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Vaibhav Srivastav / @reach_vb:
OpenAI introduces a Codex plugin for Claude Code, letting users invoke Codex from inside Claude Code to review code or delegate tasks  —  If you already use Claude Code, this Codex plugin gives you a simple way to pull Codex into the same workflow.  It is useful for three things …
Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg:
Quinnipiac poll: 55% of Americans say AI will do more harm than good in their day-to-day lives, and 65% oppose building data centers in their community  —  Americans are increasingly turning against artificial intelligence, with growing majorities saying they fear the fast-moving technology …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Meta is testing an Instagram Plus subscription in a few countries, offering features including anonymous Story viewing and extended 48-hour Story durations  —  Meta has begun testing a premium subscription on Instagram in a few countries, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday.
Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a first-of-its-kind executive order requiring safety and privacy guardrails from AI companies that contract with the state  —  Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, issued an order requiring safety and privacy guardrails for artificial intelligence companies contracting with the state.
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Social gaming startup Rec Room is shutting down its service on June 1, saying it could not find a path to profitability; it was valued at $3.5B in December 2021  —  Rec Room, the Seattle-based social gaming company once valued at $3.5 billion, is shutting down its platform on June 1 …
Qwen:
Alibaba releases its Qwen3.5-Omni omnimodal LLM with support for 10+ hours of audio input, saying the Plus variant surpasses Gemini 3.1 Pro on audio benchmarks  —  Qwen3.5-Omni is Qwen's latest generation of fully omnimodal LLM, supporting the understanding of text, images, audio, and audio-visual content.
Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal:
Levels.fyi: median base-salary offers for US software engineers at VC-backed startups have risen 25% to $200K since 2022; total compensation has risen just 18%  —  Young tech companies once might have complemented lower salaries with generous equity packages.  Now they're upping base pay.
Jared Spataro / Microsoft 365 Blog:
Microsoft rolls out Copilot Cowork to its Frontier early access program and unveils Researcher's Critique and Council tools, which use multiple models together  —  Microsoft 365 Copilot is your AI for work.  It's built on a multi-model advantage—bringing the best AI innovation from across …
Thomas H. Ptacek / sockpuppet.org:
AI coding agents will drastically alter both the practice and the economics of exploit development, automating the discovery of zero-day vulnerabilities  —  For the last two years, technologists have ominously predicted that AI coding agents will be responsible for a deluge of security vulnerabilities.
Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac:
Gurman: Apple pulls Apple Intelligence in China, after accidentally launching it in the country; there is no imminent launch as Apple has no regulatory approval  —  Apple Intelligence first launched in the US in October 2024, but now after a nearly 18-month wait, Apple's AI features appear to be rolling out in China too.
Issie Lapowsky / Bloomberg:
A look at Babel Audio, which pairs anonymous strangers to record their conversations, starting at $17/hour, and bundles those recordings into AI training data  —  They vent, confess and role-play with strangers, all to help machines learn how to sound human.
Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch:
AI chip startup Rebellions raised $400M in a pre-IPO round at a $2.34B valuation, bringing its total funding to $850M, with $650M in the past six months  —  Fresh off a successful Series C funding round in November, the South Korean fabless AI chip startup Rebellions has raised an additional $400 million.
Kara Scannell / CNN:
Sources: US prosecutors are exploring whether some prediction market bets, including on the capture of Nicolás Maduro, violated insider trading and other laws  —  Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are exploring whether certain lucrative bets placed on prediction markets …
Sujeet Indap / Financial Times:
A Delaware judge reassigns Elon Musk cases over “disproportionate media attention” after allegations she “liked” a LinkedIn post celebrating a Musk legal defeat  —  Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick denies bias but cites media glare as risk to justice
Sean Endicott / Windows Central:
After Copilot injected an ad into a pull request on GitHub, referencing Raycast, GitHub says it “disabled product tips entirely thanks to the feedback”  —  Over 11,000 pull requests have been spotted with the same “tips” injected into descriptions.
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Match Group agrees to settle an FTC lawsuit claiming it illegally shared user data from the OkCupid app with facial recognition tech company Clarifai in 2014  —  Match Group (MTCH.O) agreed to settle a U.S. Federal Trade Commission lawsuit claiming it gave an outside company unauthorized access …
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Uber agrees to acquire Berlin-based chauffeur booking app Blacklane for an undisclosed sum to bolster its Uber Elite service, set to close by the end of 2026  —  Uber Technologies Inc. has acquired the chauffeur booking app Blacklane, the company's latest move to court a high-end clientele.
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Paris-based AI startup Mistral raised $830M in its debut debt financing to build Nvidia-powered data centers across Europe; Mistral plans to spend €4B in total  —  French company's debut debt financing follows rising demand for alternatives to US groups
Boaz Barak / Windows On Theory:
State of AI safety: as capabilities grow and models can monitor other models, issues like adversarial robustness persist and society is still not ready for AI  —  Here is a quick overview of my intuitions on where we are with AI safety in early 2026:  — So far, we continue to see exponential improvements in capabilities.
Meir Orbach / CTech:
Tel Aviv-based Sett, which builds AI agents to automate game marketing, raised a $30M Series B led by Greenfield Partners, bringing its total funding to $57M  —  The Israeli startup targets billions spent on user acquisition with agent-based automation.  —  Sett, which develops …
Derek Thompson:
Examining the Smartphone Theory of Everything, which blames phones for anxiety, populism, and polarization, despite harms being concentrated in the Anglosphere  —  Many people believe that the nexus of smartphones, Internet, and social media is to blame for every modern catastrophe.

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From Mediagazer

Rob Wile / NBC News:
President Trump's 2025 financial disclosures show $80M in income from settlements tied to his lawsuits against ABC, CBS, Meta, YouTube, and other companies

Nick Vivarelli / Variety:
The EU says Paramount has committed to exit its United International Pictures distribution JV with Universal as a condition for EU approval of its WBD merger

The Guardian:
Canada will join the Eurovision song contest in 2027, becoming the first new participant since Australia in 2015; the contest will be held in Bulgaria

More News

Ben Weiss / Fortune:
Valinor, which aims to use smart contracts to replace manual lending processes in the private credit industry, raised a $25M seed led by Castle Island Ventures
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
OpenAI's ChatGPT app store has 300+ app integrations six months after launch, but developers say adoption is sluggish and the apps offer limited functionality
Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch:
Space data center startup Starcloud raised a $170M Series A led by Benchmark and EQT at a $1.1B valuation, and plans to launch Starcloud 2 later in 2026

Earlier Picks

New York Times:
Some schools in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Michigan are reevaluating classroom tech usage, including Chromebooks, amid student screen time concerns
More: Salon, Fox News, and The Overspill
X: @jonhaidt.  Bluesky: @rweingarten and @benjaminjriley.  Forums: r/Longreads
Ezra Klein / New York Times:
Some thoughts about companies and people in San Francisco adapting to AI workflows, AI's sycophancy, “cognitive offloading” and “cognitive surrender”, and more
Bloomberg:
DeepSeek's chatbot suffered a major outage of over seven hours in China, its biggest outage since debut in 2025 and an unusual downtime for a globally used app
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
A look at Pretext, a new JS library that solves the problem of calculating multi-line text height without touching the DOM, enabling highly dynamic layouts
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