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| 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 — Executives are scrambling to track returns on AI investments as the bill for massive computing needs comes due| 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 — Senior executive Dave Treadwell tells staff 'don't use AI just for the sake of using AI' as costs rise
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Anthropic adds dynamic workflows to Claude Code, enabling hundreds of subagents to run in parallel for complex engineering tasks such as framework migrations — Early access users and teams inside Anthropic have been using dynamic workflows for a wide range of use cases, including:
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| Nathan Bomey / Axios: |
Kalshi plans to offer perpetual futures contracts, saying it will be “the first company in American history to offer” them, to be “fully regulated” by the CFTC — Kalshi announced Friday that it will begin offering perpetual futures contracts … | 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 — Quick Take — Paxos said its subsidiary, Paxos Securities Settlement Company (PSSC), has received registration as a clearing agency …
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| 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 Electronics Co. has begun shipping samples of the industry's most advanced memory to customers, taking an early lead … | 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 — Shift says a ‘magic hat’ will record its cleaners working inside your home. … AI training startup Shift wants to clean your home for free.
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| 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 — Failure comes days before planned launch of internet satellites for Amazon
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| 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 — Lenovo Group Ltd. recorded its best month in more than a quarter-century, with the stock doubling in May as investor enthusiasm built around …
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| 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%+ — Dell reported its fastest pace of revenue growth for any period since its return to the public market more than seven years ago, and topped analysts' estimates for sales and profit.
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| 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 — Claims that China and overseas propaganda drive Americans to rise up against data centers are based on scant evidence. — Summary| 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 — Imagine a world run by AI agents. What does it look like? What are the values or societal priorities? Is it a safer or more dangerous world?
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| Meir Orbach / CTech:NEW |
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 — The unicorn says restructuring reflects push for efficiency and long-term growth amid changes in the media market … | 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 — Video Player is loading. — Unmute — Current Time 0:01 Loaded: 17.77% Playback Rate — captions off, selected — English| 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 — London-based Inherent has recruited Entrepreneurs First cofounder Matt Clifford as an adviser — London-based AI lab Inherent … | 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 — Tesla says its Full Self-Driving software is up to 10 times safer than human drivers. But the figures the company uses to support …
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| 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 — Asana has acquired the workflow automation company StackAI for $75 million, part of a larger effort to position itself as an AI-native workplace platform.
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| 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 — Every time you ask ChatGPT a question, your request triggers a data relay race. Information leaves memory, passes through a CPU for preprocessing …
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| 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 — To win a coveted role, candidates shouldn't outsource their thinking to AI — and should be prepared to talk about their worldview.
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| 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 — TAIPEI — MediaTek says it has started working with Intel for advanced chip packaging in addition to its existing relationship with TSMC …
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| 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 — TikTok owner ByteDance is developing a new chip to run artificial intelligence models as part of an aggressive expansion of its homegrown AI infrastructure.
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| 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 — OpenAI is launching a tool to help develop new biodefense and pandemic preparedness capabilities, according to an announcement shared first with Axios.
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| 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 — - BBC Question Time aired a special episode on AI, featuring a panel composed of AI-generated historical figures.| 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 — California's attorney general sued the genetic testing company formerly known as 23andMe on Thursday, alleging it failed to protect sensitive user data …
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| 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 — Singapore-based AI startups raised about S$1.8 billion ($1.4 billion) in 2025, accounting for nearly a third …
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