Knowledge catalogue
Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Source: Google asked Google Play app devs to join a “confidential content offer pilot”, offering to pay for access to codebases to use them to train AI tools — Google is try
Echo Wang / Reuters: Source: SpaceX plans to raise 75B in its IPO by selling 555.6M shares at 135 each, an unusual move since most companies set a price range before the roadshow — SpaceX plans to rai
Bloomberg: Sources: a Broadcom-backed portion of Apollo and Blackstone's $36B debt deal to buy TPUs for Anthropic to lease may yield ~5.75% vs. 8%-9% for a riskier portion — Broadcom Inc.'s promise to
Wired: Sources: after Trump nixed an AI EO on May 21, US officials are navigating internal strife and chaotic talks; early model access was the most contentious issue — Donald Trump killed an executiv
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Sources: Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Meta have recently hired experts in psychology, ethics, and philosophy as they expand machine consciousness research — Goog
Bloomberg: Sources: the EU's €20B investment plan for five AI data centers is floundering, with delays and funding issues alienating some potential partners — SoftBank Announces €75 Bln AI Data Center
The Economist: The IPOs of SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI could add up to 4T to US stock market value within months, fueling concerns they could trigger more capital-raising — They promise to be the bi
Gavin Finch / Reuters: The US sanctions Nobitex, Iran's largest crypto exchange, accusing it of helping Iran's government and blacklisted state institutions evade Western sanctions — The United States
Anna Tong / Forbes: Thrive Holdings, a spinoff of Thrive Capital, commits $1B to acquire local accounting firms through its subsidiary, Current, and use AI to automate them — In Thrive Holdings' live-
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber says it has limited all employees to $1,500 in monthly token spending per AI coding tool “to responsibly encourage agentic AI adoption” — Uber Technologies Inc. has set
Cade Metz / New York Times: University of Toronto researchers claim to have developed a “worm” powered by open source AI that exploits known flaws and tailors attacks for each computer — Researchers a
Reuters: Zhipu AI says it plans to apply for a listing in Shanghai; Zhipu's Hong Kong-listed shares are up over 10x since its January IPO, giving it an $83B market cap — Knowledge Atlas Technology JSC
New York Times: A look at the Seckinger school cluster in Georgia, including the US' “first AI-themed educational institution”, as parents say AI integration is often sparse — It was 9 a.m. on a Thurs
Bloomberg: Alphabet is raising 80B in equity offerings, including a 10B investment deal with Berkshire Hathaway, to help raise money for its AI spending plans — Google parent Alphabet Inc. is raising
Anthropic: Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC — Today, Anthropic, PBC confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commiss
Mike Isaac / New York Times: Anthropic says it has confidentially filed for an IPO, joining OpenAI and SpaceX in preparing to go public this year — The artificial intelligence company has seen explosi
Bernie Sanders / New York Times: Bernie Sanders says the wealth AI creates “must benefit humanity”, calling for a sovereign wealth fund that would hold ownership stakes in the top AI companies — Artif
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: Binance launches trading for 7,000+ US stocks and ETFs for non-US users, with zero commissions and fractional share purchases, as part of its “super app” push — Binance, t
Kalley Huang / New York Times: Box says it created 13 new AI-focused roles, like AI architect and AI solutions manager, and plans to grow its staff to 3,000 by early 2027, up from 2,900 — Box, a Silic
Juro Osawa / The Information: Chinese AI developer MiniMax launches M3, a new coding model that it says rivals Opus 4.7, costing 0.12 per 1M input tokens, compared with 5 for Opus 4.7 — Chinese AI dev
Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk: Coinbase launches direct Indian rupee deposit and withdrawal rails via the Immediate Payment Service, aiming to remove its reliance on P2P and intermediaries — Coinbase annou
NBC News: Florida AG James Uthmeier sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, seeking to hold Altman personally liable for deceptive trade practices, negligence, and public nuisance — Florida's seeks to hold Sam Al
Financial Times: French private equity firm Ardian partners with data center group Verne to build an up to €5B AI “gigafactory” outside Paris, targeting 500MW in total capacity — Data centre and resea
Michelle Ma / Bloomberg: Gigascale Capital, a climate tech VC firm co-founded by former Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer, closed a 250M fund to back early-stage startups supporting the AI boom — Gigascale Cap
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: GitHub Copilot's new pricing model went into effect today, and many noted sticker shock with some saying a few hours of AI usage ate big chunks of monthly caps — In April,
Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: Google plans to open its first physical Google Store outside of the US, in Tokyo's Omotesando district “this summer”, marking Google's 11th physical store — After being excl
Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Hackers say they used Meta's AI support chatbot to change emails tied to Instagram accounts amid a wave of high-profile account takeovers; Meta fixed the issue — The exploit
Brody Ford / Bloomberg: HPE reports Q2 revenue up 40% YoY to 10.7B, vs. 9.74B est., Server revenue up 33%, forecasts revenue for FY26 and FY27 above est.; HPE jumps 30%+ after hours — Hewlett Packard
Matthew Griffin / Bloomberg: IBM shares jump 9%+ after a six-month old video of Trump praising CEO Arvind Krishna was recirculated on X; IBM had surged ~40% in a little over two weeks — A nearly six-m
Julian E. Barnes / New York Times: Internal documents: Chinese company Geedge is working to build AI tools to predict those who could pose a political risk, but US chip controls hampered its work — Ne
Meir Orbach / CTech: Israeli networking company DriveNets raised a 410M Series D led by Bessemer and Atreides at an 8.5B valuation, taking its total funding to ~1B — The Israeli networking company say
Ian King / Bloomberg: Jensen Huang says Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are among the first big users for Nvidia's new Vera CPUs, which are 1.8x faster for AI workloads than x86 chips — Nvidia Corp. sai
Tracy Qu / Wall Street Journal: Meituan reports Q1 revenue up 5.6% YoY to ~13.5B, above ~13.4B est., and a ~$1B net loss, its third straight quarter of losses amid a food delivery price war — Meituan
Bloomberg: Nasdaq, FTSE, and other index providers are aggressively shortening entry timelines to accommodate SpaceX's $75B IPO, as Elon Musk targets retail investors — The company's ambitious listing
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