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Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval

A US federal judge delayed final approval of Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors, requesting additional details on lawyers' fees and lead-plaintiff payments. The fairness hearin

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ArXiv, the repository of preprint academic research, says it will ban authors for a year if their papers have 'incontrovertible evidence' of AI-generated work (Samantha Cole/404 Media)

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Samantha Cole / 404 Media: ArXiv, the repository of preprint academic research, says it will ban authors for a year if their papers have “incontrovertible evidence” of AI-generated work — The change c

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ArXiv will ban researchers who upload papers full of AI slop

ArXiv, a popular platform for preprint academic research, is taking a new step to attempt to reduce the volume of papers that include AI slop. If a paper has 'incontrovertible evidence that the author

Backstage with Lakebase, part 2

This article is the second installment in a series exploring Lakebase, Databricks' data management solution, providing behind-the-scenes insights into its architecture, capabilities, or integration wi

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Bill Ackman says his fund has taken a new stake in Microsoft after the company's recent share price decline; Ackman says investors have underestimated Microsoft (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: Bill Ackman says his fund has taken a new stake in Microsoft after the company's recent share price decline; Ackman says investors have underestimated Microsoft — Bill Ackman

Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California

California's AB 1921 (Protect Our Games Act), introduced in February 2026, would require publishers to take responsibility for the long-term playability of online games. The bill passed a key hurdle o

Cerebras’ monster IPO, Cisco’s big quarter, and the AI factory’s real impact

Are IPOs finally back? It sure looks like it, if Cerebras’ monster initial public offering this week is any indication. After raising its offering price twice, the stock rose 68% on the first day of t

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Companies are rethinking the contact center to deliver outcomes — and empathy — at scale

Contact center AI transformation is accelerating in financial services as new innovations close the gap between surface-level metrics and genuine customer understanding in high-stakes interactions. Fo

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Does Trump Mobile know how many stripes are on the American flag?

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. This week, despite our best hopes, we still don't hav

Ebola outbreak with uncommon strain erupts in Congo and Uganda; 65 deaths

An Ebola outbreak confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo's remote Ituri province in May 2026 resulted in 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths, primarily in the Mongwalu and Rwampara health zones.

Filings: YouTube and Snap reached agreements to settle a lawsuit headed to trial in June over claims addiction to social media has disrupted students' learning (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Filings: YouTube and Snap reached agreements to settle a lawsuit headed to trial in June over claims addiction to social media has disrupted students' learning — Google's YouTube and Snap I

Gridcare, which uses AI to detect underused capacity in electric grids, raised a 64M Series A, following a 13.5M seed in 2025 (Bianca Giacobone/Latitude Media)

Bianca Giacobone / Latitude Media: Gridcare, which uses AI to detect underused capacity in electric grids, raised a 64M Series A, following a 13.5M seed in 2025 — The grid intelligence startup uses AI

Honda shows off new hybrids for America as it absorbs $9 billion EV loss

Honda previewed two new hybrid prototypes scheduled to launch by 2028 after absorbing a 9.2 billion EV-related loss, its largest in company history. The company indefinitely suspended its planned 15 b

In a viral X post that parodies the old Mac vs. PC commercials, General Catalyst posted a 'VC vs GC' video, with the VC apparently modeled after Marc Andreessen (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: In a viral X post that parodies the old Mac vs. PC commercials, General Catalyst posted a “VC vs GC” video, with the VC apparently modeled after Marc Andreessen — One of the m

Indian ride-hailing app Rapido raised 240M led by Prosus as part of a broader primary and secondary financing transaction, valuing Rapido at 3B post-money (Pramugdha Mamgain/DealStreetAsia)

Pramugdha Mamgain / DealStreetAsia: Indian ride-hailing app Rapido raised 240M led by Prosus as part of a broader primary and secondary financing transaction, valuing Rapido at 3B post-money — Ride-ha

Kioxia reports record Q4 earnings of ~3.8B, forecasts Q1 operating profit of ~8.2B, and says it is planning a US listing; Kioxia shares are up 300% YTD (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Kioxia reports record Q4 earnings of ~3.8B, forecasts Q1 operating profit of ~8.2B, and says it is planning a US listing; Kioxia shares are up 300% YTD — Kioxia Holdings Corp., the world's

London-based edtech startup Multiverse raised 70M at a 2.1B valuation from Index and others as it pushes into AI training; it acquired StackFuel in January (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)

Kieran Smith / Financial Times: London-based edtech startup Multiverse raised 70M at a 2.1B valuation from Index and others as it pushes into AI training; it acquired StackFuel in January — Multiverse

Meta rolls out new features for Ray-Ban Display glasses, including neural handwriting support for all users, and opens up the device to third-party developers (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta rolls out new features for Ray-Ban Display glasses, including neural handwriting support for all users, and opens up the device to third-party developers — You can also no

Ofcom says X has committed to implementing stronger protections for UK users, including reviewing illegal hate and terror content within 24 hours, after a probe (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: Ofcom says X has committed to implementing stronger protections for UK users, including reviewing illegal hate and terror content within 24 hours, after a probe — Soci

OpenAI feels “burned” by Apple’s crappy ChatGPT integration, insiders say

OpenAI is exploring legal action against Apple, frustrated that the ChatGPT integration failed to deliver the subscribers and prominence it expected. Executives at OpenAI believe the partnership has b

OpenAI memo: Greg Brockman says he will lead product strategy as part of a reorg, folding ChatGPT, Codex, and developer-facing API into one core product team (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: OpenAI memo: Greg Brockman says he will lead product strategy as part of a reorg, folding ChatGPT, Codex, and developer-facing API into one core product team — OpenAI is once aga

OpenAI now wants ChatGPT to access your bank accounts

Your trust in AI is about to be put to the test: OpenAI will soon let you give the chatbot direct access to your bank accounts. The new feature announced in preview today will allow users to 'securely

PipelineIQ: Forward‑Looking Sales Intelligence That Drives Action

PipelineIQ is a Databricks solution that leverages data analytics and AI to provide predictive sales intelligence, enabling sales teams to forecast pipeline outcomes and identify actionable opportunit

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Power prices on the largest electric grid in the US, operated by PJM, jumped 76% YoY to an average of $136.53/MWh in Q1 due to rampant demand from data centers (John Ainger/Bloomberg)

John Ainger / Bloomberg: Power prices on the largest electric grid in the US, operated by PJM, jumped 76% YoY to an average of $136.53/MWh in Q1 due to rampant demand from data centers — Power prices

Professional services firm EY has withdrawn a study on loyalty rewards programs after researchers at GPTZero found apparent AI hallucinations and fake footnotes (Stephen Foley/Financial Times)

Stephen Foley / Financial Times: Professional services firm EY has withdrawn a study on loyalty rewards programs after researchers at GPTZero found apparent AI hallucinations and fake footnotes — Inci

Rocket Report: Cowboy up for data centers in LEO; Russia's new ICBM actually works

Cowboy Space has filed FCC plans for a 20,000-satellite 'Stampede' orbital data center constellation, after raising $275 million to develop rockets whose upper stages would serve as computing platform

Routine vaccines may cut dementia risk—experts have startling hypothesis on how

Multiple observational studies have found that routine adult vaccines are associated with a reduced dementia risk, with some showing risk reductions of 25% to 40%. Researchers hypothesize that certain

Russia pressures university students to become wartime drone pilots

Russia has launched an intensified recruitment drive to attract university students to join its newly formed Unmanned Systems Forces as drone pilots, offering high salaries, promises of no front-line

Source: Kraken cut ~150 staff after AI tools improved efficiency and its IPO may be delayed until late 2026 or early 2027 due to a drop in digital-asset prices (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Source: Kraken cut ~150 staff after AI tools improved efficiency and its IPO may be delayed until late 2026 or early 2027 due to a drop in digital-asset prices — Kraken, one o

Sources detail friction between Samsung's memory and logic chip businesses over higher bonuses for memory chip workers, leading many to leave or apply elsewhere (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters)

Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters: Sources detail friction between Samsung's memory and logic chip businesses over higher bonuses for memory chip workers, leading many to leave or apply elsewhere — A looming 18-d

Sources: HSG, formerly Sequoia China, has set up a 3B continuation fund anchored by its ByteDance stake, offering entry into the company valued at 370B (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: HSG, formerly Sequoia China, has set up a 3B continuation fund anchored by its ByteDance stake, offering entry into the company valued at 370B — HSG, the investment firm formerly k

Sources: Nord Quantique, a quantum computing startup that is pursuing a hardware-level quantum error correction approach, raised 30M at a 1.4B valuation (Sean Silcoff/Globe and Mail)

Sean Silcoff / Globe and Mail: Sources: Nord Quantique, a quantum computing startup that is pursuing a hardware-level quantum error correction approach, raised 30M at a 1.4B valuation — West Coast pip

Sources: OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, which offered AI tools to create clones of people's voices, earlier this year; PitchBook: Weights.gg had raised roughly $4M (Mike Isaac/New York Times)

Mike Isaac / New York Times: Sources: OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, which offered AI tools to create clones of people's voices, earlier this year; PitchBook: Weights.gg had raised roughly $4M — The acqu

Sources: SpaceX aims to make its IPO prospectus public by next week, targeting a June 12 listing on Nasdaq, driven by a faster-than-expected SEC review (Reuters)

Reuters: Sources: SpaceX aims to make its IPO prospectus public by next week, targeting a June 12 listing on Nasdaq, driven by a faster-than-expected SEC review — Elon Musk's rocket and satellite make

Sources: the US FTC is investigating whether Arm is trying to illegally monopolize parts of the semiconductor market (Josh Sisco/Bloomberg)

Josh Sisco / Bloomberg: Sources: the US FTC is investigating whether Arm is trying to illegally monopolize parts of the semiconductor market — Arm Holdings Plc is facing an antitrust investigation by

The perfect commuter bike? Velotric's Discover 3 makes its case.

The Velotric Discover 3 is a next-generation comfort commuter e-bike featuring a 750-watt internal-rotor hub motor peaking at 1100 watts with 75Nm of torque and a 730Wh battery . It focuses on upright

The promises and pitfalls of personalized health

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life

The UK's HMRC tax authority announces a 10-year, £175M deal with London-based Quantexa to use its AI tech to identify fraud incidents and fix tax return errors (Zoe Kleinman/BBC)

Zoe Kleinman / BBC: The UK's HMRC tax authority announces a 10-year, £175M deal with London-based Quantexa to use its AI tech to identify fraud incidents and fix tax return errors — HM Revenue and Cus

Volkswagen shows its first electric GTI; there's no chance of US sales

Volkswagen unveiled the ID. Polo GTI, its first electric GTI model, on May 15, 2026. The vehicle delivers 222 hp from a front-mounted electric motor and offers up to 282 miles of WLTP range. The ID. P

Weather-monitoring firm hangs dark cloud over customers’ heads by forcing new app

I was unable to find the specific Ars Technica article about a weather-monitoring firm forcing customers to use a new app. Based on the article title, this entry likely covers a weather company discon

YouTube expands its AI likeness detection program to users over the age of 18, after rolling it out to select creators, politicians, journalists, and others (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Mia Sato / The Verge: YouTube expands its AI likeness detection program to users over the age of 18, after rolling it out to select creators, politicians, journalists, and others — Likeness detection,

YouTube is expanding its AI deepfake detection tool to all adult users

YouTube is expanding its AI likeness detection program to all users over the age of 18 - meaning just about anyone can have the platform hunt for potential deepfakes of themselves. The likeness detect

Agents feedback tip

This article likely provides practical advice on how to effectively give feedback to AI agents or autonomous systems, covering techniques for improving agent performance through constructive feedback

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AI training data provider Wirestock raises $23M in funding

Wirestock Inc., a startup that provides multimodal training datasets for artificial intelligence developers, has raised 23 million in funding. TechCrunch reported today that early-stage fund Nava Vent

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Alphabet sold $3.6B of bonds in its debut yen-denominated bond sale, the largest by a non-Japanese company, as AI-driven capital spending accelerates (Atsuko Fukase/Bloomberg)

Atsuko Fukase / Bloomberg: Alphabet sold 3.6B of bonds in its debut yen-denominated bond sale, the largest by a non-Japanese company, as AI-driven capital spending accelerates — Alphabet Inc. sold ¥57

Americans do not want AI data centers in their backyards

Over 70 percent of Americans oppose AI data center construction in their area, according to a new Gallup survey. Just 7 percent said they were 'strongly' in favor of new data centers. According to Gal

Behold, the Elon Musk jackass trophy

Yesterday, in Musk v. Altman, before the jurors came in, Sam Altman's team passed up what looked - from a distance - like a little league trophy. It was not. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers had the lawyers rea

California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes a new 7.25% tax on web-based software sales, targeting $1.1B in state and local tax revenue in the upcoming budget year (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes a new 7.25% tax on web-based software sales, targeting $1.1B in state and local tax revenue in the upcoming budget year — California Governor Gavin New