almost 1.77T — SpaceX is seeking to raise 75 billion in
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Google introduces Gemma 4 12B, a unified, encoder-free open multimodal model that can run locally on devices with 16GB of VRAM or unified memory — While many AI open source
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Google says it is testing a new toggle inside its Search Console with some UK domain owners, letting them decide whether their sites appear in AI search results — The compan
Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Google unveils five AI data center water commitments, including becoming water positive by 2030, local infrastructure investment, and transparency about usage — The company
Financial Times: How OpenAI, Anthropic, and AI startups are pursuing “recursive self-improvement”, in a bid to build AI that can improve itself with little to no human input — Industry chiefs say tech
Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: How Revolut founder Nikolay Storonsky's Elon Musk-style pay incentives pushed his fortune to ~$20.4B, making him the UK's richest person, ahead of a planned IPO — CEO Nik Sto
Kylie Robison / Core Memory: How startups Westmag, which raised an $11M, a16z-led seed in August 2025, and Atlas are seeking to make actuators, the foundation of hardware, outside of China — Westmag a