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The Information: Source: new revenue sharing terms cap OpenAI's payments to Microsoft at 38B; they previously could have totaled 135B through 2030 if long-term goals were met — OpenAI Chief Financial

Lucinda Shen / Axios: Source: Robinhood has filed confidentially for its second publicly traded venture fund, Robinhood Venture Fund II, focusing on early-stage startups — Robinhood has filed confiden

Financial Times: Sources: German defense tech startup Helsing is set to raise 1.2B led by Dragoneer and Lightspeed at a valuation of about 18B, up from 14B in June 2025 — German company backed by Spot

The Information: Sources: Kuaishou plans to spin off its Kling AI video unit for an IPO in 2027 and is seeking a $20B valuation in pre-IPO funding talks with potential investors — Chinese social media

Bloomberg: Sources: Masayoshi Son has held talks with French President Emmanuel Macron about unveiling a multibillion-dollar AI data center project in the coming weeks — SoftBank Group Corp. founder M

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI facilitated a 6.6B secondary share sale in October 2025 for 600+ current and ex-employees; over 75 people cashed out the maximum cap of 30M — Employee

Washington Post: Sources: the White House's Office of the National Cyber Director and Commerce Department's CAISI are fighting over which agency should lead AI model evaluations — As the White House g

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Netflix for allegedly spying on consumers by collecting their data without consent, and designing its platform to be addictive — Netflix (NFLX.O) w

Courtney Rozen / Reuters: The US Commerce Department removed from its website details about its May 5 agreement with Google, xAI, and Microsoft to test their AI models — The U.S. Commerce Department r

Thinking Machines Lab: Thinking Machines Lab details interaction models, which can think and respond in real time, letting users and AI interact continuously for better collaboration — Today, we're an

Jay Peters / The Verge: Venmo implements a major privacy measure, setting new users' posts to “friends only” by default during onboarding; in 2021, a reporter found Joe Biden's Venmo — As part of a b

Anna Tong / Forbes: A look at Janitor AI, a romantic fantasy roleplay chatbot site run by three men that claims 2.5M DAUs and 15M total users, with 70% to 80% identifying as women — Despite its name,

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: A profile of Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf, a Palantir alum and self-identified Democrat, as Anduril's defense tech shakes up the US military-industrial complex — “The question

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: An analysis of US DOL data: the IT sector's unemployment rate rose from 3.6% in March to 3.8% in April, as the sector shed 13,000 jobs amid AI uncertainty — The job ma

Sarah Kessler / New York Times: Corporate lawyers say AI-transcribed meeting notes may not have attorney-client privilege, making otherwise protected conversations discoverable in lawsuits — A trendy

Jennah Haque / Bloomberg: Experian says 40% of the 5,000 data breaches it serviced in 2025 were AI-powered, and predicts agentic AI will be the leading cause of data breaches in 2026 — A few months ag

Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: Inside Consensus Conference, one of the biggest crypto conferences, which had a decidedly corporate sheen in 2026 amid Wall Street's embrace of digital assets — I

Bloomberg: Microsoft and G42's $1B geothermal-powered data center in Kenya stalls after the government couldn't provide annual payment guarantees that Microsoft requested — A major Microsoft Corp. dat

Jack Kubinec / Fortune: MoonPay acquires DFlow, a platform that facilitates trading on the Solana blockchain, sources say for 100M in stock; DFlow had raised 7.5M across two rounds — The crypto paymen

Elizabeth Findell / Wall Street Journal: Most of the tech on display at this year's Border Security Expo was autonomous and AI-equipped, driven by the Trump administration's focus on US border securit

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

FinTech Global: NYC-based Reserv, which provides software and AI-powered claims processing tech for property and casualty insurers, raised a 125M Series C led by KKR — Reserv, an AI-native third-party

Rahul Raj / EU-Startups: Paris-based Lithosquare, which uses AI to speed the discovery of critical mineral and metal deposits, raised a $25M seed led by World Fund and Kindred Capital — Lithosquare, a

Fortune: Q&A with Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon on 2026 as “year of agents”, the end of the smartphone-centric world, 6G turning humans into “walking cameras”, and more — Cristiano Amon's pitch is that

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is working on a “slight redesign” for macOS 27 to address Liquid Glass issues, plans a feature to automatically group Safari tabs in “27” OSes — Also: The lates

Echo Wang / Reuters: Sources: Cerebras plans to raise its IPO price range from 115-125 per share to 150-160 per share, potentially raising ~$4.8B at the top of the new range — Cerebras Systems is set

Bloomberg: Sources: Digital Asset, which builds Canton Network, a public blockchain with privacy features, is raising a ~300M round led by a16z crypto at a ~2B valuation — Digital Asset Holdings LLC,

Shane Snider / Data Center Knowledge: Sydney-based AI data center operator IREN agrees to acquire Mirantis, which offers Kubernetes management and cloud infrastructure software, for 625M in stock — Th

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao, who tends to take a conservative approach to revenue projections and has chosen to raise less money than is available — Krishn

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