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Musk v. Altman: the jury unanimously rejects Elon Musk's claims against Sam Altman, finding that the claims were filed outside of the statute of limitations  —  After less than two hours of deliberations, a jury on Monday rejected Elon Musk's claims against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman …
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Elon Musk / @elonmusk:
Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk says the judge and jury “never actually ruled on the merits of the case, just on a calendar technicality” and he will file an appeal  —  Regarding the OpenAI case, the judge & jury never actually ruled on the merits of the case, just on a calendar technicality. There is no question to anyone following the case in detail that Altman & Brockman did in fact enrich themselves by stealing a charity. The only question
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Sony is hiking the starting price of one-month and three-month PlayStation Plus subscriptions in “select regions”, blaming “ongoing market conditions”  —  One-month and three-month PlayStation Plus subscriptions are getting more expensive.
Jason Schreier / @jasonschreier.bsky.social:
In a town hall, PlayStation studio business CEO Hermen Hulst told staff that the company's narrative single-player games will now be PlayStation exclusive  —  SCOOP: PlayStation studio business CEO Hermen Hulst told staff in a town hall Monday morning that the company's narrative single-player games …
Wall Street Journal:
Blackstone announces a JV with Google to create a US company that will offer customers access to Google's TPUs, and makes an initial equity commitment of $5B  —  Investment firm to put $5 billion toward venture using Google's chips  —  Alphabet's Google and Blackstone plan to create …
Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
Anthropic last week began letting Mythos users share cybersecurity threats with others who may face similar vulnerabilities, modifying its previous stance  —  How to restrict access while still allowing users to share threat information is a major challenge facing AI companies
Grant Bourzikas / Cloudflare:
Cloudflare tests Mythos against 50+ repositories, highlights its ability to chain bugs into a single exploit, and details a vulnerability discovery harness
Cursor:
Cursor releases Composer 2.5, saying it's better at sustained work on long-running tasks and follows complex instructions more reliably; it's built on Kimi K2.5  —  Composer 2.5 is now available in Cursor.  —  It's a substantial improvement in intelligence and behavior over Composer 2.
Eli Tan / New York Times:
Internal memo: Meta is reassigning 7,000 workers to four new units focused on building AI tools, two days before it is set to lay off 10% of its workforce  —  The company announced the changes two days before it plans to lay off 10 percent of its work force, or about 8,000 employees.
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
A CISA contractor maintained a now-offline GitHub repo that exposed credentials to AWS GovCloud accounts and CISA systems; CISA is investigating the situation  —  Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository …
Riley Griffin / Bloomberg:
A deep dive into Meta's Hyperion data center campus in Louisiana, expected to reach 5 GW of compute capacity; source: Meta plans to spend $200B+ on the project  —  Dustin Morris steers his propeller plane over farmland shrouded in a ghostly morning mist.  From 900 feet up, Richland Parish …
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 produce a big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry.  —  New in May 2026, ‘AI eats the world’.
Emily Forgash / Bloomberg:
NextEra's $67B deal to buy Dominion, the largest utility merger in US history, signals a new era of utility consolidation to accommodate AI-driven power demand  —  NextEra Energy Inc.'s $67 billion deal for rival Dominion Energy Inc., the largest utility acquisition in US history …
CJ Haddad / CNBC:
Seagate shares drop 6.87%, leading a group-wide sell-off after comments from its CEO raised concerns it won't be able to meet demand fueled by the AI buildout  —  Shares of memory chip maker Seagate closed down more than 6% Monday, leading a group-wide sell-off, after comments …
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Procurement records: the FBI seeks a vendor that can provide access to automated license plate readers nationwide; Flock and Motorola are among the few options  —  Only a couple vendors could likely fulfill what the FBI is after, namely Flock and Motorola.  —  The FBI wants to buy access …
Jason Nelson / Decrypt:
Vitalik Buterin says AI-assisted “formal verification” could help secure blockchain networks, smart contracts, and cryptographic systems against software flaws  —  Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said that mathematically verified software is becoming essential to protecting Ethereum …
Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk:
Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin Depot, North America's largest bitcoin ATM operator, files for bankruptcy, blaming “increasingly stringent compliance obligations”  —  Bitcoin Depot, the largest bitcoin ATM operator in North America and publicly listed on Nasdaq, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon's Alexa+ now produces AI-generated “podcasts” on various topics in the US, featuring chats between two AI “co-hosts”, using content from media outlets  —  The podcast sector suddenly may have a big new player: Amazon's Alexa+ AI-powered voice assistant.
Jackson Chen / Engadget:
X quietly limits users who didn't pay for verification to “50 original posts and 200 replies per day”, down from 2,400 posts per day  —  That's down from the previous 2,400 posts per day limit.  —  X has introduced some more incentive to get users to pay for “verification” …
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Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:
Anthropic acquires NYC-based Stainless, which generates SDKs from APIs, and plans to wind down its hosted products, after reportedly discussing a $300M+ deal  —  Anthropic announced Monday it has acquired Stainless, a startup founded by former Stripe engineer Alex Rattray whose software …

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Benedict Evans:
An overview of macro tech trends: capex explosion, unprecedented surge in chip demand, supply chain bottlenecks, model commoditization, AI automation, and moreFind
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Analog Devices, one of the largest analog chip makers, is in talks to buy Empower, which makes chips used to regulate voltage, for $1.5B in cashFind
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Jason Nelson / Decrypt:
Vitalik Buterin says AI-assisted “formal verification” could help secure blockchain networks, smart contracts, and cryptographic systems against software flawsFind
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Wall Street Journal:
Blackstone announces a JV with Google to create a US company that will offer customers access to Google's TPUs, and makes an initial equity commitment of $5BFind
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Riley Griffin / Bloomberg:
A deep dive into Meta's Hyperion data center campus in Louisiana, expected to reach 5 GW of compute capacity; source: Meta plans to spend $200B+ on the projectFind
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Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Procurement records: the FBI seeks a vendor that can provide access to automated license plate readers nationwide; Flock and Motorola are among the few optionsFind
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Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
A CISA contractor maintained a now-offline GitHub repo that exposed credentials to AWS GovCloud accounts and CISA systems; CISA is investigating the situationFind
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Erik Wemple / New York Times:
NYT files a second lawsuit against the DOD, alleging a March mandate requiring official escorts for journalists at the Pentagon violates the First Amendment

David Folkenflik / NPR:
Memo: NPR is restructuring its newsroom and offers buyouts to ~300 staffers, mostly in newsgathering desks, expecting to earn $15M less in station fees in 2026

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Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg:
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Flavia Rotondi / Bloomberg:
The Vatican says Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah will join Pope Leo on May 25 to launch the pope's first encyclical, setting out his views on the AI age

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Lauren Edmonds / Business Insider:
Eric Schmidt faced loud boos during his University of Arizona commencement speech while discussing “rational” fears over the impact of AI and automation on jobs
Theo Baker / New York Times:
A college senior at Stanford describes how AI has changed classes: cheating using AI “has become omnipresent” with students “fudging just about everything”
John Markoff / New York Times:
Security researcher Peter G. Neumann, who criticized the industry's lax attitudes toward computer security and digital privacy, died on May 17 at the age of 93
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