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Micron hit a $1T market value for the first time on May 26, up from $700B earlier in May after its shares jumped 19%, driven by demand for its AI memory chips — Micron topped a $1 trillion market value for the first time on Tuesday as shares popped 19%, driven by insatiable artificial intelligence demand for its memory chips.| Bloomberg: |
SK Hynix tops $1T in market value after its shares jumped 11% on May 27, becoming the third Asian company to hit the milestone; SK surged 900%+ in the past year — SK Hynix Inc. joined Micron Technology Inc. in surpassing the $1 trillion market capitalization milestone …
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A deep dive into how Anthropic's Claude Code and Peter Steinberger's OpenClaw unleashed the AI agent revolution that is rapidly transforming modern computing — The definitive story of how Claude Code and OpenClaw kicked off computing's biggest transformation possibly ever.| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Q&A with Claude Code creator and head Boris Cherny on how the title “software engineer” is disappearing, why AI may create more jobs than it destroys, and more — Anthropic's Boris Cherny tells me major job loss due to automation really is coming — but job creation is, too.
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President Trump says it is “critically important” that the CFTC has exclusive authority to oversee prediction markets, as some states attempt to regulate them — President Trump on Tuesday said it was “critically important” for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) …
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| Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: |
OpenAI hires ServiceNow CMO Colin Fleming as CMO for its business segment, succeeding Kate Rouch, who stepped down earlier in 2026 to focus on her health — OpenAI has hired ServiceNow chief marketing officer Colin Fleming as CMO for its business unit, a move that signals the AI company … | Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Fireworks AI, which helps companies run AI models, is in talks to raise funding at a $15B valuation, up from $4B after raising $254M in October 2025 — Fireworks AI, a startup that helps companies run artificial intelligence models, is in talks to raise a new round of funding …
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| Leslie Josephs / CNBC: |
American Airlines picks SpaceX's Starlink for in-flight Wi-Fi on 500+ planes; SpaceX already has contracts with United Airlines, Southwest, and Alaska Airlines — American Airlines plans to outfit more than 500 of its narrow-body aircraft with Starlink, handing another win to Elon Musk's SpaceX unit …
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Source: AI inference provider Baseten is in talks to raise $1B at an $11B post-money valuation, up from $5B after its $300M Series E announced in January 2026 — AI startup Baseten has recently been in talks with investors to raise $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation including the money … | Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Qualcomm reached a deal with ByteDance to supply millions of ASICs for AI data centers to support AI agents in the Doubao chatbot; QCOM jumps 4%+ — Qualcomm Inc. reached a deal with TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd. to supply chips for artificial intelligence data centers … | Tanya Pandey / The Economic Times: |
Analysis: the share of entry-level hiring in India's tech sector fell to ~15% in 2025 from 28% in 2024 as companies shifted focus to AI and automation roles — The share of entry-level hiring in the sector has fallen to around 15% in 2025 from 28% in 2024 as companies focus more on AI … | Hayden Field / The Verge: |
A look at the Pentagon's embrace of autonomous weapons before its fight with Anthropic over “red lines”, and the debate over AI use in military operations — The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, an international forum that focuses on lethal autonomous systems …
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Initial benchmarks: Nvidia's Vera CPU, which features 88 Nvidia-designed Olympus cores, packs a heavy-hitting punch, beating Intel's and AMD's x86_64 CPUs — NVIDIA's Vera data center CPU isn't ramping up until later this year but I recently had the opportunity to try out this new ARM-based CPU designed for agentic AI workloads.| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: EU leaders are divided on curbing Big Tech as they weigh cloud tender rules and giving EU companies preferential access to mobile satellite spectrum — European leaders are divided on how far to go in curbing Big Tech as they weigh momentous decisions over giving EU firms preferential access …
More: Crypto Briefing and The Next Web
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung's largest union approves a pay deal that would give chip workers an average bonus of ~$340K, with ~74% of members voting in favor, staving off a strike — Samsung Electronics Co. union members voted in favor of a compensation deal that will hand chip workers an average bonus of about $340,000 … | Financial Times: |
Sources: software-specialist PE firm Hg agrees to acquire Rightsline, whose software helps Disney, the BBC, WBD, and others manage IP licensing, for $500M — Acquisition of rights and royalties management company for $500mn comes after plunge in software stocks.| Reuters: |
Document: Samsung plans to invest $1.5B to build a semiconductor testing plant focused on legacy chips in Vietnam; the plant is slated to open in November 2027 — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) plans to invest 39 trillion dong ($1.5 billion) in Vietnam to build a semiconductor testing plant … | Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Sources and documents detail China's effort to modernize its decade-old domestic surveillance network with new generations of AI-enabled cameras and software — Local police forces are modernising the country's ageing infrastructure with more powerful tracking systems| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Dropbox founder Drew Houston is stepping down as CEO after 19 years to become executive chairman, replaced by Ashraf Alkarmi, who is SVP and GM of Dropbox Core — Drew Houston founded Dropbox nearly two decades ago out at age 24, eventually becoming a household name in Silicon Valley …
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Sources: Bond Capital is leading a new investment for AI startup Suno, which would value it at ~$5B, up from $2.45B last fall; Suno is expected to raise $250M+ — Bond Capital is leading a new investment for AI music startup Suno, which would be valued at around $5 billion, Axios Pro has learned.| Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: |
US cybersecurity company Zscaler reports Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to $850.5M, above $835.4M est., and forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; ZS drops 18%+ pre-market — Zscaler (ZS.O) forecast fourth-quarter revenue below estimates on Tuesday, signaling intensifying competition in the cybersecurity market …
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Charter confirms a data breach after ShinyHunters claimed to steal 40M customer records from Charter's Salesforce instance and threatened to leak the data — U.S. telecommunications giant Charter Communications has confirmed it suffered a data breach after the ShinyHunters extortion group threatened … Sponsor Posts
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