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Wall Street Journal: How US companies flipped from “tokenmaxxing” to “thrift-maxxing”, mixing cheaper Chinese models with OpenAI and Anthropic, threatening the labs' IPO valuations — Companies big and

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Neocloud Fluidstack, which has partnered with Anthropic, announces that it raised an 830M Series A led by Situational Awareness at a 7.5B valuation in January — Fluidst

Ian King / Bloomberg: SK Group Chair Chey Tae Won says Anthropic has asked SK Hynix for supplies to make its own chips, calling it remarkable that an AI developer has chip ambitions — AI developer Ant

Welcome to The Blueprint, a new feature where we highlight how Google Cloud customers are tackling unique and common challenges across industries using the latest AI and cloud technologies. We hope to

Impulse Space, an orbital transportation company, has been added to the Space Force's National Security Space Launch program's Phase 3 Lane 1 contract alongside launch startup Relativity Space. Unlike

A 66-year-old Pennsylvania man, Harry Tiffany IV, was arrested for allegedly using xAI's Grok AI tool to create child sexual abuse material (CSAM) , which he uploaded or shared through Grok between Ap

The U.S. operates only one active rare earth mine at Mountain Pass, California, which produced approximately 45,000 tons of rare earth oxide concentrate in 2024, but the ore is still mostly shipped to

Bloomberg: Apple supplier Luxshare raised ~3.1B in its Hong Kong IPO, selling 383.5M shares at ~8 each, the top of its marketed range, and will start trading on Thursday — Apple Inc. supplier Luxshare

Kate Park / TechCrunch: Shenzhen-based Even Realities, a startup that makes smart glasses without cameras, raised a $150M pre-Series B led by Meituan and Tencent — Meta and Snap rolled out new smart g

Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Alex Karp went on CNBC this week and delivered what one outlet generously called a “televised nervous breakdown.” He called the artificial intelligence indus

Nilesh Christopher / Los Angeles Times: How ByteDance is making Hollywood inroads with its Seedance video generator, thanks to low pricing, striking realism, and features like timeline-based prompting

Wing Commander was a popular 1990s space combat simulator series known for strong narratives that switched to full-motion video starting with Wing Commander III, with Wing Commander IV: The Price of F

The 2026 Built-On Databricks Startup Challenge recognized and celebrated winning startups that built innovative solutions using the Databricks data and AI platform. The competition showcased emerging

The financial services industry (FSI) operates under a unique set of non-negotiable requirements: the need for strict regulatory compliance, sub-millisecond transactional speeds, and security that ver

Comcast announced plans to separate into two independent publicly traded companies through a tax-free spin-off of NBCUniversal and Sky. The split will separate its cash-generating broadband arm from a

Arizona-based chipmaker Onsemi today announced plans to acquire the internet of things and computer interface technology firm Synaptics Inc. in a deal valued at around 7 billion. The deal will help On

On May 28, 2026, a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test at Cape Canaveral, destroying the vehicle and severely damaging the company's only operational New Glenn launch site.

Memory chip maker Micron Technology Inc. more than quadrupled its revenue growth in the most recent quarter as it continued to benefit from surging demand linked to the artificial intelligence industr

Telecommunications is an incredibly complex, highly specialized domain. Modern mobile networks are inherently multi-vendor, featuring diverse and often proprietary data structures. While AI has made m

Probook is an AI operating system for home services built around dispatch that automates intake, dispatch, and customer communications across the entire customer experience, expanding margins for serv

This article from Databricks outlines ten artificial intelligence solutions that businesses can implement to accelerate growth and improve operational efficiency. The piece likely covers practical AI

Meta Newsroom: Meta partners with Reliance to lease its first AI data center in India, with 168 MW capacity; separately, Meta says it has contracted ~1GW of renewable energy — Takeaways — Meta has ent

In March 2026, the FCC added all consumer-grade routers produced in foreign countries to its Covered List, prohibiting new models from receiving authorization . The ban cites supply chain vulnerabilit

The USDA announced it is testing a suspected case of New World screwworm in South Texas, which would be the first of its kind in the U.S. in decades. Samples were taken from two calves on a ranch in L

Today I’m talking with Harvey Mason Jr., who is CEO of the Recording Academy — that’s the outfit that puts on the Grammy Awards. I last talked to Harvey in 2024, when it was obvious that generative AI

Databricks announced its participation or contributions at SIGMOD 2026, a premier international conference on database systems and management. The blog post likely covers Databricks' research papers,

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

Organizations are unlocking entirely new ways to use image generation and editing across their industries. To drive next-generation experiences, businesses are embedding AI directly into creative, age

Valve's Steam Deck OLED models are finally back in stock after months of shortages, but buyers are now facing much steeper prices than before. The 512GB Steam Deck OLED now costs 789, up from 549, whi

Welcome to The Blueprint, a regular feature where we highlight how Google Cloud customers are tackling unique and common challenges across industries using the latest AI and cloud technologies. We hop

Armada Inc., a provider of portable data centers and satellite internet software, has raised 230 million in funding at a 2 billion valuation. The company disclosed in its announcement of the raise tod

Databricks discusses how artificial intelligence can help telecommunications CFOs optimize capital expenditure decisions for network infrastructure by enabling data-driven analysis and predictive mode

The way to look at quantum computing is not as a replacement for traditional computing architectures, but rather as a complement to them. There is the central processing unit, the graphics processing

Bloomberg: CertiK: physical attacks on crypto holders rose 75% YoY to 72 confirmed cases and 41M in known losses in 2025; Coinbase spent ~7.6M to protect Brian Armstrong — After a year of kidnappings,

Benedict Evans: An overview of macro tech trends: capex explosion, unprecedented surge in chip demand, supply chain bottlenecks, model commoditization, AI automation, and more — Twice a year, I produc

NV Energy announced it will end power supply to Lake Tahoe's Liberty Utilities after May 2027, citing capacity needed for data centers in Northern Nevada. The region has become a rapidly growing data

The FCC approved EchoStar's 40 billion spectrum sales to AT&T and SpaceX , with AT&T acquiring approximately 50 megahertz of nationwide spectrum for 23 billion and SpaceX purchasing 65 megahertz for 1

In the healthcare and life sciences industries, speed saves lives, but meeting regulatory requirements and other administrative burdens often pumps the brakes for manufacturers of software as a medica

Databricks announced a Student Fellows program designed to provide educational opportunities and professional development for undergraduate and graduate students interested in data engineering, data s

The FCC extended its deadline for software updates on foreign-made routers from March 1, 2027, to January 1, 2029 , allowing already-authorized devices to receive critical security patches longer desp

Executive Summary Since our February 2026 report on AI-related threat activity, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has continued to track a maturing transition from nascent AI-enabled operations

Netherlands- and Belgium-based imaging technology startup eyeo B.V. said today it has closed on a €40 million ($47.07 million) Series A round of funding in order to try to fulfill its mission to enhan

In a 9-0 Supreme Court decision, Cox Communications prevailed against Sony Music Entertainment in a landmark copyright case decided March 25, 2026, with the Court finding that internet service provide

Golnar Motevalli / Bloomberg: NetBlocks: Iran's 70+ day internet blackout is “the longest recorded national internet shutdown in a connected society”, as businesses warn of layoffs, closures — Iran's

Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft is considering delaying or dropping its 2030 goal of matching its hourly power use with renewable energy purchases, amid the data center boom — Microsoft Corp. may shelve

Networking chip company Astera Labs Inc. is trying to ease the traffic congestion in artificial intelligence data centers with the launch of the latest generation of its Scorpio smart data fabric swit