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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, Cautious Optimism, The Decoder, The Information, Fortune India, Capacity, Sources, and Instapundit
X: @elonmusk, @dkthomp, @deredleritt3r, @daniel_mac8, @andrewcurran_, @robotbeat, @daniel_mac8, @madisonmills22, @fredlambert, @leothecurious, @robotbeat, @deredleritt3r, @daniel_mac8, @morqon, @beastmikex, @zeffmax, and @pitdesi. Bluesky: @rparloff. Mastodon: @jalefkowit@vmst.io. Forums: r/Anthropic
| xAI: |
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, PCMag, Simon Willison's Weblog, The Hill, Tom's Hardware, eeNews Europe, Axios, TESLARATI, Unite.AI, DatacenterDynamics, Bloomberg, WinBuzzer, Coin Edition, Tech Times, TechCrunch, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Anthropic, and Axios
X: @elonmusk, @claudeai, @nvidia, @celestepoasts, @andymasley, @eliebakouch, @_sholtodouglas, @amandaaskell, @deanwball, @trq212, @levelsio, @paularambles, @iterintellectus, @matthewberman, @mindset4money_x, @skeptrune, @alexisohanian, @theo, @thestalwart, @scroogecap, @levie, @mononofu, @codyplof, @trueslazac, @claudedevs, @fredlambert, @davidad, @theamolavasare, @hesamation, @z, @realpaulsmith, @afinetheorem, @schizo_freq, @maxniederman, @milesdeutscher, @semianalysis_, @chamath, @luke_metro, @doodlestein, @jaminball, @tenobrus, @xai, @mtslive, @gbrl_dick, @chr1sa, @pinboard, @ramez, @krishnanrohit, @nottombrown, @krishnanrohit, @xai, @rondesantis, @dorialexander, @gaberivera, @shaunmmaguire, @trq212, @edenchan, @mattzeitlin, @alexpalcuie, @emollick, @benbajarin, @obrien, @ashleymayer, @jason, @nickadobos, @benjitaylor, @tunguz, 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 and Benzinga
X: @claudedevs, @marmaduke091, @dani_avila7, @bcherny, @benitoz, @ananayarora, @feigaobox, @laurengoode, and @claudedevs. LinkedIn: Kyle Mickey
| Axios: |
More: Business Insider, Barron's Online, Silicon UK, and Implicator.ai
X: @ns123abc, @edzitron, @soroushg_, @cornelialake, @gergelyorosz, and @boazbaraktcs. Bluesky: @inlayterms
| Elon Musk / @elonmusk: |
| 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 …
More: The Keyword, Gizmodo, Android Police, Thurrott, How-To Geek, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, 9to5Google, PCMag, CNET, Ars Technica, ZDNET, XDA Developers, Tech Advisor, Mirror, The Verge, Neowin, Chrome Unboxed, SamMobile, Mashable, AndroidGuys, Digital Trends, Men's Health, The Tech Portal, The Next Web, Android Authority, T3, Android Central, The Independent, TechRadar, MobileSyrup, Tom's Guide, Wired, Droid Life, CGMagazine, iPhone in Canada, Phandroid, Trusted Reviews, and The Shortcut
X: @stephencurry30, @mweinbach, @markgurman, @9to5google, and @alexmaxham
LinkedIn: Emmanuel Abolarin and Sandeep Waraich
| Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: |
Google rebrands Fitbit Premium as Google Health Premium, adding Gemini-powered coaching and other features, and raises its annual price from $79.99 to $99.99 — The rebranded service includes Gemini-powered coaching, adaptive fitness plans, deeper sleep insights, and more. — • — TL;DR
More: The Keyword, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, CNET, The Keyword, Trusted Reviews, iPhone in Canada, and Droid Life
| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
An interview with Google VP for Health and Home Rishi Chandra on shutting down Fit by the end of 2026, Fitbit's rebrand to Google Health, Health Coach, and more — Google is sunsetting Google Fit by year's end. While Fitbit remains very much alive, the rebranded Google Health app …
More: How-To Geek, 9to5Google, CNET, CNN, Chrome Unboxed, AndroidGuys, Android Central, Android Authority, The Keyword, Phandroid, Trusted Reviews, and Droid Life. X: @hughlangley
| 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 …
More: Peridot Blog, Axios, and Digital Trends
| 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 … | 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, The Guardian, The Decoder, Sifted, and Tech.eu
| RT Watson / The Block: |
AWS unveils Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments and partners with Coinbase and Stripe to enable AI agents to execute transactions using stablecoins — Quick Take — Amazon Web Services has partnered with Coinbase and Stripe to enable AI agents to execute transactions using stablecoins.
More: Amazon Web Services, CoinDesk, Decrypt, Coinbase, Bitcoin News, CoinGape, and Crypto Briefing
LinkedIn: Neetika Bansal and Nilesh Dusane
| 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 …
More: Digit, Genesis AI, Silicon UK, and Tech in Asia
X: @deanwball, @theo_gervet, @vkhosla, @theonash_, @ericschmidt, @vkhosla, @gs_ai_, @gs_ai_, @gs_ai_, @yilingq97, @gs_ai_, @yorkyang5050, @songshuran, @johnsonwang0810, @gs_ai_, @mattfreed, @zhenjia_xu, @zhou_xian_, and @sethwinterroth. LinkedIn: Jeremy Leibs
| 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 …
LinkedIn: Jenny He
| 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
| Sam Tobin / Reuters: |
Meta challenges Ofcom in UK High Court over the Online Safety Act, which calculates levies based on global, not UK, revenue, in a case scheduled for October — Facebook and Instagram owner Meta (META.O) is challenging Britain's media regulator Ofcom over how fees and penalties under … | 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, Benzinga, Decrypt, Blockchain.News, The Block, crypto.news, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Blockonomi, and Reap
| 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,” …
More: The Verge, BBC, New York Times, Business Insider, The Guardian, NBC News, France 24, Benzinga, Local News Matters, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, New York Post, Bloomberg, and Vanity Fair
X: @chrisfralic, @jacquesthibs, @garymarcus, @mtslive, @michelletomkim, @mtslive, @mtslive, @michelletomkim, @michelletomkim, @mtslive, @michelletomkim, @mtslive, and @mtslive
Bluesky: @caseynewton, @thedextriarchy, and @lopatto
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
More: Business Insider, San Francisco Business Times, The Economic Times, The Rundown AI, Digit, Gizmodo, and Forbes
X: @techemails, @flowersslop, @mikeisaac, @ashleevance, @cosmos_raj, @krishnanrohit, @chrisjbakke, @essamsleiman, @shakeelhashim, @katiemiller, @garymarcus, @michelletomkim, @michelletomkim, @mikeisaac, @garymarcus, @slhamlet, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @michelletomkim, @michelletomkim, @piratewires, @piratewires, and @mikeisaac
| 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 … | 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
| 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: |
Filing: OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky's wife assumed significant control of OnlyFans holding company Fenix in March following the death of Radvinsky — Leonid Radvinsky's widow has surfaced as a beneficiary of the business empire behind adult-content platform OnlyFans, the latest example of … | 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
| 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
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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