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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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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
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Blackstone announces a JV with Google to create a US company that will offer customers access to Google's TPUs, and makes a $5B initial equity commitment — Investment firm to put $5 billion toward venture using Google's chips — Alphabet's Google and Blackstone plan to create …
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| Eli Tan / New York Times: |
Internal memo: Meta is reassigning 7,000 workers to four new units focused on building AI tools, as it prepares to lay off 10% of its workforce on May 20 — The company announced the changes two days before it plans to lay off 10 percent of its work force, or about 8,000 employees.
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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 …
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| 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.
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| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
Anthropic says it began letting Mythos users share cybersecurity threats with others who may face similar vulnerabilities last week, changing its stance — How to restrict access while still allowing users to share threat information is a major challenge facing AI companies
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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 …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: AI chip designer Tenstorrent has drawn early takeover interest from Intel and Qualcomm; Tenstorrent could be valued at $5B+ in a potential deal — Artificial intelligence chip startup Tenstorrent Inc. is drawing early takeover interest from prospective buyers at a moment …
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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 cash — Analog Devices Inc. is in advanced talks to acquire closely held Empower Semiconductor for $1.5 billion in cash, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Cursor releases Composer 2.5, built on Kimi K2.5, and says it is better at sustained work on long-running tasks and follows complex instructions more reliably — Composer 2.5 is now available in Cursor. — It's a substantial improvement in intelligence and behavior over Composer 2.
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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 project — Dustin Morris steers his propeller plane over farmland shrouded in a ghostly morning mist. From 900 feet up, Richland Parish … | 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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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
NYC Health + Hospitals says hackers accessed its network from Nov. 2025 to Feb. 2026, exposing personal data, medical records, and fingerprints of 1.8M+ people — New York public health provider NYC Health and Hospitals says a months-long data breach that allowed hackers to steal personal data … | 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’.
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| Rahul Raj / EU-Startups: |
Milan-based legal AI company Lexroom raised a €42.9M Series B led by Left Lane, after raising a €16M Series A in September 2025, taking total funding to €62.7M — Lexroom, a Milan-based LegalTech startup focused on civil law jurisdictions, today announced a €42.9 million …
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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 options — Only a couple vendors could likely fulfill what the FBI is after, namely Flock and Motorola. — The FBI wants to buy access …
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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 flaws — Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said that mathematically verified software is becoming essential to protecting Ethereum …
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