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Anthropic: Anthropic details how it improved Claude's safety training after finding agentic misalignment in older models, such as Opus 4 blackmailing engineers — Last year, we released a case study on

Krysta Fauria / Associated Press: Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI firms met with Hindu, Sikh, and Greek Orthodox leaders to draft principles on how to infuse models with ethics and morality — As conce

Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: Execs at Palantir, whose stock is up ~16x since its AI platform's 2023 debut, often decry other AI as slop, as competition from frontier AI labs stiffens — In

Ken Macon / Reclaim The Net: FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecoms, including VoIP providers, to verify user identities before activating service, raising privacy fears — The era of

David Shepardson / Reuters: GM agrees to pay 12.75M to resolve a California investigation into claims that it illegally sold the location and driving data of OnStar subscribers to brokers — GM (GM.N)

Rick Findlay / Reclaim The Net: Google seems to require Google Play Services for passing next-gen reCAPTCHA on Android, denying de-Googled Android phones and creating surveillance issues — Google has

Bloomberg: How SpaceMob, an online community of ~50,000, has fueled a meme-stock-like rally in satellite networking company AST, which is up ~6,000% over a 22-month period — Championed by a guru known

Zack Abrams / The Block: LayerZero apologizes for Kelp DAO exploit response, says single-verifier setup was deficient; Dune: in April, ~47% of LayerZero OApps had the same default setup — Quick Take —

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA — The Natio

Moneycontrol: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google's enterprise push with PE firms poses a new competitive threat to India's IT industry, as services become increasingly automatable — On Wall Street, the ann

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI president Greg Brockman's journal has emerged as a star witness in the Musk v. Altman trial; Brockman says he stopped writing about OpenAI in it in 2023 — The j

Sam Rubin / Palo Alto Networks Blog: Palo Alto Networks says in its testing, three weeks of frontier AI-assisted analysis matched a full year of manual penetration testing, with broader coverage — For

Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware: Sales of PC motherboards are expected to fall 25%+ YoY in 2026, as PC users delay their upgrades amid AI-driven price surges for memory, storage, and processors — Fewer

The Information: Source: Mistral AI and TML's founding member Devendra Chaplot, who was considered a marquee hire when he joined xAI in March, exited xAI after roughly a month — Cursor is already star

South China Morning Post: Sources: ByteDance plans to increase its 2026 capex to more than $30B, up at least 25% from a preliminary plan, amid the AI boom and rising memory chip costs — TikTok owner B

Associated Press: A hack of Instructure's Canvas locked out students at schools and universities across the US in the middle of finals period; some US colleges postponed exams — Schools and universiti

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Akamai says it struck a seven-year cloud computing deal with a “leading frontier model provider”; sources: the deal was with Anthropic and is worth 1.8B — Anthropic PBC has si

Du Zhihang / Caixin Global: Beijing-based humanoid robotics company Robotera raised over 200M led by SF Group, after raising ~146M in March at a ~1.47B valuation — Chinese humanoid-robot startup Robot

Alex Lekander / CyberInsider: EU warns that VPNs are being used to bypass online age-verification systems, calling their use “a loophole in the legislation that needs closing” — The European Parliamen

Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg: Honeywell's Quantinuum files for a US IPO, reporting a 136.6M net loss on revenue of 5.2M for the three months ended March 31; sources: it could raise $1.5B+ — Quantinuum

Nathan Lambert / Interconnects AI: Impressions of China's AI ecosystem after visiting many leading AI labs there, and the similarities and differences in working on LLMs in China and the West — Lesson

Bloomberg: Sources: Apollo Global and Blackstone are among private credit lenders in talks with Broadcom over a ~$35B financing deal to fund the development of AI chips — Apollo Global Management Inc.

Bloomberg: Sources: Cerebras plans to raise its IPO price range from 115-125 per share to 125-135 after drawing orders for more than 20x the number of shares available — Cerebras Systems Inc. is set t

Bloomberg: Sources: Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug discovery company spun out of Google DeepMind, is in advanced talks to raise $2B+ led by Thrive Capital — Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug di

Bloomberg: Sources: WH is preparing to order US agencies to partner with AI companies on cybersecurity; the EO wouldn't require pre-release model testing by the government — The Trump administration i

Michael Kan / PCMag: The FCC says foreign-made routers and drones can now receive software updates at least until 2029, extending its earlier 2027 cutoff — The FCC's bans on foreign-made Wi-Fi routers

Todd Spangler / Variety: Trump Media and Technology Group reports Q1 net sales up 6% YoY to 871,200 and a 405.9M net loss; DJT is down 35% so far in 2026 for a market cap of ~$2.47B — Trump Media and

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Airbnb reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to 2.68B, vs. 2.62B est., Nights and Seats Booked up 9% to 156.2M, vs. 155.77M est., lifts 2026 revenue growth guidance — Airbnb reported mi

Julian Chokkattu / Wired: An interview with Google VP for Health and Home Rishi Chandra on shutting down Fit by the end of 2026, Fitbit's rebrand to Google Health, Health Coach, and more — Google is s

Sangmi Cha / Bloomberg: Analysis: South Korea's equity market overtakes Canada's as the world's seventh largest, driven by Samsung and SK Hynix, whose stocks have more than doubled YTD — South Korea's

Anthropic: Anthropic researchers detail “natural language autoencoders”, which convert LLM activations, the numbers encoding a model's thoughts, into natural language text — When you talk to an AI mod

Simon Sharwood / The Register: Arm expects the AGI CPU, its own AI chip for data centers, to drive 2B in sales in FY2027 and FY2028, doubling its March 2026 sales guidance for the period — Someone oth

RT Watson / The Block: AWS unveils Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments and partners with Coinbase and Stripe to enable AI agents to execute transactions using stablecoins — Quick Take — Amazon Web Servi

Isabelle Lee / Bloomberg: Block reports Q1 revenue up 5% YoY to 6.1B, vs. 5.9B est., and raises its 2026 gross profit forecast above estimates; XYZ jumps 7%+ after hours — Block Inc. offered a sunnier

Ignacio Gonzalez / Bloomberg: Cloudflare reports Q1 revenue up 34% YoY to $639.8M, plans to cut 1,100+ jobs as it shifts to an “agentic AI-first operating model”; NET drops 13%+ after hours — Cloudfla

CNBC: Coinbase reports Q1 revenue down 31% YoY to 1.41B, vs. 1.52B est., and a loss of 1.49 per share, vs. a 0.27 profit est.; COIN drops 4%+ after hours — Coinbase posted lower-than-expected results

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: Cologne-based AI translation startup DeepL plans to cut ~25% of its workforce, or ~250 staff, saying adapting to AI “means fewer layers” and “faster decisions” — DeepL, the Ge

Jordan Novet / CNBC: CoreWeave reports Q1 revenue up 112% YoY to 2.08B, vs. 1.97B est., a $99.4B revenue backlog, forecasts Q2 revenue below estimates; CRWV drops 8%+ after hours — CoreWeave shares tu

Elon Musk / @elonmusk: Elon Musk says SpaceX reserves “the right to reclaim the compute” from Anthropic if its “AI engages in actions that harm humanity” — @MobofJoggers @nottombrown Just as SpaceX la

Pieter Haeck / Politico: EU legislators reach a deal to postpone restrictions on high-risk AI until December 2027 and to exempt the use of AI in industrial applications from the AI Act — Deal marks fi

Bloomberg: Filing: OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky's wife assumed significant control of OnlyFans holding company Fenix in March following the death of Radvinsky — Leonid Radvinsky's widow has surface

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: French prosecutors escalate an investigation into Elon Musk and X, focused on alleged algorithmic manipulation and sexual deepfakes, to a criminal probe — French cybercrime author

Robin Wigglesworth / Financial Times: Goldman Sachs: Alphabet and Amazon generated “other income” totaling 53B in Q1, or ~60% of their Q1 income; 49B was due to equity stakes in private companies — Th

Cherlynn Low / Engadget: Google launches the Google Fitbit Air, a $100 Whoop-like screenless wearable with Gemini-powered features like Google Health Coach, available from May 26 — The Whoop-like wear

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: Google rebrands Fitbit Premium as Google Health Premium, adding Gemini-powered coaching and other features, and raises its annual price from 79.99 to 99.99 — The reb

Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: Kalshi raised 1B led by Coatue at a 22B valuation, its third round in seven months after raising 1B and 300M+, and hits 178B in annualized trading volume — Th