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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Elon Musk says he spent time with Anthropic employees “to understand what they do to ensure Claude is good for humanity”; earlier, he called Anthropic “evil” — In an unexpected turn, the two companies signed a deal for Anthropic to use computing resources from Elon Musk's xAI.
More: Benzinga, Tom's Hardware, Cautious Optimism, The Decoder, Techstrong IT, The Information, Seoul Economic Daily, Fortune India, Capacity, and Instapundit
X: @elonmusk, @morqon, @andrewcurran_, @deredleritt3r, @deredleritt3r, @dkthomp, @yuchenj_uw, @daniel_mac8, @robotbeat, @daniel_mac8, @madisonmills22, @fredlambert, @leothecurious, @robotbeat, @daniel_mac8, @beastmikex, and @pitdesi. Bluesky: @rparloff. Mastodon: @jalefkowit@vmst.io. Forums: r/Anthropic
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SpaceXAI signs an agreement with Anthropic to provide access to Colossus 1, and says Anthropic expressed interest in partnering for orbital AI compute capacity — SpaceXAI has signed an agreement with Anthropic to provide access to Colossus 1, one of the world's largest and fastest-deployed AI supercomputers.
More: Ars Technica, eeNews Europe, Unite.AI, TESLARATI, DatacenterDynamics, Coin Edition, Axios, Bloomberg, SpaceNews, WinBuzzer, Tech Times, Spyglass, The Information, Financial Times, Bloomberg, and Anthropic
X: @nottombrown, @claudeai, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @nvidia, @celestepoasts, @eliebakouch, @deanwball, @_sholtodouglas, @amandaaskell, @deanwball, @jaminball, @tenobrus, @trq212, @levelsio, @daniel_271828, @paularambles, @iterintellectus, @matthewberman, @mindset4money_x, @skeptrune, @alexisohanian, @theo, @teortaxestex, @thestalwart, @pbeisel, @mweinbach, @scroogecap, @levie, @beffjezos, @mononofu, @niccruzpatane, @codyplof, @trueslazac, @xfreeze, @claudedevs, @fredlambert, @davidad, @theamolavasare, @hesamation, @z, @realpaulsmith, @afinetheorem, @schizo_freq, @maxniederman, @milesdeutscher, @semianalysis_, @chamath, @luke_metro, @doodlestein, @mtslive, @gbrl_dick, @chr1sa, @pinboard, @ramez, @krishnanrohit, @xai, @nottombrown, @krishnanrohit, @rondesantis, @dorialexander, @gaberivera, @shaunmmaguire, @trq212, @edenchan, @mattzeitlin, @andymasley, @alexpalcuie, @emollick, @benbajarin, @obrien, @ashleymayer, @jason, @nickadobos, @benjitaylor, @tunguz, @xai, and @alexeheath. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski
Bluesky: @sarahz, @sarahz, @sarahz, @sarahz, and @anildash.com
Forums: r/singularity and Slashdot
| Natallie Rocha / New York Times: |
At Code with Claude, Dario Amodei said Anthropic had planned to grow ~10x in 2026 but could grow 80x, calling its growth rate “crazy” and “too hard to handle” — The chief executive, Dario Amodei, said the rapid growth had exponentially increased the start-up's need for more computing power.
More: The Business Times, Benzinga, and The Information
| Axios: |
More: Business Insider, Barron's Online, crypto.news, Silicon UK, Implicator.ai, Hürriyet Daily News, and Al Jazeera
X: @boazbaraktcs, @ns123abc, @edzitron, @soroushg_, @cornelialake, and @gergelyorosz. Bluesky: @inlayterms
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers: 5,000+ web apps built using AI coding tools like Lovable, Base44, and Replit have little to no authentication, and ~40% exposed sensitive data — Companies like Lovable, Base44, Replit, and Netlify use AI to let anyone build a web app in seconds—and in thousands of cases … | Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Google launches the Google Fitbit Air, a $100 Whoop-like screenless wearable with Gemini-powered features like Google Health Coach, available from May 26 — The Whoop-like wearable that Google teased in March has just been unveiled. Called the Google Fitbit Air, it's a screenless device …
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X: @stephencurry30, @9to5google, @alexmaxham, @mweinbach, and @markgurman
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| Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: |
More: TechCrunch, 9to5Google, CNET, iPhone in Canada, The Keyword, The Keyword, Trusted Reviews, and Droid Life. Bluesky: @wowbaggert
| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
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| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
Kalshi raised $1B led by Coatue at a $22B valuation, its third round in seven months after raising $1B and $300M+, and hits $178B in annualized trading volume — The platform for betting on sports, politics, the weather and more has raised $1 billion and sees big financial firms as a key source of growth.| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
Spotify launches Save to Spotify, a command-line tool that allows AI agents to upload AI-generated audio summaries and personal podcasts to a user's account — A new command-line tool lets AI agents save audio alongside your other podcasts. … Save to Spotify is a new command-line tool …
More: Engadget, GitHub, Thurrott, 9to5Google, Spotify, TechCrunch, and Digital Trends
| Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: |
Cologne-based AI translation startup DeepL plans to cut ~25% of its workforce, or ~250 staff, saying adapting to AI “means fewer layers” and “faster decisions” — DeepL, the German startup building translation tools, announced plans to cut approximately 25% of its workforce …
More: LinkedIn, The Economic Times, Tech.eu, The Decoder, Sifted, and The Guardian
| Carly Nairn / Courthouse News Service: |
Musk v. Altman: Shivon Zilis testifies her relationship with Musk didn't influence her duties as an OpenAI board member; she left in 2023 after Musk started xAI — “When the father of your babies starts a competitive effort and starts recruiting from OpenAI there is nothing to be done,” …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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| Anna Heim / TechCrunch: |
Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI unveils GENE-26.5, its first model, which can control robotic hands that it designed in-house to do tasks like cooking — Genesis AI, a startup that raised a $105 million seed round to build foundational AI for robotics, has unveiled its first model …
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| Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: |
Kraken parent Payward agrees to buy Hong Kong-based Reap, which connects financial systems with digital assets, for $600M, and issues stock at a $20B valuation — The owner of crypto exchange Kraken has agreed to pay $600 million for Reap Technologies, a stablecoin-oriented provider of cross-border and business payments services.
More: Business Wire, Decrypt, The Block, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Blockonomi, Blockchain.News, and Reap
| Daniel Tudor / Financial Times: |
Source: Samsung offered to allocate ~13% of operating profit to chip division staff; unions threaten an 18-day walkout, seeking a 15% share and a 7% wage hike — South Korean unions threaten strike action in battle for big bonuses and higher wages — Samsung Electronics is locked in a feud … | Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Moonshot, the Chinese AI startup behind the Kimi chatbot, raised ~$2B at a $20B+ valuation led by Meituan's venture arm; Moonshot's ARR hit $200M in April 2026 — Moonshot AI has raised about $2 billion in its latest funding round, signaling growing investor appetite for Chinese startups rivaling Silicon Valley's leaders.
More: TechCrunch, The Next Web, MapCo, Silicon Republic, Verdict, Forbes, South China Morning Post, and Tech in Asia. X: @business
| Bloomberg: |
Specialist chipmaker Silex raised ~$220M in its Stockholm IPO, trading up as high as 159%, the strongest open for a sizable European IPO in almost five years — Silex Microsystems AB surged in its first day of trading on Nasdaq Stockholm after an initial public offering that raised …
More: The Next Web
| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
MediaTek launches the first phase of its Taiwan data center for R&D, powered by Nvidia's B200 AI chip platform and built on Nvidia's DGX SuperPOD infrastructure — MIAOLI, Taiwan — MediaTek, the world's leading mobile chip developer, is building Taiwan's most advanced AI data center …
More: Taipei Times and DigiTimes
| Anna Tong / Forbes: |
Tessera Labs, which uses AI agents to automate enterprise IT migrations and ERP transformations, raised a $60M Series A led by a16z at a $320M valuation — Kabir Nagrecha is tackling the $1.4 trillion “consulting tax” on the IT transformation market with AI agents built to do something …
More: Pulse 2.0
| Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: |
Nova Intelligence, which is building agentic AI for SAP ahead of a 2030 migration, raised a $31.5M Series A led by Chemistry, taking its total funding to $40M+ — An estimated 77% of the world's transactions touch an SAP system at some point. And most of that code is decades old … | John R. Quain / New York Times: |
How lidar and other tech developed for autonomous vehicles is now used in smart city systems, in-home elder care services, and major shipyards like in Rotterdam — After a crush of promises in 2016 that autonomous cars would soon rule the road, companies whose tech underpinned them have shifted … | Bloomberg: |
UK-based Quantum Motion, which builds quantum computers on silicon chips, raised a $160M Series C; EU-backed growth fund Kembara made its first investment — Kembara, a technology growth fund backed by the European Union, made its first investment, supporting a British startup that builds quantum computers running on silicon chips.| Kwanwoo Jun / Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung says it is ceasing sales of TVs and appliances in China amid fierce competition from local brands; Samsung's TV and appliance unit lost ~$138M in 2025 — The company will continue to sell smartphones and computer chips in China — Samsung Electronics is ceasing sales of televisions … | Brian Halligan / @bhalligan: |
As founders race to make their companies “legible” to AI, they must keep the things that make them hard to copy “illegible”, or risk commoditizing their moat — The Case for Strategic Illegibilty
X: @villi, @annimaniac, @buccocapital, @alfred_lin, and @hil_666
| Adrià Calatayud / Wall Street Journal: |
Swiss pharmaceutical group Roche agrees to acquire US-based AI diagnostics tool developer PathAI for up to $1.05B, paying $750M upfront, set to close in H2 2026 — The pharma giant has agreed to pay $750 million upfront, with up to $300 million in additional payments subject to targets
More: Axios, MedTech Dive, Blockonomi, Reuters, and Roche
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