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June 2, 2026

6:20 AM  •
Arriana McLymore / Reuters:  Amazon schedules Prime Day for June 23 to June 26, shifting the four-day sales event from its traditional July slot to avoid conflicts with the FIFA World Cup
6:05 AM  •
OpenAI:  OpenAI releases a new report on knowledge work: Codex now has 5M+ weekly active users, up 6x+ since February, and knowledge workers are ~20% of Codex users
5:50 AM  •
Pew Research Center:  Analysis: 22 of 24 US executive agencies saw a YoY increase in their average X account engagement during the first year of Trump's second term; @DOGE dominated
5:35 AM  •
Debby Wu / Bloomberg:  SK Hynix Chair Chey Tae-won says the company plans to double its memory chip capacity over the next five years, responding to a shortage that could last to 2030
4:35 AM  •
Nectar Gan / Bloomberg:  China adds data and algorithms to its trade secret rules, as part of Beijing's efforts to prevent tech leaks amid intensifying strategic competition with the US
4:10 AM  •
Max Cherney / Reuters:  Computex 2026: ARM CEO Rene Haas says Oracle and ByteDance are among the customers of the company's new AGI CPU data center chips
3:55 AM  •
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
2:00 AM  •
Bloomberg:  A profile of Valve, which PrivCo estimates generated $5.2B in revenue and $1.5B in net income in 2025, as lawsuits allege its Steam store abuses market power
1:45 AM  •
The Economist:  SpaceX's, Anthropic's, and OpenAI's IPOs could add up to $4T to US stock market value within months, fueling concerns they could trigger more capital-raising
1:20 AM  •
Stephen Foley / Financial Times:  AI will significantly disrupt IT consultancies as AI labs build their own advisory arms and execs expect more outcome-based pricing over hourly billing models
1:15 AM  •
CNBC:  An interview with Sam Altman on OpenAI's massive Stargate data center project in Saline, Michigan, coding models being the biggest driver of AI demand, and more
1:05 AM  •
OpenAI:  OpenAI says it has not donated to any super PACs and does not have an employee-funded PAC, and that Greg Brockman's support for Leading the Future is “personal”
1:00 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Chinese procurement records: at least seven Chinese universities that support China's military and defense industry are seeking access to Nvidia's H200 chips
12:55 AM  •
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
12:00 AM  •
Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal:  Crunchbase: San Francisco startups hit a record of 1,404 seed deals in 2025; the number of NYC seed deals has dropped over the past three years, to 666 in 2025

June 1, 2026

11:20 PM  •
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
11:10 PM  •
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
9:15 PM  •
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:  GitHub Copilot's new pricing model takes effect; many GitHub users noted sticker shock, with some saying a few hours of AI usage ate big chunks of monthly caps
8:45 PM  •
Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder:  Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B-parameter MoE open model; Artificial Analysis says it is the smartest open US model, but trails Chinese model Kimi K2.6
8:33 PM  •
The Information:  Salesforce is acquiring CMS provider Contentful; a source says Salesforce paid between $1B and $1.5B, a steep discount from Contentful's $3B valuation in 2021
6:45 PM  •
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”
5:10 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Alphabet is raising $80B in equity offerings, including a $10B investment deal with Berkshire, to fund AI spending, in one of the largest equity deals ever
4:50 PM  •
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:  HPE reports Q2 revenue up 40% YoY to $10.7B, above $9.74B est., Server revenue up 33%, forecasts revenue for FY26 and FY27 above est.; HPE jumps 30%+ pre-market
4:10 PM  •
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
2:30 PM  •
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
1:35 PM  •
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
12:40 PM  •
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
12:30 PM  •
Matthew Griffin / Bloomberg:  IBM shares jump 7.6% after a nearly six-month old video of President Trump praising CEO Arvind Krishna recirculated on X; IBM was already up ~40% over two weeks
12:20 PM  •
Lucinda Shen / Axios:  Stockholm-based Endra, which automates the design of plumbing and electrical wiring in new buildings, raised $50M led by a16z
12:10 PM  •
Mike Isaac / New York Times:  Anthropic says it has confidentially filed for an IPO, which could happen as soon as this fall, joining OpenAI and SpaceX in preparing to go public in 2026
12:05 PM  •
Anthropic:  Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
11:50 AM  •
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
11:30 AM  •
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
11:25 AM  •
Kalley Huang / New York Times:  Box has created 13 AI-focused roles, like AI architect and AI solutions manager, and plans to grow from 2,900 staff at the start of 2026 to 3,000+ by early 2027
11:20 AM  •
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 top US AI companies
10:50 AM  •
Tom Warren / The Verge:  Sources: at Build, Microsoft plans to unveil a Copilot “super app”, a new reasoning model developed by Microsoft AI, and Windows improvements for developers
10:45 AM  •
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
10:35 AM  •
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:  Strava is adding an $11.99 monthly fee for developer API access and moving public profiles and fitness club listings behind authentication to combat AI scraping
10:00 AM  •
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
9:25 AM  •
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
9:10 AM  •
Liana Baker / Bloomberg:  SEC filing: quantum computing startup Quantinuum boosts its IPO, aiming to sell 26.5M shares for $53-$55 each, raising up to $1.46B at an up to $14.3B valuation
9:00 AM  •
Loni Prinsloo / Bloomberg:  African e-mobility startup Spiro, which owns 100K+ electric motorcycles, raised $215M at a near-$1B valuation, after raising $100M in 2025 and $50M debt in 2026
8:40 AM  •
Charles Capel / Bloomberg:  SEC filing: SpaceX will reserve up to 5% of its Class A shares for select employees and executives' friends and family; 60%+ of shares have an extended lock-up
8:15 AM  •
CoinDesk:  SEC filing: Strategy sold 32 bitcoin between May 26 and May 31 for ~$2.5M, at an average net price of $77,135 per coin, its first disclosed bitcoin disposal
8:00 AM  •
Damien Wilde / 9to5Google:  Google plans to open its first physical Google Store outside of the US “this summer”, in Tokyo's Omotesando district, marking Google's 11th physical store
7:45 AM  •
Financial Times:  French private equity firm Ardian partners with data center group Verne to build an up to €5B AI “gigafactory” outside Paris, targeting up to 500MW in capacity
7:30 AM  •
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
7:20 AM  •
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
7:10 AM  •
Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg:  Sources: Anthropic plans to let the EU's cyber agency ENISA join Project Glasswing and access Mythos; EU officials went to the US last week to ask for access
6:55 AM  •
Juro Osawa / The Information:  Chinese AI developer MiniMax debuts M3, a new coding model that it says rivals Claude Opus 4.7, costing $0.12 per 1M input tokens, compared with $5 for Opus 4.7
6:50 AM  •
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
6:35 AM  •
New York Times:  A look at the Seckinger school cluster in Georgia, including the US' “first AI-themed educational institution”, where parents say AI integration is often sparse
6:25 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Nasdaq, FTSE, and other index providers are shortening their entry timelines to accommodate SpaceX's record $75B IPO, as Elon Musk targets retail investors
6:15 AM  •
@theallinpod:  Q&A with Bill Gurley on Anthropic employees believing “they can create God, and that by creating God, they are like this Prometheus kind of species”, and more
6:05 AM  •
Jordyn Holman / New York Times:  Q&A with Brian Chesky on running Airbnb in “founder mode”, how “founder mode and hustle culture” are different, AI customer service, adding hotels, and more
5:55 AM  •
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
5:50 AM  •
Ian King / Bloomberg:  Jensen Huang says Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are among the first big users of Nvidia's new Vera CPUs, which are 1.8x faster at AI workloads than x86 chips
5:45 AM  •
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
5:40 AM  •
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
4:20 AM  •
Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu:  Netherlands-based Invisix, which is developing advanced chipmaking measurement tools, raised a €20M seed, with the participation of a “tier-one” chipmaker
4:10 AM  •
Kentaro Takeda / Nikkei Asia:  Grab says it commits to “Taiwan's data security and public trust”, after reports of Grab's collaborations with China-based Huawei and Alibaba sparked concerns
4:00 AM  •
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:  A look at Operation Jailbreak, a US Army-led hackathon where nine defense firms use AI to integrate weapons systems, drawing on Ukraine interoperability lessons
3:50 AM  •
Matteo Wong / The Atlantic:  A look at Pangram, considered the gold standard for detecting AI writing, and the dangers of its claimed one in 10,000 false-positive rate when used at scale
3:15 AM  •
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:  Nvidia unveils DGX Station for Windows, a desktop PC powered by a GB300 Grace Blackwell chip with up to 748GB of memory, capable of running 1T-parameter models
2:40 AM  •
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:  Nvidia says its Vera Rubin computing platform is “ramping into full production”, with the first systems expected to ship in the fall, after a March announcement
2:35 AM  •
Ina Fried / Axios:  Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3, an open physical AI foundation model that helps robots and autonomous cars better understand the real world with limited training data
2:25 AM  •
Stephen Nellis / Reuters:  Nvidia unveils an open humanoid reference design built on Isaac GR00T and its Jetson Thor chip, combining a Unitree H2 Plus robot and Sharpa five-fingered hands
2:05 AM  •
Sangmi Cha / Bloomberg:  LG's shares are up 300%+ in 2026, after largely sitting out of South Korea's chip rally in 2025, as LG seeks to expand into physical AI businesses, like robots
1:35 AM  •
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC:  AI startup Runway, most recently valued at $5.3B, plans to make London its European headquarters and invest $200M+ into the UK's AI ecosystem by the end of 2028
1:25 AM  •
Katie Tarasov / CNBC:  Jensen Huang says Microsoft and Nvidia will “reinvent the PC”, starting with 30+ laptops and 10 desktops coming in the fall from Dell, HP, ASUS, Lenovo, and MSI
1:10 AM  •
Jeffrey Kampman / Tom's Hardware:  Nvidia says RTX Spark offers up to 20 CPU cores and a Blackwell GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores, capable of “100 FPS 1440p gaming” or running 120B-parameter AI models
12:53 AM  •
Sean Hollister / The Verge:  Microsoft unveils the Surface Laptop Ultra, featuring an Nvidia RTX Spark SoC, a 15" mini-LED touchscreen, and up to 128GB of unified memory, coming this fall
12:40 AM  •
Sean Hollister / The Verge:  Nvidia announces the RTX Spark, an Arm-based consumer chip family it calls “the most efficient PC chip ever built”, made on TSMC 3 in partnership with MediaTek
12:30 AM  •
Jeffrey Kampman / Tom's Hardware:  Intel details its Crescent Island data center GPUs, built on its Xe3P architecture and using LPDDR5X memory instead of HBM, calling them “built for agentic AI”
12:12 AM  •
Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware:  Intel teases its Xeon 7 Diamond Rapids CPUs, built on its 18A-P node, with PCIe 6.0 and 50% more cores and 2x the memory bandwidth vs. Xeon 6, coming in 2027

May 31, 2026

11:50 PM  •
Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware:  Intel debuts six Xeon 6+ data center CPU SKUs, saying the 6990E+ has 30% better performance per thread and up to 30% more energy efficiency than AMD's Epyc 9965
11:40 PM  •
Charlotte Yang / Bloomberg:  TSMC's stock rally in Taiwan has outpaced its US-listed shares in 2026, narrowing its ADR premium to 13.7%, a two-year low, driven by local investor optimism
11:10 PM  •
Eduardo Baptista / Reuters:  China issues new investment rules, expanding regulatory powers to scrutinize overseas deals involving Chinese investors, tech, and data, effective from July 1
10:35 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Beijing-based Vast, which uses AI models to generate 3D assets from text and image prompts, raised ~$200M at a $1B+ valuation, and says it has 20M global users
10:00 PM  •
Brock E.W. Turner / Axios:  Solstice, which uses clinical and compliance documents and AI to accelerate advertising approvals for pharma clients, raised a $21M Series A
9:30 PM  •
Ryan Lawler / Axios:  Daloopa, which structures financial data from filings, transcripts, investor decks, and other public sources for investment firms, raised a $47M Series C
9:00 PM  •
Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge:  Dell introduces the $699+ Dell XPS 13, starting with 8GB of RAM, a six-core Intel Core 5 320 chip, and a 13.4-inch touchscreen, meant to rival the MacBook Neo
8:35 PM  •
Sean Hollister / The Verge:  AMD unveils the $330 Ryzen 7 7700X3D CPU, relaunches the 5800X3D as a $349 10th-anniversary edition, and plans to support the AM5 motherboard socket until 2030
8:10 PM  •
Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget:  Twitch rolls out Dual Format, a feature that lets creators stream horizontally and vertically at the same time, and 2K streaming for all partners and affiliates
7:05 PM  •
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
4:10 PM  •
Jacob Judah / Financial Times:  Experts say US models like ChatGPT and Gemini have turbocharged Iran's cyber operations, helping it develop malware, craft phishing messages, and scale attacks
1:10 PM  •
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
11:00 AM  •
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:  Sources: Apple delays its iPhone-connected smart glasses to late 2027, aiming to disrupt the mid-tier $200-$500 eyewear market like it did with the watch market
8:00 AM  •
Reuters:  A look at contrasting China playbooks of AMD CEO Lisa Su and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, with Su keeping a lower profile; China accounts for ~20% of AMD's revenue
5:00 AM  •
Brent Crane / Bloomberg:  A profile of Ariane Gorin, who became Expedia CEO in 2024 and has overseen back-to-back years of revenue growth, with record gross bookings of $119B in 2025
2:00 AM  •
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
1:35 AM  •
Ina Fried / Axios:  Sources: Microsoft and Nvidia will unveil the first Windows PCs powered by Nvidia SoCs, including devices from Surface and Dell, at Computex and Build 2026
1:10 AM  •
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
12:55 AM  •
Nikkei Asia:  China will implement new online food delivery regulations on June 1, requiring platforms to regularly verify businesses' identities, locations, and licenses
12:45 AM  •
Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch:  With Microsoft's GitHub Copilot shifting to token-usage billing on June 1, many developers bemoan massive cost increases and the end of flat-rate subscriptions

May 30, 2026

9:15 PM  •
Sean McLain / Wall Street Journal:  As robotaxi companies attempt to scale in the US, they face increasing scrutiny and mounting criticism from drivers, law enforcement, and local governments
7:45 PM  •
SemiAnalysis:  Why “Dark Output”, the AI-generated economic value that is currently invisible to national statistics, may be one of the hardest measurement problems in history
6:15 PM  •
Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal:  PitchBook: VC investment in global robotics and physical AI jumped to $26B in 2025 from $4.2B in 2019, and has already topped $23B as of May 20 this year
4:45 PM  •
John Koblin / New York Times:  Antenna: bundles make up 33% of new major streaming service subscriptions in the US, and 28% of all subscriptions, up from just 10% of new subscriptions in 2024
3:15 PM  •
Financial Times:  SoftBank pledges to invest up to €75B in AI computing clusters in France, first leading a €45B investment to build 3.1GW of capacity by 2031 in Hauts-de-France
2:00 PM  •
Kinling Lo / Rest of World:  China's tech boom is creating a new kind of tech tourism where visitors pay for curated robotaxi rides and tours of EV factories, and AI and robotics companies
12:30 PM  •
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:  A look at the nasty fight between Anthropic-backed super PAC Public First and OpenAI-backed Leading the Future to sway midterms, especially Democratic primaries
11:00 AM  •
Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg:  Anthropic cuts its list of unauthorized secondary market sellers from eight to four after the initial notice caused panic and pushback from investors
8:45 AM  •
Patricia Cohen / New York Times:  How Schneider Electric is using AI in call centers and manufacturing to complement employees' work and boost productivity, rather than to replace them
6:45 AM  •
Politico:  Sources detail AI companies' engagement with US FERC as the energy regulator readies a June proposal to speed up data center connections to regional power grids
4:45 AM  •
Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal:  Memory chip makers are leveraging their newfound power to secure long-term agreements, a move set to reshape the industry's business model and stabilize prices
2:36 AM  •
Wall Street Journal:  A profile of OpenAI President Greg Brockman, who is overseeing product in his new role and has become an important ambassador for AI to the Trump administration
2:06 AM  •
Luke Kawa / Sherwood News:  BlackBerry's stock is up more than 160% over the past three months, as the company's QNX division positions its automotive software as an OS for robots
1:55 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Filing shows Shanghai-based MiniMax has begun preparations for a Chinese IPO; the AI company listed in Hong Kong in January and says its ARR has reached $300M
12:55 AM  •
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:  Google's keyword ad practices face renewed criticism after the Delhi High Court ruled against Google in a trademark dispute involving Indian company Hindware
12:40 AM  •
CNBC:  The DOD's $9.7B contract with Dell has raised eyebrows as a potential payback for Michael and Susan Dell's $6.25B donation to 25M US children's Trump Accounts

May 29, 2026

10:25 PM  •
Chris Metinko / Axios:  Miami-based Canals, which uses AI to help distributors automate workflows across sales, customer service, and more, raised a $35M Series A led by Base10
9:50 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Massive bonuses for Samsung's memory division employees have sparked a debate in Korea over how companies and governments should share profits from the AI boom
8:20 PM  •
Diana Novak Jones / Reuters:  Filing: a Kentucky school district secured ~$27M in settlements from Meta, Snap, TikTok, and YouTube in a social media harms lawsuit; Meta paid the most, at $9M
8:00 PM  •
Jyoti Mann / The Information:  Internal memo: Meta plans to start testing an AI pendant in 2027, release new AI glasses next month, start a “Wearables for Work” unit for enterprises, and more
7:15 PM  •
Barratt Dewey / Tectonic Defense:  Picogrid, which is building a hardware and software integration layer for military systems, raised a $45M Series A led by Bessemer
6:55 PM  •
Pritam Biswas / Reuters:  Coinbase and Kalshi introduce perpetual crypto futures, marking the first time the contracts will be available to US investors via domestic, regulated exchanges
6:45 PM  •
Samantha Subin / CNBC:  SentinelOne's stock closes down 8% after the company announced plans to lay off 8% of its workforce and forecasted Q2 and FY revenue guidance below estimates
4:50 PM  •
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:  Microsoft faces backlash after a blog post implied criminal referral and legal action against security researcher Nightmare Eclipse over public bug disclosures
4:15 PM  •
CJ Haddad / CNBC:  Dell stock closed up 32.81%, its best day ever, after reporting its fastest pace of revenue growth for any period since returning to the public market in 2018
3:50 PM  •
Reece Rogers / Wired:  Hands-on with Gemini Spark beta rolling out to AI Ultra subs: planned a birthday party from emails and calendar, but called a live-in boyfriend a “close friend”
3:20 PM  •
Sana Pashankar / Bloomberg:  US Space Force says SpaceX won a $4.16B contract to build a space-based tracking network as part of President Trump's Golden Dome defensive shield
2:40 PM  •
PCMag:  What to expect at Computex 2026: AI chips, budget PCs competing with the MacBook Neo, Nvidia entering laptop SoC market with the rumored N1X chip, and more
1:55 PM  •
Sebastian Herrera / Fortune:  Sources: Microsoft is working on an app that will include GitHub Copilot, Copilot chat, Copilot Cowork, and a new agentic workflow tool called Autopilot
1:20 PM  •
ElevenLabs:  ElevenLabs launches Dubbing v2, which it says preserves the original speaker's emotion, tone, and pacing across 90+ languages while staying synced to content
12:45 PM  •
Meir Orbach / CTech:  Sports Illustrated rights holder Minute Media lays off 12% of staff and reverses its ~$200M deal to buy VideoVerse, an AI platform to extract sports highlights
12:01 PM  •
Bradley Olson / Wall Street Journal:  After hitting their annual AI budget in months or seeing their AI bills double or triple due to “tokenmaxxing”, some companies are rationing or tracking AI use
11:25 AM  •
Nathan Bomey / Axios:  Kalshi to offer perpetual futures contracts in prediction market expansion
10:45 AM  •
Holly Bishop / The Independent:  A BBC Question Time episode featured a panel with AI-generated historical figures like Churchill, intended to show AI images' “hyper-real and persuasive” nature
9:50 AM  •
The Information:  Sources: ByteDance has partnered with chipmaker InnoStar to develop an AI inference chip modeled after Groq's LPUs, which are built to run AI models at low cost
9:20 AM  •
Robert Hart / The Verge:  AI startup Shift launches a free home cleaning service in NYC to record first-person video with a camera-equipped cap and use it to train robots
8:35 AM  •
Kate Park / TechCrunch:  Xcena, whose MX1 chip performs data orchestration and KV cache management directly within memory modules, raised a $135M Series B at a $570M valuation
8:10 AM  •
Reuters:  Former Tesla data labelers say FSD relies on laborious mapping for hazards; crash data analysis shows Tesla exaggerates FSD's safety via flawed methodology
7:35 AM  •
Evan Halper / Washington Post:  Allegations that China is behind US data center protests draw criticism from allies of the AI industry, who say the industry and politicians are in denial
6:50 AM  •
Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia:  MediaTek says it has started to use Intel Foundry's advanced chip packaging in addition to TSMC's, as the mobile chip designer bets on AI demand for growth
6:25 AM  •
Maria Curi / Axios:  OpenAI says it has briefed the White House on its new biodefense program, which uses GPT-Rosalind to help develop biodefense and pandemic preparedness tools
6:05 AM  •
Martin Coulter / Sifted:  London-based Inherent, which aims to combine human scientific research with AI to produce innovations, emerges from stealth with $50M led by Index Ventures
5:55 AM  •
Danny Park / The Block:  Paxos says the US SEC has approved its registration as a clearing agency, allowing it to provide clearing and settlement services for eligible transactions
4:50 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Lenovo's stock is up 105% in May, marking its biggest monthly gain since 1999, after earnings showed AI-related revenue helped offset rising memory costs
3:25 AM  •
Financial Times:  Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket, which exploded during testing on Thursday, was set to ferry 48 Amazon Leo satellites on Monday; Amazon paid Blue Origin $2.7B
2:30 AM  •
Jo Constantz / Bloomberg:  A look at Anthropic's hiring process, which prohibits AI use in interviews and features a culture interview that candidates describe as highly intense
2:15 AM  •
Katrina Bianca Cuaresma / DealStreetAsia:  EY-Parthenon: VC funding for Singapore startups fell 34% YoY to $4.6B in 2025, with AI startups accounting for 42.8% of the 472 deals, raising $1.4B, up 28% YoY
2:05 AM  •
Financial Times:  A look at strains in the UK's fintech sector, as former industry darlings are forced to overhaul their operations or merge under pressure to reach profitability
1:40 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: SpaceX is currently targeting an IPO valuation of at least $1.8T, down from a previous $2T+ target, after consultations with advisers and investors
1:35 AM  •
Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia:  Tencent bets on smaller AI models in the race with Chinese rivals, as EVP Dowson Tong says AI now contributes 20%+ of its revenue and 95%+ of new internal code
1:20 AM  •
Bloomberg:  BYD announces the Xuanji A3 chip, which it calls China's most powerful chip for ADAS and the centerpiece of its new laptop-sized central computing platform
1:15 AM  •
Financial Times:  UK Chief Secretary to the Treasury Lucy Rigby warns that rejecting AI in public services means choosing “decline”, vowing to prioritize its Whitehall rollout
1:00 AM  •
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

May 28, 2026

11:55 PM  •
Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget:  Microsoft overhauled Copilot's design in Microsoft 365 with a minimalist black-and-white, text-focused interface aimed at creating a more consistent experience
11:30 PM  •
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes:  Pittsburgh-based Gray Swan, which stress-tests AI models for top frontier AI labs, raised a $40M Series A at a $200M valuation co-led by Wing VC and Madrona
11:15 PM  •
Russell Brandom / TechCrunch:  Asana acquires StackAI, a no-code platform for building AI agents, for $75M as part of Asana's broader AI pivot; PitchBook: StackAI raised ~$20M
10:40 PM  •
Elizabeth Howcroft / Reuters:  France's market regulator warns crypto companies they could face blacklisting and lawsuits if they don't have MiCA licenses by the EU's June 30 deadline
9:50 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: TikTok is cutting music label-facing jobs to focus on its music distribution arm SoundOn and other projects that connect it more directly with artists
9:35 PM  •
Jake Angelo / Fortune:  AI researchers ran 15-day simulations of worlds governed by different AI models: Claude Sonnet 4.6 recorded no crimes, while Gemini 3 Flash had the most at 683
9:05 PM  •
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:  Dell reports Q1 AI server revenue up 757% YoY to $16.1B and raises its FY 2027 AI server revenue forecast to $60B, up from its prior projection of $50B
7:40 PM  •
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:  Triomics, which is building an AI-powered platform to help oncologists automate data-heavy tasks, raised a $22M Series B, following a $15M Series A in 2024
7:15 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: Apollo Global and Blackstone are working to bring additional investors into a ~$36B debt financing deal to purchase Google TPUs for Anthropic to lease
6:35 PM  •
Jaimie Ding / Associated Press:  California AG Rob Bonta sues 23andMe, alleging it failed to protect sensitive user data in a 2023 breach that affected ~7M people across the US
6:25 PM  •
Samantha Subin / CNBC:  Okta reports Q1 revenue up 11% YoY to $765M, vs. $752M est., says the agentic AI build-out is spiking demand for its identity tools; OKTA jumps 19%+
5:35 PM  •
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times:  Sources: Amazon has shut down an internal leaderboard that tracked employees' use of AI tools after workers tried to boost their scores with needless tasks
5:15 PM  •
Axios:  Sources: Airwallex raised new funding led by Lee Fixel's Addition at a ~$12B valuation, up from $8B late last year, and hit $1.5B in ARR, up from $1B in October
5:00 PM  •
Barbara Moens / Financial Times:  Doc: the EU is preparing emergency powers to intervene in Europe's chip supply chains during shortages, including by forcing chipmakers to override contracts
4:30 PM  •
Jordan Novet / CNBC:  Dell reports Q1 revenue up 88% YoY to $43.84B, vs. $35.43B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue above estimates; DELL jumps 33%+
4:25 PM  •
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:  Autodesk agrees to buy MaintainX, a company focused on maintenance tools, in an all-cash deal that values MaintainX at $3.6B
4:20 PM  •
Samantha Subin / CNBC:  Snowflake stock closed up 36% on Thursday, its best day ever, after the company boosted guidance and announced an AI compute deal with Amazon
4:15 PM  •
Ryan Lawler / Axios:  Fonoa, which helps enterprises manage indirect tax compliance, raised a $110M Series C led by Headline and acquired PwC's Indirect Tax Edge platform
4:10 PM  •
Claude:  Anthropic adds dynamic workflows to Claude Code, enabling hundreds of subagents to run in parallel for complex engineering tasks such as framework migrations
3:35 PM  •
Wall Street Journal:  The CFTC moves to vacate a $5M settlement with Gemini, reversing a Biden-era enforcement action, following a lobbying campaign by the Winklevoss twins
2:12 PM  •
New York Times:  Anthropic raised a $65B Series H at a $965B post-money valuation, overtaking OpenAI's $852B valuation, and says its revenue run rate crossed $47B this month
2:10 PM  •
Madison Mills / Axios:  Anthropic says it expects Mythos-class models to be available to all customers “in the coming weeks” following the development of stronger safeguards
1:25 PM  •
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:  Corgi, which uses AI to provide insurance for startups, raised a $106M Series B1 at a $2.6B valuation, up from $1.3B on May 6, for a total funding of $378M
1:13 PM  •
Russell Brandom / TechCrunch:  Anthropic launches Opus 4.8, saying it's “more likely to flag uncertainties about its work and less likely to make unsupported claims”, at the same price as 4.7
12:35 PM  •
Russell Brandom / TechCrunch:  Elon Musk says Anthropic's Colossus deal is “a 180 day lease with 90 day notice”; SpaceX's S-1 said Anthropic “agreed to pay a monthly fee through May 2029”
11:40 AM  •
Casey Newton / Platformer:  Meta's Oversight Board says Meta agreed to increase its funding by $13M, ensuring that it will be funded through 2028, reversing a planned decrease in funding
11:30 AM  •
Reuters:  IBM plans to invest more than $10B in quantum computing over five years as it aims to build the first large-scale, error-free quantum computer by 2029
11:25 AM  •
Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg:  Waymo unveils Ojai, a vehicle designed in partnership with Zeekr for robotaxi use, initially for select riders in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix
11:20 AM  •
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:  YouTube launches new Premium podcast features, including an AI-powered recommendation tool, an “Auto speed” setting, and a new on-the-go listening mode
11:05 AM  •
Ryan Lawler / Axios:  Saris, which builds AI agents to automate back-office work for banks and credit unions, raised a $28.8M Series A led by 8VC
10:40 AM  •
Todd Spangler / Variety:  Reactor, which says its AI platform can generate video in real-time with near-zero latency, emerges from stealth with a $59M Series A led by Lightspeed
10:20 AM  •
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:  Visa makes an undisclosed investment in Replit; the two will explore how developers on Replit can use Visa Intelligent Commerce and the Trusted Agent Protocol
10:15 AM  •
Dan Primack / Axios:  Source: Groq is raising up to $650M from existing investors; the AI chipmaker earlier signed a $20B Nvidia licensing deal that saw much of its senior team leave
9:45 AM  •
CJ Haddad / CNBC:  Tel Aviv-based web development company Wix cuts ~20% of its workforce, citing the “fast evolution of AI capabilities” and currency exchange rate difficulties
9:25 AM  •
Sean Hollister / The Verge:  Intel unveils its first dedicated handheld gaming chips, the Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme, featuring Xe3 GPU cores, arriving first in the Acer Predator Atlas 8
9:20 AM  •
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:  Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon C, an entry-level ARM-based SoC for Windows 11 devices starting from $300 and shipping in 2026, taking aim at the MacBook Neo
9:13 AM  •
Aaron Tilley / The Information:  Sources: at WWDC, Apple is likely to showcase how 15 years of designing chips gives it an advantage in running AI locally, and will use a distilled Gemini model
8:50 AM  •
Brian Stelter / CNN:  Filing: CNN sues Perplexity in New York for allegedly unlawfully copying and distributing CNN content, after failing to agree on terms with Perplexity in 2025
8:40 AM  •
Andrew Romero / 9to5Google:  YouTube adds a “custom feed” to its home page that lets users prompt it to create a constantly refreshing feed, available to signed-in US users with history on
8:22 AM  •
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:  Illustrations based on sources detail Apple's Siri overhaul, like a new UI and chatbot-style app, and major iOS 27 changes, ahead of the WWDC keynote on June 8
8:10 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Oura unveils the Oura Ring 5, with a 40% smaller form factor, improved sensing, and repositioned LEDs, shipping from June 4 for $399, up from the Ring 4's $349
7:50 AM  •
Raphael Satter / Reuters:  Letter: US Central Command says it received “threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data” to target US personnel in war zones
7:40 AM  •
Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal:  IBM and Red Hat commit $5B to Project Lightwell, an AI-driven initiative to help enterprises secure open-source software, deploying 20,000 engineers globally
7:30 AM  •
Lauren Goode / Wired:  AWS has used Resilient Network Graphs, a quasi-random networking architecture with a flat mesh design, since late 2025 and says it accelerates information flows
7:22 AM  •
Reuters:  Source: the Shanghai Futures Exchange is in the early stages of designing futures contracts for AI tokens; US exchanges are set to launch GPU compute futures
7:10 AM  •
Choi Yeon-jae / The Korea Herald:  Samsung's Securities, SDS, and Card units say they will acquire a 4% stake in Dunamu, which operates South Korea's largest crypto exchange, for ~$446M in cash
7:05 AM  •
Jeremy Kahn / Fortune:  London-based Geordie AI, which builds a security and governance platform for AI agents, raised a $30M Series A led by Balderton at an estimated $180M valuation
6:55 AM  •
Sean Hollister / The Verge:  The Steam Deck's huge price hike, from $399 in 2022 to $789 today, is the end of an era for gaming handhelds, coming amid RAMageddon, tariffs, and the Iran war
6:45 AM  •
Wall Street Journal:  As Google plans to build a $15B AI data center hub in Visakhapatnam, India, locals and rights groups are raising concerns over “extremely high” water stress
6:40 AM  •
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:  The European Commission fines Temu €200M under the DSA for allegedly failing to adequately stop the sale of illegal products; further penalties could follow
6:35 AM  •
Jeremy Kahn / Fortune:  London- and SF-based Orbital Industries, which uses its Orb model to design advanced materials and then sell them directly, raised a $50M Series B led by Plural
6:30 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Internal speech: JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong vows to protect the company's 900,000 employees from AI and automation, saying it will “do everything possible”
6:25 AM  •
Bloomberg:  The European Commission opens a full review of JD.com's €2.2B acquisition of Germany-based electronics retailer Ceconomy under its Foreign Subsidies Regulation
6:20 AM  •
Chris Vallance / BBC:  UK researchers gain access to Google's Willow quantum chip, which it says solves a problem in five minutes that would take supercomputers 10 septillion years

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